The 2018 Lexus LS500 is already a luxurious car. It’s got leather everywhere you look, and it’s loaded with the latest technology. With no options whatsoever, the car already costs $75,200. But if you really want to go all-out, it has one single option box you can tick off that costs an astounding $23,000.
Twenty-three thousand dollars. To put that in perspective, you can walk into a Toyota dealership right now, and pay $23,845 for a new Toyota Camry. You’ll pay less if the dealership gives you a deal on it, which I don’t see why they wouldn’t.
But there are likely no discounts whatsoever on the most expensive option package on the Lexus LS, known as the “Executive Package with Kiriko glass.”
That little screen, my friends, is the key to the kingdom.
From that little screen you can not only recline both seats, the back right seat unfolds into an ottoman-adorned recliner, pushing the front passenger seat out of the way as it does so, because only peasants sit in the front. Both rear seats benefit from extensive shiatsu massage programs, complete with a “spot heater” that applies heat in just the small spot where you are currently feeling massage pressure, as as to better replicate the feel of a human hand gently pushing against your backside.
Because you paid $23,000 for it, damn it. You need the feeling of a human hand, especially considering as the level of wealth you need to accrue simply to be able to afford such an option necessitates, fundamentally, a distance from other “humans.” Might as well simulate it then.
Of course, a screen would be a bit silly if all you used it for was extremely precise control of the backrest, seat bottom, head rest, seat heating, seat cooling, lumbar support, level of cushioning, massage, spot heater, ottoman, and all 22 ways the rear seats could possibly move. What a terrible waste that would be, of course.
So you can also control all of the audio for the rest of the car, the privacy shades that emerge from the bottoms of the rear doors and the rear windshield, and the interior lighting.
(Jalopnik.com)
