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  1. Time spent on this forum was more worthy then the movie - the only one way of knowing was to watch it, but now I can say it for certain. Now I have to make sure I can get it back some off it - expect more 300h digging and more inappropriate 220d part jokes to be made soon!
  2. That is key... I wound even say charge time is more important then the range. If there is reasonable recharge network, I guess even 200miles can suffice for the begging before we get to higher capacity, but anything longer then 1-2, maybe 5 minutes max to recharge is deal breaker. Second thing is degradation of batteries e.g. Tesla supercharger which is still relatively slow in comparison with pumping dinosaur juice into the tank... actually damages the batteries. You get more range and better lifetime, by not using supercharging. In petrol tank... doesn't matter, tank capacity doesn't change every time you refill. Finally, there are a lot of bogus science on environmental benefit - tail-pipe emission is 0, correct! But energy doesn't make itself... if we assume maybe 100k electric cars whizzing around London (big cities is where they are most beneficial) and they all charge from otherwise wasted energy at night - then yes there is benefit. But if we thinking to eventually replace all the car with electric ones, electricity production will simply going to increase and the pollution going to form power plants instead of the cars on the roads - no long term benefit there...
  3. That is subjective - assuming that the only thing I am currently doing is posting here that probably would be correct. But I might learn something interesting about inner workings of the cars (like FWD pushes from the back), in which case it might be very good investment of the time.
  4. I needed to google that-up... Not sure... I probably need to watch the whole thing to answer you why you think I remind you that guy, but I have no plans of doing so. One common theme is that he seems to argue for the sake of argument (like me, or any principal, opinionated person), but he looks kind of uneducated as well, I guess - go figure ..
  5. that is at least one way to put-it... I guess depends if you have family (which I imagine as having two kids...) What I agree with, you need to have multiple cars - one car just cannot do all things and all things well at the same time. I would have at least 3 cars: - 1 classic car, for leisurely weekends - 1 race car, for more active weekends (say - track, rally, drift or other) - 1 practical daily car which doesn't suck that much in practical terms ~ maybe something along the lines of RC300h or more powerful. but that is dependent on one's circumstances, maybe in country side one would want to have capable off-roader or if you have family instead of 2 doors daily, maybe it is more practical to have SUV... and I think one can certainly utilise more then 3 cars, but 3 sounds like "good starting point....tell me about it".. when I have 1 parking space for £20k and overall there are only 30 for 100 flats 😄
  6. Lotus Elise? Thought - we need to define country side roads. British narrow, broken, bumpy roads with blind corners - yeah probably. Wide, sweeping, smooth roads with clear corners, loads of space to correct - not so sure, you can have a lot of fun in rather heavy and powerful GT car.
  7. Yep... I don't put much hopes into this... That is not the first time Fisker is trying to pull this-off. The Chinese company seems to be more credible in fact, but I don't see it like mainstream manufacturer, not even in Tesla's niche competitors sense, which itself if balancing on the razor edge over bankruptcy as it is yet to make any profit. I think these cars will be available in limited editions, number in countries like US. Uber rich will grab few from pre-orders that will be all we hear about them before the company will go bust again.
  8. I would agree in general... however as explained previously, with RC-F you get into "performance car ownership issues" - not practical daily, expensive repairs, unreasonable fuel consumtion etc. We just getting into same discussion. Yes I want something faster then RC300h, but yet I don't want something as fast as RC-F - there is the gaping hole in the Lexus line-up and I guess we can agree on this?
  9. Is this not consistent with what I was saying about RWD balance? equally, Cio Cup - doesn't it represent "ultralight track car with sticky tyres" as I mentioned? As for 400hp+ it is more like badge of honour rather then necessity on public road, you can put it down from time to time and for fraction of a second perhaps without loosing your licence... but here is the other side - what is wrong with 100MPH, it is just in outdated and arbitrary British rules it is offence, otherwise it is not high speed at all. We need laws changed, better lane discipline, better driver training and we can certainly drive faster. It is almost like caring the gun - the best defence is not in shooting it, but by simply letting everyone know you are armed. In car terms that is letting all s***** with their riced fiestas and civics to know they need to back-off. For me driving in UK is far too inclusive, so many people who should not be allowed anywhere near the roads, never mind cars... are allowed to fool around. For me it seems it should be more exclusive and only the ones who likes driving and cares about how they drive, about the rules, should be allowed to do it. It is not the game - lives can be lost. Yet is not the speed what kills, it is idiots behind the wheel going at speed who kills.
