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We're thinking about this - will confirm closer to the time.

Of a sort... The S90 T8 is a FWD car on an FWD platform, with an entirely separate (not mechanically connected) electric motor driving the rear wheels. Thus when operating in "EV" mode the T8 is RWD, when operating in "Save" (charging mode) it's entirely FWD and in "power" mode is primarily FWD (AWD but with significantly more power available at the front axle). The RX450h works similarly in that it is an FWD car/platform (Camry) with an EV motor on the rear axle, but the difference comes from the RX450h also having electric motors on the front. The ICE in the RX450h can not mechanically drive the rear wheels. FWD cars may have improved, but our Volvo V70 (2011 D5 Geartronic Polestar, 225bhp 470Nm) was horrific for torque-steer. There were a few really frightening occasions. I have no doubt that the new generation of volvos (S90/V90/etc) are a significant improvement with their MUCH more sophisticated suspension setups. However, we're much happier with the setup of our GS450h and probably would not choose an ES when it comes to replacing it - but the replacement for the GS will probably be EV and thus RWD/AWD anyway (since RWD will be the "default" for EVs, just as FWD is the "default" for most ICE vehicles).

As Shahpor said - you need the 356mm disc. Please please please do not drive the vehicle another metre with the incorrect brake discs - if a stone or other piece of debris were to get lodged between the pads in the area above the disc (where the 356mm disc should be but the 334mm disc does not reach to) then it could prevent the brakes from being applied. The vehicle is currently in a dangerous condition and must not be driven. This may also invalidate your insurance (as the current brake configuration is not manufacturer approved). Alternatively you can replace the caliper carrier brackets to utilise the 334mm disc correctly - however, this would require explaining to your insurance company why you have down-graded the braking system on a 340bhp 1850kg saloon car (and good luck with that one).

Actually I'm with cadman on this one. We have the same in our GS450h. There are two stickers - one on each side of the sunvisor. Whether the sunvisor is deployed or stowed there is a LARGE BOLD AND BRIGHT warning sticker visible in the cabin. I personally feel that this rather spoils the otherwise refined cabin ambience of the GS. I too have wondered about removing at least the one that is visible when the visor is stowed. HJ reckons there may be liability if the car is sold on without the sticker in place. However, if one is left in place then I can't see it being an issue - even safety and liability obsessed Volvo did not fit 2 stickers in my V70 (only one visible when the visor was deployed: http://www.askisaac.com/images/vsale/_19s.JPG

The psychology of nationalities is interesting. In the UK the "debadged" option is usually applied to bottom-end models. We want to hide the fact that we were so cheap as to buy a 316i and hope that everyone thinks it's a 328i. In Germany the opposite is true. Debadging is applied to top-end models. They're embarrassed to shout about success and about having something that is more than they need, about standing out. They hope that people will think that their 760Li is a 730d or even mistake it for a 520i. Then there's the nationalistic side of it. There is a large tendency to nationalism in european car purchasing - In spain there are a lot of Seat, in italy there are a lot of fiat, lancia, etc. In france there's a lot of PSA and renault. In germany, of course, it's more still - the germans are very proud of their car industry and there's a very good chance they they know someone who's livelihood is linked with the car industry. Motoring has a peculiar position in german culture - driving is, although we might perceive as aggressive, generally of a higher technical standard than here in the UK. Unrestricted autobahn has a position similar to the second amendment in the USA - there's not a good practical reason for it anymore, but trying to take it away will be over the dead bodies of a large amount of the electorate. Think of the Golf - that deeply competent, "classless" car. It does what it does very well, very quietly without drawing particular attention. It doesn't stand out. That is the archetype of where your german in-laws thinking lies. And here you are - wanting a big, flashy car with oodles of chrome. People are going to notice you. People are going to talk. Oh dear, it isn't german, it isn't even european! It has a big V8 and it is ostentatious! In the UK the equivalent of what you're doing is turning up on a primped middle-class newbuild housing estate talking about changing your sensible demure car for a full-on pimped RX7 with bosozoku exhausts and doing a few donuts in the cul-de-sac. However, I think that your in-laws are wrong (shock, horror). There's no point confronting them on it - simply do what you wish to do. It is your life, your car. The car itself will win them over when you take them out for dinner or to the airport or something in it. HTC (the almost-forgotten maker of phones) had a tagline that could so easily have been applied to the LS - Quietly Brilliant. Let the car speak for itself.

Good guide, but I agree with Herbie - see my thread: I imagine that the RX will be similar and that your cable is indeed crossing the curtain airbag which could interfere with its deployment. I'm sure that removing the A-pillar trim is similar to the GS, and would recommend it. Of course, none of us ever want the airbags in our cars to deploy...

