New Car Help (with pole)

I don't like the interiors of the Lexus - they're just shiny Toyotas. And I don't like the non-linear acceleration of Japanese cars.

Agree. I also find the driving/handling experience of a Lexus to seem artificial in some way that I can’t quite put my finger on. When I drive a German car I feel like I’m driving - like I’m feeling the tires in the road through the steering wheel. Lexus, to me, feels like I’m feeling some kind of computerized simulation of what the Lexus engineers think I want the tires in the road to feel like at that moment based on the conditions.