2023 Lexus RX 500h F Sport Performance Review: Too Much Of Everything – SlashGear

Lexus also seems to have finally gotten past the brand’s downright confusing years of late playing with trackpads and dials for controlling infotainment and climate control. Instead, the new RX joins the rest of the modern automotive age with wireless Apple CarPlay on a 14-inch true touchscreen. The RX also uses the best head-up display I’ve seen yet—mostly because it’s the smallest head-up display I’ve seen yet, that also uses a nifty highlighting system for the adaptive cruise control, drive modes, speaker volume, and song selection.

Unfortunately, that head-up system then makes the steering wheel buttons somewhat incomprehensible while looking at the main gauge cluster. And using the center console to select drive modes or adjust climate control settings also requires diving into excessive menu pages.

Really, the entire RX goes entirely overboard on tech, unnecessarily reinventing the wheel to the point that formerly intuitive tasks require a second or two of thought to actually get right.For starters, the exterior door handle uses a small electronic button, rather than actually, you know, pulling outward as the traditional door handle shape my suggest. Then on the inside, a tiny door handle can push inward as an electronic button or pull outward to open the door as an emergency stopgap—in the case of an emergency. It is, in fact, an elegant solution. But a solution to a problem caused by the use of a tiny, electronic door handle…