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Infotainment Rant: 2021 Lexus UX 250h

Lexus decided a '90s Compaq laptop was ideal — it's not

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Lexus has been a major player in the luxury vehicle game for a long time, and has managed to work its way up from a humble offshoot of Toyota, to what some would describe as the best vehicles on Earth.

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Despite its tenure as a well-built and comfortable vehicle producer, Lexus has never quite grasped the concept of pleasurable infotainment. While other manufacturers found it very easy to simply add a screen in the centre of the dash that was basically a bigger version of your phone, Lexus decided to model its infotainment after a ’90s Compaq laptop, complete with weird track pad/permanently attached mouse.

Luckily, Lexus never went so far as to add one of those inverted ball-mouses to its roster, but nevertheless, the brand needs to go back to the drawing board with its infotainment centre.