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The CS is a beautiful car and it was built before Lexus started resting on it's laurels, so there are no reasons to not like that. Good luck finding one.

Wife tried to sit on rear seat while front seat was adjusted to me and she never said the CT was having a great rear seat, but she said that the UX was uncomfortable. If rear seat in the new is as (much or little) comfortable as in the CT it could be OK. These are not really cars for touring through Europe or similar anyway. They are city cars and possible to find parking space to.

If you embed the file like I just did, you will let us all see the video without all the disturbing ads youtube make an affluent life and profit on. Sorry to say that you are right. Still, some might want to pay more for the nicer interior. Why Lexus think that plastic around the wheel arches can exist on a "luxury car" is hard to understand. It looks cheap. Anyway, it does not matter: Le Mans start in 2 hours. https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/toyota-takes-the-wraps-off-its-gr-h-2-racing-concept-at-the-24-hours-of-le-mans-57635

The better insulated the car is the less you will see the difference in noise inside the cabin. A CT is in the lower end with insulation and the difference between 73db and 70db is absolutely not just notable, but increases comfort a lot, music sounds a lot better and it is not needed to play with as much volume as before. In a big limousine road noise is close to not existing anyway, so noise level outside is of little importance. Some places in the world braking resistance in wet it of far more importance than where I live. If fuel economy rating means more or less than Colin writes are the new tyres, we got on about a month ago far too early to say anything about. From C to B. A thing that will in my opinion means a lot more is how handling is better or worse with different tyres and that can only be experienced. Reading about that will tell very little as driving style and condition of car and roads on which we drive will be different from most if not all of us.

I thought they were to reveal this tomorrow before the race. Knew since they started preparing the Corolla for 24-hour racing that they had plans for Le Mans. Actually, hoped they would get permission to have some kind of test car opening first round of the race tomorrow. Will have to wait and see what will happen tomorrow. Cars that can be run at speeds like in this race for 24 hours are cars that can last a long time with speeds that are permitted on public roads. Many things can be learned when technic is tested to the limit. https://www.24h-lemans.com/en

It is not funny to work when it is hot, so they are lucky to have air-condition. If also having that home they and their families are privileged. In these countries smog and other air impurities can be an even larger problem. Where we live problems are far more easily handled for some of us. Instead of just accepting what Linas write, which unfortunately is correct, that not just UK but many other parts of the world have handed over all production capability and knowledge plus willingness of population to actually work - to China - due to money first policies, I think it could be good to see other ways to use tidal power than building concrete walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power Water barrages are effective and tide is not a now and then thing same way as intensity of sunlight or if there is any wind. Maybe worth to think a bit harder about how to be using it. It seems that in October 2020 they still tried out different ways to use tide in Roosevelt Island. The mess we have brought ourselves in and our dependency on energy can probably only be solved with nuclear technology no matter how problematic it can / will be to keep the left-over from making the energy so they are not used for bad purposes. My old hippie friends would never have expected me to say such. I read about tidal power in a book when I was very young about this character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askeladden - from where the author of the book had the idea was not mentioned but it must have been long ago as the book mentioning it was written around 1840; think the plot was, as I remember it: lazy people get great ideas in order not to have to do hard work.

