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I was driving down the 101 past Redwood City when I saw a crowd of people surrounding a car on the lot. I figured it had to be the CT so I hopped off at the next exit and sure enough, they had two there, with a Lexus rep giving training to the staff.

One was yellow and one was silver. Both were loaded, including the dynamic cruise control (which will not be shipping on the West Coast cars unless you special order -- big mistake, Lexus).

One had an average MPG of 44 and the other 43 (the 43 one had just come back from a trip to Santa Cruz).

Overall I liked them a lot. Nice leather interior, the seating position was not hard to adjust to, fit and finish was very good, including a nice stitched leather look to the dash hood over the instrument panel.

The nav screen doesn't look as sharp as in my 2010 RX, but it is fast.

Overall I'm impressed. The lack of dynamic cruise on the dealer-bound models is a big deal to me -- it's a key safety feature, and something other manufacturers are making much easier to get than Lexus does.