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Batteries have been worked on intensely for a long time now. And still no real progress. Even if that should happen, the batteries need to be charged and do you honestly think that the electricity net will be made strong enough to deliver power to all cars? I do not. Hydrogen is little evaluated for car use, but if it is found good enough for gigantic engines to make some of the worlds biggest shipping companies invest gigantic amount of money in it if they did not think they would get that money back? I do not. Toyota and Hyundai are working on hydrogen fuelled engines and I hope to see not fuel cell driven cars but combustion engines powered with hydrogen.

We take our car to Lexus for service, but only because the hybrid battery is warranted that way. Without that battery I would go somewhere else.

Other ways of powering cars will come as electricity will not be available enough to charge all the cars that are privately or leased driven. There is not power enough on the net. And the material needed to build batteries for new cars and replacing less powerful batteries is not available in the amount it is needed. Hydrogen is now being produced in large quantities for shipping and heavy truck driving and with all the windmills being built and placed in the sea the power will be little polluting. Sooner or later that will be available for cars too. What we need now is places where combustion engines can be converted to hydrogen. Should not be much more complicated than converting to LPG. That would give the service work back to your workshops, so maybe you could make some of these conversion works. A car like your red one would be a fantastic project. Think about having it driving around and pouring pure water out of the exhaust.

Lexus never was good with software. When looking at the problems from VW first i models though it seems that Lexus software is fantastic. The Lexus cars with stupid software were still driving perfectly well, whereas the VW did not drive at all, some of the owners had their cars in workshops to get software errors fixed longer time than they did spend on the road.

I believe the new Japan is South Korea. Lexus is a renowned brand, but it really is a Toyota. Prius used to be the go to car for taxi people. Now they are mostly driving Hyundai here. The less rich taxi owners are doing Dacia.

No matter the rest of the standard of build will the quality of batteries as it is now not be something near the quality of the rest of the car. In winter batteries are not holding charge well and with batteries as they are of the latest standard today will either be slow to charge or they will deteriorate when constantly being charged extremely fast. Another thing is that with the way everything is to be done faster and more economically I am not sure that the renowned quality of the cars named Lexus will stay on top.

Yes John. That is acceptable to us. Did not buy it because we believed it would drive 100km using only 3.8L. All factories inform impossible to attain performance.

Partly maybe correct. The area that is in contact with the road width of tyre hardness/softness of rubber is of importance. Weight is of importance. Unsuspended weight mean very much more than suspended. Tyre materials are quite heavy and the less tyre there is the less weight meaning that rubber-band thickness weighs less than the 45 there are on the 17" wheels from factory. 16" will have more rubber material and thus be heavier. Wheels will be slightly less heavy. The metal in the wheels from factory to factory are different. https://dymag.com/ inform well about different materials for wheels. Once had a formula 1 wheel with tyre on in a car accessory company I worked in and it was so light that it was a shock when seeing it and then lifting it up. Think it was 13". Tyre was so thin that it would not last long for daily driving, but incredibly light. Made for smooth surface and not for lasting. Most new cars now are getting bigger and bigger wheels but engines on the new cars are not supposed to use much more fuel. The lighter the wheels the better the handling on same car.

Did what you asked me: Filled to the brim and calculated. 6.152L/100km. Mountain city, as much up as down yes, but I may not be the only one here thinking that hybrid is not the most economic for this area. Very few Prius left and more and more diesels and gasoline plus EV cars as taxis here. Drive same style and same places as when having the Golf 2.0tdi DSG 2005 using a bit more than 5L/100km. The diesel was polluting with heavy black smoke when accelerating uphill. The CT does not.

Our small 17" wheels are not so interesting for thieves now as they were 5 years ago. 20£ plus VAT is cheaper than I thought Lexus would be.

I would not be surprised if a local tyre expert would be able to take off the 4 lock nuts your have and sell you a new complete set cheaper than Lexus will get you the original key. Without waiting.

Sorry to say that you probably have the wrong key. Most tyre shops will be able to unlock them even if that should not be possible. Here they can even if I do not give them the key. How they do it I do not know. Of course Lexus will be able to also.

