**A Test Drive of the Electric Vehicle with a Troublesome Drivetrain**

As I sat behind the wheel of this electric vehicle, I couldn't help but feel that it was meant to be effortless. The car's character seemed to be wafting away, and I had to give it some throttle to keep up with the pace. The gears were so weird that I wanted to test one more thing - its ability to drive up to 140 kilometers an hour in AV mode. But, as you saw earlier, it struggled to stay in the different modes and didn't quite succeed.

I decided to try out the easy mode, which was fully electric. At first, it seemed quite nice, with a smooth and quiet ride. But then I thought, why not put it to the test? I switched it into Sport S+ mode and floored it from a standstill on the Autobahn. The car picked up speed quickly, thanks to its electric motors. However, the sound was something else - those built-up shift moments felt like momentary cut-offs and were just not pleasant.

As we reached speeds of over 200 kilometers an hour, I couldn't help but feel that this car was not as fast as it claimed to be. But, surprisingly, it did manage to reach the top speed of 250 kilometers an hour with ease. The ride was comfortable, despite my initial reservations about the sound and drivetrain.

**The Spokes in the Wheels: A Unique Feature**

One feature that caught my attention was the spokes in the wheels. Some of them were hollow, acting as a resonance chamber to decrease tire noise and cabin noise. I had to test this out on some rough roads, but once I switched lanes, I could see how effective it was. On smooth roads, this car was incredibly quiet, thanks to its unique wheel design.

**A Car with Unparalleled Attention to Detail**

As I drove the car further, I couldn't help but notice the level of detail that had gone into its design and finishing. Everything from the exterior trim to the interior upholstery seemed like it had been done with an exquisite attention to detail. It was clear that this car had been designed to be a masterpiece.

**A New Engine: The Key to Unlocking True Potential**

However, despite all its strengths, the car's drivetrain still left much to be desired. I couldn't help but think about how a new engine would change everything. A hybrid LS 600 with a new powertrain could take this car to the next level. The current 3.5-liter V6 has been around since 2006 and just doesn't cut it anymore. With more than 340 horsepower combined between its petrol and electric motors, I couldn't help but wonder what this car would be like.

**Conclusion**

As I came to an end of my test drive, I couldn't help but feel that this electric vehicle had potential, despite its flaws. With a new engine and some tweaks to the drivetrain, it could truly become the exceptional car that it's meant to be. Until then, I'll just have to wait patiently for what's next. If you're still with me after all these hours of driving around, kudos! You're a true fan, and I invite you to subscribe and check out more reviews like this one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone welcome to this POV review bio total Pannell my name is max thanks for joining me today and well it is a good day because it's beautiful out lovely weather and we've got the all-new Lexus or all-new we've got the new Lexus LS 500 hybrid and well it's quite an interesting car and today I'm going to take you around the car in the car and we'll take it for a drive to see why it's special and why it's well it's quite remarkable really really very very special because it is very very different I mean Lexus has always been a bit off a bit quirky offbeat different than everybody else and well it's no different with this new LS the flagship of the Lexus brand and let's start with that the flagship because the styling of this car I mean there is no doubt that this is the Big Daddy of the Lexus lineup I mean that grill that spindle grill is just it's huge it's very prominent its aggressive and well you you just you can't miss it really unfortunately the stupid people from the Netherlands have decided that we always have to have a license plate at the front but I know that there are some states in the US where you don't have to have it at the front so imagine how that would look just that spindle grille that huge mouth at the front I mean that's just awesome and these lines are you know they are quite lovely and they sort of return on different segments of the car you get them in the lights as well on these lines here and front bumper I mean it's just such a cohesive design and I think that's that's really really lovely I also think but this is personal this is my opinion I think this is the best looking sort of limousine flagship car that you can buy today I love the Jaguar XJ and I love this one I like the 7 Series I think that's an incredible car but styling wise you know a 7 Series or an S Class or even an XJ if you have one in your mirror it is very difficult to see if it's a 5 Series or a 7 series as S Class or an eClass an XJ or an XF and with this one I mean you're going to notice that this is the Big Daddy well what else it is quite wide it is very long it's 35 millimeters longer than the previous LS long wheelbase it's only available in this size so just only as a long-wheelbase really it's about as long and wide as a 7 Series but it's lower and I think that's that's very noticeable it's it's super sleek and it has a really beautiful roofline combined with these lines or shapes that go from the front to the back it just makes it a very swoopy car and I really really love that I think that yeah it's just I really really like the look of it I thought I would when I saw the pictures but in real life I mean it's just gorgeous absolutely gorgeous we've also got these chrome wheels which are 20-inch I believe let me