Lexus RX test drive since 2008 SUV
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Do you know California? He happened to win French in French wine competitions. However, this does not mean that they are similar. This only confirms that it can be of the same quality as the best French: the Californians reached the same heights in winemaking, but fought their taste. And if something good is endowed with their unique character, there will certainly be those who consider it the best.
Lexus RX and California are no less interconnected than Cabernet Sovignon and France. And the height of this alliance is also no less in California in the 93rd year the concept of the first RX was born. It was here that his final trials and thin settings took place. It was for this audience that it was created. And it was he who became the first full-sized premium cro-command, thereby setting the standards of the new class. Since then, many have been at these heights. Many happened to win here, offering new and brighter characters with similar quality, but Lexus RX kept his audience all this time. So, having preserved himself, he will be able to save it in the future: after all, if something is endowed with his unique taste, there will certainly be those who consider it the best.
The new RX is larger and more popular. He became less California, having become more American: after all, the distance of tastes between this fertile province and the whole country is knowledgeable to you. Despite the fact that its design was created on Japanese land in Toyota City.
It is far from Porsche or BMW just as California from the Austrian
Unlike other Lexus generation L-Finese, RX does not cause direct associations or desires to put it in a row with Europeans from a large German three. If other Lexus are designed to encroach on the hearts of those who seriously think about BMW or Mercedes sedans in the markets of America and Russia, then RX has their own circle. And from the clubs of Porsche or BMW lovers, he is far from the same as California from the Austrian. Even with all the proximity of formal signs.
Suddenly for Lexus, RX does not set records for the number of innovations and various kinds of latest technologies per kilograms of its weight: there are so few various kinds of features or lotions that the organizers had to pay attention to journalists to the appearance of simple devices, such as an assistant starting in the hill. Yes, the RX-new not only does not break through the technological walls, but also does not try to seem to be a pioneer even at the first inexperienced look. Its gasoline V6 has been modified and updated, but well familiar. In the suspension, no (for the Russian market) electron-play-minting, and the active steering of VGRS, which has long been familiar with GS and LS sedans, do not even offer as an option. He is very good on the go. Generally speaking, the car is going just wonderful, despite the lack of ultramodern active systems in the suspension. It took five years to create RX, and this time was not spent in vain. The elastokinematics of pendants are not only completely processed, but also perfectly configured, and the new back multi -link not only works better, but also more compact. The all -wheel drive system is reconfigured with a more front -wheel drive accent: now under normal conditions it is a monotive car, and only if the front wheels slipped to the rear axle to 50% torque, one of the measures to increase efficiency.
It cannot be said that RX is controlled as X6, for example, however, with such a difference between the image of the offices producing them, between facial expressions, the addition of bodies and the target audiences of these cars, the first minutes during the wheel of a Japanese California are more joyful than on the American Bavarz. And this is not a matter of running qualities. This is a matter of high or low expectations: neither the name Lexus, nor the portrait of the new RX is forced to anticipate (even despite the fact that continuous anticipation is, as declared in Lexus, one of the three whales, on which the whole designer philosophy of L-Finese) is built , pleasant to actually drive. However, there is a drive. He, of course, will not quench passions for driving, but the need will saturate if desired on RX can be grasped both briskly and actively. Two and a half tons of Japanese silence accelerate easily, slow down and controlled accurately, with the amendment only during the reaction of the machine with a high center of mass.
Of course, preserving itself, RX is primarily comfortable. We had the opportunity to taste cars on European and American pendants. Both options are very good, but the European is slightly tougher and, more importantly, with more rigid stabilizers of the anti -resistance stability (passive).
Two tons of Japanese silence accelerate easily, slow down and control The American is softer and more free. It seemed more harmonious: despite the fact that it is controlled no less accurately, his reactions are calmer and softer, and the alternation of road bumps on the left and on the right does not cause strong taping of the body, which is on uneven coatings a tangible drawback of the European version. For Russia, there will be its spill as they say, somewhere between these two options.
Plus, three more yen to comfort about silence and sound: this L-Fancye is not the same as in the already mentioned sedans. It’s quiet, but not deaf. It is calm here, but not like in the cemetery: RX is isolated from noise climbing outside, but not drowned inside. Generally speaking, according to the acoustics of the salon, this Lexus is the most natural of all their models of the last 45 years. And therefore music sounds excellently here. Moreover, the acquisition of a sophisticated Mark Levinson Premium with fifteen speakers is not necessary at all.
