It disappears in the vehicle landscape.īut open the doors and the situation reverses. It's done with a deft touch: What could have been tacky is instead distinctive and attractive.īy comparison, the Lexus is a bit understated and plain. There's also plenty of chrome sprinkled around the exterior. Light bars in the protruding rear taillights glow brightly when energized. The side cut lines dramatically travel upward as the eye goes down the flanks of the SRX, providing an aggressive, forward-leaning attitude. The designers seemed to have really spent time on the details. While bouncing over the pockmarked Detroit streets, we noticed swiveling heads as the SRX drove by.
Our loaded four-wheel-drive model ran $52,965-several thousand dollars more than the $49,000 estimated price of the SRX. While it's tricky to do a feature-by-feature comparison, the Lexus is more expensive. Lexus has found the answer with the Remote Touch. Every carmaker has struggled with a simple way to control the ever-increasing amount of interior functions. The best part is that there's feedback in the joystick, and it offers a subtle but noticeable resistance when the cursor moves over one of the buttons. You move the cursor to the onscreen buttons and select one by pressing a button with your thumb. Mounted perfectly where your right hand falls, this joystick has a large, flat top, like a computer mouse, and it directs a cursor on the dash's screen. And one in particular deserves serious praise-the Remote Touch haptic device that controls most of the interior functions. The large touchscreen navigation unit gracefully rises from the center of the dash at the press of a button and the optional sunroof nearly spans the length of the roof.īut the Lexus packs its own list of luxury features. The SRX employs the navigation system to discern the speed limit of the road you're traveling on and displays it on the gauge cluster.
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Wood-rimmed steering wheels, heated and cooled seats, Bluetooth connectivity and voice-operated control systems are available on both the Cadillac and the Lexus. But the Cadillac has two-tiered shelves in all the doors, adjustable thigh support for the driver's seat and a power-operated rear tailgate with adjustable opening height that can prevent the gate from hitting garage ceilings-one very smart feature.
The RX350's rear seats adjust fore and aft, a feature the SRX lacks. When it comes to hauling, there are subtle differences. in the Caddy-expand via the easily folded second-row seat. Large rear cargo areas-40 cubic feet in the Lexus, 29 cubic feet. The rear seats have adjustable backrests, are comfortably high off the floor, and easily accommodate six-foot passengers. And of course, the RX is also available as a hybrid-the RX400h-an alternative that Cadillac does not provide.īoth cars offer generously sized, leather-lined interiors. The Lexus V6, however, is a good bit larger-3.5-liters-and produces a more robust 275 hp and 257 lb.-ft. All of the outside dimensions of the RX350 are within 3 inches of the SRX's. Not surprisingly, the specs of the Lexus closely mirror those of the Cadillac. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive is optional. Later this year, a turbocharged 2.8-liter V6 with an estimated 300 hp will be available. It's mated to a six-speed automatic gearbox. Initially, the only engine offered is a 265-hp 3.0-liter V6 with direct fuel injection that produces 223 lb.-ft. MacPherson struts connect the front wheels to the chassis and a multilink setup handles suspension duty at the rear. While we first assumed that the SRX shared many of its underpinnings with the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox, the GM engineers we spoke to claim that SRX utilizes an all-new platform. In addition to performance testing, we drove them on the roughest streets in Detroit to compare the ride quality and through the nearby countryside to get a sense of how these rigs handle. To see how the SRX measures up to the RX350, we spent a couple of days with the pair. It now wears angled, eye-catching sheetmetal that's proportioned similarly to the five-passenger Lexus.
The SRX has ditched its handy third row seat so the exterior could be shortened. The segment's best seller, the Lexus RX350-sold 84,181 copies in 2008-and that model was clearly in GM's crosshairs. This new crossover is critical for Cadillac since luxury crossovers account for 25 percent of the luxury-car market. Ann Arbor, Mich.-While GM trudges through a very public trip in bankruptcy court, the company must still introduce its new products.
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