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It's no secret that crossovers are the key to a brand success nowadays
So I'll Lexus already has four of them in their lineup. They found a gap on the low-end that a yet to be filled
that's why we now have the UX a
$32,000 subcompact crossover. That's the new entry point into the Lexus lineup
Of course
We do want to give a special thanks to our friends at Lexus of Lexington for providing us with this F Sport UX
200 and if you're in the market for any new Lexus be sure to stop by their dealership or visit them on their website
which we provided a link to in the video description, so
With all that said let's go ahead and check out the latest addition to the Lexus line
So starting out with the exterior design the UX has a fresh new design
More inspired by the lf1 concept then the current crop of Lexus SUVs
Compared to the NX the face is less angular though. You still have the signature spindle grille up front
Now we have the f-sport
so our grille is finished in a sporty or black mesh and outlined in a darkened chrome and
That's compared to the web texture and silver outlining for the other models
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Far as the main headlights they have a very premium design
These are the standard LED setup with only the turn signal being incandescent
While Lexus is fancy our triple beam LED lights are an option across the board
The housings around the LED fog lights are the same way and there are also cornering lamps in there
Looking at the side the UX has good proportions that cover up its small size. Well
It is about 2 inches longer than some of its main rivals. So it avoids the egg-shaped problem that plagues most subcompact and
Then around back this is where the UX really stands out
it is the first Lexus to adopt the LF 1 full width tail lights as well as their 3d shape as
You can see they almost form fins, which I imagine must have some kind of aerodynamic purpose
Beyond the taillights. The bumper has a unique design on f-sport though. The exhaust pipe is always hidden
But overall Lexus has done a great job with the exterior
It has distinct and modern styling that avoids the odd proportions that plagued a lot of the rivals in the class
The wheels are another thing that definitely helped with the styling since 18-inch alloys are standard across the board
Unlike the NX where 17s are standard now
There are two different designs this dark grey f-sport wheel or ones with lighter colored accents for the other trims
Moving back the mirrors have a cool three-part design that's typical with Lexus products
They are always heated, but you will need to get the luxury trim for auto dimming and power folding
We do however have the blind spot monitoring which is available as a standalone option
Now as for the rest of the safety systems the UX becomes the second Lexus to have the new safety system plus 2.0
So beyond the usual automatic emergency braking Lane Departure alert with steering assist
adaptive cruise control and auto high beam headlights
version 2.0 also includes bicyclist and low-light pedestrian detection
Road sinuses and lane tracing assist that keeps you centered in the lane
Most of the rivals require you get expensive packages to get these features
The last thing to discuss on the outside is the small twelve point four gallon fuel tank
I'll cover the actual fuel economy numbers later
but for now know that the excellent fuel economy still allows it to achieve four hundred nine miles of range and
It does run on regular unleaded fuel
So that pretty much covers everything for the stylish exterior, so now let's see if the cabin keeps up the same vibe
So starting out the UX does have standard smart entry and it comes with Lexus's newest key fob design
All exactly the same. Is there more expensive vehicles except
hard touch plastic
Now you can't remove start from the inform app if you want free for one year
Now to get inside the vehicle, all you have to do is grab the handle and it unlock
All right, so first looking inside the all-new Lexus UX as you can see the interior makes a really good first impression
Now this is available in a variety of different colors, there are four colors for your base and luxury trims
That is black glazed caramel birch and then birch with a special blue dash
Now, of course, we've got the F Sport and that has two different colors. That is black
And in this really really nice circuit red color
Now the material is always NuLuxe synthetic leather seating
Turning over here to your gorge room. It also looks upscale
You have got the same color leather here on the armrests as you do on the seats
And then the rest of everything else is padded
Now a four of your windows are one touch automatic and you do have memory seating available on all models
or standard on the luxury trip
Additionally f-sport does give you a few extra touches like your aluminum scuff plates special floor mats as well as your aluminum pedals
Attorney over here to the seat itself all models who come standard with this 8 way power seat with 2-way lumbar
However on the F Sport model you do have a special design
It has more bolstering to hold you in place as well as your special embroidering
Now, like I said, this is the newluxe synthetic leather
However Lexus does this really really well
It feels just as nice as a real leather and you probably won't be able to tell the difference
So like I already said first looking around the cabin it really makes a good first impression
It looks very upscale for a vehicle that starts at only
$32,000 and that is backed up by nice materials
So all of your upper dash is made from a nice soft touch material with stitching
And then below that you have a nice textured plastic trim as well as more soft touch materials
Moving down to your lower areas
You do have a leather path here for your knee to rest against and of course everything does fit together extremely well
Which is typical for every lexus?
