Any Lexus RX contention has to start with a extraneous shape. The floating roof, a irritable sheetmetal, a square-ish circle wells, a front finish — adore it or hatred it, we gotta acknowledge that is one ruin of a beak. On to a interior: easily built, mostly good materials. Many functions are tranquil by a tiny center-console joystick. It still seems hypersensitive to me. I’ve always felt that approach about them in other Lexii I’ve driven. Much as we have whined about Cadillac’s Cue system, it seems improved than it used to be, and I’d take it over this.
I puncture this engine. It has copiousness of poke, yet a stifle tip-in is a tiny touchy. Once adult to speed, acceleration is smooth, ditto a shifting. It’s still and well-spoken during all speeds, like a taller Lexus ES (it also has a same dull steering — we can’t consider of a Toyota/Lexus that doesn’t). Body hurl is controlled, yet a float isn’t too stiff.
Quiet, plain and tawny well-spoken — accurately what we expected.
Would we take one over a Porsche Macan, Benz GLC or Jag F Pace? Nah. But copiousness of people do –- this thing sells like mad.
–Wes Raynal, editor
OTHER VOICES:
Well, we wouldn’t determine that a RX stifle is huffy — maybe in competition or competition and it’s a bit some-more aggressive, yet this V6 is surprisingly absolute possibly way. we arrange of half-footed it all weekend, yet once we started putting it to a building on Sunday, demeanour out. It did hang adult in gears once in a while, and it did a lot of changeable in general. Eight speeds might be too much. It has paddles, yet even we didn’t use them. And we adore paddle shift.
As expected, a RX350 is stoical and mostly quiet. Potholes don’t unequivocally dissapoint it, yet there is a tiny highway sound from a tires. The increased steering feel is excellent in this arrange of car. I’d contend a middle weight, not overboosted like some bigger oppulance SUVs.
Lexus hallmarks are benefaction here, like a rodent infotainment controller that we used to be OK with, yet now I’m removing a tiny annoyed. For a unfamiliar, Lexus has a mouse-type pad on a core console, and we slip a finger around to name options on a screen. It has tiny detents when we can “click” on an option, and it was never unequivocally a problem when a shade was 4×6 or 5×7 or whatever. Now a shade is like 20×8 inches and there are a garland of things to click around on. It’s tough to pierce it one mark when pushing but earnestly looking during a screen. The tuning doorknob is a tiny out of strech too, and a clicks, distinct those of BMW iDrive, are roughly too tiny to feel, so again it’s tough to do when driving.
The RX350 does have a ton of space. we threw a manure spreader and a big, off-road hiker behind a seats and they both fit but touching. we also commissioned my new, big-ass automobile chair and it didn’t demeanour like a front newcomer would suffer.
Lexus sells a ton of these. The RX scarcely doubled a sales of a Cadillac XT5 final month, 9,400 to 4,500 or so. Lexus contingency be doing something right. It is utterly wild-looking, though.
–Jake Lingeman, highway exam editor
Options: Blind-spot monitor, discerning parking assist, back cross-traffic alert, involuntary braking and breathtaking perspective guard ($1,865); scenery moonroof ($1,600); navigation and reward audio ($1,200); tone head-up arrangement ($600); touch-free energy back doorway ($200)
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Lexus RX 350 -
MSRP
$43,020
Base
MPG
20 / 27
City / HWY
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Research Lexus RX 350
On Sale: Now
Base Price: $51,295
As Tested Price: $58,760
Powertrain: 3.5-liter DOHC V6, AWD eight-speed automatic
Output: 295 hp @ 6,300 rpm; 267 lb-ft @ 4,700 rpm
Curb Weight: 4,387 lb
Fuel Economy: 19/26/22 mpg(EPA City/Hwy/Combined)
Observed Fuel Economy: 19.8 mpg
Pros: Quiet, plain ride
Cons: Infotainment, so renouned a furious styling doesn’t hang out