On to my review...

OK my Titanium TCH came in Friday with 7 miles on the odometer. It has port installed leather, color keyed splash guards, car mats, a lip spolier and free Sirius radio. I have driven the car for 3 days in mixed driving and have racked up a tad less than 400 miles. PArt of the weekend I had 3 additional full sized adults in the vehicle with me and the first day the tires were low (wonderful prep byt the dealer, NOT). First for the ergonomics. The steering wheel is cluttered with way too many buttons. I don't need temp controls on the wheel and the buttons feela little flimsy and lack good tactile feel. The steering wheel is a nice leather wrapped 4 spoke wheel that has a good feel although find the bottom spokes a tad thick for comforable resting of my driving hand. The Center control pod is a bit awkward. The dash sweep up and in toward the windsheld and the high postion of the radoin tuning knob makes it a long illogical reach. The fan and temp controls are postionsed at a easy to reach location and one woudl think you woudl be fumbling with the radio more than the AC controls. I suspect some of this has to do to the fact that the NAV unit occupies the radio area on NAV models and the NAV display should not be too low. Either way Toyota needs to go back to the drawing board on this one. On the plus side is the TCH comes with a awesom JBL 440 Watt system that truthfully sounds deep and rich, more so than that DVD-A 5.1 system in the TL. Toyota is finially in the current tmes, as they now support MP3 and WMA files. Sine I have read the soudn system firmware is a carry over for an older Solara it appears the dislpay is limited to 10 characters, making sone titles, artists, etc very frustrating to view. Come Toyota, at least update the firmware to scroll the info, what would that take 5 minutes of coding! I liek cool temperatures and the TCH AC does nto dissapoint. Since the gas engine can be shut off, the AC is not driven by the gas moter, but rather is electric, similar to a home window unit. Well this baby can get it so that you might be able to hang beef in the cabin. This is the first car I have owned when I have had to turn up the temperature bnecasue the AC can get down right chilly! The seats are typical Toyota style seats, some what supportive, but yet wide enough for that grandpa's Buick crowd, yet not too soft so you'll slide around in them when hanlding corners. I find the power controls to be excellent at allowing me to get a comfortable driving postions. I'm 6' and like to sit high and back. The car has a huge glove box and center console. There are 2 small pockets on either side of the center console. The bottom of the center control pod has a large deep cubby that has an AUX In for the soudn system and a 12V power plug. There is another 12V power plug just in front of the armrest. Speaking of the armrest, it opens into a huge cavern, but unlike many other cars in this class it is just a big deep bin. Many cars in this class have a dual layer armrest allowing you to put CDs and stuff in the big bottom and thinsg like tissues, cell adapters and such in the smaller top half. Toyota should add this asap, or make it an accessory. The armrest does have a small removable bin that sits in it, but if you leave it ina nd store CDs in the bottom you have problems getting the discs out with the bin in place. The back deck has a hump that houses the battery ventilation which looks a bit intrusive, again the engineers shoudl go back and figure a better way out for this. I guess to save money they used the 60/40 rear seat form a traditional Camry, but the 40 side when folded is useless as the batties are in the truck there and even block most of the 60 side. The is maybe a 1 x 2 foot hole through the batteries that you can pass stuff through. Again, Toyota, go back to drawing board. Skip the fold down seat, place the batteries flat against the rear seat, this gives you 2 big things, more trunck space and better body rigidity, soemthing the 07 Camry can use due to the excess weight being tossed around in the truck due to the battery weight. I'm sure a few people use the fold down seat, but my guess is more would want the truck space back. The truck is some what small for this class due to the inefficeint placement of the EV batteries and the main 12V traditional battery in the truck. The back seat is large and even with the front seats all the way back, leaves plenty of leg room for even tall adults. The passenger seat is mechanical. See next post for driving revie and mechanicals...