On the ux you do have standard push button start, so does press it to go
When you fire up the electronics you will see a 7-inch display on the base and F Sport model standard or a
ten point three inch display standard on your luxury trams
Now that larger display is also available on the two lower trims if you opt for optional navigation
Thankfully one thing that is not optional are really cool digital gauges
Now this of course is the F sport
So it has a slightly different setup with the favorite component the sliding ability
basically
this just moves the tach over to the side and allows you to expand the
Multifunction display to show really neat things like your g-force meter
Among other things like your safety systems as well
Additionally, you can get a head-up display as an option on any trim, but we don't have it
Now moving back to the steering wheel it is really really nice it's basically straight off an LS
You've got the same thick rim padded material perforated and you've also got your F Sport badging
Now as far as the buttons, they are typical Lexus
So these control the multifunction display as well as audio phone a voice?
Then on this side is mostly dedicated to your safety systems as well as your adaptive cruise control
Now back behind the shifter on f-sport, you will find standard paddles as well as rain sensing wipers on this model with the Premium Package
The wheel itself does manually adjust tilt and telescoping and it is also heated as an option
Now moving on to the storage component the UX does really good for a vehicle so small
Starting out over here at your center console. This has the newest Lexus
Way of opening where it opens from both sides as you can see, it's actually surprisingly large
Plenty of space for different things and it is felt lined at the bottom
This is also where you'll find your two USB ports as well as an aux jack
Up in front of that
There is another nice place right here for a phone and this can also be equipped with a Qi wireless charger
Press right here and you'll get to your 12-volt outlet
Now coming back to the shifter
This is another part that is straight for more expensive Lexus models
And you can see it has perforated leather as well as real metal. Trim right here
And a very it's very easy to use
all you have to do is pull back for drive and you can bump over here to the left to shift manually right here or
Via the paddle shifters that I just shown you
When you go into reverse, you will see a standard backup camera appear on all models
There is no 360 camera available, but that's not really a big deal
Since this is a very small vehicle parking sensors and rear auto braking are an option for all the trims
Now I don't know if you heard that or not but that was the sound of the automatic parking brake engaging you can
Engage or disengage it manually right here and then behind the shifter you do. Have a brake hold function
Now turning over here as you can see you've got your standard Lexus controller
But this new part right here is something that's never been on a Lexus before basically right here at the armrest you've got
Buttons that line the edges so you've got your volume
tuning skip from side to side as well as your radio media buttons
So now that we're here, let's go ahead and stable the standard six-speaker audio system
Sound quality is actually pretty good for only six speakers, but there is not an available upgrade like a Mark Levinson or anything like that
It is also worth noting that you do have a CD player which is surprising and modern vehicle, especially one, you know aimed for Millennials
But anyways that brings us up to our dual zone automatic climate control
This is standard on every model it's very easy to use
All you have to do is just push up or down on this toggle for both sides
You can adjust the fan speeds as well as the zones all right here with your physical controls
When you make an adjustment, it does also appear up here as well
And then down below that you've got a row of buttons
On this model here we have the Premium Package which includes our optional heated seats
They are not standard on the F Sport or the base model
As you can see they are automatic so they do sync with the climate control and the same goes for the
Optional heated steering wheel that we also have you can get three-stage ventilated seats, but only by opting for the luxury bomb
But anyways that brings us up to our Lexus enform system, so let's go ahead and take a quick look
So this is obviously your newest version of the Lexus enform system
It has the updated graphics and features that have been rolling out over recent Lexus's
It is controlled with the touchpad controller that I showed earlier
And you got shortcut buttons to take you to your menu and your home screen
So starting out on your home screen
You can customize this to be any three things that you want and you can just click into these things to expand them
