However Fuel economy comes out to a respectable 19mpg city and 26 mpg highway. How would you classify these two?. Ditto for the 435i, which bested the F Sport by 0. The coupe hasn't been tested separately for side and other crashes. See your dealer for details.
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The six-speed behaved better than the eight, with minimal hesitation when jabbing the pedal to kick down to a lower gear. I drove a few different 350s, with both drivelines and a variety of options that change the car's performance flavor. For a car with all this steering trickery, it got around a racetrack nicely. The 2 Series has better fuel economy and a little more rear-seat room. Inside, the cockpit is divided into operational and display zones.
Lining up and activating, say, a zoom button on the map without instead clicking on the map itself proved nearly impossible. The F Sport Package brings sport seats leather still optional that are uncommonly comfortable for their type. Tech features are plenty, with everything from a G-meter, navigation with a new version of the remote touch pad, Mark Levinson premium audio, rear cross traffic alert, blind spot warning, Lexus Enform App Suite, and pre-collision system with dynamic radar cruise control. Most important, rear legroom is from 4. The 306-horsepower six is a powerful base engine, with mostly good grunting noises it's a V-6, not an in-line six, after all. Both models feature well-made, stylish interiors, but the 2 Series has a more user-friendly infotainment system.
A rearview camera is standard on most models. Well-equipped models come with blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, front and rear parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, and rain-sensing windshield wipers. While the series has yet to be… You may find yourself crossed up in a luxury car, steering turned opposite the direction of the road, the remnants of tires following behind. It's blessed with an airy snarl at about 4000 rpm, but some of it is created, not earned: Lexus pipes synthesized engine sounds into the cabin in Sport mode. Blind-spot monitors and rear cross-traffic alerts are optional. The stiff platform allows Lexus to use more aggressive suspension tuning and still maintain a highway ride quality worthy of the somnambulant. Make sure this doesn't impede your driving position.
The A5 is less impressive in this regard, with numb steering. The Lexus creams the others in front legroom by about 3 to 4 inches. It definitely rode the most comfortably of the three cars, even though it was equipped with the optional 19-inch wheels. It's compliant enough for easy everyday driving, even a little too underdamped on curving country roads, but hits the right ride and handling balance for a pure luxury coupe. It's a coupe, after all.
The 4 Series coupe shares frontal results with the sedan, which earned a disappointing rating of marginal out of a possible poor, marginal, acceptable or good in the small overlap front crash test. In manual mode, it holds gears even at redline in second through eighth gears, and cuts shift times even more. Its optional forward collision warning and avoidance system is rated advanced. The sum of all these parts? Send Joe an Hide full review. Quality is about feel, sound and interaction, too, and there's no separating the car's interior quality from the experience of its touchpad-based control system, which seems to be universally loathed more details in the next section.
See the base models side by side. The upholstered gauge hood is nice, but there's a lot of rubbery stuff on the dash, as well as on the window sills, where you'd prefer padding on which to rest your arm. The downside of all that added beef is mass, and the 3894-pound F Sport tips our scales 273 pounds heavier than and a whopping 329 pounds more than. The sideview's graceful even if the roofline is a bit thick, and the shoulder line lifts at a pretty point on the rear quarters. This model will come with aluminum wheels which will stretch out and shall be available in two sorts.
The Audi A5 and S5 are all-wheel-drive only. It trails the 4 Series by 0. Though it technically seats four passengers, the rear is very tight for adults, and the coupe's sloping roof is attractive on the outside but skull-scraping within. There's one anomaly to note: In cars with the optional all-wheel drive, the front passenger's footwell is crowded by a hump that's incorporated to accommodate the additional drive hardware. From the side or back, it looks more graceful and curvaceous, with a handsome if thick roofline and a delicate uptick in the shoulder line at its rear fenders.
And, being a Lexus, it is of course whisper-quiet inside. An older six-speed unit is the gearbox in this version, and its performance isn't much off the mark. Refinement is also a strong point, with a quiet cabin that keeps exterior noise minimal inside the car. It still feels out of sync with what's on the screen, and the screen could use an artistic reskin more fitting with the Lexus brand. Similar to the touchpad on a laptop, it supports wipe, flick and pinch gestures and also provides pulsation feedback. I credit Lexus for legitimate upgrades, though: The front brake rotor diameters increase from 13.