Lexus RX400h

Posted: 9:25am, 31 July 2007

It’s the one SUV Red Ken can’t object to…Not quite. Full credit to Lexus for making the RX400h the first car in both the luxury and SUV sectors to have a hybrid powertrain; its impressive CO2 claim of just 192g/km gives it a low company-car tax band and the fact that it’s a hybrid makes it congestion-charge exempt.

Others will buy it just for its claimed 34.9mpg economy; far better than any of its conventional petrol rivals, and together these factors have made it so popular that Lexus has even considered dropping the standard RX350. But London Assembly members are muttering darkly about the inequity of exemption for an expensive SUV that still pollutes more than many others.

carmagazine.co.uk