  10. nah... I found the car ugly - just my opinion obviously. Secondly, I am not brand snob and not one of those fan boys making BMW ****** on Audi symbols - but Kia is of the scales of my brand approval. maybe in 30 years time their image is going to change and then who knows... edit: ohh and I want 2 doors as well... Now you may question what I am doing here "mourning" about death of GS, but I have explained it previously. GS450h was hope for me to see 450h in other models like IS450h or RC450h as some sort of mid range competitors for C43, BMW 440, S4/S5 and filling that gap between 300h and "F", but now with discontinuation of GS that is certainly of the cards and I am ****** off...
  11. Ar you now officially elected representative of the sluggish 300h owners club? Congrats.. just to remind you, this is public forum and people have opinion here - some will agree some will disagree, this meant to be this way. If you get offended nobody forces you to read - pull the internet cable out and go read a book!
  12. @rayaans - I disagree, 300h is very relevant- because that is the only engine option we will have going forward bar "F", LS and RX.. if you don't car nobody forces to accept or object to it. @Jamesf1 My driving style is my own business as long as I stay within the rules or rather get fined by police - nowhere in the rulebooks it says how long it has to take for you to reach speed limit... Your guesses would almost be funny if you at least try... which part of S3 is coupe? nevermind FWD (mostly) or front biased AWD...
  13. I don't see how me finding suitable car is relevant here? Is that going to make 300h a better engine option for RC? what that has to do with GS being discontinued? Finally, even when I get suitable car - what makes you think I stop criticising 300h?
  14. Who are you to tell me where to put my money? I will put my money when I found suitable car or when I compromise on something. It is not like I cannot have opinion about something if I don't own car better then yours... This is not d*** measuring exercise. If you can objectively prove me wrong - go ahead, if not then our subjective opinions are equally good..
  15. again, when I need you opinion what suits me I will ask - don't worry. Just very quickly - what is wrong with Focus ST. It is FWD (~mostly), it has small volume turbo engine, it is hatchback, it is not a premium or luxury car, it is Ford... and probably few other issues. Why you trying to guess what I like? RC350 would be fine, fast luxury car - that is what I need. @noby76 - you are the other one who cannot grasp with the question at hand. The topic is about GS being discontinued - yes there are all sorts of used cars.. it is irrelevant. Going forward you will have single type of engine and it will be 300h... that is IS300h, ES300h, RC300h... what if I don't want used car?
  16. I guess that friend was Noby with his sleeper rocket ship Accord which "pushes from the rear"... that explains all! @FTBBCVoodoo Never driven Integra and to be honest don't even want to try. As far as your statement goes "one specific Integra was better then one specific S2000" - it might well be true, but that would be more of an exception then a rule. Certainly, even most basic FWD family car nowadays handles better then say American muscle... so what? I understand that some very light FWD track cars with very sticky tyres in the front can handle very well, but that is not applicable to street cars. As I said, for me RWD balance is important, I fell more comfortable with progressive oversteer, then with any sort of understeer... it is more fun, it looks better, it feels better and that is how the car should behave in the corner.
  17. 60-70MPH is plenty fast enough, as well I often have to overtake people just do 40, then slowdowns to 30 in any slightest bend in "national limit (60)" A-roads and that very quickly infuriates me. Overtaking with IS250 is already sketchy as many corners in UK are overgrown and blind, with 300h that is sketchy on whole new level. Other thing which is kind of key for me is 0-40MPH acceleration as I like to be in front of the queue at traffic lights - again some lights are adjusted to turn green for literally few seconds and only 4 cars get's trough... when somebody fails to "launch" from the light that is again infuriates me. You get the picture - I am easily infuriated... and I don't mean just a little bit I literally get enraged at slow drivers a sleep behind the wheel.. Other times - I always accelerate hard onto slip roads leading to motorway, I always launch for traffic lights and 300h is just not good for it, especially bad from stand still. Now, originally I said that I liked RC300h in A/B roads and that is true - for leisurely driving on quite roads it works quite well. Car is low, wide, weight is low down with batteries, seating position is very good and comfortable, steering even though not very communicative is direct and precise and eCVT is lovely - the fake gear changes on manual mode are quick and almost mechanical. However, in UK you will rarely find the road where you are alone on it - I was driving late at night and I was almost alone on the road, my average speed was 60 (which is the limit), but I was driving with the "flow" of road, so actual speed was between 50-70... during the day in same road I woudl have encountered multiple zombies doing 40 on that road and I woudl not have been comfortable overtaking in RC300h. Overall, it looks like very fast car, but fails to deliver miserably. @rayaans/ @Jamesf1 the talk is about Lexus here, I can buy another make or I can buy RC-F, but my opinion about 300h would not change - it is not about the car I have, it is about what 300h is and what I think about it. When I want your advise on what should I buy I will let you know! @noby76 GS450h... no more! Whats now?
