My first post to kick off my first day of Lexus ownership. Purchased a Crystal white/Ivory leather 03 SportCross this morning.
I am fired up about this car and I hope to learn a lot from this forum.

OH HAPPY DAY!

congratulations on your new IS! Hope your having fun!

Welcome to the club!

Hello there! You've come to the right place

Felicitations
one more Sport X on the go

Welcome, I cannot comment too much on the people here as I have never met them etc and I am a little new too! But, what I can say is that they are very friendly and always keen to help.

You will be looking for mods soon too, no matter how much you wanted to keep the car standard!

Go GOLD too and you can save money on servicing and more.

Welcome to the club - get some piccies posted......

WOW!!!

A Crystal white Sportcross with a Ivory leather interior!!

That's going to be one sweet looking car.

Get some piccys up on here to show us.

Done Deal! I took delivery this morning and it was a great experience. Met my service advisor, the loaner car person and my mechanic.
Due to past car purchases I was totally prepared to hear, "it's not ready" or, "there was a slight problem with..." or something of that nature and then spend the day at the dealership.
I was TOTALLY WRONG. My salesperson had it tinted, shined and ready to roll when I pulled up and I was 15 minutes early.
It is cloudy here today so I took my digital camera with me to be sure I could get a picture before she got dirty. Good thing too because it started raining halfway home. Oh well, a few rain drops won't ruin MY day.
Anyway, here is her very first pic, on the delivery driveway at my dealer.
[img]http://webpages.charter.net/silverspurs21/SportXdelivery040303.jpg[/img]
Since it's a bit of a drive to the dealer, she now has 62 miles on her odometer.
Feels like Christmas!

........... Looks AWESOME MATE!!!!!!

white cars are the best...........

am i biased

Congratulations and welcome to the club. I hope you enjoy the Lexus experience.

sorry if i bein stupid but you're in the US right?

Car looks fantastic, especially with no license plate on the front, wish we could do that

[quote name='Parthiban' date='Apr 3 2003, 09:15 PM']sorry if i bein stupid but you're in the US right?

Car looks fantastic, especially with no license plate on the front, wish we could do that [/quote]
Yes, I am in the US. I know this is a UK forum but I didn't think that mattered. Does it?
I wish I could keep the front plate off but in about 10 days when the real plates show up, she will have a plate on the front and back like everyone else. It's a shame but it's the law here and the local police really crack down on it.

Abra Cadabra... Make the Sun Come Out!

[SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][quote name='Supracharged-IS340' date='Apr 3 2003, 07:47 PM']white cars are the best...........

am i biased [/quote]
And how would you know what a white IS looks like Mr Clawley??

[img]http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/albums/album01/MATS_WHITE_IS200.sized.jpg[/img]

course it doesn't matter where you are! the more the merrier

no i was asking to know whether there was no plate on the front because you were in the US (also car was LHD)

but you do have to put the plate on? but there's no fixing thing on the bumper, does that have to be fitted too?

[quote name='andyhart21' date='Apr 3 2003, 10:25 PM'][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][quote name='Supracharged-IS340' date='Apr 3 2003, 07:47 PM']white cars are the best...........

am i biased [/quote]
And how would you know what a white IS looks like Mr Clawley??

[img]http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/albums/album01/MATS_WHITE_IS200.sized.jpg[/img][/quote]


LMAO!


Btw.... Welcome to the club!

Very nice car!
What % is the tint on your car? All around?

Welcome to the club matey! Car looks very niiiiiice!!!!

[quote name='andyhart21' date='Apr 3 2003, 09:25 PM'][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][quote name='Supracharged-IS340' date='Apr 3 2003, 07:47 PM']white cars are the best...........

am i biased [/quote]
And how would you know what a white IS looks like Mr Clawley??[/quote]
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey,

I got a brand spankin' new IS200SE last Friday - what a car! Wow!

Plucked up the courage to join the club today. What with the Alan Partridge joibes that have been going around my office I didn't want to get a new anorak as well.

My daughter (10) used to say, "Are we going in Dads car?" - now she says "Are we taking the lexus?" she's totally into it...

I keep looking for the button on the dash to turn off my stupid grin that I've developed whilst driving!

[quote]I keep looking for the button on the dash to turn off my stupid grin that I've developed whilst driving!    [/quote]

I don't think any of the LOC members have found that button yet either...

Welcome to the club mate and good luck with the car...

[quote name='onewackynode' date='Apr 4 2003, 12:53 PM']Hey,

I got a brand spankin' new IS200SE last Friday - what a car! Wow!

Plucked up the courage to join the club today. What with the Alan Partridge joibes that have been going around my office I didn't want to get a new anorak as well.

My daughter (10) used to say, "Are we going in Dads car?" - now she says "Are we taking the lexus?" she's totally into it...

I keep looking for the button on the dash to turn off my stupid grin that I've developed whilst driving! [/quote]
Leicestershire? Excellent mate - we must meet up one day as I'm from Thurmaston.....

