I reviewed the ‘Rolls-Royce’ mini van!

This is the Lexus LM, it's a bit like a private jet, in fact Lexus's own PE material says it helps define what the LM should offer. Lexus conducted research with private jet manufacturers and very wealthy clients to find out if the LM fits the bill. I'm going to tell you about the exterior, it's huge, I'll show you the interior, I'm just stroking this car in a very sinister way, try out its technology, it's driving my brain crazy, I'll tell you what's good about it, oh how satisfying, what's not about it Good. It's all very stylish, take it for a spin, what a beautiful day, hey, and of course, run it to see how fast it is from under 60 MPH.

I'm Matt Watson and you're watching. I'm going to talk to you. the design of the Lexus LM, so it's a

mini

van that's actually based on the RX, but I mean, there's not much to say, it has a taillight band, but it looks a little bit modern with this diffused light bar and You have a spoiler up there. well, and some Lexus badges and a lot of chrome, in fact, Chrome is the order of the day. Look, we've got more down here, but Lexus manages to do Chrome in a pretty respectable way. Wheels, they are all 19 in TS colors, there is this black one. a white, there is a dark red and a kind of silvery gold, but this is actually the color to choose.

Is it black? Works very well with Chrome. There are enough striking accents in this that it doesn't seem too boring, speaking of which. When you come to the front, you get the huge Lexus signature grille. See there's a lot of chrome, again, a big chrome strip here and we have Matrix LED lights as standard on all models and that brings me to the price. LM starts with a Mia 90,000, this range surpasses the Tumi version. It costs £13,000 H. To buy a new or used car you should visit carwow and we will help you find the perfect car at a price you will love.

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Now continue with the video, don't think that Lexus has taken a truck and just turned it into a

mini

van. This is a custom made MPV and it feels very luxurious. The leather everywhere is lovely, especially on the steering wheel, although I'm a little disappointed they didn't trim the center boss with Le. it's just plastic, speaking of which, the only cheap bits of IC I can find down here, that you could rub your hand against and down here, I mean, it's just that strip, everything else is actually really nice, speaking of which , these seats are so comfortable. and they are obviously fully electric with lots of adjustments, the steering wheel is also electrically adjusted and everything you touch has a nice solid, cushioned feel, including the switches.

I love it. I love this too. You have this big infotainment screen and the climate is controlled through it using a slider like the fan speed one, the temperature is done very quickly by just turning it and again that feels so good and expensive and my finger leads you to this. Mark Levenson Stereo, which sounds absolutely incredible, is a standard, it has 21 speakers, this Teimi version actually has 23 speakers, regardless of which one you choose, for incredible sound quality, like this wood panel down here, oh, just I'm caressing this car in a very sinister way. It is not like this?

I'm going to keep doing it with this pretty soft and lovely headliner and the biggest sun visors ever with just a modest vanity mirror, speaking of mirrors as standard you get this so you have your normal rear view mirror but if I make you have one camera in the rear now, the reason you have that will become apparent a little later, now let's review the glove box storage on this vehicle. It's not the biggest, right? But it is very well cushioned. lined with felt I like this, although you have a large container under the center armrest, it is very difficult for you to see, don't worry, you can open it this way and take a look in there, nice and deep, you have HDMI input.

We'll talk about that in a moment and below is your old 12 volt USBC Plus. Here we have more USBC and that is a USBC to connect your phone for Apple carplay and Android auto and it is full screen for both apps which is really good now if you want you can use the standard fit saav but it is not that fancy like Android auto or Apple carplay. It's pretty easy to jump through the different menus using these side buttons here, but I'm definitely more of a fan of using Apple or Android, you have a digital dryers screen here, it has enough information and you can scroll through different screens and it will change the color and the dial layout depending on the driving mode you are in.

