Moving lounge

What we like:

Quality interior and excellent ride feel

What we dislike:

Not the most dynamic thing in the segment

There’s a sport mode if you like, and the dashboard will change with the occasion too – to red. Put the car through some quick corners and you’ll expose the lack of front end grip and the slight body roll; but eco-centric personalities don’t burn tyres unnecessarily so that’s moot.

Drive the car like a cultured gentleman with the excellent 15-speaker Mark Levinson system on medium (in full disco volume all the mirrors will shake) belting out Tchaikovsky down the highway and you’ll see what this car is really about.

It’s not a hooligan’s car; you have the GS F for that. It’s a car for the esteemed family man who wants to drive his kids to violin class in a lounge. It’s a car for sending foreign business associates to the Botanic Gardens to gawk at the newly crowned UNESCO heritage site.

And in Singapore where speed limits are to be adhered to like bible verses along with too many traffic lights (and jams) and not enough B roads, few other cars will take the chore out of peak hour driving like the new Lexus ES can.

Credits: Story and Photos by Alvan Sio