Linas is right: Diesel engines are dirty. Had to drive in low gear about 10km with revolution needle close to where it should not go to get our Golf 2.0tdi DSG (100K km) clean enough to get the stamp telling we could drive one more year. That is the way to clean the exhaust so all the black smoke get out and the diesel car will pass the test.

Here it changed 2016/17. Registered before 2017 (even if a 2017 model) = no road tax. The one we have seems to be some kind of hybrid between 2016 and 17 as Lexus here tells us it is a 2016 Luxury with a lot of extras and our insurance company tells us it is a 2017 F-Sport or maybe the models here in Spain are different to the ones you have in UK. Both Lexus and insurance companies have access to more data than we poor car owners have. About the difference between a 200T (meaning turbo?) and a 250: a larger cylinder volume can guzzle more fuel than a smaller. The turbo use the exhaust to press more fuel into the system, so if the turbo has smaller cylinder volume it will be more economic as long as turbo is not working on high revolutions (in theory). In praxis: it all depend on so many different things that you will only find out after using both. Another thing is that hybrid battery is not helping much if you drive with heavy foot. Actually if you drive fast and always fast the weight of the hybrid battery will just need more fuel than the same car without that battery.

Welcome to you. Nice car in the first real interesting colour ever made, metallic shimmering, it shone differently depending on from what angle we saw the car. Saw that colour a month after bought a Supra 3L detachable roof (****ty car, unstable with roof part taken off and constantly yellow light in engine control when driving faster than 130km/h and no Toyota workshop could find any error) 1985; kept the car only 3 - 4 months. Next car a Nissan ZX again, no problem taking the roof parts off, it was steering perfect and so much better than the Supra. In white metallic of course. We should also have bought a Lexus earlier, but it first happened when we were retired and bought the CT200h. Very comfortable with so many comfort features and still not a soft sofa. I often wondered why designing a 2 door car is easier for the companies making a good looking car, but it certainly seems to be the case.

Batteries in the sensors?

Sure you did lock it?

Last time I had to use a spare-wheel (full size) was in 1985 I think, In Africa somewhere. Then space savers and sealants were as far as I knew then non-existing. Not that it is that hard to change a wheel, but the convenience and efficiency of sealants is much underrated. I believe that more than 99% of flats can be fixed enough with sealants to get to a place where the tyre can be repaired or replaced. Las time I had a flat tyre (2012 maybe) was on a rented car and the sealant in the car got me to the rental company where they gave me another car. Have only once been driving a car with run-flat tyres (long time ago) and they were OK (did not have any flats). If they were noisy did not matter as cars were noisy then. If comfortable I do not remember and being younger was comfort not one of the priorities. But paying extra to get a run-flat is not for me.

I do not know what Robin has against readily available products, but I do not like the sound of the Bosch wind-shield wipers bought because Lexus/Toyota did not have any rubber inserts and I found the complete wipers metal part and rubber were stupidly expensive. Ended up buying the complete OEM wipers as the Bosch (excellent brand?) were noisy. The Lexus ones were quiet, but it sure is stupid that they are so focused on making money that we have to make landfill of completely fine metal parts because Lexus want to sell more expensive things. While having the Golf it was easy to get new rubber for the OEM wind-shield wipers.

Straps fastened in the hooks that probably are in the car boot; in the CT we have there are 4. Velcro:

Support Ukraine. Support global warming. Support whatever you want. We support the war-machine factories and the tyrants. The stupid politicians try to make us think that we help. They succeed as they will be re-elected. The world is ruled by economy - money - and nothing else matters as long as we are stupid enough to select the same idiots to rule. We have no-one to blame.

Do you know if it is durable?

3M Satin Volcanic Flare as shown in one of the pictures

Beautiful car and the colour of the wrap is enhancing the excellent design of it. Too bad it probably is very expensive to get and here I have seen not one. Is it stronger than the paint? Is it easy or very costly to get fixed if little damage come to it?