JJblade

The shortest distance for the adaptive cruise control only leaves a gap a Smart-Car could fill, and have got used to a wet finger cleaning the camera. I can live without DAB Radio because they work so badly in cars. My wish now is that you could simply plug a lap-top in and set up your preferred defaults from a straightforward menu - rather than looking up in the handbook the series of demented presses of unlikely things that can eventually only set up part of what you would like. On another tack, I am curious how much longer the ISF will remain in production. Surely the IS250 family must soon come to an end? The shortest distance on cruise control is not short enough. I only ever drive on this setting and having done 56k miles I am pretty sure I know how bad it is. Loads of twonks dive in the gap every day if given a chance. Funnily enough on a side tact, I have found I can easily beat the mpg of the active cruise control using manual. Best on cruise at 85 is 28.8 and I can hit 30 without any change of driving style. I guess the cruise is just not as clever as Lexus would like you to believe and all that sharp braking and heavy acceleration is great if your feet have cramp but a pain in the arse most of the time.

No idea why people are complaining about the ride. I like it firm and it feels far from choppy even when motoring on B roads. I would however like to change a couple of things. 1. I need to have sport button on by default. The throttle feels wooden without it. 2. The distance settings on cruise control encourage others to jump in the gap and then the car panics and hits the brakes. Makes for a very uncomfortable ride. 3. Dab radio as I need XFM and am sick of the crap music on Radio 1/2 4. A way of keeping the reversing camera clean. I am so used to using it I forgot what the mirrors are for.