check yep 20 inch they actually fit this car pretty well we've got a president version today so you can get a luxury an export an executive or president president being the top dog of course and and really having all the goodies and well there are a few options left I think you can get a panoramic roof you can get the Kirikou gloss in the interior I will tell you some more about that later and the color of course and the leather stuff like that but other than that the president version has everything you can wish for so let's take a look at the rear we've got these huge real light units that go from all the way from the side really and then stretch out to the back with LEDs that are layered so we've got the Lexus logo here as you can see and one is a front of the under other and I that that gives you a really nice look sort of a yeah it's sort of a depth behind every light unit it's a hybrid of course so the trunk space is not that impressive because the battery pack is right there let's take a look inside this is the key by the way so you get this little bass really and it's quite convenient actually because it's not that big and you can just have it in your pocket and you don't really notice it okay so let's start at the rear because you know this is a car that a lot of people will be driven in so a lot of people who buy this car will have a chauffeur and let's start we'll just work our way from the right rear up to the left front as I said Kiriko glass so that's this inlay piece and this is a very artisanal Japanese art form really and they design someone designs this this or designed this pattern and then they cut it out with a laser and then it has to be polished at 147 points to make it shine and yeah just when the light hits it at night it just looks so incredible we also have this folded inlay on the door which sort of yeah it has to resemble the the art form of origami and this is actually a handful that every piece in every door is hand folded by one person it takes him about five hours that's really crazy and quite special actually or not that special but it gives you a great look is that this armrest is sort of floating as you can see I can put my hand behind it of course it's you know it has some points where it's attached to the door but it has the look of being just loose and there is light coming from down here and up here so at night when the light hits it it just floats because there's light behind it and it's just incredible it has the upgraded Marc Levenson audio system with 23 speakers and it has this cool pattern sort of a mosaic pattern really lovely okay let's get in I have to start the car to be able to operate the seats another cool thing while I'm here when you walk up to the car and you unlock it the air suspension actually lifts and the seat lifts up the steering wheel goes all the way back so you have a the best possible way to get in it's all about the details with Lexus you know that they are really they are crazy okay yes let's open this one so the blinds are electric of course one two and three so there's a little blind even for that small window back there and well we've got a little tablet sort of remote here which we can use to adjust the seats 22 way adjustable seats back here and we've got a button because this is the president version you have something called the Ottoman package your Ottoman seats which allow you to do this so it just folds forward the headrest goes all the way to the front and the seat goes away so this is quite luxurious and we can also use this remote to put this seat in down mode so this is sort of the laying down version the relaxation setting and let's see what else we can adjust right so we can even adjust the headrest up and down it's not that crazy I can I'll just select the other seat and I can show you better okay so headrest going up that's not that crazy but addressed going to the front that is really really good because that just is such a big part of how you sit in the car the way the headrest if you just sit relaxed you just have a nice position and the headrest is just completely to the back and you have to put your head back to be able to hit it it's just not that comfortable I mean yeah I know I'm nitpicking here but it just says let's go back to my seat because we can also select this little foot rest or leg rest really this button so there it is I mean as you know I'm very told so this is fine for me but as soon as this headrest comes up any further yeah it blocks my legs so I'll put that back but it is really nice it's really soft I mean everything is this leather is incredible what else we've got an armrest here of course and this car is full of ports so we've got two USB ports right here it has an HDMI port it has two headphone ports with independent volume it also has a blu-ray player right here and it has a little space for an SD card cupholders we've got this dark wood lovely and well as you can see everything is black on the inside so that's that's a shame I would have loved to see this I know that they have it in purple leather or red leather or you know tan truffles something like that I mean that would just be incredible and it would show off the interior more I think as well okay let's put the seat back and we'll check out the front yeah again we've got these lovely door panels really nice handles door handles right here we can use these buttons to operate the blinds at the rear so I can just close those right there as you can see and well something that shows the level of attention to detail in this car because that's what this car is all about attention to detail is that these seats are just completely covered in leather I mean everywhere and that's just all around the car everything you touch is completely covered in leather it's just everywhere