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Old 10-12-12, 10:56 AM
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Hi,

I've been checking out this forum for a few weeks now, and just picked up our 300h last Tuesday. Some pics attached if I did it right!

First Lexus ever!

Absolutely love everything about the car!

We were especially happy that our iPhone 5 works with all features whether plugged in or bluetooth (except sending text messages)

Cerulean Blue
Light Grey/Black interior
Navigation System Package w/ Backup Camera & 8" screen
Rain Sensor Intermittent Wiper w/ Windshield De-Icer
Blind Spot Monitor
Intuitive Parking Assist
Power rear sunshade
High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps
Bamboo and leather-trimmed shift **** and steering wheel
Cargo Net & Carpet Trunk Mat
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Does it charge your iPhone ? And where do you put the phone while you're driving ? Cup holder ?

And congrats ! That is the exact feature set I'm looking at.
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If I plug it into the USB port in the console, it will charge the iPhone 5.

Usually I leave the phone in my pocket. Never need to take it out.
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Congratulation on your new ride.
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Originally Posted by dks1013
Hi,

I've been checking out this forum for a few weeks now, and just picked up our 300h last Tuesday. Some pics attached if I did it right!

First Lexus ever!

Absolutely love everything about the car!

We were especially happy that our iPhone 5 works with all features whether plugged in or bluetooth (except sending text messages)

Beautiful color (hadn't seen that one before), beautiful car. Congrats on your first Lexus!

p.s. I send iP5 text msgs from the car -- they go out via cellular -- of course, that's typing them manually into the phone when stopped. Maybe you mean handsfree texting, and no, I can't do that, and haven't found an app yet that will. I'm still looking for an app that will READ incoming texts to me. [Yeah I'm a geek hehe]
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Congrats! If you don't mind answering, what kind of offers were you able to get on the car?
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Originally Posted by winsalem
Beautiful color (hadn't seen that one before), beautiful car. Congrats on your first Lexus!

p.s. I send iP5 text msgs from the car -- they go out via cellular -- of course, that's typing them manually into the phone when stopped. Maybe you mean handsfree texting, and no, I can't do that, and haven't found an app yet that will. I'm still looking for an app that will READ incoming texts to me. [Yeah I'm a geek hehe]

The car reads text messages to me, and there are canned text messages you can reply with. The reply functionality is not working. my dealer said that Lexus was aware of it.
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Originally Posted by toecurling
Congrats! If you don't mind answering, what kind of offers were you able to get on the car?
I paid MSRP. I'm in the Sacramento area, and they had nothing in stock. They were selling before they came into the dealership. This one, was on the boat ready to hit dock, so we only had to wait about 10 days for it.
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Originally Posted by dks1013
The car reads text messages to me, and there are canned text messages you can reply with. The reply functionality is not working. my dealer said that Lexus was aware of it.
Wow that's great, what app reads the messages to you?
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nice colour too...
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Congrats!!! Unique color. They didn't have that color on the lot when I was looking around.
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congrats! its a rare color~
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Congratulations, beautiful car.
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Nice car, Nice options. Enjoy
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Originally Posted by winsalem
Beautiful color (hadn't seen that one before), beautiful car. Congrats on your first Lexus!

p.s. I send iP5 text msgs from the car -- they go out via cellular -- of course, that's typing them manually into the phone when stopped. Maybe you mean handsfree texting, and no, I can't do that, and haven't found an app yet that will. I'm still looking for an app that will READ incoming texts to me. [Yeah I'm a geek hehe]
Let me know if you find that app, I need the same app for a droid razor.


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