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the luxus RZ we've got it here and it's

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uh well it looks really good this might be the first time that a car

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brand has gone from having a big old Grill to turning you into an electric

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car and actually improved the looks while maintaining the same basic styling

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I think this looks absolutely fantastic and you do get a lot of looks it just

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isn't the looks from the type of people that you normally would expect you drive

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by a rich white mom in this thing and like she is just rubbernecking so hard

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little Timmy can scooter straight into the ditch she is not going to notice she

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is looking at this Lexus that is how good it looks one detail that's super

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cool is this Lexus logo so first of all it lights up at night and it looks

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absolutely fantastic also if you look very close there's a bunch of tiny

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little wires and that's because it's heated up that will allow you to get rid

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of snow water that sort of stuff which is important not only so you can see the

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fancy lit up logo but also behind it is radar which it uses for adaptive cruise

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control so that in conjunction with your camera allows it to have a really really

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great adaptive cruise system moving around the side you can see that we've

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got the 18 inch rims which are the ones that you want because that gives you

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about 350 kilometers of range when you step it up to the 20s you only get about

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300 which is pretty oof of course medium quality

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range can be made up for if you have really fast charging which uh this does

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not have so we have a 70 kilowatt hour

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battery in here which compared to like an ionic five it's got 77 and we only

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have 150 kilowatt charging compared to

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the competition which is more like 300. this is very disappointing because

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even though this has a bit of a smaller battery charging it from 0 to 80 is

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going to take you about 50 minutes whereas in some other cars in this class

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it's more like 18.

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yeah not great one thing that's kind of strange are the door handles they don't

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uh do normal door handle things instead you push inside and then it

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electronically opens it if you don't trust that of course you do have a real

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handle down here but it works really quite well and you don't have the

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problems of like people like in Tesla's where they just don't know how to

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operate your door handles it is unfortunate you don't get the

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aerodynamic benefits of other cars that have flush door handles but it is really

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easy to use moving towards the rear I really like the way that they visually

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joined the Windows to the rear windscreen and also these little

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winglets I absolutely love and they are still functional apparently they help

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with turbulence over the back and given how just clean this windscreen is after

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a week of driving it I think they have really achieved it also better

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aerodynamics means less wind noise while you're driving I think they did a really

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good job there around back the excellent styling continues with the light bar

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that goes all the way across and I just want to quickly shout out this paint it

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is white but it has some little flecks that really bring it all together also

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the 450 in the RZ here stands for it

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being about equivalent to a 4.5 liter V8

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opening up the trunk you get quite a bit of space now we have the base model so

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we don't have the fancy lift gate but whatever trunks nice and big and

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although you don't get a frunk in talking to Lexus they're rational is

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pretty decent what they wanted to do is have the inverter and all the

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electronics on top and that allowed them to give first of all you more leg room

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and general passenger space but also they said that they could have given us

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a frunk but the packaging would have made it small and it also would have

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given them a lot less space in the back and they think that this is way more

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functional so we look down here and we have just a lot of very functional space

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you can throw your charging cable in there and also like a real backpack

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even oh is there is there spots here

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oh cool there's your tire repair kit popping in the back seat you get to see

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just well first of all how nice the materials are like all up here this is

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just a really nice that's not a leather but it feels a lot like leather and in

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the higher end versions of this they even have a light that sort of shines a

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cool little pattern up on here it is quite neat also we have very standard

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wrist rest this is just generally quite comfortable I have a good I don't know

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three inches of space up here I'm six feet and I could very easily just sit

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back here for a big old road trip also of course back here you get two usb

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type-c chargers for you to charge up your phone or an arc camera

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hopping into the front seat these seats are super comfortable I personally don't

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love the feel of these seats I feel like the design for someone that's a little

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bit smaller than myself but that said I know that like my mom and all my aunts

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bought like RAV4s and stuff like that for specifically this kind of a seat

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feel and they absolutely love it also everywhere that you touch feels really

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quite good like this center console the way that they've done the softness of

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this is just great and also one cool kind of trick it goes both ways what's

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not so cool though is that uh they don't

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have a glove box there's a literally nothing there now in the

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higher trims of this there's a radiant heater there so it kind of feels like

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you have a blanket over your legs while you're driving around which is pretty

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neat but I also kind of just want a glove box guys now talking to Lexus they

