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    2014 Lexus CT facelift is...



    much to be desired. I'm just not digging this one. I like the fact that it's a wagon but sadly it's just too small inside. Great styling overall but the front just doesn't match the lines w/ the rest of the car.
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    I agree, at least from that angle. Lexus does seem to be sticking to that grille outline which I think can look better, at least the upper portion, than the Ford catfish mouth. The front doesn't seem to match the rest of the vehicle.

    For how few wagons are out there they are looking pretty bulbous. The Outbacks are also disproportionate and look like a long Ford Escape from a few years back.

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    I really don't care for the hour glass grill. Overall, I'm completely bored with Lexus, any Toyota for that matter. Except the FRS.
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    I guess I am the odd man out here, I kinda dig the new look.
    The hour glass works on some of the models and not others (it looks awful on the RX in my opinion)

    Lexus is trying to do what all other luxury car manufactures have done and brand there front end design to all look similar throughout the product line.

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    ^Yes.

    My sister and her husband bought an IS350 last year and it's very fun to drive. I've only flogged it around some back streets a couple times but it was very active and comfortable. Granted it was brand new but it was fun to flog my kid sisters car with her flopping around in the back.

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    even though I'm not digging the facelift on the CT, I do love the new styling of the ES / GS and IS model. I wouldn't mind driving any one of those vehicles. go figure...

    only if the CT was the size of the TSX and had the sexy lines of the GS then I'd be sold!
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    I don't mind the hour glass styling too much, although the front end of the IS with F Sport package is kinda ugly. I don't like the Nike swooshes below the headlights on the IS, but I like the car otherwise. The new GS and ES look really good. And I wish the GS were still available with a V8.
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    The CT was on our shopping list last year when we bought a car, but we never made it over to the dealership before we bought the Acura. Deep down, knowing it was a Prius underneath, I knew it wouldn't be fun to drive. The transition from electric to gas is okay, but the CVT transmissions are terrible. I will never get used to the sound of a little 4 cylinder buzzing at a constant 5000 RPMs while accelerating; makes it feel even slower than it is when the RPMs aren't increasing with speed.

    I do like the redesign on the GS350, but somehow it doesn't quite look right on the hatchback CT. But it's not awful like the 2014 4Runner...I crossed the street in front of one the other day and it made me sick to my stomach.

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    I think this design on the Lexus cars will stick around for a while, which I am disappointed with. Hopefully by the time the midcycles start rolling out, they refine it. I think it has the ability to look good, but to me it is to bold for the rest of the vehicle which IMO are bland or just OK. I think Lexus dumped a bunch of money into this, but even more than that, they are too stubborn to admit that it could look alot better. Toyota will do the same with the 4Runner to a lesser degree. When we see the new model in 3 - 5 years, that ugly front will be gone, and hopefully replaced by something much more handsome.

    Unlike Honda, who realized almost immediately that the 2012 Civic was a dog and sought to upgrade it immediately for '13 and further refine it in '14, Lexus just won't do that, and neither will Toyota. Honda made good to it's customers, said "my bad" and fixed their product. I am still not sold on it, but most people are: it outsold the Corolla.
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    Ken, I got a chance to test drive a CT once, while the class of a hybrid is still in with the Prius, the CT just isn't...
    The CT is so much more fun to drive an a pleasure to be in over any Prius (except for maybe the Prius C which doing e-brake slides is awesome....)

    The new 4Runner front end is growing a lot on me but again I am the odd ball out here lol.

    I don't expect the 4Runner to get much better from here though, Jeep already has talks in the make for an IFS jeep wrangler, which may just be the future for all SUVs on the market...

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