even in here I mean in here everywhere it's it's so nice okay at the front let's just put this back all righty well we've got an armrest again with more 12 volt and auxilary and he was be everything and more dark wood and well we've got these these metal fins that go from from all the way on the left side and then they continue here and they just go in this horizontal track all along the car which gives you a really nice feeling of you know just a very spacious feeling this Kiriko glass better returns here which is also illuminated at night and well let's check out this so this is for the seats and the climate control of the seats these front seats are actually adjustable in 28 ways they are really really comfortable really adjustable and well you can just select anything even these side supports and as I just said when you walk up to the car you enter the car the car lifts this seat comes up the steering wheel goes away and these if you have these set up to be really tight and high these actually go down so you can get in easier and then when you close the door it comes up again which is crazy and well so we can use this mouse thing this trackpad you know they have taken a lot of heat in the past Lexus for their infotainment system and the way that it's operated with that stupid Mouse thing this is still not perfect but it is a lot better and well we can use this menu to operate the heated seats the cooled seats heated steering wheel stuff like that but there is a special feature here which is called Lexus concierge or climate : chairs something like that which we can use and which analyzes your body temperature I'm not kidding and it adapts the let's control the heated and cooled seats the same wheel it just adapts everything to your zone so it has 16 zones with the upgraded climate control system which this has so 16 zones and it analyzes the body temperature of each occupant and then adapts everything it can to yeah to make you as comfortable as possible and that's part of something called Omata naxi which is sort of yeah hospitality taken to the next level it's about being able to cater to your guests needs before they even arise so it just it analyzes your temperature and then adjusts it so you never get hot so you never have to to engage your ventilated seats because it has already done that for you so yeah that's that's pretty crazy I think they also have something called takumi which are the artisans that work at Lexus and that have to have 25 years of experience before they can even work on the interior and then every four months they have to have their eyes tested to be to be made to make sure that their eyes are good and that you know all the stitching and everything is just perfect I mean they go so far in their attention to detail it's just insane and I really love it I think it's so cool what else infotainment as I said this is not great it works better than before but this menu itself isn't great either if I want to adjust my heated seats for instance I have to click this button to go into the seat menu then I have to go to seat climate and then I can use this I mean see I didn't activate that I just I just like a minute ago I switched off my heated seat and I didn't I didn't engage that so that it's doing that for me I think that's super cool and what else well we've got these buttons up here for traction control and for the driving modes which work a bit weirdly but yeah they do what they have to do and everything in here is designed so you don't have to change your posture to to use anything so I can just sit here and I can reach everything from here it's there's nothing that I have to you know change my position for we've also got a cutting for the right height of the air suspension and Evi mode so fully electric this is for the blind at the rear and this as I said for the seats it also has this really lovely volume control button it's it just feels so good I know this is such a small detail but Lexus has always been really good at these folio buttons it just feels so nice and then you have this ring to change the radio station it also has a heated steering wheel as I said with a lot of leather and wood and it just feels incredible it also has flappy pedals but we'll come back to that later and well what else we've got speakers up here and up here in the roof as well yeah it's very opulent car and the cool thing is that everything in here is so so well thought-out it's it just blows my mind but let's take it for a drive because as you have heard exterior wise interior wise I absolutely love it so let's see how it drives and what it's like to drive oh my god how cute is this look at what what time brought me he's such a cutie oh my god oh you're so nice springtime is so romantic everything everyone is going to think we're gain ow okay I mean they've said it before it's just I'm employee of the month let's let's keep it at that so I actually have found something missing on this interior a vase I mean how cool would it be if I could put this in water right here okay thanks bye alright Martine is getting settled at the back I am seat is going forward all righty let's take it for a drive and we will start in oh my god this thing is huge and we'll start in easy mode so fully electric unavailable hybrid battery low okay that's a great start we'll just put it in sports start in Sport S+ that's a bit of a double one but okay and this will charge up the battery and I can show you the easy mode later on driving the LS well it is very very comfortable as you might expect it has air suspension but it still offers a great deal of driving pleasure I think the the steering feel is really good it's it's quite direct its it just feels really nice but as you can hear there's the biggest biggest issue I have with this car I absolutely adore