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did say that instead of giving you a glove box they've given you extra space

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down here below the center console but

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uh it's a lot smaller than other cars that I've seen they've done this before

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and it's not the most functional like I

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tried to put my Falafel down there and it didn't really fit at least they did

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make the center console storage nice and big though you can fit a whole water

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bottle in there ltdstore.com one piece

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of storage that I never thought I'd complain about though is the sunglasses

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holder thank you Lexus for having one it's the first car I've had in a while that has a proper sunglasses holder and

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I feel like they're very important it's not so great though is that every time that I use it I feel like I'm one of

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those infomercial people because it's just too dang small and I don't even

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have very large sunglasses so uh

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all right let's take it for a drive although first I want to put it in

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reverse because uh

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yeah it always makes that sound right there to make sure that you know it's in

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Reverse I'm the one that just put it in reverse I know it's in Reverse I don't

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need this sound the whole time apparently the dealer can probably turn

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it off oh my God that's annoying also while we're in Reverse uh this backup

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camera is probably the worst that I've seen in years it looks okay right now

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but it is just always super dark it's very grainy I don't like it very much

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we have 308 horsepower 320 foot-pounds

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of torch a little bit of a squat I turn that it'll spin the front tires

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quite a bit five seconds zero to 60. this thing is proper quick for what it

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is of course something like the gv60 will absolutely destroy it but at the

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same time it has more than enough power for what I

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think the average Lexus owner is going to want to do you are not buying this

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car because of how fast it is that's just kind of a bonus you're buying this

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car because of how comfortable and quiet it is and it hits most of that pretty

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well so at lower speeds the rides a

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little bit on the harsh side like if you're hitting bumps potholes this is 4

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200 pounds of car it's not going to be able to have like those sort of supple

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suspension that you want without it having a ridiculous amount of travel

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that said though once you get above about 60 kilometers per hour or so it's

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a really nice spot to put in a bunch of Miles the sound isolation is quite good

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but at the same time it's very similar to what you might find on ionic 5 or an

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ionic six so it isn't like a standout

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like I was kind of hoping it would be that said though it's just a very very

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simple car to drive like if you're looking for a driving

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experience this is not what you want but

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like the steering it's very light it's very accurate it very simply does what

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you wanted to do in a very simple way I can see why this is the car where they

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want to have drive by wire steering right now there's a steering column goes

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down to the wheels but in the future they want to have a yoke and then have a

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proper drive-by-wire system so you only have to turn it like this far to get

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full lock but at the same time do you really trust not having a steering

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column candy do you want no steering column in your car

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that said it's not like they're going to be forcing you to have the drive-by-wire

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Yoke system you can still get a normal wheel like we have right here and this

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wheel is pretty good like the leather well it's not leather this is all vegan

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materials so uh they use petroleum instead of an animal but this does feel

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really good it has a good amount of squishiness in a way that makes it feel

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premium but it's not like the sausage

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casing feeling of the gv60 steering wheel that was

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one of the biggest problems with the driving experience I feel is this gauge

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cluster because uh it sucks it's terrible it's really disappointing

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because luxs are the ones that pioneered digital dashes and uh they haven't

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changed it since you can see the freaking pixels from here guys it

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doesn't get bright it looks like trash and there's just a lot of clutter on the

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sides I don't know oh she described this sound system in three words it sucks ass

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yeah it is absolutely terrible so Amber

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audio engineer had a look at it and it not only has a lot more bass than you

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want but no low end base so you only have high bass there it also has extra

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treble EQ is basically useless because it doesn't adjust the right bands Anna

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I think that the worst audiophile disk

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that I can possibly have for this is it sounds like you're listening to speakers

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oh it is so freaking terrible but what's

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really interesting is the fact that it sounds a lot better if you're not using

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Android auto or apple carplay in order to get from Android auto to the Lexus

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infotainment you need to press this once

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go there everywhere else you have just a

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dedicated hard button to get back to like the menu that you want and it's so

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unresponsive oh my God you piece of there we go we're back in the system so

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when you're in Lex's infotainment everything that you want is on the left

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right here you can very easily be like okay I want my nav settings yada yada

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yada if they very simply left this bar right here around when you were in

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Android auto it would be totally fine but instead you go in here it goes away

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excellent that's uh everything that I would want over here is gone what could

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make it a lot better is that they have this menu right here where it has a

