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Hmmm Frankenstien electrodes (or stubby handgrips) seem to be the current interior design language. Yes the cluster is cramped and porthole-like. It appears to be a hodgepodge of ideas, but in fairness I'll reserve my final thoughts until I see it. Many times pictures just don't suffice.
Don't like the port hole feel of the dash or the cluttered layout on the screen. You have a digit clock in the upper right hand of the screen and an analog clock right around the corner in a weird offset spot of the dash. Tons of cheap looking plastic buttons on the steering wheel, with less wood on the wheel than in the past. I don't see any wood on the entire dash in front of the driver or the passenger at all other than the little bit on the steering wheel. Too me, it just looks like something I'd expected from Hyundai 10 years ago. The doors look really nice and the consoles between the front and back seats look well done, but the front just doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the car. Almost like it was 2 different design teams, and then a 3rd design team to develop the exterior. And the guitar string metal design was interesting at first, but the more I look at it, the dumber and cheaper it looks.
Well, maybe 6 or 7 years. Probably on par with the original Equus interior, and there are still things in that old interior that look better than the LS500 interior. I think the interiors of the 2014+ Equus and the G90 definitely look much better.
That looks much cleaner than the LS500 interior. The lines of the LS500 are more modern, but the materials look cheaper.
The materials look cheaper on the LS500 than that original Equus interior?!? How can we be looking at the same pictures lol. Everything you can see on the LS500 is real metal, real wood, or stitched leather...including the sides of the seats down by the seat controls. Styling is subjective, but quality isn't. The LS looks to have incredibly high quality materials.
The materials on that Equus were quite poor compared to the LS460, LS500 is a big upgrade in that department.
As for the G90, I like the G90 but the LS500 is a lot more interesting looking inside.
Yes, it looks cheaper. Especially with all the wood missing on the dash. That's a staple of luxury cars since forever. I don't care if those metal line are real metal or the painted plastic metal that was in my 460, it's no replacement for quality wood. I'd be surprised if most buyers in that segment wouldn't agree.
You love it. I think it is a catastrophe. Like I said before, we don't have to agree.
The LS didn't have any wood on the dash for two generations lol.
I too like wood, but wood is actually going out of fashion in luxury cars. Look at new designs from Jaguar, Range Rovers, even Mercedes, BMW...you see less and less wood. You mentioned the steering wheel, basically nobody does wood steering wheels anymore but Lexus. I'm watching a special on design of the new Range Rover Velar right now and they're talking about materials and design of the interior. No wood. They're talking all about that and the changing definition of luxury.
I like the fact that the LS500 is different inside. It doesn't look like any other luxury sedan inside.
I've heard for 30 years that wood interiors are going away, and they never do. In fact, you see more wood, with a wider variety of choice. I personally hate the idea of covering the dash with tons of leather and stitching. That's a fad I see going away sooner than wood interiors, especially if it doesn't hold up well long term.
No they haven't. The G90 has a beautiful wood interior. So does the brand new E Class. Even the C Class has it.
That's not changing just because Lexus decided to do it in this oddball interior. Especially odd removing it completely from the dash and leaving it elsewhere. Just a very bizarre design in my opinion, which shouldn't be too surprising considering the exterior.
There are other cars out there other than those cars lol. Look at Jaguars. Look at Range Rovers, look at many BMWs. A lot of carmakers aren't using wood trim like they used to. Anyways the car has wood on the console, doors, back of the front seat, what "rule" says wood trim has to be on the dash? Why do they have to do things the way everybody else does?
02-25-17, 01:38 PM