Well, that's enough of the ones I forgot to show. These door bins are large enough to fit average sized bottles, although in reality the entire length of the door bin is quite slim. There's something I find a little confusing about this: it's the way you have buttons in various places that do the same thing. Look, up here you have buttons to control the left and right doors in the back, but you also have the same buttons here, speaking of the doors here in the front, you open them electrically, so you just press the button there and it opens and you have soft clothes, so shut up, there is an emergency lock here if you have a dead battery, which could be very, very important in this car, and the last thing I'm going to show you is the cup holders that fit the big bottles.

Plus, I like the way they're surrounded by this satin metallic Effy finish that highlights the rest of the cabin. Look at it with the golden highlights. There's something just relaxing about this vehicle here. I like it a lot, it gets even better. in the back, although you can get the LM as a seven-seater or a four-seater that just has these two single chairs in the back, but oh my goodness, this configuration is super safe and the one I would like, let's start by looking Plus, it's a huge screen and I'm actually streaming my phone to it, although you can connect it via HDMI.

What I'm going to do is control it through this little mobile device that I can eject if I want, but I don't want to do it now and I can change it to a smaller screen, here we go, small screen. I can blow it up to full size, it's a little stretched out and looks weird, or I can go with a double so any of the rear passengers can watch their own movie or whatever. on it with its own headphones, I'm not going to leave it on because it's driving me crazy M and obviously you have these huge speakers here, there's a speaker there and there's another one up there so you can get the full cinematic experience.

Come back here and if you want you can really relax. I'm going to lift the bottom of the seat. Oh, and then you'll see this, actually, I'm going to buckle up first because you have a built-in seat. seat belts and now I'm under this look at how much this seat reclines much better than any limousine. I can go on a flat bed. This is proper first-class style. I have my seat belt on, so I can travel like this. although I wouldn't suggest it because if there is a massive accident you will simply slide under the seat belt.

Oh of course, these seats are heated, they're C, the leather is so plush and soft it's very very comfortable regardless of the position you're sitting in it's amazing and then there are other creature comforts so I'll take it I will remove now. If I press this button, I can close the ceiling blind so it's nice and dark so I can sleep. and down here I can close the side curtains oh yeah, now you may have noticed this, which is also a speaker in the door for an absolutely amazing additional base, let me open the roof curtain where it is again and of course I can open the door. from back here, press the button up there, the door opens but we want it to close and this button here says color, which I imagine changes the color of the ambient lighting, but I can't seem to get it to work.

There is a lot of f. Up here you can direct the air wherever you want, there's also a little reading light up there that you can move. Reading light here you have your sunglasses attached and when we fold things up, that's the vanity mirror over there so you can just check your hair there too now in terms of storage, lots of storage space under here as you can see the bottle there, but you have a cup holder here like this, you're actually supposed to open it by pressing that button, but you can do it that way.

Well, more on that in a moment down here, if you absolutely have to work, you have a little work table there or maybe it's a picnic tray, it feels very expensive, very elegant, and then down here, look, I have wireless charging for my cell phone. phone there plus there are USB connectors too if I want to use that then underneath here you have some storage where you keep your shoes there and finally this here oh we have a refrigerator and Lexa says no way should you ever used this refrigerator to store pork chops or fish finally there is a small area there where you can put things if you want and another tray for your jewelry.

Everything is very luxurious. I'm thinking of moving here. It's much better than my house, the way you open the trunk in the movie is not exactly what you think so there is a release here but it just unlocks the vehicle, it doesn't open the tailgate, instead you use these buttons which are on both sides, look there, I guess they have I've done it because with a tailgate that big, if you're in a tight space, you won't be able to open it by being close to it. Anyway, the boot capacity in this four seater version is over 700 liters which is quite a lot and there is enough space in there for your VIP's luggage, you will probably notice these attachment points there and that is because you can put child seats in these because it has isopix and it's actually very easy to put a child seat in because there is so much room the problem is you can really dislike rotating the seat once you have it in place because of that divider central there, let's take a quick look, look underneath, see if there's anything interesting, yeah, just tools and stuff, and I imagine here what it is, oh, look, a spare tire. that's novel this is also novel look at a three pin sock ET 1500 wat and 220 volts small tie down points there and a few more there I really have nothing more to tell you about this boot that actually brings five annoying things about the Lexus ow LM , why did I do that?

