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Yes and no. Lexus tell us that 74+ mpg is possible in the ads for the car, which as far as I know nobody on the forum have managed. Mainly short tours and always up and down is not for a little hybrid battery. When 5.5 - 6 L/100km is what we had in a 2.0tdi DSG Golf V obviously diesel is better for mountains. That the Golf was spitting black smoke out of the exhaust pipe was probably because of the many short trips we were driving as all it needed to meet specification to pass the yearly test was around 10 km low gear with engine working hard. After that no black smoke. 7.5L/100km is OK. Car is far more comfortable and pleasant to drive than the Golf and compared to the Honda Accord Coupé, which was not much more comfortable, it is an economical car. All the extra comfort plus the ML audio makes it the perfect car until hydrogen come to the island here. Not that the Honda was not reliable, but the CT feel really good and much better to drive in than the Golf. The luxury cars we had when I was still working are not what I will compare the CT with. Maybe as I was told somewhere on the forum here, the CT is not really a Lexus.

According to Herbie it will keep the expensive part on your car half a minute longer.

I am happy when a full tank give 500km. Pretty far from the 74+ miles per gallon Lexus promise for a 2016 - 17 model

Bunsen burner plus gsoline will keep you warm for a while. Don't let teacher see you doing it.

When driving no noise can be confusing for pedestrians. Something that can be installed for us with old cars?

It's only forever, not long at all. Underground - David Bowie / Trevor Jones

Full up 30L. Distance covered 400km, message saying that fuel for 86km was left. 95octane E5 for first time. Usually V-Power, but no Shell nearby. Meaning 486km on a full tank. 7.5L/100km. 37.66 miles / gallon (UK). Same driver / driving style as in a Golf 2.0tdi DSG with 5.5L/100km. When hydrogen come to the island we will see if we can find a car we can afford. Hybrid is not for mountains.

You a Beatles fan?

Brave new world!

After always Continental, maybe CC when the Pirelly P7 needs to be retired. Maybe not.

All I could find out from that link is that the glass is from Belgium. Nothing at all about the UV protection Toyota promised, which they did not deliver.

You could be right. Just thought somebody here would know more about Lexus than Lexus/Toyota here on the island. I asked them and never got an answer. They would find out. One year later and they still do not know. Just had the car to service again. Toyota promised 99% protection long ago and the windows in our car are nowhere near to that, only windshield is OK like in almost all other cars. 30% to 40% perhaps in the door windows, rear window and sun (moon) roof, but most glass reduce UV with something close to that.

Want to buy aftermarket wheels? Have a look at BBS. Used to be among the very best. Have won a lot of 24-hour races. I am happy with what Lexus has put on the car but should I get tempted BBS would be my choice.

Hi Steve, No not really. What I ask is if anybody know what the writing on the windows mean, as the 99% UV protection is not correct. I have a UV detecting device and front door windows had as good as no protection before I had Llumar UV protective films put on. The windshield was perfectly protected due to the film layer between the 2 layers of glass that are in the windshield. Maybe Lexus has less protection than Toyota. Or Toyota has been promising something they are not keeping or cannot deliver without protective film. With UV strength 10 outside, on the inside of the front door windows UV was still about 4 and not enough at all to protect against skin cancer if driving often. Sun burn would be reduced enough to rarely happen, but not enough. Nowhere to find out what the: UV - CCC and A000751 and A002345 and 43-R00011 and 43R-00122 and the rest of the codes on the printing of the glass mean? Some of them mean that the glass will splinter in ways as to not cut the passengers like other kind of glass splinters would do. Thought that some on this forum would know what the codes mean or know somebody that knows. Maybe they just have not seen this question. Who do I ask?

Pictures from the side and rear windows on the CT we have: Anybody here know if Toyota has kept their promise that they would make all windows 99% UV protected? Side windows and rear window are having different marking, but what they mean is not easy to find out. At least not for me. It was promised in 2004 to the Danish importer of Toyota, before Toyota themselves took over and imported the cars, that all Toyota should be safe to drive as they would all have complete UV protection. Should happen as soon as possible, and at the latest 2010 – 2012, for all models. On side windows, rear and sunroof. Windshield was already UV protected on all models then. Toyota Demark did not import Lexus so I have no idea what was to happen with the luxury brand from Toyota factory. I have scars enough from surgery to know that skin cancer is not something not to be afraid of.

Absolutely. It will be firmer / harsher. Depending on how you look at it. You will also go 1.48% longer each turn of the wheel.

Really impressed by the work you are capable of doing. Yes the wheels look far better without the chrome thing on them. Long time ago chrome was needed for a car to be luxury, but luckily not now. LPG probably is cheaper to drive with, but is it cheap or just not so expensive? Looks better than the old MB300SEL 6.3 we were driving when gasoline was not really known as polluting. Probably as comfortable as well. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/classic/take-moment-gawp-mercedes-300-sel-63

But you have a courtesy car. When we had the CT to service it took almost one week for reasons no easy to understand, missing something or whatever. No courtesy car for us.

Mechanical reliability seems to be what Lexus is in front with. Software seems to be a different story. The more complex things are, the harder it is to fix them. Maybe an older model is the way forward? Navigation in the one we have sucks, but it sucks reliable.

If we start speaking with each other with 2 or 3 letters instead of 2 or 3 words we could end up misunderstanding each other completely. Such will be interpretated different in different places in the world. But of course - not in UK.

Not answering questions is another way of answering.

That certainly looks like a fine instrument. Today amps and loudspeakers are so good that electric bass is sounding more or less as good as an old-fashioned double bass; even to me. Still fretless are able to make different sliding sounds and take melodies into different scales without sounding out of tune. My favourite bass player is Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen (R.I.P.), in electric it is Entwistle.

Hi Herbs or should I call you John? Handbook tell so many things and they are spread out in strange patterns so finding a logical meaning with it all can be time consuming. What I did not understand is, what that has to do with visiting a tyre shop.

And if pattern of beam is correct, would it still be a problem in your eyes? I am not one to trust authorities as I know they are (just like Trump) MYSELF FIRST. I trust the brain I have been given and if something is logic it is OK, if something does not make sense, we should try to find the reason behind. That is one of the reasons we have brains.

Looking for an electric bass I would choose this: Not that I would, I was playing tenor- and baritone-sax plus flute. Still think the double bass is superior, only impossible to transport, but the amp and loudspeakers makes an electric difficult to transport too.