Im sure you guys have all seen the smart key in the GS and IS, which is standard. It is also one push start... Is that going to be introduced in the LS as standard before the 2007 LS460, or is it going to remain the same as optional... I was thinking it only makes sense if the GS and IS have it the LS should have it too... I mean it is the flagship


Mink92890

 

Although it may be listed as an LS option. my dealer said the only LSs that Lexus brings in have Smart Key. My 2004 LS 430 purchased in Nov 2003 already had it. My wife, who doesn't like new technology, loves it. She doesn't have to search in her purse for the key to open the car.

 

The first batch of 04's didn’t have smart key.

As the gentlemen said above, all '04's+ have smart key. Actually, the LS had it since '01, but it was not available in the US till '04 .

 

yeah the LS is actually teh first lexus to have smart key. but it doesn't have push start button. the new gs is the first one.

 

Yeah 2004 has the smart key, and was the first... But however is it going to become a push button, instead of the other version?


Mink92890

 

Probably not in 06, but in 07. They wouldn't add all that stuff to the dash mid-model.

 

'07 is redesign time

 

with the new gs and is having the push button, i wouldn't be surprsied if key becomes a history

 

2007 should have fingerprinting smart key...
That would be amazing...
Dont need anything else


Mink92890

 

Maybe it will have a biometric retina scanner with infra red motion sensing devices and rocket launchers ala James Bond!!!!!!!!!

 

Now we're smokin!!! After watching the Bond flicks on Spike TV the last day or so it should be easy to add all the stuff that Q creates to an LS.

 

YEA!!!!
Or maybe just fingerprinting... (it will take 5 sec instead of 5 min)
I think it can work, programming it is pretty easy...

Mink92890

"Lexus, the pursuit to keyless perfection"

 

Not a push button, but a turn switch which is of course keyless!