Because of all the electrical kit on this car, it's pretty easy to flatten the 12V battery on the car, so when you're filming it and everything you need to keep the engine running, you see we had a problem with the other one. The day it went flat and for some reason Reon, the front doors were locked and he was not responding to the key, we were actually able to open these doors. Unfortunately, I left this divider down now, if I hadn't we wouldn't have been able to. Get into the front of the car to unlock the hood, open it and then charge the battery, but with this open I was able to slide through this gap to open the doors manually from the inside, if you don't believe it.

I can get through there let me show you if I had been even fatter than I already am then I wouldn't have been able to get through but it's not easy it's a bit like going caving look oh I'm being born again so I walked in like that and then I opened the door like if everything was very stylish, I try not to dirty the lovely bright interior, yeah I have no idea about that darling, while the base version of the LM has a front display, the higher spec version doesn't. normally works the other way around, the top spec version gets the kit and then goes down the range, one doesn't have the heated seats they aren't warm enough so four which is three bars on this one is like one bar on all the other cars and it's the same in the front as here in the back, it's just not hot enough, although you can project your phone screen on this huge screen, it's only possible if you have an Android device, there is no connectivity with an Apple, well, look, 9 millionsubscribers, yes, too.

Head over to our channel to watch our latest video. It's the new Rena 5 every time you get in or out of the car. This happens. Look. Can you tell what it is? Look very closely. I can not see it. I'll show you it's open. Can you see that the cup holder is open because often you like to just push on the armrest when you get in and then you just hit it like that and it opens? It's not entirely negative, although here are five good things about this car that the LM has. A very sophisticated climate control system with something called a climate concierge that uses temperature sensors in the rear compartment to tell exactly where it needs to blow air to maintain the perfect temperature.

There is also something called flow that directs the air only to the occupied seats and there is nano Technology any car manufacturer. The power windows look very satisfactory, but not just in the front, look at this in the back, I'll just close the door, you don't mind. I've never seen a window this big before on a van-based MPV and I'll forgive it for not going all the way down just because of how wide it is. Lexus has created a completely new driving mode for this LM, it's called rear comfort, so what it does is it uses the car's computer-controlled suspension and combines it with the transmission system to make it even more comfortable for the rear passengers, so mode that reduces the amount of vibration that they feel and can also reduce the amount of pitching and acceleration by 10% and braking by 45% so that while you're driving down the road, the people behind you feel super comfortable.

Lexus has mounted the rearview mirror camera right here at the bottom of the windshield and it's right inside. the arc of the rear wiper, let's say it gets dirty like that, then you wash the rear window and you will see that it cleans it there very, very cleverly, also with the real parking camera it has a washing function, so whether it was dirtying it or just cover it with things like that, then if you put the rear wash back on, a little stream of water will come out and wash that chamber, there we are, look at that, very, very clever, here in the back you have control over a soundproof divider which is very useful if you have a driver who likes to chat oh aren't you Matt Watson from Carwell?

Yes, I really see you in your car. Buy video D with Rebecca Jackson. It was so funny when you put in a banana. In the Volkswagen glove compartment you also have the possibility of making it opaque so that you can no longer see them. That's better for peace and tranquility in the UK. The Lexus LM is available with only one engine, so it's a 2.5L 4-cylinder M. CVT automatic gearbox and an electric motor driving the front wheels, but you can pay more to upgrade to the four-wheel drive version, which has another electric motor on the rear axle so you then have four-wheel drive.

