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The petrol version offers adequate performance, but you have to push it quite hard to extract it, at which point it gets rather noisy. That’s why we prefer the hybrid; it, too can be rather vocal if you accelerate hard, but it’s not an unpleasant sound. At a cruise it quietens down significantly, and around town the petrol motor can cut out altogether to leave you running on electricity only, keeping things even more tranquil.
The RX isn’t exactly a sports car – it leans over through bends and the steering is uninvolving – but it’s nevertheless light and easy to drive, and the soft suspension has it lolloping over all but the most sudden of bumps, smoothing them out nicely. The brakes in the hybrid version can sometimes be a little grabby, though, making smooth stops an art that must be mastered.
Inside, you’ll find a dashboard that feels incredibly solid and looks very appealing, with sweeping lines and some neat styling touches. A few of the materials are a little low-rent, and some of the switchgear is shared with lesser Toyotas, but on the whole the effect is upmarket enough, if not quite up there with the best luxury SUVs.
The same can be said for the seating; both the front and rear seats offer less room than you'll find in most rivals, and, while most SUVs of the Lexus’s size these days offer seating for seven, early RX buyers have to make do with five. The seven-seat RX L was introduced in 2018 and remedied this to a point, but there’s more room in the rearmost seats of the
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