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Hey hey everybody!

Brock Frady here helping you enjoy your ride.

In today's video we're going to take a look at the top 10 things about this 2019 Lexus

ES350 F-Sport.

And I would like to thank Flow Lexus of Greensboro, in Greensboro, North Carolina for the opportunity

to shoot this beautiful Lexus ES350.

We're going to start off this list from behind the wheel.

#1 Steering Wheel Mounted Paddle Shifters.

So you can see it has a + sign right there and a - symbol right there on the left paddle

shifter.

You can see the readout on the F-sport gauge right there says gear position.

That's the regular drive position.

I love this shifter too.

You can take this and you can flip it over and you can see it says S right there, that

lights up.

At that point you can move it forward to upshift and move it back to downshift you can do it

with the shifter.

Or with the paddle shifters behind the steering wheel.

So you see it has upshift right there and it says S4 on the dash.

So now you can shift it all the way up and it is an 8 speed transmission.

Now I don't necessarily have to shift it over like that but in order to use the paddle shifter.

So while I'm driving I can just automatically do that and the paddle shifters will work

without me even shifting it over with the gear shifter.

#2 Movable Gauge Cluster.

In an ES350.

That was what came out first in the LF-A. You see that?

You can press the button here and you've got a whole menu of information all right there.

Down below where the temperature is, you can see a whole menu where I'm going over to the

right.

Now this is going to be all kinds of safety stuff.

That's the next thing on my top 10 list.

Look at all of the different safety things that you have.

Lane centering, steering assist, what alert type you want.

If it vibrates the wheel or if its a beep.

Sensitivity.

Pre-collision.

So you've got an unbelievable amount of all of these crazy safety features all right there.

Check out this trim.

It's called the Hadori Aluminum Trim.

And this one, since its the F-sport package, has the cool F-sport pedals down there.

And if you're lucky you get pink flamingo socks.

That's what we're sporting today.

Fantastic socks.

That Hadori trim, you can see that.

It's like a metallic looking trim.

I don't think its actually metal.

I love how there are very few buttons here to clutter up what you're seeing and what

you need to operate while you are driving this thing.

The controls are a little bit small.

You see that?

That's just a little bit tiny but that's ok.

You can adjust the temperature with your voice anyways.

It's pretty cool also that the F-Sport ES has the F-sport suspension system and I lifted

the hood just to give you a visual here of the shock towers right there.

Far left and far right.

But the F-sport suspension system with adaptive variable suspension and as the name implies

it is going to vary the stiffness and rigidity of the suspension system.

It is going to adapt to driving conditions.

And that is on the F-Sport ES350.

I love that.

Next on the list is a thing that I am a huge fan of and that is cool looking wheels.

Especially on upgraded packages.

And the wheels that you see here are a sweet looking 19 inch split spoke alloy wheel.

You know a wheel can make or break a vehicle.

I actually like to see those as like 20's.

I mean, 19's are good but I think if it were just a little bit bigger it would make it

look a little bit cooler.

This one also has the triple beam LED headlights.

I absolutely love those headlights.

Those are fantastic looking on this thing.

The tail lights there point kind of to the middle of the car and Iove just how they look.

They're a little reminiscent of the tail lights on the LC 500, you know the one's that are

like deep and have that halogram kind of look?

These aren't deep like that but it kind of resembles it.

And check out the rear camera.

It's totally slick.

I love how they are integrating that even more.

Kind of making it disappear into the car.

The F-sport look is definitely working well on this thing.

I wonder what will become of the GS?

And finally we're going to wrap up with the heart of the beast and that is a 302 horsepower,

3.5 liter V6 with 267 pound foot of torque.

You're also going to get 22 miles per gallon city and 31 highway in this beautiful beast.

With an overall miles per gallon of 25.

Keep in mind that's on regular gas, 87 octane.

How about them apples?

And that's a big, big boost in horsepower from the old ES, which was 268 horsepower.

So 302 in an ES.

And this is really knocking on the door of the GS, isn't it?

Ok everybody, that's going to do it for the top 10 things about the 2019 Lexus ES 350

F-Sport.

What a surprisingly cool and awesome car.

Lexus has really done an incredible job on a vehicle that has a history of being you

know, kind of plain, and conservative.

Well that ain't this car.

I would also like to say another huge thank you to Flow Lexus in Greensboro for the opportunity

to film this beautiful 2019 ES.

You can expect a full review and tutorial of this vehicle coming up soon.

Thanks for watching everybody.

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I've got a ton of Lexus videos and other videos there as well.

Thanks again for watching.

I hope this helps you enjoy your ride.

And remember the most important thing of all everybody, have a wonderful day.