Yet the very site you link suggests that semi-aniline leathers benefit from the use of conditioners. I also like detailing my car and do similar research. I also have my own experience. For example, here's some seats in my father's BMW when it was 21 years old and over 140k miles. I was the primary detailer for that car and there's a reason that the leather was still pristine and supple at 21 years.

Maybe they don't. However, Lexus use a number of unsealed leathers in their vehicles - for example, the semi-aniline leather in our GS Premier is not sealed (and this was evidenced by a patch of spew (look it up) that was occuring where a previous occupant's oily hair product had got on a headrest). This should be regarded as a benefit, because unsealed leather that can be fed can be maintained indefinitely - sealed leather will dry out and crack. Lexus themselves recommend the use of a conditioner:

The glass cleaner products with rain repellent tend to be difficult to wipe off as you've observed, and their rain repellency fades quickly. Rain-X rain repellent is ok, but nothing more - I've moved onto Gtechniq G5, which is FAR better than Rain-X. Water beads even better, and it lasts many times longer (side windows and mirrors - I don't use on windscreen due to smearing).

Depending on date availability this sounds like our kind of thing.

I would imagine it's not terribly different to the GS: https://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/118323-guide-hardwiring-dual-dashcam-in-mk4-gs450h-premier/

As much as I tend to disdain the UK motoring press, and I should add that I have not driven an nx so this post is purely conjecture on my part, the reviews all tend to agree that the ride quality is poor. I tend to find that the American motoring press reviews tend to be more accurate and even handed about ride and handling than the UK (in other words, they don't swoon over M-sport BMWs that I find bone-jarring). The American motoring press praises the ride quality of the NX. There's a dichotomy here, as, if anything, you'd expect the UK press to be more forgiving of a firm ride and the Americans to call it out. So I suspect that Lexus fell into that old trap of tuning the suspension "to European tastes" in the NX that they deliver here. It seems to me that they avoided doing so with the LS, RX, GS and ES, while the more sporting IS will be set up that way anyway. Perhaps the appropriate lexus part numbers could be acquired from the USA, if an owner were so inclined.

EV residuals are crazy at the moment because demand is so much higher than supply. We bought our Leaf 24 Tekna second hand in November 2017, from a dealer with 2 years warranty and servicing, etc for £11k. I've put 10k miles on it since then (up to 23k from 13) and it's still worth around £11k. The other Brexit driver that might influence that is if the pound does go south and makes oil more expensive for us to buy then petrol/diesel prices will go up again - again bolstering EV residuals.

It's probably very similar to the material that Tesla use in their vehicles (being from california where leather is a dirty word they offer no real leather at all anymore) and what Mercedes use (artico).

I agree that the entire picture needs looking at. However, it makes an unfair comparison because when talking about petrol vehicles and we talk of g/km and mpg then we're talking about from the petrol in the tank - you're not counting the 11% energy overhead in refining (ie for every 9 litres in your tank, the energy equivalent of another litre was burned at the refinery in process heat), the energy used to transport crude from the well to the refinery, the energy used to transport the petrol from the refinery to the petrol station, the energy consumed by the petrol station for lighting, pumps, etc. The majority of UK electricity does NOT come from gas. Gas is the largest contributor at present, but at 41% over the past year it is NOT the majority. Petrol engines are at best 41% efficient (http://www.thedrive.com/tech/18919/toyota-develops-worlds-most-thermally-efficient-2-0-liter-engine) and only under VERY specific circumstances of load and rpm. That efficiency is also from fuel to crankshaft, and more is lost in the transmission and powering of ancilliary devices - at best 35% reaches the wheels. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/19/electric-car-well-to-wheel-emissions-myth/ https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2017/dec/25/how-green-are-electric-cars That comparison compares to generating electricity from oil, which is one of the worst way to generate it from a CO2 perspective - over 1000g/kWh. 2018 UK average was 218g/kWh. Current real-world average for EVs is from 20-50g/km in the UK, whereas ICE are anywhere from 100 (real world, not EU fantasyland figures) to 300+. Compare like with like, in other words compare an EV at the high end of that scale (Eg Tesla model X P100DL is around 45-50g/km) to a vehicle of comparable configuration and performance (lamborghini urus, 325g/km) and it's not even close. Please show these "all official estimates"? https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-predicted-no-sweat-says-national-grid/ https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dreams-future-evs As you can see, national grid see a requirement for 35-40TWh of additional power to support EVs. http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/historicaldata/ We've cut annual electricity consumption in the UK by 46TWh since 2012 - and that trend is continuing. In other words, we've already CUT electricity consumption in the past 6 years by MORE than is needed to support EVs by 2040. On this we are in complete agreement - ever since the CO2 based tax was introduced it has been a complete and utter shambles. There is one VERY simple way to handle the tax situation - one that is completely fair in that it DIRECTLY taxes heavy emissions users and goes lightly on low mileage drivers, one that doesn't have loopholes (like people paying only 6% BIK tax on a PHEV that they never plug in and don't care that they get 20mpg as a result) and one that would have extremely low bureaucratic overheads - simply add the tax on the fuel. Political suicide, but the only fair and valid way.