[quote name='Supracharged-IS340' date='Apr 3 2003, 07:47 PM']white cars are the best...........

am i biased [/quote]
agree!!

Yes, I agree that Mat is biased too...

By the way, Texis, can you post a piccy of that interior....

Looking very nice

Welcome. Car looks great! TAKE CARE

[quote name='GRiM' date='Apr 4 2003, 01:27 PM']Yes, I agree that Mat is biased too...

By the way, Texis, can you post a piccy of that interior....[/quote]
Thanks for all the welcomes... I am working on getting a picture of the interior. Been really busy this week at work and weather has been bad.
I'm still loving this car though!

Finally, I got around to taking a photo of the interior. Also, somebody asked about the tint. It's 20% all around and 35% on the front doors. 35% is the maximum that's legal here on the front door glass.

Here's the Ivory Ecsaine Leather:

[img]http://webpages.charter.net/silverspurs21/Ivory-escaine-1.jpg[/img]

[quote name='imi' date='Apr 4 2003, 12:22 PM'][quote]I keep looking for the button on the dash to turn off my stupid grin that I've developed whilst driving!    [/quote]

I don't think any of the LOC members have found that button yet either...

Welcome to the club mate and good luck with the car...[/quote]


Most of us are the opposite, and keep getting grin-expanders as we mod our cars

nice car

those mats look interesting are they plastic ?
are they lexus ones ?

[quote name='bazza' date='May 1 2003, 08:48 PM']nice car

those mats look interesting are they plastic ?
are they lexus ones ?[/quote]
Wow, you've got a good eye there. No, the clear plastic mats are not Lexus ones. The carpeted Lexus ones are underneath. It's been raining here a lot and I want my carpeted ones to stay clean so I got these cheapo mats to protect the Lexus mats when the weather is bad. The Lexus logo on the factory mats shows through the clear plastic. It may look odd but it serves a purpose.

Today we had a wicked hail storm. Is there hail in the UK? Anyway, the SportX was in the garage but my Infinti was not and it suffered quite a bit of body damage and the windshield is broken as well. A person from my Insurance company will be looking at it soon.


The SportX is nice and polished in the Garage.

Interesting pictures, your SportX got inside half leather as mine.
Is there an option for a full inside leather ?

@d'taleur

[quote]Today we had a wicked hail storm. Is there hail in the UK? Anyway, the SportX was in the garage but my Infinti was not and it suffered quite a bit of body damage and the windshield is broken as well. A person from my Insurance company will be looking at it soon.[/quote]

typical US got to have bigger hailstones than us
sounds like we wouldnt want them though!

[quote name='bazza' date='May 2 2003, 08:49 AM']typical US got to have bigger hailstones than us
sounds like we wouldnt want them though! [/quote]
Of course EVERYTHING is bigger in TEXAS. Including but not limited to, hail, tornados, hurricanes, number of idiots per area code and the list goes on.

As for the interior, it's half leather, half sueded leather. Full leather is/was available but I have never seen one in person. The SportX is pretty hard to get here and if you want a special configuration, well, you probably won't ever get it.
Mine is the Leather-Escaine Sport package that includes the interior, moonroof, 6 cd in dash changer, subwoofer, cargo net, luggage compartment mat, e-shift 5 spd auto trans, rear storage shade, rear spoiler and locking wheel nuts.
I also got the limited slip differential.

It will be interesting to see how the suede parts of the seats hold up over time.

[quote name='texisportcross' date='Apr 6 2003, 04:17 PM'][quote name='GRiM' date='Apr 4 2003, 01:27 PM']...By the way, Texis, can you post a piccy of that    interior....[/quote]
Thanks for all the welcomes... I am working on getting a picture of the interior....[/quote]
Tex,

That interior is seriously cool and as dangerous as I expected.

Cool caws it looks awesome , dangerous caws I've got kids..........

Chocolate Ice cream and tan leather..... Oh NO!

[quote name='GRiM' date='May 4 2003, 07:33 PM'][quote name='texisportcross' date='Apr 6 2003, 04:17 PM'] [quote name='GRiM' date='Apr 4 2003, 01:27 PM']...By the way, Texis, can you post a piccy of that    interior....[/quote]
Thanks for all the welcomes... I am working on getting a picture of the interior....[/quote]
Tex,

That interior is seriously cool and as dangerous as I expected.

Cool caws it looks awesome , dangerous caws I've got kids..........

Chocolate Ice cream and tan leather..... Oh NO! [/quote]
Haha! Yeah, I have kids too. They are not alllowed to speak or to have any food or drink in this car. EVER! They are not allowed to touch anything! They are required to sit still with their hands in their laps and their feet are to touch the plastic mats only.
This has worked for a month now with very little protest. I don't expect it to last for ever but I am going to milk it for all it's worth.

Thanks for the compliments on the interior. I thought about all the things that could go wrong with a light color but my only other option was black and it gets over 100 degrees here in the summer. So far, no marks on the upholstery. She has a whopping 996 miles on her so far.