What's a little strange, though, is that if you choose front-wheel drive with one motor or four-wheel drive with two motors, both versions have 250 horsepower, so the rear motor doesn't add more power, it's Lexus logic, so really with this car all you have to choose from is like the paint schemes, the trim levels and do you want the four seats or do you want the seven seats and I guess four wheel drive or the two-wheel drive and to find out which version of the LM I would have, I have actually set up my perfect version, so if you click on the pop-up banner that appears in the upper right corner of the screen or follow the QR code on the screen, now you can go to the car configurator where I configured my ideal LM.

I'm going to start driving this Lexus in the city. The first thing I should note is that the suspension feels pretty soft, but over bumps you can probably tell that the car I'm sorry, the truck, I'm sorry, people move only rocks slightly, but it feels soft, squishy and compliant. . I'm quite surprised. It doesn't have air suspension but it does have adaptive dampers that can react to the road and try to keep the car as comfortable as possible. The steering is now nice and light. Being a hybrid, I can drive on electric power alone at low speeds. speeds, braking is smooth and progressive, no grip at all, ideal in a car like this, you want to be very, very relaxed, very, very smooth, will it be relaxing when you try to do a U-turn here because the turning circle It is 13 M, which is quite a lot, but I have all the cameras.

I'm going to press this button and it will help me and now I'm going to spin around. Will I make that curb without braking my beautiful wheels? Yeah look, I can use that, everything is fine. I'm also going to switch to that view so I can better see what's going on behind me. This all goes very well and is reasonably easy. The only problem is, that literally gets in the way. to peel like me to see that car that is not good look at it, it is a huge blind spot, it is a shame because there is not much blind spot here because the design of the windows and the Bu is actually very, very good, but we have Out Of that, fortunately, the pleasant and light steering has not gotten its way either.

Will they back off because I look like I'm in a more expensive car, like I'm driving some important people? Yes, they did, that's very, very kind, thank you. Thank you very much, this is very useful. I can just clear the rear view camera using the rear windshield. You know, one of the advantages of having a car like this is that you sit quite high up so that, as a driver, you can have a good view. and you also get a big, low dash when set to high, so it gives you good forward visibility. Now I can feel the engine starting and stopping again and it's not too intrusive when driving at low speed. speeds, but you hear it just start up and you hear the noise working as you go from electric power only to a little bit of gas, but the transition is smooth, no jerks or anything like that, right, I'm doing 70 mph.

Limited road here so at 40 I'm going to floor it to see what the performance is like here we go 3 2 1 that noise is the engine running because this car has a CVT automatic gearbox which means when you step on the accelerator It just keeps the engine revs pretty constant and then you hear this hum again at slow speed and you'll see exactly what I mean, no shifting, just hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, isn't that cool in a luxury. vehicle, that noise, look, what you have is a four-cylinder engine working flat out to provide a modicum of performance, it's not agile at all, it's actually quite lethargic and very noisy, and I'm not sure that's something that The VIPs in the back would really appreciate it, but I'll try it for sure in a moment.

The first thing I want to check is the economy, so this Lexus is supposed to get about 42m per gallon, this one gets 33.5 little. It's not terrible though, but is it better than a diesel Mercedes S-Class which will have similar economy and feel much more powerful and refined when accelerating? In fact, if you want to see my full in-depth review of a Mercedes. S Class, you simply click on the pop-up banner that appears in the upper right corner of the screen or use a smartphone to follow the QR code. The last thing I need to do with this car is see how well it drives, so I'm going to put it in sport mode.

Yes, it has a sport mode. I'm going to go into sport mode for the gearbox and try to change gears manually, so if I go down a gear, look, it holds second gear, oh, don't do it. CED away Watson, however, if I see this again, I'm going to do this, accelerate, shift into third, fourth, fifth. I've never seen a rev counter on a car with gears that just stay at the same revs. When you're shifting gears, what's the point of hitting it one more time and then buying it home? It feels underpowered and what's really annoying is that in other markets you can get it with higher powered engines, why not in the UK anyway? so you are fed up with the W suspension, there is a bit of body roll, does it matter for this type of vehicle?