this car I love the styling I love the attention to detail I love that the way that these that the Japanese just look at the car and think well how can we improve it I mean something like that glass or that door panel we've never seen that before so I absolutely love that but this drivetrain is weird it's just a weird drivetrain it has something called a multi-stage hybrid drive and that is coupled to a 3.5 liter v6 which is naturally aspirated that generates 299 horsepower and it has electric motors lithium-ion batteries and which add power and the total power output is 359 horsepower and 600 Newton meters and that engine is linked to a CVT gearbox but they have actually added real gear ratios so it has four gears gears because they are not really gears they're just stages in the CVT and then they have added six virtual gears so they're fake there nothing happens when it sometimes when it shifts gears nothing really happens but you get the sound and the feeling that it does which is just weird I I don't really get the added value of that and I also don't like the way that it sounds it's what is happening it's it sounded like it sounds like it it's it's ill or something like it has to puke and this car also weighs quite a lot because it weighs 24 in this president version it weighs just over 2,400 kilos and you just get the feeling that this engine has to work way too hard to be able to shift that weight and that's also because it's naturally aspirated if they would have used turbo charges like everyone else you would have some more torque at the low end of the rev range and I think you know this car can really use that this it develops or it's it's peak output is at 5100 rpm that's way too high that means that I have to really get it going to extract some power from it but in other countries not in the Netherlands but in other countries you can also get an LS 500 which has a new engine a 3.5 liter v6 with two turbo charges which has 421 horsepower and they are actually developing a hybrid system for that engine as well but yet and they just didn't finish it in time because this car had to go to market and yeah they're still working on that maybe it's going to be 600 hybrid with the new drivetrain because that that night that because that petrol engine already delivers 421 horsepower which is 122 more than this petrol engine so I think that's going to improve this car a lot if they can get that weird feeling out of it so let's go into the menu and check out this little screen okay so my batteries have been charged a bit more let's switch to Eevee mode and we please switch to easy mode oh it's in sport so let's go to comfort and easy mode unavailable why ah now it's an easy mode no child Eevee Evy yes okay so this is fully electric and this is really really nice this means that the car just completely quiets down it becomes this cocoon of silence and it just fits it just fits this car way better than that screaming naturally aspirated v6 that it just sounds like it has to strain itself so much and that just that really doesn't fit the character of a car of a car like this it has to be effortless it has to waft the wolf actor is not high enough in this car this is uphill and I actually really have to give it some throttle to to keep the same speed all righty well I want to test one more thing because those gears are so weird I want to test one more thing because let's just say that this car can drive up to 140 kilometers an hour in AV mode so I want to try that but as you saw it had some it struggled to go into evey mode and stay there I don't know why but okay let's put it in easy mode now unavailable Evi yes fully electric not anymore yeah it is okay so this is quite nice you can actually use that easy mode to travel at speed which is very cool they say that it will do 0 to 100 kilometers an hour in five point four seconds and that it will do 250 kilometers an hour well I really really can't imagine that so I'm going to take it for a quick Autobahn blast yeah just to see if it will get there and how it does all righty well here we go the Autobahn let's see what happens when you really put this thing to the test and floor it from a stand still we are in Sport S+ mode so let's see how fast it feels and if we can get that top speed of 250 kilometres an hour there we go well picks up speed quite quickly of course those because of those electric motors but the sound I just can't get used to this those builded shift moments are just momentary cut offs and Bower I think but that's 200 kilometers an hour it is really comfortable though so that's nice metal to the middle 225 well this is actually not bad 2:40 so obviously the top speed of 250 it really it really can do 250 248 249 250 there it is 251 yeah I mean is it fast no not really but it will do the top speed quite easily really not bad not bad at all but that sound that the character of this drivetrain I just can't get used to it it's sort of this elastic feeling you get yeah it's it's not really nice it's not really comfortable really because you have that that sound yeah I understand why they did it but it doesn't really help with the comfort so yeah I hope they can come up with a different solution and I also think that if they if they get that new engine in here that twin turbo v6 I think that will solve a lot of the problems as I said because you have torque at the low range and you don't have to do this it doesn't have to work so hard to get the same results but let's put it back in comfort mode and just chill out another example of their insane ingenuity really is that spokes in the wheels some spokes in the wheels are hollow and so they act as as a resonance chamber to decrease tire noise and and you know to decrease the sound in the cabin and you know I have to say this is quite a