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Yes it changes by itself, the first time it happened it took me by surprise. I have trouble seeing it in the night mode.

I traded in my RX two weeks ago so I have to go from memory, I am pretty sure that if you turn the dash board light to max brightness the NAV will stay in day mode PS I think that when you turn the dashboard dimmer to max you need to turn it a bit further till you feel a click

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I have driven my 07 RX400H between LI NY and Lake Conroe TX where I owned a house, I also took it to the JFK museum in Dallas, I also drove the RX between Lake Conroe and Anderson SC, and SC back to LI NY again, I have never had a situation where the street names did not show. However while driving the interstates I did zoom out to the point where the street names were not visible. The RX NAV will stay in day screen mode if you adjust the dashboard light switch. As far as the new GS450H goes I got it in NY and towed it to SC so I haven't used the NAV except for local streets, and it only has about 140 miles on it in 2 weeks. At the 150 foot scale you should be able to see the streets, I would take it to the dealer, something seems very wrong.

The past few days you have been away have been more pleasant for me, I come here for friendly discussions and debates but your abrasiveness puts me in a unpleasant mood. After reading a few words from your latest post I realized you are only going to get me aggravated so don't bother addressing me directly because I won't read anything you write

New Alternative-Fuel SUV Will Deplete World's Hydrogen By 2070 DETROIT—Ford announced a Sept. 3 rollout date for its new Ford Foresight, a hydrogen-powered SUV that, if it reaches sales projections, will deplete the earth's supply of hydrogen by 2070. "America has asked for a car that does not use fossil fuels, and we've delivered," Ford CEO William Ford Jr. said Monday. "With an engine nearly 20 times as powerful as that of our gas-burning SUV, the 11-ton Foresight will be unaffected by the price-gouging whims of OPEC, as it uses water electrolysis to gather fuel from the oceans and the fresh mountain air." Ford acknowledged that, when hydrogen supplies are depleted, the usefulness of the Foresight, as well as life on earth as we know it, will end.

I am stumped, I had an 07 RX400H (I don't know what version)but the display didn't look like that, it was a white background. I just walked out to my 08 GS450H Ver 7.1 and I spent more than a 1/2 hour in the car and pushed every button I could think of but couldn't get mine to look like yours. I figured if I could figure out how to get mine to look like yours I could push the same button to make it return to normal. My only guess (I doubt this but I Can't think of anything else)is that you may be in a remote area where the streets are all on the map

I guess that could be said about both of us, but I respect your opinion even though it is wrong [the last part was a joke]. But reguardless of the cause of what was once called global warming and now called climate change I feel that everyone should do their part to keep that air clean and reduce pollution. The problem I have is it isn't always done in a way that take in to account cost benefit ratio. There are ways to improve things without spending huge sums of money but unfortunately some people feel the way to solve a problem is to throw huge sums of money at it instead of taking time to think of what will be gained by per dollar spent

What year is your car, I just traded in my 07 RX for an 08 GS so I can't go outside to look at it but my NAV didn't look anything like that. There is a button you can push to show what version of software you have maybe that info would be helpful.

Steve, With all due respect, I must say your comment comes as quite a shock! From virtually everything I've read in reviews and message boards for the last few years, the Toyota NAV has been universally panned. Even the Germans who were last to embrace the DVD-based format have apparently surpassed Toyota. And, actual experience with my '08 400h bears that out. Although it has the best display of the cars with NAV I've owned ('02 Cadillac STS and '04 Maxima) the general operation leaves a LOT to be desired. I've been telling people for 25 years that Toyota makes the best vehicles, and now that I've "returned to the fold" with my RX, (we also we have an '04 Sienna XLE LTD that will be traded for an '09 TCH - with NAV - next week) I still maintain that mindthought. It pains me to say it, but this is one area where Toyota has really dropped the ball in and they apparently refuse to correct the situation. It is truly mind-boggling and INEXCUSABLE! My Garmin 7500 [it has an MP3 player built in for playing talking books old radio shows, XM with weather stock and traffic, plus there is an optional $100 antenna you can buy so you don't have to pay the XM fee to get traffic reports on an FM signal. the Garmin can be set to just warn you about traffic tie ups or it can automatically find an alternate route.] is far better than the Lexus, the dealer mentioned something about the GS450H having NAV in it when I took the Garmin off the dash of the RX400H and put it on the dash of the new GS450H, I told him the RX had the NAV also but I got the Garmin because the Lexus NAV sucks and it won't allow you do use it while moving. He said it was for safety. I asked him how it was safer to pull to the side of the interstate and risk someone rear ending me at 70 mph than having a passenger use the NAV...........no answer

I was told that all RX hybrids had special wheels to set them apart from non-hybrids, I don't thing it is a dealer, I think all hybrids come that way from the factory

You forgot to mention unsprung weight. When you add unsprung weight it makes a big diffrence in ride in handeling. Also the change in diadeter will effect the indicated speed so the speedometer will not indicate the correct speed. This may cause the computer select the wrong gear ration. I am assuming that even with the CV transmission the computer must still select a ratio based on speed.