  18. Not sure if 320d drivers needs permission to speak here.... RWD is massively important for me, even without driving cars to the limit the balance is completely different, just say for little spirited driving, even within speed limits RWD feels so much better into the corners and out the corner. I once made mistake and got myself Passat CC, they tied to mimic RWD balance there by having wider tyres in the front (I believe it was 235 fronts, 225/215 rear) - in result what you get, car still understeers on throttle and snap-oversteers off throttle... in short balance was all over the place. On other FWD cars you get torque steer (especially in 200hp+), they always understeer and balance is mess.. completely not enjoyable to drive So even without power (more so with the power) RWD is just about balance, joy, feel in the corners and control... well obviously unless you have FWD "which pushes from the back"! I will make bold statement here and I am sure that is going to be massive explosion of insulted "snowflakes" - if driver doesn't feel the need for RWD, they they do not enjoy driving and they cannot qualify to call themselves petrolheads..
  19. In this topic we are talking about GS450h being discontinued, so it is about future, not about present day and certainly not about past.. As such your argument is invalid. Yes you right, you can get 2013-2014 IS250, which is by the way more sluggish then already little sluggish mk2 (I have mentioned in previous threads that a single issue I have with IS250 is that it is not fast enough), you can get very rare IS200t which is strange combination neither fast nor fuel efficient (hello Doog!) or even more sluggish IS300h. That is pretty poor choice... However, if you rock-up into Lexus dealership today (or certainly in future), the only choice you get is 300h..
  20. I think heater and heated seats in IS250C are identical to other mk2 IS. They are perfectly adequate in Saloon, but I see your point with roof down they are nowhere powerful enough in convertible ... On the bright side at least you have heated seats, many other cars don't... but obviously it is not as good as MX5 which was designed as roadster from outset and therefore they figured out it will need better seat heaters.
  21. Here it goes again ... this is my opinion, you don't need to agree with it, but it doesn't make it less or more correct. Deal with it! If I would not thing anything 300h sluggish, I would have bought RC300h 2 years ago... BUT it is so sluggish it is actually deal breaker for me, is not not a little bit sluggish like IS250 it is terrible. That is exactly my point... what other car?! the problem is that there are no "other cars" in Lexus line-up, Lexus line-up is now like Ford model T - "you can have any engine as long as it is 300h"..
  22. It is enough to try IS300h which is much more common. It is the same engine as in GS, just lighter and faster car... so if IS300h feels sluggish - there are no reason to even bother trying GS which is slower. As you know GS450h is no longer a thing and that is exactly why I am making big fuss of Lexus discontinuing GS. This means we won't see any other car in the range with 450h - which was the only reasonable engine option in UK.
  23. let's get this straight. IS250 0-62mhp is 8.2s, which is 0-60 ~8.0s and realistically ~7.6s (I did ODB2+GPS run in that time)... so kind of 0.4s. There were others who claimed it can do it in 7.0s, but I never was one of those - no it can't!
  24. Yes but Prius got brand new engine, with brand new electric motor and upgraded batteries, whereas I believe ES300h just uses same engine as GS300h... I agree we probably should wait for official figures.
  25. 1 - you are right here, I just assumed GS price for some reason and it is incorrect. Still would not compare it with 5-Series, rather 4-Series Grand Coupe, Audi A5 saloon. 2 - I don't live it those "other markets" so for me that is "not even trying"... either way in fact - in one way, because they don't offer 350 in UK, second way because 300h is so slow. 3 - yes Lexus underrates acceleration by negligible margin.. say 0.2-0.4s, still they are in different ball park from competitors where the difference is in several whole seconds. 4 - you mean it "sucks less"... no why it is "better".
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