The general technical standard of driving in germany is mostly very good, and much higher than the UK. They do things we would perceive as very aggressive but they are the expected norm there. Once you have your head in that space and drive the way that they do then it works and works well. Generally german drivers have very good awareness of their vehicle and limits and pay better attention to their driving than UK. Unrestricted speed is to the germans like the second amendment is to americans - they can't really justify it but will fight tooth and nail for it. However, the geography, size and population spread of germany better lends itself than the crowded UK - some of my german colleagues (we do a lot of business there and have sales offices in Wiesbaden and Munich) think nothing of commuting 200km each way daily ("less than an hour on a good day").

I once took my Volvo to 126mph (202km/h) on the A48 somewhere between Koblenz and Trier. Coming back down in speed afterwards 90mph felt like it was very slow - If you're giving it your proper concentration (as of course you should and must at those speeds) then your brain works fast and "normal" seems very slow indeed. It is something that would be very tiring to do for long periods, and I'm sure many don't give it the attention and concentration that it deserves (and we can say that of all driving). We will do so with our GS at some point.

Try Gtechniq G4 - it has proven very effective at removing strange contaminations on ours. It is not just an abrasive polish, but appears to also be chemically effective. Apply using a microfibre for best effect.

I found that AG glass polish worked ok-ish, but Gtechniq G4 was WAY more effective - wow, never experienced anything like it with any of many glass polishes that I've tried.

Today I was giving the GS a wash, and discovered that it shares an annoying design flaw with my Nissan Leaf. The rear arches are shaped in such a way that they gather up huge amounts of mud and junk: Hard to see from this picture exactly how much junk there is here, but you literally scoop it out: Leaving your just washed alloy looking like this: And then use the hose and a brush to actually get it clean: Yes, I know I missed a bit!. You want to get rid of this mud - every time you drive in the rain it will rapidly get soaked through with water, but it will take hours or even days to dry out again (was dry on ours because our car is garaged and hasn't been driven in the rain for a while) - it will keep the metal damp and promote rusting. I'm inclined to spray this section (on both leaf and GS) with waxoyl spray: https://www.screwfix.com/p/hammerite-vehicle-underbody-aerosol-seal-black-600ml/6221h This should provide protection against stonechips and moisture in this area and hopefully prevent rear arch corrosion from setting in for longer.

Generally naturally aspirated cars can not be remapped like turbocharged cars can. You might be able to get 3-5 horsepower but it's just not worthwhile.

Yes, that will work - later renamed x-treme ultinon, but seem to be the same bulb. I got mine from Amazon also

Much as I like the LS, it is simply not a feasible alternative to the GS for many people - for one thing, running costs are WAY higher (not talking about fuel - tyres, servicing, insurance, parts, etc are much higher on an LS/7/S/A8 than a GS/5/E/A6). But the main thing that prevented us from entertaining an LS was simply that it does not fit in our garage - the 4850mm GS is a squeeze and the LS500h is nearly a foot longer (5235).

A couple of weeks ago I splashed out £2.99 on one of these from lidl: Omg, it's fantastic! I am finding myself moving toward terry cloth for cleaning glass because I find any microfibre tends to leave lots and lots of little fibres left on the glass. Using the above stick to push a terrycloth around made cleaning the front and rear screens in the GS SOOOOOOO much easier than all the usual stretching and reaching . Our GS, though, has some sort of greasy build-up on the insides of the side windows particularly - neither glass cleaner nor meths will shift it. A quick rub with glass polish got it off in a test patch though, so I'm going to have to go around and do that job properly.

Not the only one.. The Infiniti M37 (aka Q70) was sold here. Well.... you could buy one, but that didn't make for sales. Between 2010 and 2017 they sold..... 14. Compare to the 260 M35h/Q70 hybrid and 406 M30D/Q70 diesels that they sold over the same time period and it answers that particular question, as to how the GS350 might have sold here. Given that the gen4 GS450h sold 711, if we scale the ratio of sales, that suggests they might have shifted 38 GS350s. We went and looked at the Infiniti M because the M35h looked like good (used) value next to the GS450h. It didn't take long for us to rule it out - The M has the exact same overhead console as my Nissan Leaf does. The leaf is a very cheaply built car and it's just about acceptable in it - it is totally unacceptable in a "premium" car. Oh, by the way @Linas.P - You might want to check out the Q60 3.0T as an alternative to the RC350: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201809130469753