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Lexus GS350 AWD - Lyxus

Lexus buyers in the United States of America had the opportunity to leave on an all -wheel drive Jais from the dealer already from the very beginning of sales in 2005. So why are we worse, more precisely, what are our weather conditions better? Moreover, they are worse for us, and we are all -wheel drive what the doctor prescribed.

Author! What are you? Wake up after a long lethargic hibernation? you ask. In 2010, a five -year plan of Lexus GS sales is approaching the end. Is it not too late to write a test drive of this car?

It's time! A little less than a year ago in Russia, sales of all -wheel drive modification of this car with a 3.5 -liter engine started. The occasion is more than worthy, but on the part of the management of the Toyota auto giant is just belated. Lexus buyers in the United States of America had the opportunity to leave on an all -wheel drive Jais from the dealer already from the very beginning of sales in 2005. So why are we worse, more precisely, what are our weather conditions better? Moreover, they are worse for us, and we are all -wheel drive what the doctor prescribed. The Russians waited, but the inhabitants of the old European will have to cry enviously and collect money for a ticket to Russia in order to acquire this miracle of Japanese engineering and drive it to their historical homeland.

Outwardly, the car has not undergone any changes. The verified design in the spirit of the new wave of the design Lexus L-Fancy, the first swallow of which was just GS.
Still a solid-salt exterior without kitsch elements. A sort of monolith on wheels.

If nothing has changed in appearance, we will move directly on the unwell, or rather to the running qualities.

Engine: a six-cylinder V-shaped, with a volume of 3.5 liters, in the all-wheel drive modification of the car it produces 307 hp.

The technical breakthrough during the construction of this power unit was the so -called dial injection. Each cylinder boasts already with two nozzles, one of which, through the injection, supplies the intake manifold fuel, and the second directly combustion chamber. As a result, 2 things should happen. The first decrease in fuel consumption and the second decrease in harmful emissions that provoke gaping holes in the ozone layer. I won’t tell you anything about holes and sneezing from the Moscow Solu, but I have information about consumption. According to the passport, the Lexus GS350 AWD consumes one hundred kilometers in a mixed cycle of 10.1 fuel. That only half a liter is more than the GS300 monoprodic modification that does not have additional 57 horsepower, a centner of excess weight and the undoubted load on the front wheels.

Excellent result! Passports passports, but our consumption in a mixed cycle did not fall less than 13, but in suburban mode at a cruising speed of 130-140 km/h, amounted to only half 20 liter canister per hundred.

But the speed characteristics of the version with a new engine and transmission naturally became more impressive. When accelerating to 100 km/h, the all-wheel drive version brings 3.0-liter classics as much as 1.1 seconds. And its acceleration is 6.1 seconds to a hundred. Also a great result.

We found out the main aspects of the power unit, I invite you to the transmission compartment.

The main working tools of all -wheel drive transmission from Lexus is an interdosseous differential and a package of clutches, blocking it. All locks and degree of intensity are controlled by a computer that collects information from many cunning sensors transmitting very extensive information, up to the speed of rotation of the car around the vertical axis.



In order to avoid critical transmission overloads, electronics limits the speed of the car at a mark of 190 km/h, by the way, in the American version this figure reaches 209 km/h. From here we can conclude that after all, the most severe lecturers are the most severe!

As many AWD lovers like to say, all -wheel drive gives confidence in the turns. In the case of Lexus GS 350 AWD, this is all limited. The VSC stabilization system is always watching, without the possibility of disconnecting, therefore, the owners of this car are not available to the innocent pranks of power sliding, etc. It's a pity...

But a certain raid of sports is added by electronically controlled shock absorbers and new springs that slightly reduced the level of smoothness, which forces the driver and passengers more often to feel the flaws of the road surface.

The interior of Luxus remained the same: clearly verified ergonomics, cosmic metallized devices in wells, excellent acoustics, comfortable seats in which you drown. All the same is a little crowded behind. The only thing in the cabin gives out an all -wheel drive modification of the sedan is a small hump, protruding from the central tunnel by the driver, which is very cool in the cold season to warm the leg.

At the very end, pretty tired of you with stories about the technical weapons of Lexus, I will tell you a small story from life. I have a very close friend, by the way, also a car journalist of one respected publication. A kind and responsive person, in a word, a cool guy. Sometimes, during the hours of leisure, he knows how to have fun the way no one can, he can begin to dance in the back seat of the car, and all this is accompanied by a fair amount of drawing in the eyes. So, Lexus GS350 AWD is my friend without the same devil. Just a good, responsive and very practical car. And this is his pluxus! :)

Dmitry Malygin


 

A source: Carclub.ru