As the old song goes... And another one bites the dust! The Lexus will be everything you've mentioned and more. They truly are great cars... But its a luxury suv v. A luxury SAV driving experience, throw the Lexus into a turn and see what happens... It will feel like you're driving a school bus, or one of those pickups you see with the pallets stacked too high in the back... Handle they don't, reliability they do. I'll sacrifice driving a sometime temperamental German rocket for driving my Serta down the road any day... Good luck and enjoy you're new truck.