IS200T MPG and view after 11000 miles

[BaransuIS250]

I have now cover more than 11000 miles in my 2016 IS T Premier and apart from the annoying heat shield rattle at low rpm which 2 Lexus deem as 'normal' for turbo model it has been very enjoyable and swift! This week I had to go from London to Manchester and back with a bit of driving round and did it in one tank of fuel. This was a total of 490 miles. This involved A/C off the whole time (sunroof open) and cruising at between 75-80mph. I was really impressed by this, would even the IS300h Hybrid manage this? I once drove a supercharged Mazda Xedos 9 Miller on the same drive and got 440 miles and thought this was good but was seriously impressed with the IS! Such a nice car to drive, I also loved the fact that I only saw one other IS on the whole trip so it's also fairly rare amongst the bland German stuff that's everywhere. :>)

[rayaans]

3 hours ago, BaransuIS250 said:

I have now cover more than 11000 miles in my 2016 IS T Premier and apart from the annoying heat shield rattle at low rpm which 2 Lexus deem as 'normal' for turbo model it has been very enjoyable and swift! This week I had to go from London to Manchester and back with a bit of driving round and did it in one tank of fuel. This was a total of 490 miles. This involved A/C off the whole time (sunroof open) and cruising at between 75-80mph. I was really impressed by this, would even the IS300h Hybrid manage this? I once drove a supercharged Mazda Xedos 9 Miller on the same drive and got 440 miles and thought this was good but was seriously impressed with the IS! Such a nice car to drive, I also loved the fact that I only saw one other IS on the whole trip so it's also fairly rare amongst the bland German stuff that's everywhere. :>)

Very nice although I think with the IS on a long run it'll do a good 45mpg so 650 miles+ if not more. Some owners been getting nearly 800 miles per tank.

My RX gets about 450-500 miles per tank from Yorkshire to London and back

[darrude]

on a long run what MPG's are you getting.  I quite fancy the 200t next.  travelling for Yorkshire to Birmingham I generally get 55mpg, travelling at 75-80mph

[BaransuIS250]

On this recent trip where I got 490 miles I was getting 42mpg on that run. The 200T's claimed ave is 39mpg so I was quite happy with that. Your Hybrids mpg is very good but I think if you had the 18" alloys it would go down by about 5mpg. The big 18" are heavy and do lessen the mpg a bit. I know when I drove an IS300H 'Sport' with 18" alloys last year as a loan car I couldn't better 45mpg.

[rayaans]

7 hours ago, BaransuIS250 said:

On this recent trip where I got 490 miles I was getting 42mpg on that run. The 200T's claimed ave is 39mpg so I was quite happy with that. Your Hybrids mpg is very good but I think if you had the 18" alloys it would go down by about 5mpg. The big 18" are heavy and do lessen the mpg a bit. I know when I drove an IS300H 'Sport' with 18" alloys last year as a loan car I couldn't better 45mpg.

My wife's IS F-Sport gets 48-50mpg on the motorway. Its town driving where it sucks - gets about 35mpg but I think thats because she does a lot of short distances

[BaransuIS250]

So this is only 6mpg more than the IS200T. On paper there is a 26mpg difference! 

[rayaans]

5 hours ago, BaransuIS250 said:

So this is only 6mpg more than the IS200T. On paper there is a 26mpg difference! 

Well yes but I did have an IS200t as a loaner and let my wife drive it. She got no more than 20 mpg in that.