I apologize for my lapse in reading skills, I thought I read RX instead of GS, but I still stand by my statement about driving skills in snow being important maybe more important than 4 wheel drive. The GS450H does have a snow switch but I don't know how much it will help. I suggest that you stay home if there is a big storm or leave work early when it snows before it gets bad. Because your ability to move depends on the car in front of you and every car in front of him. Many 4 wheel drive cars have been stuck in snow that would normally not be a problem because the car(s) in front of them got stuck and there was no way to get around them.

For the record I believe in energy conservation, I have just leased my second Hybrid and I have been living a lifestyle that isn't wasteful my whole life because I grew up poor and now that I have saved a few dollars from being thrifty i still continue to keep my old habits.

Link to article Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself. Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl. Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere." But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs. Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice. Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists. "In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks." As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service. The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006. Here is the link to the article posted below reguarding the scam know as carbon credits Maurice Strong, Al Gore Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it By Judi McLeod Tuesday, March 13, 2007 There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it. The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore. This duo has done more than anyone else to advance the alarmism of man-made global warming. With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as "the world's first and North America's only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil." Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C." of which he is both chairman and founding partner. To hear the saving-the-earth singsong of this dynamic duo, even the feather light petals of cherry blossoms in Washington leave a bigger carbon footprint. It's a strange global warming partnership that Strong and Gore have, but it's one that's working. Strong is the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank in the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of a beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the Unites States. That's because he spends most of his time in China where he works to make the communist country the world's next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is big cheese in the world of climate change, and is one of the main architects of the coming-your-way-soon Kyoto Protocol. Gore is the glitzy, media approved front man in the partnership, the flashing neon lights on the global stage warning the masses of the end of Earth, as we know it, and Hollywood's poster boy for greening the silver screen. The skeptics of man-made global warming believe that Gore and Strong have made climate change "the new religion". Climate change is not the first religion both parties have tried to make stick. Along with former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Strong, currently president of the Earth Council, has been boasting of replacing the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter, a golden rule guide for how the masses should treat the environment. Gore, who has given sermons at the United Nations sponsored Cathedral of St. John the Divine Church in New York City, is a promoter of the religion known as Gaia. The two environmental gurus also share a belief in radical Malthusian population reduction. According to them, too many people, particularly in the U.S. are polluting the planet, emitting excessive Freon through their refrigerators and jacking up the air conditioning. But the conduct of Al Gore and Maurice Strong in the capitalist world is one for the books. It's a side of them that may have remained unknown had it not been for the investigative talent of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. "Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm's registered lobbyist, and Gore's former top Senate aide," wrote EIR. "Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers' cash, at that point, its only source of revenue. "With Al Gore's Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal's stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When, in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers--including Maurice Strong--sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996--a Sunday--the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers. "On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice Strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong's role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off. In 1997, Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, the Korean man found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred. In that year, Gore, still U.S. vice president, was making news for "taking the initiative in creating the Internet." The leaders of the man-made global warming movement, you might say, get around. Meanwhile Jumbo's still in global warming's living room, but the duo with the tiniest carbon footprints on earth continue to just tiptoe past him. Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com

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That is interesting, I traded my 2007 RX400H for my now 13 day old GS450H and the "I agree" is gone and it works the same way yours does, but the song and artist do not appear. The RX had two radio screens, one on the NAV, and one on the radio. But the GS does not have a radio display, the only radio display is in the NAV screen. I wonder if all the GS models have NAV or if they don't the whole dash configuration must have been changed for no NAV cars.

Are you aware that he owns the company that sells the carbon credits? The whole carbon credit thing sounds like a scam to me. He uses a lot of energy and buys carbon credits from his own company essentially buying them from himself. Now he takes his money and anyone else's money that bought carbon credits and uses the money to consume more energy, for which he buys more credits, and on and on. I believe the climate is changing, but it has been changing before man walked this Earth. The Sun's normal rising and falling in energy output is probably the main reason for the planets warming otherwise how can anyone account for global warming on other planets. I am old enough to remember scientist’s warnings and predictions of a new ice age about 30 or 40n years ago so I tend to be skeptical of people that are unable to accurately predict next weeks weather yet claim they can predict the Earth’s weather 20 years from now. I believe that we should protect the environment and not squander our resources, but not because of climate change issues. Our country can not remain strong if all our wealth is sent overseas to buy oil, and we can’t remain healthy with polluted air and water. We should all do our part to keep this planet strong and clean but I have a low opinion of people that believe they are entitled to live by a different rules then us the “LITTLE PEOPLE”. If you are going to talk the talk you had better walk the walk. If you are going to use someone as an example of an environmentalist Sir Paul has been active in the movement longer than Mr. Gore and he lives the lifestyle leading by example. I can name a lot of people that are more wealthy than Mr Gore that don’t live the energy consuming life style he does. Warren Buffett has the wealth to build an estate mush more lavish than Gore but he lives a far less lavish life style. This is pure speculation on my part but I feel that Mr. Gore’s motivation for promoting the “Green movement” was done to enrich his bank account. I am also skeptical of scientists that spout the party mantra regarding climate change. They receive government grants to do their studies and are well aware that the flow of government money will dry up if they don’t agree with the people that are believers in Climate change.