bad piece of road of course but if we switch through this Lane it ends here okay if you're on smooth Road this thing is incredibly quiet and the mark levinson audio system which has 23 speakers it also has active noise cancellation so it picks up noises that come from the outside and it sort of acts as a counter sound and yeah it they went so far to make this car perfect and it's such a shame that you know everything is is near perfect the the amount of detail the quality of finishing everything is is exquisite but this drivetrain really lets this car down so I can't wait to drive the new engine I mean that Alice 500 we don't get it here but I hope that they will come with a hybrid LS 600 hybrid with a new engine and I really think that that will be an extraordinary car because this ancient this 3 and 1/2 liter v6 I think it has been around since 2006 so for 12 years they had that GS 450 our grid which had this 3 and a liter v6 with 296 horsepower and this has 299 and it had 340 horsepower combined between the petrol agent and the electrical motor so I mean that's just that's not good enough they should have been much further and I hope that that new engine will bring that so thanks for watching guys I'm going to end it here I know it's been a really long one so if you're still watching kudos to you you're a true fan you can subscribe by clicking on the big button right here and you can check out this POV review and this buv reviews playlist if you're up for it thanks for watching see at the next one bye guyswhat's up everyone welcome to this POV review bio total Pannell my name is max thanks for joining me today and well it is a good day because it's beautiful out lovely weather and we've got the all-new Lexus or all-new we've got the new Lexus LS 500 hybrid and well it's quite an interesting car and today I'm going to take you around the car in the car and we'll take it for a drive to see why it's special and why it's well it's quite remarkable really really very very special because it is very very different I mean Lexus has always been a bit off a bit quirky offbeat different than everybody else and well it's no different with this new LS the flagship of the Lexus brand and let's start with that the flagship because the styling of this car I mean there is no doubt that this is the Big Daddy of the Lexus lineup I mean that grill that spindle grill is just it's huge it's very prominent its aggressive and well you you just you can't miss it really unfortunately the stupid people from the Netherlands have decided that we always have to have a license plate at the front but I know that there are some states in the US where you don't have to have it at the front so imagine how that would look just that spindle grille that huge mouth at the front I mean that's just awesome and these lines are you know they are quite lovely and they sort of return on different segments of the car you get them in the lights as well on these lines here and front bumper I mean it's just such a cohesive design and I think that's that's really really lovely I also think but this is personal this is my opinion I think this is the best looking sort of limousine flagship car that you can buy today I love the Jaguar XJ and I love this one I like the 7 Series I think that's an incredible car but styling wise you know a 7 Series or an S Class or even an XJ if you have one in your mirror it is very difficult to see if it's a 5 Series or a 7 series as S Class or an eClass an XJ or an XF and with this one I mean you're going to notice that this is the Big Daddy well what else it is quite wide it is very long it's 35 millimeters longer than the previous LS long wheelbase it's only available in this size so just only as a long-wheelbase really it's about as long and wide as a 7 Series but it's lower and I think that's that's very noticeable it's it's super sleek and it has a really beautiful roofline combined with these lines or shapes that go from the front to the back it just makes it a very swoopy car and I really really love that I think that yeah it's just I really really like the look of it I thought I would when I saw the pictures but in real life I mean it's just gorgeous absolutely gorgeous we've also got these chrome wheels which are 20-inch I believe let me check yep 20 inch they actually fit this car pretty well we've got a president version today so you can get a luxury an export an executive or president president being the top dog of course and and really having all the goodies and well there are a few options left I think you can get a panoramic roof you can get the Kirikou gloss in the interior I will tell you some more about that later and the color of course and the leather stuff like that but other than that the president version has everything you can wish for so let's take a look at the rear we've got these huge real light units that go from all the way from the side really and then stretch out to the back with LEDs that are layered so we've got the Lexus logo here as you can see and one is a front of the under other and I that that gives you a really nice look sort of a yeah it's sort of a depth behind every light unit it's a hybrid of course so the trunk space is not that impressive because the battery pack is right there let's take a look inside this is the key by the way so you get this little bass really and it's quite convenient actually because it's not that big and you can just have it in your pocket and you don't really notice it okay so let's start at the rear because you know this is a car that a lot of people will be driven in so a lot of people who buy this car will have a chauffeur and let's start we'll just work our way from the right rear up to the left front as I said Kiriko glass so that's this inlay piece and this is a very artisanal