You are right Malcolm, That is what I told Linas. Let us not make electricity cheap before it can be used for a good purpose. I know that hydrogen is not going to be competitive the next few years, but do admire the companies that are evaluating the engines, funding improving them and, in the end, make them ready to be used when hydrogen filling stations are available because trucking, long distance shipping and transporting people and goods in airplanes are going the way of needing to reduce pollution for rather obvious reasons and for heavy transport, batteries are worthless to store fuel. Also, the companies that invest in making H2 production greener I find interesting and those evaluating and improving life on fuel-cell membranes (which are very many times longer than life of batteries already) are constantly doing things that were not easy to believe just a few years ago. When companies like Toyota, Daimler, Mitsubishi, and many other are investing in H2 it is because they believe, they in the end will profit from it; no matter if they now claim they are doing it in order to reduce pollution, if not believing they would profit from it, (meaning there is a bright future for it), these companies would not invest; these companies are not non-profit organisations. Student team from Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a new process to help solve hydrogen storage and transport challenges. They created a steam-iron process so that when iron is introduced to a flow of hot steam under high pressure, it reacts with the water molecules, generating hydrogen and iron oxide (rust). The hydrogen can be extracted and utilized as energy source, while the remaining iron oxide can be regenerated back into iron. In this way, the iron functions as a circular hydrogen carrier. With enough information, a lot of things can be accomplished, and we are living in a time where we need to do something if we want to let coming generations have a reasonable place to live. I hope other people could be interested in knowing that as well. Some people driving battery powered cars only interested in getting benefits from governments for not having an exhaust pipe in their cars. Some of these believe they help saving the planet while filling electricity in their batteries and that electricity is mostly made from more than 50% fossil fuel where same fuel could have driven already an existing gasoline combustion engine car a lot longer without the need for making the new cars with their polluting batteries, that destroy the planet when you dig them out of the ground and damage the health of the poor underpaid people that dig battery material out. These rich people that can afford buying new cars are getting the advantages on account of the poor that do not have the funds to buy new cars but later probably will be taxed higher than before to make up for the rewards the rich get for buying their new cars. Some people do not care about the poor working to get the rich things they want. Egocentric people caring about none but themselves have no place in my heart. In Spain we have had temperatures in April as high as previous only seen late August and September - very little rain and even olive trees have had problems surviving, and olive trees are strong and need little water to survive. To give plenty olives though, they need water regularly. For the poor, the lack of rain means that less olives - making less olive oil so it has become expensive. I know that many care only about themselves and for the rich it is a trivial thing to just pay more. Last year we had more forest fires in the world than usually in summer period and the trees make some very needed oxygen - when they are not burning. Do not know what this summer will bring, but here; the tiny island, surrounded with water, where cool air normally is coming to us from the sea, temperatures are a bit hotter than usually this time of year. No problem! Just move 1 – 2 km up the mountains where air is cleaner and cooler or turn on air-condition. Unfortunately, not all have the possibility to do that. Many places, lack of water and high temperatures are causing big problems; Italy and Spain used to grow a lot of rice, needing very much water. Some claim that dry summers are normal, maybe they could be wrong.

I had an NSU MAX before I was old enough for a driver's license. We did gravel pit races with the old poorly (not at all) maintained motorcycles and had lots of fun. Found a picture of one that doesn't look the least bit like the one I drove because everything not necessary to drive was stripped off and what was left was scratched and broken. But it could run.

Replaced OEM Pirelli P7 with Continental UltraContact a month or so ago. Half noise inside the not very well noise insulated micro-Lexus and a lot of better handling. Handling in the CT is actually very very good, if it had a power plant to match the suspension the name part "Sport" would make sense. Asked Lexus for the Continental tyres, and they recommended what they had in stock. Price for what they had in stock was almost 100€ more expensive than local tyre company wanted for the tyres I want and when telling Lexus that the tyres I want are the UltraContact they offered these more than 200€ more expensive. They only want to sell what they make the most profit on. For normal cars driven on normal roads (not always perfect tarmac), there are no reasons to put-on so-called sport tyres. No matter if Lexus call our cars Luxury - Sport - etc. they do not make cars for track days. Real sport tyres come with so many not needed negatives: noise, not lasting very long and more noise. Have been in car business many years and have been selling tyres.

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It is really good that somebody are likes the car they have. The CT we have also is a decent little thing and has never let us down.

You are right in many things, but saying that first we have to make abundance of cheap electricity is a grave error. If first we have that, all the idiots, imbeciles, morons etc. will say that we have enough electricity, so let us go out and destroy the planet searching for and digging out all the materials we want, so we can make all the batteries we need, so we all can go from 0 to no longer having driver’s licence in no time, and many will continue to drive even after no longer being permitted to. I have mentioned so often that voters low IQ is the problem for democracy. I have so far been kind and not mentioned that a leader of a country or government should at least have IQ above 140. Would prefer 150 but that would mean that Merkel should get back out of retirement if Germany should have a leader and most other countries would have none electable.

Norway is not making all the electricity it can from the rivers. They only make as much as they can sell expensive. Make too much and price goes the wrong way, just like we see the petrol countries when they reduce output. I also think that it is much more intelligent to use the combustion engines that are there as using them as landfill is only for idiots to think of as good. Making new cars use a lot of energy and when we have close to enough already (at least if we take care of them) the reason to make new is idiotic. Why the same idiots are allowed to rule the world can only be because of lacking intelligence of voters.

Some recalls can be serious but if they are only to get the car to read correct fuel consume and thing like that they are not something to worry about. I have never read about a CT recall and Lexus has never called the one we in for a recall, so I wonder if there were any after the model was updated. Audi has more recalls than Skoda for the reason that the latest of technology is in the Audi, while Skoda is built on older technology and that technology has been updated in the Audis so buyers of the latest models are guinea pigs.

You could have a good point there. I was in Norway in 1972 and when it was cold (it can be cold there) diesel engines needed help to start. Extra battery.

