The interior is much more luxurious than the Mercedes. The rear seats can slide 5 inches front or back to create lots of leg room or cargo room. And the front seats can fold nearly flat, which is nice for napping, if you're the passenger. That's probably one of the most critical features, because for the first time in a sport-ute, you actually have a space for your purse or that sack of White Castle hamburgers. The reason you have that space is because the shift lever is attached to the dashboard, not the floor.
Somebody ought to win an award for that design.
That's almost limiting it. It's probably more accurate to think of it as truly a multiactivity vehicle. For one thing, it doesn't ride and handle like your typical sport-ute. The underpinnings were inspired by the ES 300 sedan. You'll find the RX 300 is far easier to maneuver and park than a big boat such as the Lincoln Navigator.