Congratulations on moving to Nashville
! That’s a great city, especially if you love the two things that drive many of us: great music and great food! Your Lexus ES 350
has a curb weight of 3,690 pounds, with a gross weight of 4,740 pounds. The gross weight is the weight of the car when you add in all of the trim features and accessories. After all of that, you’re left with a reasonable 1,050 pounds of maximum payload—the total amount of weight, including passengers and cargo, that the car can safely drive with.
It depends of course on what you’re moving in your Lexus ES 350, but in most cases you should be fine loading it up for a move, even long distance. That’s fully more than half a ton of weight you can carry. So unless you’re hauling something unusually heavy—dumbells, anvils, a baby elephant—your car should be fine.
It’s worth noting that cars start to handle differently as they approach their maximum payload. They’ll accelerate more slowly, brakes will be functional but less effective, and you’ll gobble up more fuel than usual too. So be sure to accommodate for that in your road trip budget and be careful not to underestimate those performance factors.
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