The RX400H was almost as big with as much interior room as my Jeep grand Cherokee but it got 30 to 33 mpg and between 25 and 30 on my trips between SC & NY doing 60 to 70 MPH on the interstate It's big V8 could probably tow more than the RX and the Jeep had a better 4 wheel drive than the AWD on the RX but the RX mpg was a lot better than the Jeep or the Ford that was mentioned

He is less responsible than President Bush ============================================= Link to article LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. HOUSE # 1: A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South. HOUSE # 2: Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the are! a blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape. \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore. HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

I looks like Mr Gore has botten worst not better Gore's Home Still Guzzling Energy Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:48 PM In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former vice president’s home energy use surged more than 10 percent, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.” In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month. Link to entire article

Two things to worry about, beware of non factory gas caps, I put one on my Jeep a few years ago and it cost me $100 for the dealer service department to tell me it was setting off enging trouble code warning lights. You are lucky it wasn't worst because some crooks will put a pan under your car and take a screwdriver and poke a hole in the bottom of the tank whan they come across a locked cap

I haven't noticed this in my new RX400h. I'm pretty sure I've seen artist names and song titles when I'm moving if the radio station is broadcasting them. I'm wondering if Lexus fixed it with the latest Nav update. Does anyone know for sure? BTW, is there a way to find out what version of the Nav system software I have? -- Laura I guess I should clarify. If you push the audio button the NAV screen [you can also have the radio search for stations by type of music in the NAV screen mode]displays the artist and name of song in nice easy to read type. But once the car moves it blanks out and displays some kind of message about safety. By the way the 2008 GS450H that I replaced the 2007 RX400H with also does this so I doubt it was "fixed", this was done intentionally by Lexus. However in their infinite wisdom Lexus has allowed the info to be displayed on the smaller radio screen, but you have to push some buttons on the radio to see the entire messaged. I don't how Lexus can possibly believe that reading a large display almost at eye level is less safe than than taking your eyes of the road to look down at a display at console level and push buttons on the radio to see the entire message.

I have been working on cars for over 40 years both as a hobby and as a way of earning extra money to add to my real job pay check. And since I work alone in my garage with no extra foot to pump the pedal the Mity Vac is indispensable. I doubt that the fluid near the pads is clean. Try bleeding some out and check how clean it looks, I it will not be as clean as it is in the fluid master cylinder. I haven't worked on cars in a long time and I truly love getting dirty working on cars. That is why I can't wait to get my work shop set up in my new garage in my new house

A lot depends on your driving habits. I seem to be able to make my brakes last forever even on normal cars before I started driving hybrids but I have always had the habit of watching the traffic and lights ahead and taking my foot of the gas long before I intend to stop. But I have been a passenger in many cars where the driver leaves their foot on the gas when the light ahead is red without even attempting to glide up to the light. Then at the last second with a few feet from the light they hit the brake hard. These people will burn through brakes reguardless of if they drive a regenerative braking system or not. The whole key to regen braking is a light touch on the pedal to allow the generator slow the car without the brake pads coming into play. If you put light pressure on the pedal almost 100% of the stopping will be accomplished by regen braking but if there is no anticipation and you hit the brakes hard at evey stop almost all the stopping will be by the brake pads. I have noticed a big diffrence in the regen braking between the RX400H (All wheel drive) and the GS450H. The RX did not slow down very much when you took your foot off the gas, but the GS regen kicks right in, it almost feels as if you downshifted to a lower gear the moment your foot comes off the gas. My guess is that with the more aggressive regen programing the brake pads won't really get much use at all [unless you had poor driving habits]. There is a long hill with a gradual down hill slope on the way to my house. With the RX I was able to turn on to the street at about 20 MPH and coast all the way to the bottom of the hill. But if I do the same thing with the GS I have to use a little battery power less than half way down the hill in order for me to get to the bottom. I guess for some reason the felt it was better to program more aggressive regen into the GS