Lexus RX test drive since 2012 SUV

Updated Lexus RX350 F-SPORT

Lexus is in a playful mood. Restyled RX 350 offers its fans fun: whoever burns more fuel has won ... I don’t remember critical lines in our journal about the Lexus RX 350. It is painful for a successful model.


Maybe only once they called the sofa on wheels, and even then, against the background of the Audi Q5, it is difficult to compete in a paired test with the Germans. Among the Parnis, RX is high and its star status reinforces with periodic restyling. The fruit of the next update in front of you.

Very little has changed, but the result is noticeable. Designers have a push of the new grate of the radiator with a sand clock. I rummaged well in my memory, I remembered a similar type of piece of iron on the hood of the subway. For my taste, the old version of the front line was definitely elegant. The headlights have become more aggressive, and a chain of daylight running lights using LED technology is added to them. Rest? The rest is secondary. For the order, a drawing of 19-inch wheels was revised. For the marathot, L-shaped contours are introduced into the rear lights. For Pont, the dashboard was redeveloped, and now it glows red in sports mode. The chassis and the body were not touched. The road clearance was 180 mm as it was. The engine is also old. However, in the car, the main thing is not the motor will tell you any experienced driver. The altar of a modern car is located on the central panel, where the options so cute to the user’s heart are located, such as managing the media center, navigator and climate control. It is they who loom all day before our face, and the gas pedal is far below, you really do not remember about it in traffic.


Large rates.
Lexus owners compete in a game called Fuck Fuel Economy. Honestly, cool

I didn't touch it anymore
I decided to go to the editor with the help of a navigator. Although the road is familiar, but interesting. The multimedia system also fell under restyling, you need to check. I enter the navigation menu. I stumble upon a bunch of seductive, but slurred offers. After thinking carefully, I choose to add the route, although I did not want to, but there was simply no line to create a new route there. I introduce the name of the city, streets and begin to look for the option to start, but this is not there either. At random, I shake some round icon similar to ... a circle, and I get to the map, where I am offered to press another oddity and add to something suspicious, then something else strange and, finally, start. Well, the navigator immediately offers to turn sharply to the right. I refused. Before the editors, there was a kilometer exactly in a straight line. I didn't touch him anymore.


Are you many 8 seconds to hundreds? I don't. More than enough

I moved to the radio. It is good when the radio control consists of two toothproists, one of which is volume, the other search. It's nice if it is supplemented by several memory buttons. I would fix such an algorithm for management legislatively that it is transmitted genetically from generation to generation. While the State Duma is busy with more abstract matters, you have to get used to each of the next multimedia system on the go. My goal is primitive to find and remember five favorite radio stations. I enter the menu, I see a list, I observe a memory panel. I touch the search to the search switch, manipulate with duplicate buttons, I ask the photographer advice. In general, I spend time in silence perfectly. Later, when I brought the Lexus RX 350 back to the representative office, embarrassed to appear mentally retarded, I timidly ask: how? .. And the specialist who dedicated the brand for some time, sitting in the panel, poking his fingers in the panel, and then shrugs: no way.

It means better
Lexus composed variations on the theme of multimedia for terry fans, forgetting about those who are transplanted to the Japanese from other brands. Restyling is started in terms of beauty and style and did not at all affect convenience and practicality. The new RX 350 is similar to the hood of the glamorous metro and is ready to go only one route and broadcast radio stations from your closed list. Embarrassing? No. Lexus's true fans are the least bothering. Open the menu item fuel consumption, and you will find evidence. There are two indicators: the best and medium. The first in my case was 19.5 liters, and the second 14.6.


Caution! Technical details
The RX suspension is completely independent in front of the McPherson racks, a multi -link design behind. A multi -disc friction clutch is responsible for the distribution of the moment between the axes, and an electromagnet serves as an executive element. With a straightforward uniform movement, the moment is almost completely transmitted to the wheels of the front axle. In the case of slipping one of the wheels, it can be distributed in a ratio of 100: 0 to 50:50. The driver can influence the distribution of the moment in the transmission: on the central tunnel there is a button of the Lock Clocking Campaign. When blocking, the moment will be distributed in a constant ratio, however, Lock mode is automatically disconnected when 40 km/h reaches.

A modernized V-shaped 6-cylinder engine in terms of characteristics is rather a passenger and has nothing against high speeds. However, his thrust is enough on moderate off -road.

As the only type of transmission is a 6-speed automatic.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [October/2012]