Test Drive Lexus ES 350 since 2009 Sedan
Test Drive Lexus ES 350: Good weather
Lexus ES 350 is not intended for active drivers, but focused on those who want with maximum comfort and pleasure to get to the destination, without being distracted by external emotions. The machine must only be a means of moving luxurious, perfectly comfortable and unobtrusive. Autumn brought with her morning wet cold, rain and slush. In this weather, I want to shut into a car with a cozy beautiful interior and already from there watch the sluggish bad weather. Through the windshield of a comfortable and luxurious machine, any weather seems pleasant or, in extreme cases, lyrical. To emphasize the All-Year Lexus ES 350 business sedan for the Russian business sedan market and stretch the summer, journalists went from the autumn Moscow to the warm Krasnodar region.
Lexus es Machine from America. For the American market, the Luxury Division of Toyota and developed this model, and there it is traditionally the leader of sales, while in the Russian Federation, LEXUS crossovers are mainly bought. The ES appeared in 1989, and today the fifth generation is presented on the market. At the base of the Camry platform, but ES has modified suspension levers, a thorough cross-stability stabilizer is installed in front. Well, by itself, the interior is significantly enhanced and the list of equipment is enriched.
LEXUS marketers oppose their Mercedes-Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series and AUDI A6 business sedan, emphasizing its lower cost. Internal Corporate Competition with Mass Camry Lexus is not afraid. On the contrary, the clients have grown from Toyota one of the potential sources for Lexus.
Externally, Lexus ES 350 is similar to Camry, but the similarities are being built typically lexus features. ES, like any other brand model, all lexus at the same time. The design pleases the grace of the roof line, expressed by the belt line and the grace of recesses of the door handles, but there are no bright and memorable parts, except for heavy feed. For a business in a luxury-Japanese presentation, 10 colors are provided: in addition to the black, silver and white, pearl-beige, green, etc. are available for black, silver and white.
And inside Lexus can be three colors: black, gray and beige. Salon is decorated with soft smooth skin, soft cozy ceiling texture, high-quality plastic and natural Tree of the central console with tenderness ticked by passengers, protecting against the troubles of the outside world. And even too tightly in length and the width of the place is full, after all, the wheelbarrow is 2775 mm, but the high heads of their heads will assign into the ceiling, hanging wide seals of the panoramic roof, which gives a convincing visual, but not physical space. The only option for them is always riding with an open hatch. For the rear tall passengers, there are no roof solutions descending lower and comes from sides, although the legs feel free.
At a driver's seat, no matter how regulating the chair and the steering wheel, you will get up relaxed. A wide seat with underdeveloped side support is also delayed in its elastic comfortable nutrola, offering heating or ventilation to choose.
The central console and external buttons and levers are typically Toytov: not always comfortable, but quickly causing addicts. The monitor, replacing each other, is displayed information of the navigation system, climate control and multimedia. The monitor is superbly coping with solar weather even when the data is enabled, the data remains excellent readable. The same compliment can be said to the instrument.
Climate readings and clock are duplicated with modest green numbers on the screen at the top of the console as on budgetary machines. The steering wheel of grapple is separated by silky skin, and the rest of the rim wooden is beautiful, but not always convenient when rotating.
External noises do not penetrate this world at all. In the top pack, Luxury is installed by the Mark Levinson premium audio system with 14 speakers and DVD. It sounds literally fills the interior.
Of course, the music can be listed from the hard disk, mobile phone and flash drive. It is convenient that the algorithms of the windows and door locks can be customized. The only thing that violates the harmony, there is no function of one touch on turn signals, useful during rebuilding.
Roads in the Krasnodar Territory The perfect car testing ground for testing in all horses. For the Russian market, springs and shock absorbers were reconfigured. The car is equally comfortable and floats both for good coating, and on cut asphalt. At the same time, the smoothness of the stroke does not interfere with Lexus fit into the mountain drivers, the car is perfectly held by the trajectory. Tips only the steering: the steering wheel is empty, there is no clear zero and adequate feedback with wheels purely American. Because of this, a deceptive, but unpleasant feeling of caring from the specified course is created.
By the way, ES is the first Lexus front-wheel drive car, it is not intended for active drivers, but focused on those who want with maximum comfort and pleasure to get to the destination, without being distracted by external emotions. The machine must only be a means of moving luxurious, perfectly comfortable and unobtrusive. Quintessence of practicality Beige rugs from rubber.
The Krasnodar are famous for risky overtakers of trucks in the rise almost in the opposite, so you do not have to yawn. To gain a hundred, ES is required only 7 seconds, but in normal mode, the return of the 3.5-liter 277-strong V6 has to wait for a pair of intense seconds. The S'Exental mode of the six-speed transmission holds the box on the lower gears and does not switch without the driver's wishes above the fourth, the reaction to the accelerator becomes sharper, while the smooth switching does not suffer perfectly for overtaking and fast starts.
And in the cork urban mode, soft motions of the usual mode are optimal. Soft and accurate are brakes all for comfort. In addition, in D-mode, the car with V6 spends only 11-13 liters per 100 km. The transmission is endowed with intelligence and analyzes the condition of the roadway to optimize movement.
The weather was unpredictable here: instead of rains and slush, Kuban looked easy. The world behind the windshield Lexus, however, did not suffer from this: the automatic damper and the caring climate control work was perfectly isolated by the salon from the smell of Gary and Chad trucks. And on the second day, the tests and the weather decided not to contradict the concept of a new business sedan: through the open hatch to the salon, sea air and sunlight were rushed, practically without violating noise insulation. For always good weather, you will need to pay at least 1,850,000 rubles. For this money, the car is equipped with ABS, stabilization system, power steering, alarm, leather interior, electroregulets of the front seats with memory, cruise control, electric power steering, hatch, tailless access and engine start button, rain and light sensors, bi-xenon, washers headlights, side mirrors with heated, electrically regulating with memory and electric folding, mirrors with autocession, a smokers pack, two-zone climate control with automatic recycling, heating and front seat ventilation, multifunction display, audio system for 6 disks, 12 V socket, USB outlet, USB ports and AUX, Bluetooth, parking sensors.
Luxury equipment is more expensive on 236,500 rubles and richer on inserts from natural wood, soft skin semi-aniline, panoramic roof with hatch, premium audio system Mark Levinson with 14 speakers and DVDs, navigation system and rear-view chamber.
It is important for Russia that Lexus ES 350 is equipped with default is a full-sized spare wheel.
Svetlana Aleeva
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Large side mirrors do not even be configured, a picture of the world around Lexus fits perfectly in them. The volume of the luggage compartment is 494 liters, a full-size spare wheel is hidden under the floor.
The glove box does not differ in any depth or a capacity. The rear seat is provided by the armrest in which the cup holders are hidden.
Boxes in boxing hiding under the cover of the front armrest, have several accommodation options.
A source: Carclub.ru.
