I need your opinions about this dashboard.

[Oracle of Delphi]

I can't say why I need to know, but suffice it say, I would like your honest opinions about this dashboard. Do you like it, do you hate it, or have no feelings about it, one way or another? Let me know. Thanx!

[VenSeattle]

Honestly - I think it's very attractive. The interior reminds me of Jaguar and Buick (except for the steering wheel... looks like it's out of a Chevrolet Malibu.)

The exterior and worthless back seat are the things that turn me off the most about this car.

[PurdueGuy]

classy, not quite exciting.

[ZL-1]

classy, not quite exciting.

[Z-06]

Too much bright wood that looks fake.

[avant1963]

The overall design does nothing for me. Just another interior. The wood is awful, but I don't like wood inside a car at all. Carbon fiber or aluminum is much better. The wood on the steering wheel is awful too.

This interior was not designed for me. For a Luxury car interior look to the new CTS or SRX for my tastes. There is more than "point of origin" for my hatred of Toyota.

[I hope GMRULES again]

Like the design hate the wood.

[balthazar]

Lot of color 'disharmony' to my eye: the off-white sides of the console overlapping the flat black of the upper dash, that 'surfboard' of wood extending to the right with none to the left, the off-white A-Pillar against the black of the dash & window frame... makes the interior look very cobbled together. Other details look quite cheap (door handle & glovebox latch shared with $15K cars, window switch surround, obvious pass ABS cutline, 'glued-on' look of the center HVA/C vents, etc). This is supposedly an aspirational, head-of-class, expensive interior. I don't see it.

[Camino LS6]

Busy and cluttered. The wood is awful- especially on the steering wheel where it looks so out of place. Too many themes clashing in the same space provide no unity to the design.

[Satty]

Too many buttons, too many displays. Do they really need separate HVAC/radio/NAV displays?

Otherwise, I like it.

[Drew Dowdell]

The center IP stack is terrible. It looks like a single DIN stacked on a double DIN with Nav screen topping. The right side of the dash was stolen out of an XJ, the steering wheel was stolen out of your daughters Celica. About the only interesting thing about this dash is the instrument pods, but everyone is doing that tunnel effect now and in this case it doesn't even fit with the rest of this dash/car.

[Flybrian]

Same junk switchgear found in the Corolla.

[AAS]

I don't like how the center stack juts out.

Also, the contrast between the rectangular vents and light wood surround makes looks old (dated?).

Edited November 8, 2007 by AAS

[Intrepidation]

Wood looks horrid. The color choices are nice though. The overall design feels vary dated and lacks harmony.

Edited November 8, 2007 by Dodgefan

[FAPTurbo]

The 'wood' looks too bright, and cheap. Center-stack is way too busy.

[loki]

center is too busy, too many displays... the gauges don't fit the rest of the dash. otherwise not great, but not horrible either.

[DetroitNut90]

It looks like someone took our '81 Jaguar and modernized its interior. It's nice, I like the color scheme. Too bad the car it's found in is obscenely ugly.

[gm4life]

It is okay but nothing to write home about. The wood is just wrong.

[gm4life]

What kind of Lexus is that from and what year?

[loki]

center is too busy, too many displays... the gauges don't fit the rest of the dash. otherwise not great, but not horrible either.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

No originality, not approved. Woodgrain is horribly light and looks cheap, very fake. The center stack is very busy and very cluttered.

[Ravenfreak13]

Steering wheel from a gm, gauges from a Chrysler, wood from god knows where. I like the multiple displays...that's about it.

[Cory Wolfe]

I think some of you guys are forgetting that this car dates back to 2001. I thought it looked rather nice then. Nowadays, yes, it's nothing special.

It also helps if you have a better picture of a better color scheme.

Edited November 9, 2007 by blackviper8891

[Flybrian]

The dash or the car? IMO, that car never looked good. And talk about a pointless rear seat.

[Cory Wolfe]

The dash or the car? IMO, that car never looked good. And talk about a pointless rear seat.

The interior... I don't have that bad of taste.

[regfootball]

yech

[pow]

Nothing special. It's okay for 2001 standards, I guess.

