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is everybody on holiday Another question: does anybody have any experience of other dealer fit extras such as the LPA 400 parking sensors and the Bluetooth Hands free system. The brochure shows the handsfree kit but its a bit difficult from the picture to decide how big it is, where it sits and how connected. :winky:

OK its been a while Got to drive both the 250 auto and the 220d manual. The 250 was sel MM really wanted to test the MM and the auto box, not the wood trim! So smoooooth !!! fantastic gearbox. 220d by comparison, hmmm, vibrating RVM, noisy, those gear ratios, heavy clutch :tsktsk: So its gonna be the 250 SE auto, can't / won't stretch to the MM so having dealer fitted rear parking sensors added. In truth really the only option the SE doesn't have that would useful AFAIAK. The rest of the MM caperbility, although great, I can live without. Anybody know roughly the cost of the dealer fitted rear sensors option? As this is a co car order I need to spec the choice on the Lloydstsb website. On the lexus the colours are either Mica, metallic or solid. My understanding is that Black is the only solid (non extra cost) option. The brochure doesn't indicate which of the colours are Mica and which are Metallic. To complete the quote online and progress to an order I need to specify which option it is to be :duh: Anybody know which colours are mica and which are metallic??? your help would be appreciated :D

Also, the fact that you have a rubber sucker on the inside of the screen detracts from the "class" of this car (snob appeal - there's something very CHAV about it) - please don't flame me - it's only my humble opinion . Whats a chav?

Had a trip down to Brighton Lexus today. Demo fixed for Tuesday, guy is trying to get both a 220d and 250 auto to try out. One with MM and one without really impressed with the interior finish and general craftsmanship. Saw the mm in a 250 SEL auto surpised how big the screen was. Wish I could go for all of the toys. :o If I can live with the manual 220d after the test drive then could be a 220d SE MM. Then the choice of colour loved the Canterbury Blue ;)

43 and on the verge of my first Lex Just making up my mind hmm

Thanks guys for your input so far The 220d Sport, to be honest slipped under my radar initially though sems to tick the right boxes on front and rear sensors, diesel, MPG etc. 'Cellensia seating pack (including: heated; 8-way electrically adjustable front seats, featuring memory function) ' What s the above like to live with?? Guess I loose the fan up the a**se and not leather? Going off the MM nobody suggests its a must have option, if you have Sat Nav bluetooth etc Plead to all you Sport owners, an honest opinion of having 18" rims, sports suspension and driving up and down our great country's motorways. Appreciate the better gear ratios but does the sport cure all of the potential issues with the manual box.

My first post so please be gentle. It’s that time I face every 3 years when my company car comes up for renewal. Narrowed the choices (limited to Ford, Vauxhall, Saab, Merc, Lexus and Toyota, Volvo) to either one of the Merc C class variants or the Lexus IS. Coming out of a Jag X type SE 2.0L Diesel. Strange but this year the Jags have been dropped favour of the Mercs. The difficulty is I am stuck with the car for 3 years, so making the right choice is important. Guess I looking for comfort from you guys on the right Lexus choice. I have to pay a personal contribution and obviously get hit for taxable benefit based on emissions. Business mileage is reimbursed at the going rate will at least cost the cover of current fuel prices. The real choice is between having any of the 250d range (SE, SE L, Sport) with MM (on the SE, SEL not Sport) or the 250 SE Auto without MM. Setting the 250 SE Auto as my highest point of personal expenditure. Trying to keep some sense of reality this combo would be £400 pm (per cont and tax) I really fancied an auto box this time round but could again go with the manual on the 250d if I hadn’t read so many horror stories about the ratios, crunching etc. As the Jag gives me 50- 54 mpg all of the time I was amazed at the low MPG figures mentioned for the 220d :o On the other hand go back to Petrol suffer the increased BIK tax on emissions but have the luxury of auto and smooth V6 2.5 ltr :) The MM system description sounds fantastic, but could you live with out it? Only thing I would seriously miss from the jag is rear parking sensors. Have a Tom Tom have a bluetooth headset and the standard system in the IS seems good anyway. So what’s it to be. I hear you telling me to test drive (I will) but I always feel guilty with the local dealer, knowing that Lloyds TSB Autolease will purchase elsewhere and just turn up one day at home with the new Car on a trailer, no hand over room experience for me!! I do few personal miles so the reduced MPG of the petrol version doesn’t matter too much. I would consider myself a careful driver through the gears (comes from driving the Jag!) but still like to cruise motorways at steady 80-85 normally. Mainly fast A road and motorway driving about 25000 a year. I have asked a lot of questions and sure I could do extensive test driving, but I am not sure a quick spin around the block will give not me the same insight you guys have living with these beasts every day. So is it to be: 250d SE (L) MM 250d Sport 250 SE Auto .