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bunch of different stuff but it is 100 not utilized it decides what's

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frequently used it doesn't have icons so you just have to read it while you're

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like driving along the road and most of it's nothing nothing here it's a really

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large Miss opportunity that kind of just is sort of what this whole infotainment

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feels like they just kind of needed to actually use it and improve it to the

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point point where it's good and competitive with everything else and

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instead it's just annoying and you're left-hitting this and uh yeah that's a really fast

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day Lexus anyway I got on this tangent in the first place because the sound

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quality in Android auto or apple carplay is abominable and it gets a lot better

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when you connect it to Bluetooth so let's just have a listen here

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terrible

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now if we turn it over to Bluetooth continue

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foreign I'm connected to your car like look

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Lexus RZ shows it right there shows that it's playing Alexis RZ please connect

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your Bluetooth oh my god well anyway uh the Bluetooth doesn't

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work but whatever they did for the digital audio compression in Android

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auto and apple carplay is unacceptable it sounds terrible and it sounds a lot

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clearer when you just simply connect through Bluetooth and I don't know why

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but whatever you did Lexus please fix it because I'm just saying don't buy this

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car with this sound system because it sucks and Lexus has told me that

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over-the-air updates are possible on this and it would be able to fix stuff

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like this never trust someone that they will fix it later because a lot of the

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time they don't okay where are we handy oh the climate

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control we can talk about that it's actually pretty good they have these

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knobs down here in the center they have a little screen it's kind of like the

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Mustang Mach e it's overall pretty nice there is a climate screen right here but

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there's nothing of substance so I don't know why they had like a whole dedicated

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menu but both of these are complete misses so ah whatever the Toyota Mirai

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and like basically every Lexus that I've driven has been so good at very simply

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getting the Driving Experience correct like maybe it isn't the most engaging

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but there's like hard buttons for everything that you want and it just

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works this does not do that and it doesn't even have like the fancy they

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rethought the interior for it being electric Vibe it's just poorly

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implemented let's find some corners

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the steering in this is interesting because on one hand it is very accurate

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and you can trust it quite a bit but at the

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same time it's giving me absolutely nothing so like I can turn into this

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corner and if they just very simply had like a spring on the other side of the

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wheel I would believe it's the same like That's how little feedback I'm getting

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through the system that said I don't think I can complain about it too much

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because of the target audience of this car it is very easy to drive like they

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don't have one pedal driving which I personally don't like but at the same

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time the throttle pedal is tuned really well so like

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Andy have you been in the car with like someone that's bad at driving with a

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Tesla with one pedal driving on it's so bad it's just like

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whereas like you Chuck that person into this car and you're going to have a

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pretty good experience and that's like the perfect way to put it it feels like

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you're driving a gas car a very good gas car because most of them don't have this

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kind of pickup but it does just feel like you're driving a gas car which

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actually that's just kind of the summary of this this car seems like it is very

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much for people that want a Lexus or a Toyota and have owned a Lexus or a

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Toyota for their entire life they just now simply want that butt Electric

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that said though I don't know how good of a plan that is for Lexus slash Toyota

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because if there's one thing that electric car owners have shown is that

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they have very little brand loyalty it's just a really disappointing blend of

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mixing the old and new together something like the G80 did a fantastic

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job at just being a combustion car that they turn into an electric one and it

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doesn't really have any of the downsides of an electric car but it also doesn't

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have any of like the really fancy nonsense this right here just kind of

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feels like they went halfway and I don't know who wants that

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so finally the price this one right here

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our base model comes in at sixty eight thousand dollars Canadian and for that

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just don't buy it you don't have parking sensors and a freaking 68 000 car come

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on guys especially with the sound system I really cannot recommend this that said

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though if you step it up to the executive package where you have you

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know all the parking sensors nice moon roof you've got the mark Levinson sound

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system that completely solves that issue I could see a really good argument for

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getting this it is very comfortable incredibly easy to drive and just

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overall a pretty nice car to have but that'll cost you 84 000 Canadian dollars

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which is pretty rough as an electric car I don't love the RZ but that said Lexus

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doesn't need a fantastic electric car they already have a bunch of really

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fantastic plug-in hybrids so maybe instead look into one of those I know

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that we want to very soon so hit like get subscribed I've been just have a

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great old day and it does look really good doesn't it