Japanese art form really and they design someone designs this this or designed this pattern and then they cut it out with a laser and then it has to be polished at 147 points to make it shine and yeah just when the light hits it at night it just looks so incredible we also have this folded inlay on the door which sort of yeah it has to resemble the the art form of origami and this is actually a handful that every piece in every door is hand folded by one person it takes him about five hours that's really crazy and quite special actually or not that special but it gives you a great look is that this armrest is sort of floating as you can see I can put my hand behind it of course it's you know it has some points where it's attached to the door but it has the look of being just loose and there is light coming from down here and up here so at night when the light hits it it just floats because there's light behind it and it's just incredible it has the upgraded Marc Levenson audio system with 23 speakers and it has this cool pattern sort of a mosaic pattern really lovely okay let's get in I have to start the car to be able to operate the seats another cool thing while I'm here when you walk up to the car and you unlock it the air suspension actually lifts and the seat lifts up the steering wheel goes all the way back so you have a the best possible way to get in it's all about the details with Lexus you know that they are really they are crazy okay yes let's open this one so the blinds are electric of course one two and three so there's a little blind even for that small window back there and well we've got a little tablet sort of remote here which we can use to adjust the seats 22 way adjustable seats back here and we've got a button because this is the president version you have something called the Ottoman package your Ottoman seats which allow you to do this so it just folds forward the headrest goes all the way to the front and the seat goes away so this is quite luxurious and we can also use this remote to put this seat in down mode so this is sort of the laying down version the relaxation setting and let's see what else we can adjust right so we can even adjust the headrest up and down it's not that crazy I can I'll just select the other seat and I can show you better okay so headrest going up that's not that crazy but addressed going to the front that is really really good because that just is such a big part of how you sit in the car the way the headrest if you just sit relaxed you just have a nice position and the headrest is just completely to the back and you have to put your head back to be able to hit it it's just not that comfortable I mean yeah I know I'm nitpicking here but it just says let's go back to my seat because we can also select this little foot rest or leg rest really this button so there it is I mean as you know I'm very told so this is fine for me but as soon as this headrest comes up any further yeah it blocks my legs so I'll put that back but it is really nice it's really soft I mean everything is this leather is incredible what else we've got an armrest here of course and this car is full of ports so we've got two USB ports right here it has an HDMI port it has two headphone ports with independent volume it also has a blu-ray player right here and it has a little space for an SD card cupholders we've got this dark wood lovely and well as you can see everything is black on the inside so that's that's a shame I would have loved to see this I know that they have it in purple leather or red leather or you know tan truffles something like that I mean that would just be incredible and it would show off the interior more I think as well okay let's put the seat back and we'll check out the front yeah again we've got these lovely door panels really nice handles door handles right here we can use these buttons to operate the blinds at the rear so I can just close those right there as you can see and well something that shows the level of attention to detail in this car because that's what this car is all about attention to detail is that these seats are just completely covered in leather I mean everywhere and that's just all around the car everything you touch is completely covered in leather it's just everywhere even in here I mean in here everywhere it's it's so nice okay at the front let's just put this back all righty well we've got an armrest again with more 12 volt and auxilary and he was be everything and more dark wood and well we've got these these metal fins that go from from all the way on the left side and then they continue here and they just go in this horizontal track all along the car which gives you a really nice feeling of you know just a very spacious feeling this Kiriko glass better returns here which is also illuminated at night and well let's check out this so this is for the seats and the climate control of the seats these front seats are actually adjustable in 28 ways they are really really comfortable really adjustable and well you can just select anything even these side supports and as I just said when you walk up to the car you enter the car the car lifts this seat comes up the steering wheel goes away and these if you have these set up to be really tight and high these actually go down so you can get in easier and then when you close the door it comes up again which is crazy and well so we can use this mouse thing this trackpad you know they have taken a lot of heat in the past Lexus for their infotainment system and the way that it's operated with that stupid Mouse thing this is still not perfect but it is a lot better and well we can use this menu to operate the heated seats the cooled seats heated steering wheel stuff like that but there is a special feature here which is called Lexus concierge