You know it will grip the road pretty well but being based on something like bamboo it feels heavy and leans a bit in the corner something like a BMW 7 Series it definitely feels more composed and more capable on a winding road . Say that if your VIP needs to cross the country very quickly, he will be better off in a BMW 7 Series and if you want to see my full version. in-depth video review of that car, then click on the pop-up button up there or use the QR code on the screen. Now it's not terrible the way it goes around corners, it's pretty much what you expect, it's acceptable, it's just that there are other luxury limousines that do better, I'm going to launch this vehicle, it seems a little wrong considering what it's for , but still, sometimes, as a driver, you need to make a quick getaway with your VIP on board to get them away from the paparazzi, so not 60 of this particular one. version of the Lexus LM 8.7 seconds, let's find out what the reality is in sport, in sport, with the gearbox accelerate, here we go, 8.76 seconds, really noisy, although well, it's not a pleasant noise, stop it .

I don't like the noise it's enough for me to try this car since the driver is the chauffeur what really matters is what it's like if you're the person in the back it's fine here in the back it's reasonably comfortable it doesn't seem like You get it That kind of floaty feeling you get in air suspension cars, so the Alexus LS seems to slide a little more on the road than this one, there's always a little bit of shudder and vibration that you now feel in your butt. I have LS driving for me Leis, can you do something for me please mate?

Could you shake the steering wheel when I tell you it's okay? Because I'm going to try something. I've got a pretty full cup of coffee here, shake the wheel oh yeah, okay, yeah, it's shaking the coffee quite a bit now I want to accelerate pretty hard oh, no, oh, it's going to spill, okay and it won't break too hard, But like you stopped for something, that's all, yeah, yeah, oh. It's almost working out now what I want you to do is put the car into its special rear comfort mode. I want to find out the effect of that with bumps, it doesn't really feel much different, but can you do it? with the steering wheel again when you shake the steering wheel that doesn't seem to move the car from side to side as much you can accelerate and then brake again I think you're braking a little harder then but it doesn't seem to have the kind of initial shock when you suddenly do a maneuver or something happens.

I don't know if it's rear Comfort mode or just Placebo, but somehow it feels a little better. Turn it off again. Enter normal mode. Shake the steering wheel again. yeah, now put it in rear comfort mode, do it again, yeah, it's definitely more comfortable in rear comfort mode, like it's really cold. I want to check one thing though, right, I have Lewis to slow me down. I'm going to get Now step on the gas to see how loud it is back here, the moaning sound doesn't reach the rear as much, that's good news. Now I'm going to try something else.

Can you slow down again? Because I want you to. repeat the same test but I'm going to raise the divider speed up now you don't notice it the only thing you notice is a little noise reverberating around this large space you're looking at something like a slightly smaller saloon that doesn't I don't have such a large area to The noise echoes, but not bad, just a little tire noise. I'm going to try one more thing, let's see if you can handle these corners without spilling coffee everywhere. Fortunately, the cappuccino looks similar. color of the leather Where does the corner come what's going to happen behind Comfort mode come on do your job oh it's going to be close oh well I think that's pretty conclusive, although this vehicle doesn't float down the road like a luxury sedan, it's still plenty enough comfortable and when you go around some bends you won't end up spilling your coffee on yourself and then end up at your meeting looking like you've had a bit of a nasty accident, so what's my final verdict on the Lexus LM?

Avoid it, consider it on the short list, or just go ahead and buy it right if you're going to drive it. I would put it on the short list because the suspension is not as soft and it is not as quiet as something like a BMW. Series 7, but if you're only going to be chauffeured, you know what that trade-off between peace of mind and complete comfort would take just for the amount of space you have in those back seats that are so comfortable to sit in? I'd rather have that with a chauffeur than a BMW 7 Series or a Mercedes S-Class, so on that note, buy it.

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