Archive for: Lexus

Lexus RX450h Wins Best Green SUV Award

Lexus have reason to cheer following the RX450h winning the What Car? Best Green SUV Award.

Now many people will find it ironic than any SUV, or Chelsea Tractor as they are known, can be deemed as ‘green’, especially for a vehicle that can reach 0-62 miles per hour in just 7.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 124mph.

But, with staggeringly low CO2 emissions of just 148g/km, Lexus really have pulled out the engineering stops, and with impressive economy returns also of 45 miles per gallon.

New Lexus Hybrids Aim To Improve Sales

Many of the world’s largest car manufacturers have experienced sales slumps since the global economic decline, yet some remain more optimistic than others.

Japanese giants Lexus are currently experiencing their worst sales period in their 20 year history, yet they aim to combat this slump by selling 25,000 new Lexus hybrid vehicles a year in the US alone as they really do believe in their product.

They have it all to do though as due to the rapid decrease in US gasoline prices, demand for hybrid vehicles – powered by an electric motor and a gas or diesel engine – has obviously dipped.

A Drop Of The Top But No Drop In Standards

Amongst the latest Lexus model to hit the showrooms in 2009 will be the IS 250C, which was well received at the Paris motor show at the end of 2008.

Lexus aim to entice those seeking a sports cabriolet that encompasses sports performance with style and elegance – and they have succeeded here.

One of the stand out features of the new IS 250C is the aluminium fold away roof that opens in rapid time and is also so compact when stored that it does not hinder boot space as with many cabriolets.

How Do You Tackle Depreciation? Buy A Used Lexus

The car industry is stagnant due to the global economic downturn, in fact new car prices are set to rise despite the shortage in sales with Ford putting their new car prices up by 3.75 per cent, Seat by 3.5 per cent and Nissan by 3.4 per cent, and so the best way for prospective buyers to get value from the car market is to invest in a reliable used vehicle. And for ‘reliable used vehicle’ read: used Lexus!

20 Years And Counting: Lexus Continue In Pursuit Of Perfection

Good things come to those that wait, as the saying goes, and since the 1989 launch of the LS 400, Lexus has gone from strength to strength, but it took the Japanese Toyota subsidiary six years research and development before going to production. And Toyota’s new line of luxury vehicles, branded Lexus, certainly were worth waiting for, with the LS series bursting onto the US market to critical acclaim.