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I asked Toyota here before buying the CT (they have Lexus service and no other Lexus here on the island anymore) and they told me that for the CT 1.8 engine would cost around 2K Euro included installing.

When Toyota claim 3.1L/100km for the 2021 Corolla it is optimistic. I would call it fraud. Not that Lexus or Toyota are much different from the rest, but somebody should start telling the persons making the test rules that data should be according to actual driving, following the law and traffic-rules and not something computer-calculated impossible to acchieve in real life. Or do we just say: That is the way it is, and let them cheat us?

So that the new Corolla 2021 (test must be made after latest regulation) shall be able to drive 100km using only 3.1L should be possible inside a computer-generated engine control system and without being actually driven is the new and better way?

Somewhere i read that since recently there are new ways to state consume which should be more in tune with how cars actually are driven instead of the data where cars are driven extremely slowly, without AC, without light, without anything that would need power. But that may be something coming (or maybe not coming only wished). Honesty is not valued highly. Maybe the car factories are the ones telling how to find out consume as they have lobbyists that can influence those that make the rules. I find it criminal not to tell things like they are.

Update to CT200H probably Luxury or something like that, bought as Sport, but no F on it anywhere. Reason for buying the hybrid was partly low consumption and low pollution levels plus the good reputation for reliability. What I know now is that Lexus is no more honest than VW when claiming how much fuel it uses. The old VW we replaced had a claimed 5L/100km. That was not true except when driving 80km/h on flat road for at least 50km. When driving (like I use to) it was around 6L/100km. Pollution on the old diesel was definitely not good; whenever going uphill at reasonable speed a thick black smoke came out and before going to get approval for driving it another year I needed first to clean the exhaust system by going high revolution at least 5km and not go to the examination before no more black smoke came out. The CT we have claim 3.8L/100km and that is utter bulls..t. When driving very slow on flat road I can get it down to 6.2L/100km with AC on and without AC I get it to 6L/100km; driving 80km/h for 50km. What is worse is that the new Corolla, same engine size 1.8L, claim 3.1L/100km in city and 3.4 mixed; ant it is with the new way of informing how much fuel is used. It seems that Lexus/Toyota is no better than most other when it comes to telling the truth. With regard to pollution it is far better than the old diesel Golf as no black smoke is coming from the exhaust, but as it is using much more fuel as Lexus claim it is not polluting as little as is claimed. Simple fact: use more gasoline = more pollution. I still find that the Lexus CT200H 2016 we have is a formidable car, and after having learned many of the qualities it has, I am in no way unhappy with it. Never had that many positive things to tell about any of the cars we previously have had. MarkLevinson audio, auto door lock/unlock, seat with memory for 3 persons. AC is common on most cars, as is cruise control and rear camera, so that is not something special, but the music in here is first class. What is not good is that all factories are not telling the truth about how much the car uses and pollutes. That of course is not just Lexus/Toyota. The standard of messuring should be updated to how people drive and not how the cars can use least fuel. Driving so slow that the car is running on battery as much as possible is not normal driving. Nobody I know, can get a car like the one we have, drive 100km on only 3.8L gasoline. I doubt that anyone can get the new Corolla hybrid to drive 100km in city without using more than 3.1L. Honesty is rare among used-cars salespersonal, that is widely known, but it should not be from car factories.

Some new crystal look alike are lead free. They are called crystaline. Looks almost as good as the real thing. Do not know if the orange juice is as fast working, but you probably do not keep orange juice in the glasses an hour before drinking it. We have some very beautiful old crystal glasses from grandmother (born 1899), she told me they were her grandfathers, so must be old.

Crystal is beautiful to look at, so no problem keeping the old beauties.

No: Linas Do not blame him.

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If you love the glint & glamour of a beautifully cut antique crystal decanter, you may want to think twice about using them to store alcohol on your bar shelf. Because with potentially high levels of lead contained within the crystal, that innocuous-looking decanter can leach lead into the alcohol, in as little as an hour, creating a dangerous drink.

30 years ago, I had 3 favourites:

Size is relative. What do you compare it with? BMW X6 is so large that it needs 2 parking spaces in the house where we live. NO PROBLEM! Owner has 2 spaces and the other is where his enormous big BMW motorbike is. NX · Altura 1.645 mm · Longitud 4.630 mm · Anchura 1.845 mm RX · Altura 1.685 mm · Longitud 4.890 mm · Anchura 1.895 mm MB GLE · Altura 1.796 mm · Longitud 4.819 mm · Anchura 1.935 mm BMW X6 · Altura 1.690 mm · Longitud 4.877 mm · Anchura 1.983 mm Audi Q8 · Altura 1.694 mm · Longitud 5.012 mm · Anchura 1.998 mm

Looks like the low light on our car. Seems OK to me.

You do not need to use a pro program like Photoshop to reduce picture size. Faststone Image Viewer Irfan View Both do the same job exactly as good and that for free. Photoshop is needed if you want to do more complicated things.

Dangerous to build what you sell too good. Nimbus was a reliable motorbike and as they never broke down company went bankrupt. All the people that wanted a motorbike looking like that had one.

Is it not the shock absorbers that have the largest share in how hard the suspension is?

Drive and park your car so the light from your car lights up a wall and see if the light beam on low lights is flat. If that is the case you have OK lights for both left- and right-hand driving. If your light beam is higher on the left side (car is right hand drive?) the oncoming in Europe will be blinded and the lights are not legal.

If LED they should be OK!

Only thing I find funny about France is that very long ago I went into the railway station in Paris and asked the lady sitting there something in all of the 4 languages flags on the counter was telling would be understood there. She answered me in French. Spain is also monolinguistic most places. In Holland they speak English, French, German and of course Flemish in southern part of the country.

It was your mentioning of the alcotester that confused me; I have been stopped by French police but was never asked about anything related to alcohol. Not that it matters to me; I do not know that alkohol is good for anything else than cleaning. Could be good as octane booster?

Is this law? Nobody informed when entering France which we have done many times. Does it mean that we are supposed to read complete law books for all countries we drive through?

Have been driving through France very many times. Never heard of the need for an alco tester. Booze is cheaper in Spain. No need here either.

In our CT the light-beam is flat so I see no reason to do anything if going to a country where people drive in the "wrong side" of the road.

Would explain why some still drive in old R5 and similar size cars here. A CT200h can find parking space most places though.

Yes.