![]() ![]() At long last, this is a pleasant one to drive too. If you drive to the advantages these hybrids offer, they’re impressive bits of kit. What’s more, economy refused to dip below 40-something even mired in the worst London gridlock. Official, pleasingly realistic claims are 49-53mpg, and our average economy was over 43-47mpg, which is notably better than a pure petrol crossover would return over the same inner-London-then-motorway-schlep journey. Japan is great at consumer electronics, so how did this slip through the sign-off meeting? Bizarre. Time and time again, we hope that it’ll click in our brains and become second-nature, but everyone at TG agrees it’s a dead-end. This 1980s arcade game masquerading as a premium nfotainment system was terrible when Lexus first brought it out, and it’s still a pulsating, puss-filled boil on the face of any Lexus fascia. And worst of all, the 8-bit infotainment screen and its hateful touchpad mouse control. Supercar trickle-down features might sound great in the marketing pitch, but none of it actually makes the UX easy to operate. Or the multi-decked dashboard layout, with its fiddly climate controls and fingertrap wireless charging pad. The stumpy horns for changing driving modes either side of the instrument binnacle, which you’ll never use because they’re cumbersome to reach. The motorised instrument display – a gimmick, but a fun one. There’s oodles of incongruous LFA supercar inspiration too. Stellar build quality marred by cheap’n’nasty switchgear. You’ll be depending on the piercing, shrieking parking sensors, and army of cameras. The meaningless, woolly steering doesn’t help matters. This is not a big car, but inside it feels small and dark and difficult to place. It’s a touch claustrophobic inside, especially compared to a Volvo XC40. The visibility is really poor and hemmed-in. The edgy styling will make the neighbours envious, but desire will quickly turn to fury when you plough all over their lawn and flowerbeds trying to manoeuvre your UX. We can only assume this is to show how much progress it's made. ![]() It’s a portly car for its size, at around 1,600kg, but at last there’s some sense of torquey e-boost getting things moving on demand.įor no reason we can conjure, Lexus is keeping the utterly rubbish old CT200h hatchback on sale for a while, in parallel with the new, finned UX. ![]() Two: when you do need to stop mooching about and really ask for some urgency, the UX actually delivers. Brake pedal feel is still mushy, but easier to modulate than older Lexus efforts. You squeeze the throttle and let the hybrid’s computers politely sort out the power balance, rather than tiptoeing around desperately trying to stay in the parameters of battery power. Even when you rouse the engine, there’s no longer the buzzing, resonant hive of bees vibrating through the bulkhead. An X indicates that the vehicle was not manufactured for a specific year.No can do – this is the best execution of the theory yet, for two reasons. N/A indicates that we did not receive a large enough sample size to provide data for a specific year. Our subscribers provide great insights into their satisfaction by answering one simple question: If they had it to do all over again, would they definitely buy or lease the same model? In addition, respondents also rate their cars in six categories: driving experience, comfort, value, styling, audio, and climate systems. To learn about satisfaction, CR has collected survey data from our annual survey on more than half a million vehicles. An X indicates that the vehicle was not manufactured for a specific year. Based on this data and further analysis, we predict reliability for the latest year. Extra weight is given to the more serious areas such as major engine or transmission problems. The results are presented relative to the average model that year. Consumer Reports subscribers reported on any serious problems they had with their vehicles during the past 12 months that they considered serious because of cost, failure, safety, or downtime, in any of the trouble spots included in the table below. The reliability charts are based on responses on hundreds of thousands of vehicles from our latest Annual Auto Survey. ![]()
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