or climate : chairs something like that which we can use and which analyzes your body temperature I'm not kidding and it adapts the let's control the heated and cooled seats the same wheel it just adapts everything to your zone so it has 16 zones with the upgraded climate control system which this has so 16 zones and it analyzes the body temperature of each occupant and then adapts everything it can to yeah to make you as comfortable as possible and that's part of something called Omata naxi which is sort of yeah hospitality taken to the next level it's about being able to cater to your guests needs before they even arise so it just it analyzes your temperature and then adjusts it so you never get hot so you never have to to engage your ventilated seats because it has already done that for you so yeah that's that's pretty crazy I think they also have something called takumi which are the artisans that work at Lexus and that have to have 25 years of experience before they can even work on the interior and then every four months they have to have their eyes tested to be to be made to make sure that their eyes are good and that you know all the stitching and everything is just perfect I mean they go so far in their attention to detail it's just insane and I really love it I think it's so cool what else infotainment as I said this is not great it works better than before but this menu itself isn't great either if I want to adjust my heated seats for instance I have to click this button to go into the seat menu then I have to go to seat climate and then I can use this I mean see I didn't activate that I just I just like a minute ago I switched off my heated seat and I didn't I didn't engage that so that it's doing that for me I think that's super cool and what else well we've got these buttons up here for traction control and for the driving modes which work a bit weirdly but yeah they do what they have to do and everything in here is designed so you don't have to change your posture to to use anything so I can just sit here and I can reach everything from here it's there's nothing that I have to you know change my position for we've also got a cutting for the right height of the air suspension and Evi mode so fully electric this is for the blind at the rear and this as I said for the seats it also has this really lovely volume control button it's it just feels so good I know this is such a small detail but Lexus has always been really good at these folio buttons it just feels so nice and then you have this ring to change the radio station it also has a heated steering wheel as I said with a lot of leather and wood and it just feels incredible it also has flappy pedals but we'll come back to that later and well what else we've got speakers up here and up here in the roof as well yeah it's very opulent car and the cool thing is that everything in here is so so well thought-out it's it just blows my mind but let's take it for a drive because as you have heard exterior wise interior wise I absolutely love it so let's see how it drives and what it's like to drive oh my god how cute is this look at what what time brought me he's such a cutie oh my god oh you're so nice springtime is so romantic everything everyone is going to think we're gain ow okay I mean they've said it before it's just I'm employee of the month let's let's keep it at that so I actually have found something missing on this interior a vase I mean how cool would it be if I could put this in water right here okay thanks bye alright Martine is getting settled at the back I am seat is going forward all righty let's take it for a drive and we will start in oh my god this thing is huge and we'll start in easy mode so fully electric unavailable hybrid battery low okay that's a great start we'll just put it in sports start in Sport S+ that's a bit of a double one but okay and this will charge up the battery and I can show you the easy mode later on driving the LS well it is very very comfortable as you might expect it has air suspension but it still offers a great deal of driving pleasure I think the the steering feel is really good it's it's quite direct its it just feels really nice but as you can hear there's the biggest biggest issue I have with this car I absolutely adore this car I love the styling I love the attention to detail I love that the way that these that the Japanese just look at the car and think well how can we improve it I mean something like that glass or that door panel we've never seen that before so I absolutely love that but this drivetrain is weird it's just a weird drivetrain it has something called a multi-stage hybrid drive and that is coupled to a 3.5 liter v6 which is naturally aspirated that generates 299 horsepower and it has electric motors lithium-ion batteries and which add power and the total power output is 359 horsepower and 600 Newton meters and that engine is linked to a CVT gearbox but they have actually added real gear ratios so it has four gears gears because they are not really gears they're just stages in the CVT and then they have added six virtual gears so they're fake there nothing happens when it sometimes when it shifts gears nothing really happens but you get the sound and the feeling that it does which is just weird I I don't really get the added value of that and I also don't like the way that it sounds it's what is happening it's it sounded like it sounds like it it's it's ill or something like it has to puke and this car also weighs quite a lot because it weighs 24 in this president version it weighs just over 2,400 kilos and you just get the feeling that this engine has to work way too hard to be able to shift that weight and that's also because it's naturally aspirated if they would have used turbo charges like everyone else you