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yes and just to add to the puzzle, just about everything else on the car is automatic. When i put the car in reverse, the rear sunshade is smart enough to automatically retract itself so I can see through the rear window a little better. The outside mirror automatically tile down so i can see better when i parallel park. But this supposedly high tech device does not turn on. Unless I manually turn it on through the satellite switch on the left side of the steering wheel. Once it's on, it's always on anyone walks near the front censor or the rear censor it goes off even when the car is stopped. A big green light indicating it's on. I feel it's totally out of harmony with the rest of the control.

that make a lot of sense, just wish the default is on. Or work like the BMW's. Automatically comes on and off depends on the gear.

OMG that last sentence scared me off my seat. Purchased on the same day, you must have paid quite dearly for that car. No matter how much I like a car, i will haggle with the dealer until they drop dead on the floor. Then i pick up his lifeless arm and sign the paper on their behave. That's how i got my 350.

Lol....exactly! ;) well in a way the logic is simple. Basically the top brass said, sure we will give you more power. But you gotta pay for it. It is also a business theme. The cost to produce a IS350 is probably very close to the cost of producing an is250. After all, the work flow is the same you just drop a different engine into it. You still gotta pay the worker to drop one in there. But the IS350 can be sold for 4-5 grands more.

Thank all for your kind replies. This is what puzzles me, since someone mentioned that he leaves it on all the time. Why should there be a green indicator on the instrument panel? I mean all the other indicators goes off unless the car really needs my attention. When you leave it off, and put your car in reverse, does it automatically come back on? or there is no other ways around it. Only manually turn it on and off?

U MUST HAVE THE NAV. THE CAR IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT IT B/C U ARE ABLE TO CONTROL A/C AND EVERYTHING ON A TOUCH SCREEN WHICH IS SICK! DONT get the 350 i have a friend who got it and he hates it b/c he said in stop and go traffic he always feels like vomiting b/c he's thrown back and forth from stopping and accelerating at the stop lights satellite radio sucks i paid a butt load im not gonna lie. no where near invoice bro AND BTW THE LUX PACKAGE IS CURSED! I DID AN EARLIER POSTING ON IT AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE! I live in New York, and just got my IS350. Called around, every IS350 in stock of every dealer i called is loaded down to the teeth. Which includes every luxury options from the lux package. So we are all cursed? and what? you have a friend who drives him into vomiting? Any chance he was just bragging? My shopping for this IS took a little under a month. At the end of negotiations all three dealers was willing to give me the 250 or the 350 at invoice. The 350 is a low volume car, so it's rarely ever sold at invoice. But it's getting close to the end of year and the economy is bad. That's exactly why i wanted to buy now. "i paid a butt load im not gonna lie. no where near invoice bro" Bro i don't know what to tell you! -----Original Message----- From: Bay Ridge Lexus [mailto:sales@bayridgelexus.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:58 AM To: Owen Subject: RE: Bay Ridge Lexus Owen, I will be here tonight till 6 so if you want to stop by and take a look at the car again that would be great. If it will be later then that you can meet with Charlie who is one of my sales consultants and I will leave him all of the information that we discussed. Also as far as the possibility of getting the new car for any less then invoice I don't know if that is going to be possible. Typically through out the year we are selling the IS350 for 2-3k over invoice so to be able to get the car now for invoice is a "great" deal. Please email me back and let me know what time you will be around today. Thank you again for getting in touch with me again and I look forward to putting something together. Sincerely, Daniel Del Negro Internet Sales Manager Bay Ridge Lexus 665 65th Street Brooklyn NY 11220 Phone: 718-680-2200 Fax: 718-745-2959 Email: sales@bayridgelexus.com Web: www.bayridgelexus.com

U MUST HAVE THE NAV. THE CAR IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT IT B/C U ARE ABLE TO CONTROL A/C AND EVERYTHING ON A TOUCH SCREEN WHICH IS SICK! DONT get the 350 i have a friend who got it and he hates it b/c he said in stop and go traffic he always feels like vomiting b/c he's thrown back and forth from stopping and accelerating at the stop lights satellite radio sucks i paid a butt load im not gonna lie. no where near invoice bro AND BTW THE LUX PACKAGE IS CURSED! I DID AN EARLIER POSTING ON IT AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE! I live in New York, and just got my IS350. Called around, every IS350 in stock of every dealer i called is loaded down to the teeth. Which includes every luxury options from the lux package. So we are all cursed? and what? you have a friend who drives him into vomiting? Any chance he was just bragging? My shopping for this IS took a little under a month. At the end of negotiations all three dealers was willing to give me the 250 or the 350 at invoice. The 350 is a low volume car, so it's rarely ever sold at invoice. But it's getting close to the end of year and the economy is bad. That's exactly why i wanted to buy now. "i paid a butt load im not gonna lie. no where near invoice bro" Bro i don't know what to tell you!

For the life of me I can't figure out how the intuitive parking assist suppose to work on my new IS350. Just a little background so please bear with me. I am jumping ship to the Lexus from BMW, I am a first time Lexus owner. The bimmer was great but always had little problem here and there. After I cut my hand on the rough edge under the door side arm rest, i've had it. The way the parking sensor works on my 745 is that whenever I shift the car into reverse, it automatically comes on. slowly beeps until i get close to an object. Oh the IS350 i find it a little bizarre, when i shift to reverse, the parking assist does not automatically comes on. It will only activate if i turn it on through the satellite switch on the left side of the steering wheel. Whenever it is activated, i see an annoying green indicator comes on in the instrument panel telling me it's on as if this is a temporary function, or at least the system wants to make sure you know it's on. I've come up with several guesses. 1. Maybe I am not suppose to have it on all the time? 2. I suppose to manually turn it on and off every time i want to use it? 3. My setting is wrong. 4. My car is not functioning to the way it was designed? If i leave it on, whenever a pedestrian walks pass the front of my car, it beeps like crazy. I just find it totally strange, the head-lights are auto, wiper is auto, but this parking assist requires me to turn it on and off every time??? Can anyone help me and tell me how it works on your car?