Lexus CT 200h brochure leaks
Thursday 25th February 2010, 8:54am
It looks like Toyota will have to recall something else now – the brochure for the new Lexus CT 200h.
For some reason the internet’s been springing leaks left, right and centre in the run up to this year’s Geneva Show. First there was the Mercedes-Benz F800, then the Audi RS5, and now this. Someone needs to ring a plumber to get the whole thing fixed.
We already knew the Lexus CT would be a hybrid, based on the Prius’s system, but the brochure reveals it’ll have four driving modes and be ‘powerful’ – suggesting more poke than the Toyota version.
Those modes are EV, Eco, Normal and Sport. Like the Prius, the first three will allow electric-only driving for a short time before waking the 1.8-litre petrol engine up again. These modes will be biased towards smooth, comfy progress, with matters altogether sharpened up in Sport – which also turns the instrument binnacle from blue to red.
The chassis is entirely new too, so technically it’s not based on the Prius? Lexus promises ‘unprecedented’ refinement for the class. If it’s better than the Golf, then this will be one to look out for.