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Hi, although I've not yet received my ES300h I am currently in a courtesy car from Lexus (UX F Sport with Takumi pack) I am finding the infotainment/Nav interface anything but intuitive and very frustrating to use. I'm sure i will eventually get used to it but there are some basic functions that do not seem apparent to me. Firstly, can anyone please tell me how I cancel current route guidance without deleting the destination from the 'recent' list? I may want to use that destination again so don't want to completely delete it from the list, just stop current guidance? Secondly, there are times when I select 'media' on my music options and despite playing an online podcast all I get is the songs on my iPhone's iTunes library. I have a real faff trying to get it to play the podcast and not a song from my iTunes. I seem to have to go into settings, Bluetooth and select iPhone (which is already set anyway) and if I'm really lucky it will then play the podcast. Other times not so lucky and I give up and listen to the radio. This is very frustrating and distracting, especially when driving. My last car (Mercedes C300h AMG Line with Premium Plus pack) was very simple and intuitive and played the most recently selected source from the device in question i.e. podcast or iTunes, whichever was the last one selected to play on the device. Also route guidance had the expected and (to me) obvious shortcuts such as 'cancel route guidance' and 'resume guidance' without having to mess about in menu settings, it was all on the 'route' tab as options and didn't involve mucking about in the menu system....whilst driving! Finally, there doesn't seem to be the obvious shortcut buttons such as 'phone' or 'sync' (for climate) on the dash? There are shortcut buttons to 'radio' and 'Nav/Map' but not for 'phone'. So I have to yet again dive into the main screen to select 'phone' when a simple shortcut button alongside the 'Radio' and 'Map' buttons would make more sense? When I do have phone selected on the right hand (split screen) section, I cannot get it to display 'recent' or 'directory' or even the keypad' just a silly 'favourites' screen which does nothing and I don't want or need? I can find no way to change that default view when using the small right hand section of the split screen. I appreciate that practice will make this a little easier but I'm usually pretty good at sussing these things out so unless I'm really missing something here this system is counter intuitive and fiddly and so far I don't like it at all and have spent a lot of time shouting and swearing at the screen in frustration! Can you help? P.S. The good news is that due to a delay they have upgraded my incoming ES F Sport with Tech pack to the F Sport with Takumi pack at no extra cost! 👍

Hi, thanks. I was referring to either F Sport White (not sonic white as I know that's not an F Sport colour) or Sonic Titanium, both of which are available on the F Sport. You are right that the white does stand out on any specification/trim but looks especially good on the F Sport with the black chrome trim and gun metal alloys. I've seen and driven both colours in the F Sport but just can't decide. In either case I am thinking the rose red interior though.

So, in answer to my original question.....there aren't any yet, at least owned by any members here? Doesn't anyone on here have one yet in white or sonic?

Probably too late to change my mind now anyway 😕

The Sonic looked nicer than the AutoTrader images when I saw it in the 'metal' so to speak. However subsequent images I have seen online leave me a little cold. The FS White was more of a 'Wow' factor in the metal. especially with the red interior and subsequent images online have usually backed up that impression. I suppose I'm thinking the Sonic is more 'conservative' and suitable for business use but then again, white is white, it's not exactly electric pink or anything radical is it?!

Thanks for the pics guys although I have already seen all of them in my search for 'real world' images. The AutoTrader pics in Sonic are not in very good light to be fair and make it look like a wishy washy silver/grey. I have seen both in the flesh but not side by side and therefore whichever one I am looking at is the one I favour the most! I'm now having 2nd thoughts about the Sonic Titanium in favour of F Sport white, although my wife is against the white as she for some reason associates it with young BMW drivers of a certain personality type! Our Nephew has a white BMW 3 Series and although he is a nice guy he is a bit of a poser and she now makes that association with white cars. Daft I know but there you go.

Hi, I will get delivery of my new 2019 ES 300h F Sport (with tech & safety pack) delivered at the end of this month. I am dithering between Sonic Titanium + Rose interior vs F Sport White + Rose interior. My wife (who is a little conservative in taste) prefers the Sonic Titanium but I like both and can't decide. Any opinions on that? ❓ Help me decide before the window to amend the colour closes this week!!! I have been scouting around for information and owners reviews and pics but apart from the same old media and US reviews/images I'm getting very little from the UK on UK specification models driven on UK roads by UK drivers? This car has been out a few months now right? So why no articles/reviews (except for CarWow which is not the F Sport)? I have viewed several US reviews and they are very good but the car is not the exactly the same as the UK car and is always the ES 350 not the 300h. Also am I the only person in the world without the Takumi pack and larger 12"+ screen? It seems that way based on reviews and media articles (such as they are). Please feel free to bombard me with opinions, pictures and information of the F Sport, especially if you have the colours above 👍