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grudas said:
Replaced the fd2 type r with an extremely boring daily driver.



Lexus RX450H

I was looking for something bigger to lug stuff around while we do house renovations, move car parts around for the S2000 etc and got bored of having to borrow big cars.

Wanted an interesting estate or similar but nothing really tickled me or was out of my budget. Randomly saw this for sale and as ugly as it is, it has a lot of kit to make it a very nice car to be in and get around in. Boot isn’t small at 1500 litre seats down and wife can also drive it.

I nearly got a CLS350 Mercedes but didn’t want a diesel as we do a lot of short journeys and it just made no sense.

Then I looked at Audi a6 avants and similar and while they’re better looking I just couldn’t spend 10k + for one that I liked.

Then I looked a Nissan stageas but dashboards crack and that put me off.

Looked at alphards, elgrands etc as something more quirky and Japanese but those again wouldn’t have done what I wanted due to weird seat configs.

This is a premier trim so has the :

Air suspension
Mark levison sound system with BT
Camera back/mirror
Sensors
Radar cruise
Double layer glass
Heated / cooled seats
It’s a hybrid so tax is £200/year but has a more interesting 3.5 v6

Etc

All in a very good comfy car to get around in. And all for under £7K.

I’m quite happy with it, wife likes driving it too. And it’s not black so a nice lazy blue/silver colour with gold flake in it that will hopefully not look dirty after 5 minutes.
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How are you getting on with this? Does it feel quick enough and is it as comfortable as you'd expect? What's the boot space like for trios away etc? I'm used to a 624L estate boot so don't want to end up missing that when lugging a family of 4 around.

I've looked at the newer version with the same engine a couple times, always wanted a lexus, prefer estates but options are limited if I want to stay Japanese so one of these is an alternative
 
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Relentless81 said:
How are you getting on with this? Does it feel quick enough and is it as comfortable as you'd expect? What's the boot space like for trios away etc? I'm used to a 624L estate boot so don't want to end up missing that when lugging a family of 4 around.

I've looked at the newer version with the same engine a couple times, always wanted a lexus, prefer estates but options are limited if I want to stay Japanese so one of these is an alternative
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Quick enough for sure, combined around 300bhp so plenty for what it’s used for. Gets up to speed limit quick and never feels like it’s lacking power. It’s very comfortable and quiet not as boaty as you’d expect I guess but mine has the air suspension and I’ve heard the more common springs are just as good and less chance of costing you more in repairs.

Boot size is very good, 570ltrs if I remember right but Lexus also measures their boots differently to other manufacturers, they apparently use 1l boxes to measure it and see how many can fit, the other manufacturers literally use liquid litres. The seats in the rear slide and recline so space can be increased.

That’s basically why I ended up one, if Lexus made an estate I’d probably be in that. All in it’s a great car, genuinely really good to drive and the hated cvt box is absolutely fine, it’s a car you never feel like rushing, just a relaxing solid feeling thing.

For £6500 I can’t see my self getting more car for the money.

Wife likes driving it too, all the tech and so on is nice. It’s good on fuel for a 3.5 v6 and costs £18 a month to tax.

Not a pretty looking thing but inside is solid built, no rattles and just feels like it’ll go for ever.
 
Have a rainbow.

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Not sure what everyone's problem is with the plates. They're just plates but a slightly different shape.
Pretty sure several OcUK posters with supercars have odd shaped plates and no one ever complains about those :confused:
 
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