
The autonomous emergency braking system detects vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists day or night but only identifies motorcycles during the day. So there’s a pretty strong chance the RX will pick up five stars here as well. The 2023 Lexus RX does not yet have an ANCAP rating, but it has netted the maximum five stars from EuroNCAP based on 2022 testing. The cost of each scheduled service for the first five years is $695. Service intervals are set at 12 months/15,000km.

Lexus RX ownership also includes three years of complimentary membership to the Lexus Encore benefits program and roadside assistance. Those include 10-way adjustable front seats with memory, four-way power lumbar adjust and power-folding rear seats with heating and ventilation outboard.Īll RX models come with a five years/unlimited-kilometre warranty. The 500h misses out on some features reserved for the next model down in the range, the RX 350 Sports Luxury. A space saver-spare tyre can be found in the boot. Interior equipment shared with other RX grades includes tri-zone climate control, heated and ventilated eight-way power-adjustable leather-accented front sports seats, multi-coloured ambient lighting, aluminium pedals and a power-adjustable F Sport steering wheel. The interior upgrades are only slight compared to lesser models, adding F Sport scuff plates and floor mats with the F Sport logo. Gear exclusive to the 2023 Lexus RX 500h F Sport Performance includes a package of go-fast mechanicals we’ll get to later on.Įxternally, it is distinguished from lesser RXs by 21-inch matte -black alloy wheels paired with Michelin rubber and styling touches such as F Sport front and rear bumpers with piano-black side mouldings.Įxterior bits it shares with lesser RX models includes a subtler chrome-less take on the controversial and sometimes alarming Spindle grille called the ‘Spindle body’, black roof rails, a panoramic sunroof, rear privacy glass, a rear spoiler, LED light bar and a power tailgate Watch the review video of the Lexus RX 500h That combo delivers a broad swathe of potential competitors that include BMW’s popular crossovers, their Mercedes-Benz and Audi equivalents and other interlopers such as Jeep with the Grand Cherokee and Land Rover Range Rover with the Discovery Sport on upwards. Still, that pricing is within cooee of mid-size luxury SUVs like the BMW X3, while the RX’s size is closer to the larger BMW X5 and its ilk.

Prices rise substantially across the line-up, as we have already reported. While the new RX retains its five-door wagon fundamentals, most of the range is all-wheel drive and petrol-electric hybrid, while only turbo-petrol four-cylinder engines are offered, abandoning the old nat-atmo V6 engines.
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It denotes this is the most powerful (273kW/550Nm) and most expensive ($126,000 plus on-road costs) RX sold in Australia since it first lobbed here 20 years ago. The 2023 Lexus RX 500h F Sport Performance is the flagship of the newly-minted fifth-generation large SUV range.į Sport Performance is a new Lexus badge that sits above F Sport and below the full-house F performance models.
