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Honestly - I think it's very attractive. The interior reminds me of Jaguar and Buick (except for the steering wheel... looks like it's out of a Chevrolet Malibu.)

The exterior and worthless back seat are the things that turn me off the most about this car.

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The overall design does nothing for me. Just another interior. The wood is awful, but I don't like wood inside a car at all. Carbon fiber or aluminum is much better. The wood on the steering wheel is awful too.

This interior was not designed for me. For a Luxury car interior look to the new CTS or SRX for my tastes. There is more than "point of origin" for my hatred of Toyota.

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Lot of color 'disharmony' to my eye: the off-white sides of the console overlapping the flat black of the upper dash, that 'surfboard' of wood extending to the right with none to the left, the off-white A-Pillar against the black of the dash & window frame... makes the interior look very cobbled together. Other details look quite cheap (door handle & glovebox latch shared with $15K cars, window switch surround, obvious pass ABS cutline, 'glued-on' look of the center HVA/C vents, etc). This is supposedly an aspirational, head-of-class, expensive interior. I don't see it.

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The center IP stack is terrible. It looks like a single DIN stacked on a double DIN with Nav screen topping. The right side of the dash was stolen out of an XJ, the steering wheel was stolen out of your daughters Celica. About the only interesting thing about this dash is the instrument pods, but everyone is doing that tunnel effect now and in this case it doesn't even fit with the rest of this dash/car.

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It has more wood than I prefer, but it's appropriate for the car it's in. The design isn't particularly distinctive, but it's inoffensive and has no major ergonomic transgressions. I'd still take this dashboard over 90% of other vehicles.

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I like the darker wood and the tan and red two tones (esp. the red). The sweep of the passenger side trim vaguely reminds me of the previous Jag XK (but smaller) ..the steering wheel (w/o the wood) reminds me of the 3-spoke design of my old '84 Escort... overall, I like the design, esp. the gauge cluster and center stack...for a luxury coupe/convertible, wood is a must (carbon fiber looks disgusting, IMHO, and aluminum trim would be better suited to a sports sedan/coupe).

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No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now.

Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap.

They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the americans.

Entirely absurd statement. :rolleyes:

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No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now.

Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap.

They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the Americans.

Remember kids, don't feed the trolls.

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>>"No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now. Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap. They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the americans."<<

...waits for 10 or 20 wink smilies to load.....

...still waiting...

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Lot of color 'disharmony' to my eye: the off-white sides of the console overlapping the flat black of the upper dash, that 'surfboard' of wood extending to the right with none to the left, the off-white A-Pillar against the black of the dash & window frame... makes the interior look very cobbled together. Other details look quite cheap (door handle & glovebox latch shared with $15K cars, window switch surround, obvious pass ABS cutline, 'glued-on' look of the center HVA/C vents, etc). This is supposedly an aspirational, head-of-class, expensive interior. I don't see it.

+1

No need to repeat reason!

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the colors work a lot better in person, overall the colors match well and definitely add interest. however the style is outmoded. if you're talking about the lines present in this interior i would say we've seen this interior done and done again, and attempted by GM more than a few times. the color presentation still works and overall this still looks classy but most of the design elements like the gearshift, most of the dash panels, and the door panels are out of date.

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Design may (or may not) work better in person; depth of field and proportion change with viewing angles, but colors are colors, and their awful juxtapositioning here will not change from pics to in-person viewpoints. The interior is not so much dated as having obvious cheap bits and a terribly poor design sensibility.

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I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

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I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

Couldn't agree more. If the Lexus badge wasn't on the steering wheel and an Impala was photoshopped on, what would the responses have been..?

:AH-HA_wink:

I find the interior not bad at all, the "wood" I would have to see in person, some pics it looks overwhelming, and the way the dash inlay tapers off isn't my favorite, but overall it's not bad at all IMO.

So shoot me!

:P

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I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

not really, I'd still hate the center stack for the single DIN stacked on double DIN look and the airbag that looks like it came from a Celica....

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