Celebrate Your Empty Nest With a New NX

The kids are grown up and out of the house. You’ve done your job. You did everything you could to prepare your kids to make it out there on their own, and now they are doing it. The nest is empty. What also might feel a bit empty is the cavernous interior of that big 3-row SUV or minivan you are still driving. It enabled so many family activities: vacation trips, outings with friends, taking half the team to an away game, or perhaps it was theater camp. But just as the bedrooms are now empty, so are your back seats. And your road trips don’t need to clothe and entertain a handful anymore. Perhaps it is time to trade in your big vehicle for the next family to use, and reward yourself with the perfect upscale down-size vehicle, the Lexus NX.

No Longer Huge, But Still Has Room for Guests

The Lexus NX has a range of specs and features to perfectly fit the empty-nester life stage. First of all, it’s a Lexus, and you deserve it. It is a perfect time to surround yourself with style and comfort. There may be just you or one other at home, but you still need room in the back for a couple of friends, or when one of the children visits with a significant other in tow. 

With 36.1 inches of legroom and 38.5 inches of headroom, the NX has plenty of comfort and room for adults in the back seat. And when it is just you and your partner on the weekend road trips you now have time for, the folded rear seats will provide 46.9 cubic feet for the furniture, artwork, or anything else you find on the way to help convert one of the bedrooms into a proper guest room and the other bedrooms into…whatever you like!

Show the Kids You Can Master Technology Without Them

In the center of a very modern dash, a choice of either a 9.8 or 14-inch touchscreen let you effortlessly navigate new places to visit as well as the car’s own functions, and you have a three-year trial period to explore the Drive Connect services such as Cloud Navigation and Destination Assist.

Intelligent Assistant, also part of Drive Connect, combines dual microphones, enhanced noise cancellation, and seat detection capabilities allowing you to use voice-recognition commands with surprising accuracy. Simply saying “Hey Lexus” opens up a range of common-language voice commands to operate systems like navigation, multimedia, and climate control. Now is also the time to treat yourself to the available Mark Levinson® audio system to crank up the music you love without rolled eyes from the back seats. And with 17 speakers, 1,800 watts, and Surround Sound, those tunes are likely to sound completely new again.

You can impress the kids when they visit by unlocking and starting your NX with your cell phone. The Digital Key system can even be shared with them or friends you trust on their compatible phones, and this all can be done on the Lexus smartphone app.

Not to be overlooked in the tech department, the Lexus Safety System+3.0 has the brand’s latest suite of safety and driver assistance features that can detect vehicles, lane marking, and even road signs to both help keep you abreast of all that is around you and take action if necessary.

Fly From the Nest with a Choice of Four Drivetrains 

The trips will be easier to budget with the efficiency of the NX’s drivetrains. The NX 250 has a 2.5-liter Inline 4 that produces 203 horsepower, 184 lb-ft of torque, and an EPA estimate of 26 for around town and 33 for those road trips. Or 25 and 32 with all-wheel drive (AWD). But it gets better because the hybrid NX350h AWD combines that engine

for a total system horsepower of 240 horsepower and an EPA estimated mpg of 41 in the City and 37 on the road. 

More aggressive performance is on hand with the NX 350F Sport Handling AWD. It features a turbocharged 2.4-liter inline-4 with 275 horsepower and 317 lb-ft of torque.  A sport suspension gives you the confidence to enjoy that performance when the roads get twisty. A black mesh grille, black exterior trim, and 20-inch 5-spoke gloss-black wheels display the Sport Handling model’s performance focus.

Topping off both power and efficiency is the NX450h+ plug-in hybrid.  Just plug it in a normal household outlet at night, and each morning you will have an estimated 37 miles of electric operation for your daily commute. For extended driving, you will have an impressive 304 combined horsepower for your right foot to command while enjoying an EPA-estimated combined 36 MPG.

Let the Lexus NX be your perfect post-offspring vehicle by visiting Lexus of Henderson and trying out a few. You have completed two decades of childraising. Here is your graduation gift.