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MARCH 1 - 7 | 2019
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COMPLETE PACKAGE: Beautifully sleek front is the best iteration yet of the fascinating style Lexus calls ‘Spindle Grille’.
Lexus ES300h sports luxury
By EWAN KENNEDY Heated front seats in ES Luxury offer 10way power adjustment. In Sports Luxury, they are also ventilated with 14-way adjustment for the driver’s seat and 12way for the passenger seat. Incidentally, the little ‘h’ tells us it’s a hybrid. Lexus and its parent company Toyota are past masters at petrol-electric hybrids, with a history stretching back over 20 years. They continue to add more performance, at the same time reducing emissions. STYLING What a gorgeous car inside and out, with a high standard of finish both in the
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paintwork and the materials used in the cabin. We particularly liked the spindle grille, some of the early efforts of Lexus at this fascinating shape just didn’t work to our eyes, but this one is brilliant. The swooping asymmetric shape of the dashboard makes a real stylish statement and the use of multiple materials that complement each other make the cabin a most pleasant place to be. INFOTAINMENT Satellite navigation, Lexus Enform and DAB+ digital radio are standard. Apple Carplay and Android Auto are not, though this situation may change soon. ES Luxury features a 10-speaker Pioneer
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audio system. The Sports Luxury has a 17-speaker Mark Levinson surround-sound system. Sound quality is excellent and we really enjoyed the feeling of luxury inside the cabin it provides. The Remote Touch Interface pad has been redesigned and gains vibration feedback. However, it’s still not our favourite system, being rather awkward to use and more time consuming than we like. POWERTRAIN Advanced combustion technologies in the new-generation 2.5-litre petrol engine make it among the most thermally efficient engines in any production vehicle.
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NOW in its seventh generation, the Lexus ES300h is a large car, being virtually Commodore and Falcon in length, though a little slimmer. New Lexus ES comes in two variants, both very well equipped; the ES300h Luxury has privacy glass, Nulux seat trim, powered tilt and slide moonroof, dualzone air-conditioning, automatic wipers, electronic park brake, and a poweradjustable steering column. The ES300h Sports Luxury expands the air-conditioning to three zones, cooled front seats, has semi-aniline leatheraccented seats, a rear armrest with climate and audio controls, and a heated steering wheel.
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