Norway has more than 90% of its use of electricity from water running down mountains, more than it needs in periods and is exporting. 45% of electricity used in Sweden is from same source and the rest more or less from nuclear. Finland has what it calls 71% of its electricity from renewable sources. Both Australia and Japan claim to be able to produce enough H2 to export. Just because the UK politicians are so stupid, they cannot use the biggest power in the world to make electricity from and the UK has one of the highest differences between high and low tide there is no reason to say that we have to wait for fusion or fission. If nobody tells politicians what to think they continue deaf dumb and blind as that is the easiest. Just look at the old river-boats with twin keels, so they did not roll on side when tide was low. Ready to sail again as soon as water came back to the river. Seems to be still made. But of course, if you think it is right just to follow what the politicians want you to follow, then there is exactly no reason to continue to develop engines to hydrogen, or hydrogen, just keep sleeping on like most do.

Could be you are right, could be you do not want to know what is going on except for the governments publicly made statements that EV battery cars are the way to go. Could be you do not want to know that Nike is involved? Yes, I know. First inland hydrogen container ship launched by FPS and Nike By AMANDA GIASSON https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/amanda-giasson-2-2-2-2-2/ The collaboration aims to speed up zero-emission shipping. Future Proof Shipping (FPS) partnered with Nike and recently launched the first inland hydrogen container ship, with the goal to accelerate zero-emission shipping as part of Nike’s road toward zero waste and zero carbon emissions. The hydrogen-powered barge is operating in the Port of Rotterdam. The hydrogen container ship is called the H2 Barge 1, and this zero-emission Future Proof Shipping inland sea vessel is charted by BCTN on behalf of Nike EMEA. Developed by FPS, the 110-meter vessel will serve Nike and will make several weekly trips between the Port of Rotterdam and BCTN’s inland terminal in Meerhout, Belgium. It is expected that this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. “This shipping project proves that moving cargo with zero emissions and zero impact is possible and we hope it accelerates the industry to follow in Nike’s footsteps and move to zero,” Richard Klatten, CEO of Future Proof Shipping, said when commenting on the partnership between the two companies. The deployment of the inland hydrogen container ship is in line with FPS’ sustainability goals. “We have been working for a couple of years now to ensure we tread more lightly on the planet,” Klatten said. The H2 Barge 1 is in line with the goals of the company, which specializes in offering zero-emission marine transportation services. Over the next five years, FPS hopes to build a fleet of 10 zero-emission inland and short-sea vessels. It will rent these vessels out to cargo owners and logistic service providers. Klatten stated that the partnership with Nike is a “pivotal moment” for FPS and the future of shipping. The “Move To Zero” movement. The partnership between FPS and Nike also aligns with Nike’s “Move To Zero” movement. This is a company-wide initiative to reduce carbon emissions and provide products to athletes with minimal environmental effect. According to Nike, using fuel cells and green hydrogen in place of diesel enables the company to enhance the inland barge and, via this hydrogen container ship, create an environmentally sustainable shipping system. “The H2 Barge 1 is an important example of how we are investing in sustainable progress across logistics and transportation to protect the environment for future generations,” said Nike EMEA operations and logistics VP Eb Mukhtar. The problem with this is if the rivers dry out and there no longer will be transport ways for the ships.

Do not listen to the fool(s). He (they) believes that their stupid governments are right and that a car with EV battery is helping environment, so let the fools be what they are. Even if they live in a country where a neighbouring country is having so many hydrogen fuel pumps functioning that there are no problem refuelling. In Europe, Germany has the most public hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with 105 filling stations, followed by France with 44 and the UK with 17, tied with the Netherlands. In 2022, the EU produced 2 641 TW-h (terawatt-hours) of electricity. Almost 40% of this came from renewable sources. Fossil fuels made up 38.6% and nuclear electricity over 20%. Gas was the main fossil fuel used to generate electricity (19.6%), followed by coal (15.8%). So, of course, filling the batteries with electricity is the correct way of going green! The green picture I just painted is from a combined Europe, if only seeing what electricity is made of in Germany, then more than 50% is dirty like in coal - gas - oil. Forget the fools. Do like I do. Press the ignore button and I (and maybe also you) will be reminded that a fool (in my eyes) has written something but I will be spared for looking at it. H2 fuel is on the way and no matter how much resistance governments are yielding they will not be able to fight realism. It will take a few years before price will be reasonable for the fuel and that is only because governments hate to be proved wrong (which they of course never are). Norway had free electricity after 18:00 till 06:00 in 1972. There was more electricity made than could be consumed from water running down the mountains. Now of course they need to prove that oil is the way to go with all the drilling platforms they have and so they keep hydrogen price on unnatural high level. Like most other countries they have followed the horse they want to lead the race. Hydrogen cars get a boost with Toyota, Hino, Daimler Truck, Mitsubishi Fuso MoU By JOHN MAX https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/john-2-2-2-2/ The companies have come together in an historic Memorandum of Understanding signing. The development of hydrogen cars just got an important shot in the arm as Toyota Motor Company, Hino Motors Ltd., Daimler Truck Holding AG, and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) recently signed a ground-breaking Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The companies will be focusing on accelerating the development of advanced technologies. Along with placing a greater focus on pooling their resources to develop technologies such as hydrogen cars, the MoU is also a part of the merging of Hino and MFTBC. First and foremost, the collaboration’s goal is for carbon neutrality and to encourage a prosperous mobility society. It will be looking in particular at advancing Connected/Autonomous & Automated/Shared/Electric (CASE) technologies as well as the enhancement of the global commercial vehicle business. The merge between Hino and MFTBC will occur under a new holding company. Within that holding company, each of the original businesses will have equal investment powers. The nature of the MoU is designed to form and enhance commercial vehicle development, procurement and development. This could provide Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturing a boost in terms of global competition. Toyota and Daimler Truck will each be making equal investments into the new holding entity of the merged companies. The companies will also work together on hydrogen cars and other CASE technology development. By working on H2 development and that of other CASE technologies, they intend to boost the new company’s competitiveness. So, Malcom, just let the fools believe that their governments are able to fight economic powers. Sooner or later the governments will find a way to not lose face. They have some smart advisers that are well enough paid; they will find a way to tell the fools, in ways the fools will believe, that this was all part of the plans the governments had all along in order to let industry pay for the transformation and not the tax payers. And the fools will believe - like always.

