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I’m afraid this is entirely wrong, as Philip has already pointed out. Legal insurance cover is often a free addition or small cost £20-30 per year included with many different types of insurance (motor, home, buildings etc.) and covers a wide range of situations (including consumer and employment issues typically) - the normal requirement is their legal team think you have at least a 51% chance of winning any claim.

I had the opposite and found insurance groups and thus pricing was similar for where ai live. Audi Q5 50 TFSi e - group 40 to 43 depending on trim BMW x3 30e xLine - group 38 (7bhp less than the Lexus) Lexus 450h+ Premium - group 38 (increases on higher trims) Comparing to a petrol / diesel non-PHEV models isn’t an accurate comparison.

Audi offer “all in” - servicing, mot, roadside assistance, and warranty - which is 2 years for £856, and often available with 25% off. It is cheaper than the Lexus option even before discount. Vehicles are eligible up to 6 years old, so can extend to 8 years if you purchase just before the car turns 6. They used to offer it for more vehicles but recently been limited to 2l engines or smaller. That said, Lexus is still much cheaper than my Volvo experience. https://www.audi.co.uk/uk/web/en/owners/servicing/service-plans/all-in.html

Do you have it documented in writing what the dealer had agreed to fix - and didn't before you took ownership? What conversation have you had about those issues and getting them resolved? As Philp says, you need to try and identify a 'fault' that would allow you to reject the car. Car dealers are under a duty to disclose relevant information - so if you can surface more details about the accident and repairs, that may help. The Lexus central service and vehicle history might help you. If you have your car linked up to your Lexus account properly, you can see a history of past repairs and services (assuming the dealer's teams recorded them properly). I used this history to resolve a much more minor issue and concern with a car I'd bought from a Lexus dealer used.

The users here are primarily UK based - and the RZ 300e isn't available here yet.

You need to pick this up with Lexus Bolton, not the service plan team (who are a third party and trade under the Lexus name).

The LBX launch offer was one free service for first 500 orders. https://media.lexus.co.uk/lexus-announces-launch-prices-and-customer-offer-for-the-all-new-lbx-crossover/ Unless you have some way to prove the two free services, I don’t think there’s anything you can do - other than walk away and not purchase. However, as the LBX is somewhat in demand, I don’t think the dealer will be too worried about this.

It’s all about insurance groups. XC40 sits in group 18 to 33 depending on the exact model. NX 450h+ is 38 to 43 (out of 50). It’s a bigger, heavier, more expensive car. Comparing to an equivalent, e.g. Audi Q5 PHEV, in a similar group my insurance prices were very similar (and still very expensive!).

Have you had a flat battery / disconnected the battery recently? There is a “password” screen that is the equivalent of an old radio code, which doesn’t have upper case characters. Is that perhaps the screen you have? If so you’ll need to ask your dealer (who sold the car) for the password.

Auctions don’t work anymore for private buyers. The fees (which trade buyers pay only a fraction of) wipe out most of the savings. Ending up saving a few hundred quid won’t feel so smart and smug when it’s a lemon with a long list of flaws. Note that any Relax warranty starts after a service - any issues identified at that first service will be for you to pay to fix and won’t be covered (unless car is under 3 years old at that time with the original warranty).

Remote (automated) park disappeared from the NX MY25 configuration specifications, and I can’t see it on the RX. I’m not familiar enough with the RX to know if it was ever offered on the RX gen 5, but this is perhaps a question for a dealer (and one to get an answer in writing if you proceed to order!).

I have some appreciation for your pain... Due to a discount scheme I have access to, after the price cut, I could now buy a brand new car (same spec) for less than I purchased mine used (at 9 months old, 7500 miles on the clock)! Is that slightly annoying, yes, but I'd also be waiting to get it, and I wouldn't have had an amazing car for the last year or so. I also still can't purchase an equivalent used car for less than I purchased my used car for (i.e. right this moment it'd also be cheaper for me to buy new than nearly new). I knew I got a great deal on my car from a main Lexus dealer, and I've been tempting fate by checking AutoTrader to see if anything similar has come up again (it hasn't). The list price cut for the NX 450h+ was approximately £5000, so I think part of your pain is perhaps over-paying for your nearly new car, rather than just the cut in prices... given the lead times in 2023 for a brand new NX (which have now mostly disappeared - many models and colours are in stock in the UK), there was a price premium for the instant satisfaction of being able to drive off in a car sat in a dealers compound. In 2023, there was also still the hangover of covid car shortages, limiting volumes, and deals were much harder to get - the pent up post-covid demand hid the impact of the cost of living crisis, whereas car purchase volumes have decreased quite significantly since (creating the environment for better deals as manufacturers try to shift cars). The ZEV mandate is also pressuring manufacturers to shift PHEV and EVs to hit mandatory targets (else they pay £15k fines per non-compliant vehicle sold). I purchased a car in 2023 with my eyes wide open to the fact that 2024 would likely be a better year for deals - but I didn't want to wait. The price that WeBuyAnyCar would offer for my NX has also actually increased in the last few months (to it's current highest level that I've seen), even as the mileage on it has gone up as well! So the price cut doesn't yet seem to have impacted used values. But they are absolutely lovely cars, so I'm not surprised we're all happy to pay top dollar for them! It's certainly the most expensive car I've ever bought, and I'd never planned to buy anything this expensive/luxurious.

