jennypenny

i didnt see any brochures that mention Adaptive headlamps for the 3IS.

i know auto-leveling is standard. but adaptive (cornering and range?)

seems like a good tech omitted.

spwolf

Xenon's are based, LED's are upgrade in other packages... Maybe Hoovey or someone else can give you correct info.

gocubs08

The LED headlights look unbelievable!! The car looks like no other coming at you at night with the LED headlights. They light up everything perfect and are very blue looking.

When driving down the highway, its funny all the road signs to the far right light up blue for some reason, its really cool!

AndyL

Lexus has started to reserve the adaptive lighting for HID to higher models. After the mid cycle change, they took off the adaptive lighting from the RX last year in North America. It is still available in Japan though.

For 3IS, they just drop this technology in HID entirely as they think the answer to the upgrade is the LED headlights which work differently without adaptive technology (I refer to the light turns slightly when you are in a corner). And they put automatic high beam to make the LED adaptive to different road conditions.


Unfortunately in some of the markets, LED headlights are either not available for gasoline models (HK & China) or are only limited to one model with one package (Canada - IS350 AWD non F Sport with executive package)

LSIII

The 3IS does not offer adaptive headlights. 2006-2010 were the only years adaptive headlights were offered on the IS in the US. Lexus US has eliminated the feature from a few models and now only offers them on the GS, GX, LS, and LX.

jennypenny

Damn, i really like that feature for the 3IS...