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" The R&amp;amp;amp;T staff drives and performance-tests hundreds of new cars every year. Because we don&amp;#039;t have time to give each one the full review treatment, we share select logbook notes here, in a quick, easily digested format. Unless noted otherwise, each test car is in the office for two weeks and is driven by every member of the edit staff. Each staffer spends at least one day, but often more, in each car. Sam Smith, Executive Editor Been quite a while since I&amp;#039;ve driven one of these. This car has come a long way. At one point, years ago, the ES350 felt like a warmed-over Toyota Camry\u2014which it is, of course, having been built on that car&amp;#039;s bones. But if you&amp;#039;re building that for a luxury car customer and selling it at a higher price, it shouldn&amp;#039;t feel like a warmed-over Camry. The interior looks and feels like the rest of the Lexus lineup, which is to say pretty nice and Audi-competitive. (Let&amp;#039;s be honest: That&amp;#039;s the top bar for interiors these days.) There&amp;#039;s more than enough power. The styling&amp;#039;s still a little ... &amp;quot;dull&amp;quot; is the nicest word I can think of. And the chassis doesn&amp;#039;t exactly go out of its way to either coddle you or get you involved. But it&amp;#039;s still a decent package.  PLUS: Interior quality. Power. Decent steering feel. Cabin is a comfortable, quiet place to be.  MINUS: The kind of thing you buy when you can&amp;#039;t decide what to buy, but you know someone who knows someone who once bought a Lexus. And they liked it. Either that, or you&amp;#039;ve bought an ES350 every few years since the dawn of time, so why stop now? There&amp;#039;s not really a compelling emotional argument to buy this car. It just kind of goes about its business ticking boxes.   Josh Condon, Senior Editor With all the emphasis on the &amp;quot;sport&amp;quot; in luxury sport sedans, it&amp;#039;s refreshing to actually get into a car that just wants to be a luxury vehicle. With the more/faster/better push in the segment, it&amp;#039;s easy to forget that what Lexus traditionally wants to deliver is not a competitor to the German banker&amp;#039;s hot rod but the the quiet magic-carpet-ride waft of a Rolls Royce, albeit at 1/6 of the price. The ES350 is brilliant that way; it cocoons you in leather and wood and glides over the road without a care in the world. It will go plenty fast, sure, but this car makes the journey a joy, and getting there fast therefore isn&amp;#039;t a priority. PLUS: Handsome and elegant sheet metal with a superb luxury ride. The wood steering wheel is a great design touch. MINUS: Your inner hooligan has no real outlet (but that little guy could use a good lesson in subtlety and refinement, anyway, right?).  Robin Warner, Road Test Editor Don&amp;#039;t ever utter the alpha numeric combination E-S-3-5-0 in a conversation with car folks. Do it, and face certain berating as well as the loss of your &amp;quot;Car Aficionado&amp;quot; card. But even the most entrenched of car lovers occasionally need to get from A to B, and the Lexus sedan performs the task admirably. It&amp;#039;s quiet, rides well, offers a wealth of infotainment, and the V6 power doesn&amp;#039;t disappoint. Hey, it&amp;#039;s good enough for the Evora. So, yeah, don&amp;#039;t brag about it, just know that a fancy Camry offers a pleasant trip to point B. PLUS: Everything you want when basic transportation is what you need. MINUS: Front-wheel drive limits fun to drive.  David Gluckman, Associate Editor The SuperCamry filters out most of the annoyances of driving. This car is fine-tuned for comfort, quiet, and any other type of reduced sensation. No uncouth steering feedback to disrupt your commute. More than enough power, all of it brought to you smoothly. To paraphrase Hansel&amp;#039;s thoughts on Sting in Zoolander, I would have to say that the lead ES350 engineer is another hero of mine. I don&amp;#039;t drive his car, but the fact that he&amp;#039;s making it ... I respect that. PLUS: Serenity now. MINUS: An infotainment interface that requires more attention and fine motor skills than I can spare. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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