would have some more torque at the low end of the rev range and I think you know this car can really use that this it develops or it's it's peak output is at 5100 rpm that's way too high that means that I have to really get it going to extract some power from it but in other countries not in the Netherlands but in other countries you can also get an LS 500 which has a new engine a 3.5 liter v6 with two turbo charges which has 421 horsepower and they are actually developing a hybrid system for that engine as well but yet and they just didn't finish it in time because this car had to go to market and yeah they're still working on that maybe it's going to be 600 hybrid with the new drivetrain because that that night that because that petrol engine already delivers 421 horsepower which is 122 more than this petrol engine so I think that's going to improve this car a lot if they can get that weird feeling out of it so let's go into the menu and check out this little screen okay so my batteries have been charged a bit more let's switch to Eevee mode and we please switch to easy mode oh it's in sport so let's go to comfort and easy mode unavailable why ah now it's an easy mode no child Eevee Evy yes okay so this is fully electric and this is really really nice this means that the car just completely quiets down it becomes this cocoon of silence and it just fits it just fits this car way better than that screaming naturally aspirated v6 that it just sounds like it has to strain itself so much and that just that really doesn't fit the character of a car of a car like this it has to be effortless it has to waft the wolf actor is not high enough in this car this is uphill and I actually really have to give it some throttle to to keep the same speed all righty well I want to test one more thing because those gears are so weird I want to test one more thing because let's just say that this car can drive up to 140 kilometers an hour in AV mode so I want to try that but as you saw it had some it struggled to go into evey mode and stay there I don't know why but okay let's put it in easy mode now unavailable Evi yes fully electric not anymore yeah it is okay so this is quite nice you can actually use that easy mode to travel at speed which is very cool they say that it will do 0 to 100 kilometers an hour in five point four seconds and that it will do 250 kilometers an hour well I really really can't imagine that so I'm going to take it for a quick Autobahn blast yeah just to see if it will get there and how it does all righty well here we go the Autobahn let's see what happens when you really put this thing to the test and floor it from a stand still we are in Sport S+ mode so let's see how fast it feels and if we can get that top speed of 250 kilometres an hour there we go well picks up speed quite quickly of course those because of those electric motors but the sound I just can't get used to this those builded shift moments are just momentary cut offs and Bower I think but that's 200 kilometers an hour it is really comfortable though so that's nice metal to the middle 225 well this is actually not bad 2:40 so obviously the top speed of 250 it really it really can do 250 248 249 250 there it is 251 yeah I mean is it fast no not really but it will do the top speed quite easily really not bad not bad at all but that sound that the character of this drivetrain I just can't get used to it it's sort of this elastic feeling you get yeah it's it's not really nice it's not really comfortable really because you have that that sound yeah I understand why they did it but it doesn't really help with the comfort so yeah I hope they can come up with a different solution and I also think that if they if they get that new engine in here that twin turbo v6 I think that will solve a lot of the problems as I said because you have torque at the low range and you don't have to do this it doesn't have to work so hard to get the same results but let's put it back in comfort mode and just chill out another example of their insane ingenuity really is that spokes in the wheels some spokes in the wheels are hollow and so they act as as a resonance chamber to decrease tire noise and and you know to decrease the sound in the cabin and you know I have to say this is quite a bad piece of road of course but if we switch through this Lane it ends here okay if you're on smooth Road this thing is incredibly quiet and the mark levinson audio system which has 23 speakers it also has active noise cancellation so it picks up noises that come from the outside and it sort of acts as a counter sound and yeah it they went so far to make this car perfect and it's such a shame that you know everything is is near perfect the the amount of detail the quality of finishing everything is is exquisite but this drivetrain really lets this car down so I can't wait to drive the new engine I mean that Alice 500 we don't get it here but I hope that they will come with a hybrid LS 600 hybrid with a new engine and I really think that that will be an extraordinary car because this ancient this 3 and 1/2 liter v6 I think it has been around since 2006 so for 12 years they had that GS 450 our grid which had this 3 and a liter v6 with 296 horsepower and this has 299 and it had 340 horsepower combined between the petrol agent and the electrical motor so I mean that's just that's not good enough they should have been much further and I hope that that new engine will bring that so thanks for watching guys I'm going to end it here I know it's been a really long one so if you're still watching kudos to you you're a true fan you can subscribe by clicking on the big button right here and you can check out this POV review and this buv reviews playlist if you're up for it thanks for watching see at the next one bye guys\n"