People that think it is OK to leave the planet in really bad shape to those coming after us have no reason demanding being called intelligent and caring. Here on the forum are enough proof what good battery powered cars do to call anybody with the stupid idea that such is good for the environment for so stupid that they are out of reach. Do not like what I write just press the ignore button. I have just added one to my list of those ignored.

My late mother in also long gone favourite car.

The CT is pretty much a well-developed car with the few updates and that may be the reason why there are not many big problems with the CT in the forum. Many brand-new models have problems that needs to be corrected and they have been done on the CT before it left factory.

Fire in electric car causes villa to burn down this night The car had to be drowned in a water container to put out the fire in the batteries. The car, an Audi Q4 e-tron, was parked close to the house, and the fire quickly spread to the garage and subsequently the rest of the building. The owners of the house had inhaled a lot of smoke and were taken to the nearest hospital for a check-up. The car needed to being drowned in a water container to put out the fire in the batteries. The house burned to the ground. Fires in cars with lithium-ion batteries can start spontaneously if the battery is damaged by impact, impact, overheating or penetration of the battery's membranes. Fires in lithium-ion batteries are characterized by developing quickly. The fires can last a day if the battery is not cooled down effectively. Suffocation extinguishing agents have proven ineffective as lithium-ion batteries burn by a self-oxidizing process. In addition, highly toxic fumes can be produced. Fires in electric cars are handled by keeping the heat down with direct extinguishing and cooling of the battery. Alternatively, you can let the car burn out or place it in an electric-car-container, where you can cool it down. And the idiots will say that similar has also happened to cars on other fuels.

Good to see. Will not miss you. Yes. and all other countries continue to go on as planned due to nobody care about what will happen to the planet and how we leave it to our children.

Fuel is coming for your LS Malcolm - good things come to those that wait patiently. Hydrogen is expensive and mostly made from brown, grey or black energy. This is no way to start using hydrogen for transport no matter if in fuel-cells or internal combustion engines. Evaluation has been delayed due to our stupid governments that could see there is electricity enough to charge our battery powered laptops and smartphones so there surely is enough to use electricity to drive battery powered cars. Thyssenkrupp in Essen Germany expect to be able to buy real green hydrogen from Canada already in 2025. Germany certainly needs to do better than they do now: more than 30% electricity made from brown coal and what is worse the black below is also from coal and to complete the picture of electricity made in Germany the red is from gas, the dark green in the bottom is mineral oil. So, 50% dirty and less than 20% from wind. Finland is making electricity less polluting than most other places. 87% is renewable so making close to real green hydrogen is a possibility and government started building one plant and plan to have 2 more built to follow in order to make production in their steel plants green. Hydrogen first to steel plants and H2 to transport. Same plants shall also make ammonia. How far they are is not easy to get info about but they will create jobs for more than 1000 and produce 850 ton a day. No reason to expect these numbers in the near future, but if they can make 87% of needed electricity in the country with minimal pollution some call it green, they probably will be able to get it done. How much of the 850 ton they are going to use for their steel plants and how much for transport and maybe even some to sell is up in the air as it still has not really begun. Israel claims that they can deliver completely green H2 at the very competitive price of 1 US $ each kg before 2030. That may be good news for power hungry people. Like them (their politicians) or not, they are pretty efficient people.