If something good is endowed with their character, there will certainly be those who consider it the best
This is a question not even your taste, but rather your playlist. The Mark Levinson premium system is an unit for playing a show-sound, close to what is used in stunt films. It excellently sharash is super -fried and extranshide, pumps bass and builds volume, but the dynamics and lively breathing of tools in jazz and classics or voices in R'N'B become a victim of the work of its sound processors. With such a repertoire, standard acoustics works an order of magnitude better just very well.
Lexus leads the search for the perfect manipulator for controlling the entire on -board auto electrician, paving his harrow in this pretty plowed, but still not perfectly fruiting field. Competition to European rotating washers creates a semblance of a computer mouse with power feedback and automatic search for the nearest icons on the screen. Today it is very difficult to judge how much this is a successful decision. With confidence we can only say that it, firstly, is no less viable than
competing systems, and secondly more advantageous than the familiar Touch Screen. All reasoning relatively new RX, whatever one may say, turn out as calm as the general mood of Lexus: self -sufficient for self -sufficient. As a California. Yes, there is both Burgundy and Tuscanskoye in the world, but this does not interfere with those who prefer a bottle of Francis Ford Coppola in the Nappa Valley, who, acquiring it, did not even know what exactly he buys. With the RX, the situation is different: everyone who was looking for the successor to their usual Lexus crossover may be sure that it will be received. He will meet the calm expectations of the people in search of comfort, high quality and moderate convenient luxury. Toyota reproduced at the modern technological level the usual character of RX. And that means that he will surely retain its usual audience and a share in the market. After all, if something good is endowed with their character, there will probably be those who consider it the best.
Body and safety
The widespread use (42%) in the design of the body of high -strength steels made it possible to increase the rigidity of the power cell of the cabin without increasing the mass of the car. In the process of developing the new RX, 233 crash tests were carried out, the result of which was not only a high level of passive safety of people inside, but also optimizing the consequences when colliding with cars of different sizes and types, as well as a high level of pedestrian protection. The level of active security is increased thanks to the work of the VDIM stabilization complex.
The engine 24-valve V6 is modernized. The changes were aimed at increasing the fuel efficiency of a well -proven power unit, a decrease in the level of noise and vibrations, as well as to improve environmental indicators and affected almost all of its elements. The valve mechanism, intake and exhaust tract, a distributed fuel injection system are processed.
Transmission The new six -speed automatic machine is easier and compact than the previous five -stage transmission due to the wider use of light alloys and constructive changes. Its hydraulic transformer is both more compact and more effective: the losses are minimized by the expansion of the range of modes in which it is possible to block it.
The suspension rear suspension is more compact. The front is modernized. Active air suspension with the function of changing clearance will not reach Russia.
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Style
The presentation that went a year ago, otherwise it was impossible to name the show. The action took place as part of the Milan Design Week exhibition, where a car was also put up with works of modernist design. It was a matte-black layout of Lexus L-Fancy. The real sculpture is unscrewed from the foamed MDF, without separating the textures into metal and glass. The LF-XH HYBRID SUV automobile concept was shown at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. As a result of the expectation of a real third-generation car, the popular Lexus RX crossover was turned into a well-prepared PR action. What for? After all, the new car is not very different from the previous model, and the transition to new nuances of the form and detailing would have passed so smoothly. Almost restyling. But! The first RX, as well as the first Lexus Passenger, was almost a copy of Mercedes, and the crossover ideologically resembled the ML model. The second generation (2003) gained individuality. This style has brought success, which is more expensive to abandon. So they saved: having spent only $ 240 million (this is the price of average facelifting). As a result, the most obvious changes affected the forms of optics and drawing under the threshold. They also added chromium. A little, but in the spirit of heavy time.
The waist line is expressive and is well emphasized by the dynamics of such a formidable substetrician previously found only in supercars
The spoiler at the end of the roof works both for aerodynamics, and on the defined molding around the side windows gives the silhouette sophistication
The front overhang is hard to call little, but the silhouette only benefits from this
The ornament of the decorative grille of the radiator is restrained and even strict
The conjugation of the front rack and the hood plane is a difficult place, but everything is in order here
The protruding cheekbones give the image of the car a considerable share of expressiveness
Plastic contains a lot of nuances, and from this the severity of SUV is soft
Chrome decoration around the cladding can be a corporate sign for the brand
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