[bobo]

It has more wood than I prefer, but it's appropriate for the car it's in. The design isn't particularly distinctive, but it's inoffensive and has no major ergonomic transgressions. I'd still take this dashboard over 90% of other vehicles.

[knightfan26917]

Hmm....no, I don't like it....

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[Intrepidation]

Now this I like, although the design itself I'm not that crazy over.

I'd like to know why PCS wants to know this?

Edited November 9, 2007 by Dodgefan

[Robert Hall]

I like the darker wood and the tan and red two tones (esp. the red). The sweep of the passenger side trim vaguely reminds me of the previous Jag XK (but smaller) ..the steering wheel (w/o the wood) reminds me of the 3-spoke design of my old '84 Escort... overall, I like the design, esp. the gauge cluster and center stack...for a luxury coupe/convertible, wood is a must (carbon fiber looks disgusting, IMHO, and aluminum trim would be better suited to a sports sedan/coupe).

Edited November 9, 2007 by moltar

[ToniCipriani]

For one minute I was thinking WTF is wrong with the radio, but then I saw the cover. What's the point of that thing anyways? If I wanted a club sport model I would just order it without the radio. I don't need a cover there to pretend the radio's not there.

[bring_BUICK_back]

If only GM knew how to design an interior like that!

[deftonesfan867]

If only GM knew how to design an interior like that!

Please tell me you're kidding.....

[bring_BUICK_back]

No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now.

Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap.

They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the americans.

[Camino LS6]

No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now.

Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap.

They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the americans.

Entirely absurd statement.

[deftonesfan867]

No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now.

Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap.

They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the Americans.

Remember kids, don't feed the trolls.

[balthazar]

>>"No I am not kidding! That interior is 10x better then any piece of sh*t that GM puts out now. Take off your rose colored glasses and realized that the american car companies are crap. They are making improvements but the foreign cars will always out do the americans."<<

...waits for 10 or 20 wink smilies to load.....

...still waiting...

[GMTruckGuy74]

Lot of color 'disharmony' to my eye: the off-white sides of the console overlapping the flat black of the upper dash, that 'surfboard' of wood extending to the right with none to the left, the off-white A-Pillar against the black of the dash & window frame... makes the interior look very cobbled together. Other details look quite cheap (door handle & glovebox latch shared with $15K cars, window switch surround, obvious pass ABS cutline, 'glued-on' look of the center HVA/C vents, etc). This is supposedly an aspirational, head-of-class, expensive interior. I don't see it.

+1

No need to repeat reason!

[turbo200]

the colors work a lot better in person, overall the colors match well and definitely add interest. however the style is outmoded. if you're talking about the lines present in this interior i would say we've seen this interior done and done again, and attempted by GM more than a few times. the color presentation still works and overall this still looks classy but most of the design elements like the gearshift, most of the dash panels, and the door panels are out of date.

[balthazar]

Design may (or may not) work better in person; depth of field and proportion change with viewing angles, but colors are colors, and their awful juxtapositioning here will not change from pics to in-person viewpoints. The interior is not so much dated as having obvious cheap bits and a terribly poor design sensibility.

[Cory Wolfe]

...Because this looks so much more expensive.

[Intrepidation]

?

[AxelTheRed]

I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

[Oracle of Delphi]

I thank you all for your input.

[CMG]

I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

Couldn't agree more. If the Lexus badge wasn't on the steering wheel and an Impala was photoshopped on, what would the responses have been..?

:AH-HA_wink:

I find the interior not bad at all, the "wood" I would have to see in person, some pics it looks overwhelming, and the way the dash inlay tapers off isn't my favorite, but overall it's not bad at all IMO.

So shoot me!

[Drew Dowdell]

I think next time you should delete the Lexus logo from the steering wheel. I'd bet fifty bucks that if it were gone, there'd be a lot more positive responses to the dashboard than this thread shows right now.

Way too many people on this board see anything to do with Toyota and automatically hate it.

Its a Lexus, sure, but I like it. Its not a bad looking interior.

not really, I'd still hate the center stack for the single DIN stacked on double DIN look and the airbag that looks like it came from a Celica....

[Camino LS6]

Yes.

And any dash that uses wood has to have an outstanding design to avoid looking trashy - this one doesn't have the chops.