My D-i-L's Lexus CT used to return 50- 55.mpg according to the on-board computer.

Bought with 20K on the clock - sold at 84K - No repairs in 5+ years - just servicing, tyres, brakes, wipers and the odd bulb.

Bought for £13K in 2014 and sold for £7,500 in February 2020.

I have a NX300h and with mixed driving (motorway and town) it returns around 45mpg, It also returned this when I was driving around the Pyrenees for a moth last year

Not your 60mpg you’re after but not bad for size of vehicle.

A Toyota RAV-4 will do the job that the smaller Lexus SUVs do, just as reliably and for less money. Have that on your shortlist as well.

Depends entirely on the types of journey. A hybrid, around town, will give diesel type fuel economy with no worries about DPF's or potential diesel charges being imposed in the future in cities.

Motorway journeys are a different issue, with petrol engine running more often. Which variety of Lexus are you thinking of?

Hi guys

I have a Hyundai i10 and it is a bit small. In the next year or so I wish to upgrade to something bigger (we're a family of 3) and I'm thinking a 2nd hand lexus.

But when I look on Honest John's website, the real mpg for lexus cars is always "bad"? Is Lexus a bad choice if fuel consumption is a concern?

The UK does not have cheap fuel prices. Also, I live in the Yorkshire Pennines, so it is very hilly here. My current i10 struggles up hills, it goes up them fine, but you can hear it struggling.

Is there a Lexus that can give anything close to 60 mpg?

If you do mostly rural driving, don't bother with a hybrid. Better to get a basic petrol-engined car for mileages under 20k per year and diesels for more than that. If you need to go off road proper, a diesel coupled with 4WD can be better, but often they aren't needed

It's far cheaper to get an ordinary front-wheel drive car on 55 profil+ tyres, and either run all-season tyres (the further North you go, the more winter-biased they need to be) or, if you have the space to store the other set, summer and winter tyres, as they often better than having an expensive 4WD car shod on low profile summer tyres all year round.

MPG should be looked at in the round with all other likely costs of running a car (insurance, reliability, parts longevity and cost, rust resistance, servicing), including depreciation.

Many older, highly reliable and long-lived Japanese cars like Lexuses practially stop depreciating (especially the non-hybrid ones) as they near 10 years old. It's one of the reasons why far more older cars on the road are from the Toyota/Lexus and Honda stables - they just keep going and going with minimal intervention.