The car will charge up a bit with lots of braking going downhill (there’s a big hill near me) - I might get an extra mile or so from a really long stretch. But there’s no meaningful recharge of EV-only driving miles. I don’t find it problematic without any battery charge. A recent trip, no EV miles, 70 minutes long and a mixture of urban, A roads, and motorway the car showed 50.7mpg at the end of the journey for that trip . Shorter trips are more usually 40-45 mpg pottering around where I live when ai don’t have any charge. I would say it’s very competitive compared to my previous diesel saloon (given diesel is slightly more expensive) - note I tend to use premium fuels not basic unleaded / diesel just in case it matters. I’m not a slow driver and haven’t noticed any loss of power once EV miles used up, as you still have the 30% or so of battery kept for the normal hybrid driving. I’ve never managed to exhaust that part of the battery (as it does recharge as you brake, drive, etc.), car seems to do a very good job of balancing petrol engine and what’s left in the battery for normal hybrid driving.

Do you have a picture? Can’t say I’ve seen this when I have had UXs.

I test drove both, bought a 450h+. Both cars have an ecvt gearbox, basically means any fast engine acceleration is loud and has a “drone”. Any EV acceleration has a quiet pleasant whine from the electric motors - and in the 450h+ you can literally drive around in EV mode accelerating until approx 81mph for around 40 miles in pure EV battery mode until the battery is depleted, whereas the 350h hybrid is more like 20-30 mph before engine needs to kick in, and it can only run for short periods on battery without the engine. The 450h+ is also noticeably faster, and thus more enjoyable to drive in my opinion. Neither had sunroof/pano roof so I’m afraid I can’t help there.

The RZ doesn’t have any real leather on any trim, all vegan fake leather and suede (apparently we all need to be green vegan ecozealots if we want an EV). I think that may largely explain the perceived lower quality and plastic feel?

My father drives a CX5, but it was only purchased as it was just about the only car he could get in the pandemic. The new NX was higher in his list of preferences, but there just weren’t any to buy. The CX5 is also nice, but it’s nothing special. Appreciate you won’t be near a Lexus dealer, but, I’d personally take a Lexus for the 10 year warranty rather than a Mazda, and time services to coincide with thrips further south! I also have family on Skye, and I’d question the wisdom of a diesel. Given relatively low speeds due to the roads, and plenty of stopping in passing places etc., I’d think you’d be at risk of DPF problems. Petrol would be my choice there.

I agree there is a policing problem re vehicle theft and getting the cars out of the country. But the lack of encryption for the canbus, which is what facilitates these thefts,is a specific Toyota/Lexus failure. The importance of encryption has been demonstrated time and again since WW2. It is such a basic error on Toyota/Lexus part that it deserves ridicule and blame. Same as manufacturers who messed up encryption on their wireless keys. For years manufacturers haven’t taken theft seriously, and we all pay the price through premiums. The only one who seems to get it is Tesla.

Worth checking on autotrader to see if any cars there are in the right colour? Lots of the cement grey, but not sure if it’s this pearlescent silver you’re looking at? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202407252137464?

It exists already - see justpark.com. Plenty of folk renting out their driveway with Ev charger access. Personally however, wherever I’ve looked, prices are often higher than public chargers…

Have had my car nearly one year, no battery issues. All been absolutely fine (unlike my partner’s Yaris). Not had to replace the tyres yet, so can’t help there. I would very much recommend a NX 450h+ Premium Plus! Great cars.

Well, Labour are about to outbid everyone for homes and HMOs to house asylum seekers, in order to make good on their pledge to end use of barges and ex RAF bases. So I’m afraid your dream of resolving the UKs housing situation is even more distant today: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/asylum-seeker-labour-migrants-v2tnwp5tp Seems Labour hates everyone, and not just OAPs.

This is one way to make your voice heard: https://campaigns.ageuk.org.uk/page/154268/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Website

Glad we got there in the end. We can double doctor’s starting salaries to match the riches on offer elsewhere, but we also require them to pay for their own training. That puts us - taxpayers - on an even footing if they decide to work outside the NHS or go abroad. It’s the only way to do it. And I’m afraid most people would be very happy to be in the top 5% of earners, and the rest of your post suggests how out of touch you are with the many hardworking taxpayers currently paying for the doctor’s salaries, pensions, and training costs. It’s why the £200 or £300 winter fuel payments are so important to pensioners, but most definitely the two million or so with income just over £11.5k per year.

You’re missing my point. Doctors in England graduate with £40-50k in student debt, and have another £100-150k of training costs paid for by taxpayers, with an initial salary in the £30ks before it increases to put them in the * top 5% of UK earners *. Doctors in USA during residency earn around $65k (actually very low by USA standards) but have approximately $200k in student debt to repay. My point is that doctors and others who point to higher salaries elsewhere are not comparing like with like. If they want a USA style starting salary, they should also - like in the USA - take on their own training costs. Also, I’m sorry, but clearly doctors do benefit from their training as they are some of the most well paid employees in the UK. The NHS pension scheme is also the most generous of all public sector pensions (more generous than the rest of the civil service and local government).