Lexus ES 300h First UK drive: Lexus has updated its 5 Series rival, with suspension changes promising better comfort and dynamics
There’s also an updated driver assist package, stretching to the usual lane keeping assistance et al and with allegedly smoother steering corrections, plus an interior focus on ‘closer panel spacing’. Given that Lexus fit and finish was fag-paper tight anyway, that’s an impressive statement.
Chassis alterations run to efforts to improve the dynamics and comfort, with more rigid rear suspension braces and a new actuator on the adaptive variable suspension, both designed to offer a more linear feel to the steering and suspension. Although, as you’ll see shortly, it hasn’t worked.
The chief bugbear is the ride quality. Over broken surfaces, there’s a disconnect between the seat and the suspension, so one part of the car is reacting in one way and another is moving at a different rate. It means it all feels a bit fussy and flustered, as if the dampers don’t ever really know what they’re meant to be ironing out. Cross axle bumps upset it the most.
It’s odd, because usually Lexus does wafting pretty well . A Lexus has generally flowed down a road well - granted, feeling disconnected but at least comfortable. It was never a performance that got road testers frothing at the mouth, but it did at least mean relaxing motoring. In this ES, that’s been lost.
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