Test Drive Lexus CT 200h since 2010 Hatchback

Funny toy

All together we understand what is LEXUS CT200H. Toy? Savior ecology? City Pigeon? Each of us had something to say.


Lexus CT200H is difficult to compare with German competitors, because it is the first hybrid in the class of premium-hatchbacks. Unique and unlike others Lexus Toyota Prius. His hybrid power plant issues 136 liters. With. Three configurations are available in Russia: Comfort, Executive, Luxury for 1,244,000, 1,362,000, 1,696,000 rubles. respectively. In our hands visited the top version.

 
Rules of the game of the Future
Anton Borisenko, Observer Editor

I did not listen to any radio or disks. I listened to the engine, catching the moments when the sound is almost imperceptible due to noise insulation will appear from under the hood, and barely noticeable shuddering the gasoline engine will know that he came to life The same, but detailed and color on the central display (the navigation is still not extremely intended). Cool! Making sure that the speakers seem to have enough, I played the game of savings, although not strongly infrainmenting myself in motion. By the way, I won: the city record of 6.2 liters remained for me! Cool!

That's the point that CT200H is just cool for me. Yes, cozy and really premium for such a compact size, but hopelessly urban suspension and not perfect in management. No, everything is acceptable in taxi. But strange behavior in steep turns as if they lift the machine for the middle and give an extra centrifugal force did not understand. Equally, as well as the stabilization and whistling system in a banal acceleration from the intersection in a rotation of 90 degrees. Lexus Nohomilfo! The hybrid lattice of the recuperative system here almost does not donate, but also that it is not forgiven. For me, CT200H is now rather from the field of fiction. Dreams about the life in which the roads are such that it will come up everywhere. People are such that they do not leave for these roads, as in the last fight, but just go and enjoy, playing games Let's poison, and not overtake, slip, cut. The laws are such that they support the acquisition of such nothesive hybrids because in the end, the concern for ecology should not be crushed exclusively on the wallets of buyers. And these hybrids themselves are already managed as the best samples of traditional cars, in communicating with which I have grown. That's then this compact and very pretty car fell to the place. Always

 
Urban Pijon
Konstantin Nikolaev, system administrator

Lexus CT200H Hybrid Premium Hatchback Golf Class with Sports Spirit

The revolution happened! Lexus joined the creation of a compact hatchback in the premium segment. I will make a reservation. This is still a Toyota Prius under the LEXUS brand, but, according to Toyota, a lot of hybridomotives will appear on the basis of Prius. And by the way, this is the smallest Lexus both in the hybrid family, and in general in the Lexus family, and the only one with the front-wheel drive.

So, let's start with us to the editors got a machine in the maximum configuration. It is designed for the hatchback on five passengers, but only four will be comfortable, and then if not very tall and fat passengers sit behind the back, as with such a compact size of the place for the legs behind the front seats. The hatchback has a rather modest rated volume of 345 liters, and with a folded back of the rear seats of 700 liters.

The interior is clearly felt sports spirit. Perhaps this is facilitated by the decoration of the cabin in dark colors, matte aluminum inserts on the steering wheel, dashboard and around the door handles, low landing and seats with good side support.

I press the START button and silence, only flashing ready on the dashboard suggests that the car is ready for movement. Switch the ACP lever to the D position, smoothly click on the gashchka, and the car silently rises from the place.

In general, Lexus CT200H left a very pleasant impression. Eco-friendly urban car with low fuel consumption. But only for asphalt, because from asphalt to the threshold approximately palm. The front bumper is very low, respectively, do not park over the curb.


the choice of motion modes is carried out by a convenient controller. For riding only on the electric shirt answers the EV Mode button
 
Glamornyko, gloomy, green
Denis Halfin, Observer Editor

Lexus CT200H is a serious joke. Serious because the first in the world. Joke Because full-hydride premium compact. And the paradox is that it will be a joke until it is the first in the world. Everyone is seriously perceived with difficulty. A hint of a joke is captured in the commercial car, and in his slogan quietly! The revolution begins, and finally, by the first time driving Lexus CT200H, involuntarily start smiling. And all because the situation is right here is glamorous, the control is quite a glory, and, of course, the main thing all this is competed by the actual fashionable green: seven liters per hundred in the city. Mischief, and only! You are going to yourself, and now and then throw a look at the instrument panel, where using the animation you can track how the thrust between the four 1.8 and the electric motor is distributed. Beauty and ecology! Here you and the Eco Driving indicator, and the movement mode on one electric motor EV Mode (by the way, you can drive three kilometers on electricity, and then if you move faster than 45 km / h). The machine, of course, is smart and can cheer, but, perhaps, this is her main advantage here mischievously. And for the character, from our reality, this is not enough. No prose one romance.


blue background emblems of the prerogative of all hybrid Lexus. ST200H The only one who has no gasoline fellow

 
Feel comfortable
Boris Kuts, head of the distribution department

This is my first hybrid and the second Lexus, which was able to ride. The word premium itself is already impairment in our time, and often it even causes an acute rejection, if you understand that under a premium wrapper, try to pecks. With this car, everything is just the opposite. CT 200h liked me and outwardly, and inside. Supported body silhouette, narrow window braces, the complex shape of the stern hints at sports ambitions. In the interior there is no alaywalthiness and demonstrative KICH. I liked the form and quality of skin finishing front seats. The steering wheel is also decorated with smooth skin, from which you do not want to tear up. However, there are enough conventional plastic hard and unpleasant. There are some miscalculations in ergonomics, but it is especially unpleasant to the absence of quite ordinary options in our time of options, for example, the audio sound button buttons (if the phone is not configured to collaborate via Bluetooth) or triple blinking of the rotation pointer with a short press on the lever. But in the movement Lexus CT200H is good. In the city I prefer small cars, and this hatchback did not disappoint me. It does not lose its comfort even in traffic jams, and it even increases efficiency. So, with active driving, fuel consumption is about 8 l / 100 km, but with a rhythm rhythm in traffic jams, up to 6 liters are reduced!


socket, USB input and AUX can be closed with a lid when you do not use them. Trifle, but nice. Here he is premium
 

Down with rationality
Sergey Sakharov, PR manager

Lexus reminds Sharpega. The similarity with this breed of dogs is striking already when viewed on the hood: sweaty eyebrows are hung over the diamond headlights-eyes and so throughout the car.

Soft skin surrounds you everywhere from the upholstery of the doors before the dashboard visor. Even touched by the right knee of the central tunnel, it is started to take a leather insert and there.

During the movement, it is engaged in the monitor work of a hybrid drive on the monitor. Basically try to move smoothly, minimally loading internal combustion engine. But such a ride manner is not always suitable for a ripped Moskovsky rhythm. Especially when it is necessary to dramatically rebuilt or shit until the next traffic light. And then the Sharpenica of Lexus becomes especially noticeable. It is worth switching to the Sport mode, and the insertion panel of the IMG changes the color from a calm blue on fierce red. Pressing the gas pedal and the car literally jumps into the next row, rapidly accelerating with the persistence of an electric train.

But the turn of the joystick left and the car is once calm and calm. It is in Eco Driving mode that it consistently saves fuel. But in any case, nothing can prevent you from enjoying the music of the Mark Levinson audio system is just beautiful.

Banal consumer characteristics of this car are incorrect. This is a car sympathy, a car attachment.

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