Here in the audio you can play and pause through the standard Bluetooth
as you can see
you've got a little effect that kind of the blue traces where your hand is going so that
Helps you to have a reference point to what you're clicking on hang it to your menus where you'll find all your other applications
So you can go into your phone in here. It defaults to go to your
contacts which automatically sync over you can't search through these or you can go over here to the side and
Expand into your messages or your keypad or whatnot
in your apps these come through the inform app they have on your phone and you can connect to the system via bluetooth or
You can now use apple carplay via the projection
so this vehicle it does not have Android auto but it does have apple carplay and you do also have Amazon Alexa and
Then like I already mentioned at the beginning
You can of course get the big ten point three inch display that comes with navigation and that also gives you the split screen
Ability that you've seen in other Lexus models where you can have the menu and then a secondary screen with other stuff that cycles through
But anyways, that's all I'm going to cover in this video
However, we do have a detailed in forum tech help video
If you want to learn more a link to that will be provided in the video description
Movin on up we do have an auto-dimming mirror with compass and your home link universal remotes
This is optional on your base two trims and standard on the luxury
Same also goes for your moonroof. We have the optional one. It is just a standard size unit
I'm not gonna open it up since it is raining
But it does look very big
But overall, I'm really impressed by the uxs cabin
This is of course your most affordable lexus at only starting price of only thirty two thousand dollars
But this cabin does not feel entry-level. It's still got all the lexus characteristics
You expect like really nice switchgear premium feeling materials and it looks really stylish as well. So overall great job places
But anyways now we'll go ahead and hand it off to Mason who will finish up the rest of the cabin
All right, so looking in the back of the all-new Lexus UX of course, this is a small vehicle
But you're actually not going to find too bad of space. So you'll find
33.1 inches of rear legroom and
Thirty-six point six inches of rear headroom that does make it three inches smaller than the Lexus NX
But it is bigger than the Infiniti qx30 and Mercedes GLA
And turning over to the door trim it is made of nice materials
So you do have some red leather where your arm arrest as well as a padded material with a graining texture
You have a silver door handle and your window is fully automatic, which is a nice touch
Now the seat itself is a really soft design it's made of that beautiful Rioja red leather and it's actually a very comfortable seat
Now even though this is a subcompact vehicle it is still Alexis, so they throw in a lot of nice amenities
So you will find vents on all models and down below that you will also find two charging USB ports
Plus this also throws in a nice armrest. So leather wrap and it has two cupholders in the end
Now above that we do have a nice LED lighting a good sized headliner and you do have an assist grab in comfort
Now like I mentioned this is a subcompact vehicle
So you kind of expect it to be small but behind your seating position
I still have probably four or five inches of legroom and my feet can easily slide in front of the seat
And sliding over here with the seat scooted all the way back. I do have a very minimal amount of legroom
However, this is for a really tall adult in the front
But overall, I'm actually a really big fan of the UX's rear seat I'll be honest
I came into this review thinking that this rear seat would be a really crappy place to spend time
Very cramped and not luxurious at all. But I'm actually pleasantly surprised for average-sized people
It's pretty comfortable back here. And you do also have some nice luxury amenities
Now to fold the rear seats just locate this button on the back of the seat back and it does fold 60/40 split
Now heading around to the trunk
We actually do have the hands-free power option, which is an option on the F Sport and base model or standard on the luxury
So just wave your foot under the bumper
And it will open right up
Now inside the cargo department of the UX you're actually going to find another large amount of space you'll find
21.7 cubic feet behind the segment row seats, which actually makes it makes it larger than most of the rivals now
Lets us do not provide an exact measurement for what the seats folded, but I would suspect there's actually a pretty good amount of space
Now it is also nicely finished back here soon to have a nice carpeting a nice silver trim back here
as well as a fix a flat hit down there and
You do have first aid kits as well as all of the lining and a nice cargo cover
Now over here in the passenger side to see is a beautiful design as f-sport branding in the headrest as was color contrast and
It is also power adjusting with some black trim pieces
Now like I said in the rear you really don't sacrifice much of the materials even though this is Lexus is cheapest model
So you do have a nice stitch dashboard as well as a patent material in front the passenger
And down below that you do have a nicely sized dampened glovebox
Up top do have a nice mirror and light does also detach and extend
But anyway guys that pretty much wraps it all I'm going to talk about up here
So now let's go ahead and get to the powertrain and do a quick test drive
All righty, so let's go ahead and talk about the power trains
So we've got the UX200 that is your gas powered model and that has a two-liter four-cylinder
Engine no turbo charging or anything like that
169 horsepower and 151 lb.ft. of torque Now that is less than what most rivals give you
If you go for the hybrid model, that's the UX 250 H
it actually has more power at
181 total system horsepower now this shares a platform with the Toyota CHR and the Corolla hatchback
So that does mean that this particular model is front-wheel drive only
However, if you go for the hybrid model, it is all wheel drive only and that's because the electric motor powers the rear wheels
Like the Corolla this has the new and innovative transmission that pairs a single
conventional gear with a CVT so you launch into a regular automatic transmission and then it hands over to a
continuously variable for the best efficiency
As far as the performance that gets you it's gonna be 0-60 and
8.9 seconds for the UX 200 and that falls to eight point six seconds with a hybrid and
Going for the F sport does not change any performance or anything like that. Finally. We have the fuel economy, which is really excellent
This UX 200 is 29 city
37 highway 33 combined and the hybrid has not yet been rated because it won't go on sale until January
and for those of you wondering that is eight miles per gallon combined better than the NX if your cross shopping this -
But anyways, now let's go ahead and get some real quick driving impressions
So first sitting off in the UX
Power is decent. Like I said, it does have less power than a lot of rivals. It's not something's going to
Knock your socks off, you know because this is a power train
pretty much shared with the Corolla hatchback
so
You're not paying for big power when you purchase this vehicle
I was talking about that transmission
It's really quite seamless
you would think you might be a little weird having a conventional gear to launch in and then a CVT to take over but
Really? It's seamless you wouldn't hardly notice. It just seems like you have it's more responsive, you know and a vehicle like this
You're really looking for it to be quiet and refined and this engine really is
You know when you accelerate obviously, it's not super powerful or anything like that, but it is a very quiet engine
You're not gonna hear too much noise out of it. And like you said the transmission is also very good
It's very refined and you feel like you're in a luxury vehicle
right
Power is not the focus of this vehicle UX
Stands for urban explorer and this is a vehicle. It is geared for urban environments a small tight really tight turning radius
You know and power is not what you're looking for necessarily in an urban situation what you're looking for is that
maneuverability that comfort you know
you can hit a pothole you do stuff like that and it takes it just as well as a bigger Lexus and
That is a feat and a vehicle as small as this
As to the steering of this vehicle it's really fast
We're descending normal mode right now
But it's really fast responding and then the steering wheel itself. I mentioned it in the main part of the review
It's really a beautiful steering wheel. This is straight from more expensive Lexus product
And last thing I want to say
Really is I've already touched on it is just how much this small model still
exhibits all the signature Lexus characteristics
We're riding along here
And it is so smooth. So you're not coming. It's not used to small cars riding so smoothly and being so quiet
I mean, it is really clutched. It's even raining outside
The roads are when the roads are wet. And yeah, you don't even hear like the splashing or anything. It is really quiet up here
So, I think this car really succeeds at its mission
You know, if you're looking for big power numbers and stuff like that. This is not the car for you
But if you use it, the way Lexus intends you to use it which is to use
It in an urban environment
As a maneuverable smooth riding very
Efficient and surprisingly spacious crossover and I think you are going to be very satisfied with the UX
Well guys we've enjoyed watching one of the first in-depth looks at the 2019 Lexus UX 200 F Sport
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