Fto Deserter

[sammyh]

:D After five years in the Mitsubishi camp I've deserted to become a Lexus owner. They were a great bunch of guys (and gals) in the owner's club who gave me endless help and advice with the pair of GPX FTOs I owned. Finally the wife told me to grow up and get something more sensible.

I did - an IS 200 Sport.

Lovely car and I'm well pleased - not even missing my FTO too much. But I seem to be getting about 22 mpg. Could this be right? Maybe I'm driving too much like my FTOs which need a lot of revs. - 4000 to get the MIVEC to kick in. The car is still very standard, no mods to speak of. Any views appreciated

Other than that I'm enjoying being a Lexus owner.

[Gord]

:D After five years in the Mitsubishi camp I've deserted to become a Lexus owner. They were a great bunch of guys (and gals) in the owner's club who gave me endless help and advice with the pair of GPX FTOs I owned. Finally the wife told me to grow up and get something more sensible.

I did - an IS 200 Sport.

Lovely car and I'm well pleased - not even missing my FTO too much. But I seem to be getting about 22 mpg. Could this be right? Maybe I'm driving too much like my FTOs which need a lot of revs. - 4000 to get the MIVEC to kick in. The car is still very standard, no mods to speak of. Any views appreciated

Other than that I'm enjoying being a Lexus owner.

Hi, welcome to Lexus :D I had GPX Mivec for a short time, very nice cars :D

You can do lots of mods to your lexus, its how far you want to go ?

[Adie]

Hi welcome to the club. Unfortunately 22mpg seems about right for an IS. They need to be driven a little hard in standard form if you want to get any decent acceleration out of them. I'd love to get 22mpg out of my IS nowadays..

[Kazi]

Welcoem to LOC :D , like many JAP engines, their rev hungry! Thus meaning higher mpg!

[peter026]

Welcome to the club :D

[star a]

Welcome to the club :D

'normal' driving will give you 30mpg, i always get 28-30mpg, but usually have my kids in the car so don't redline it much.

[norkep]

Welcome to the club,

Hopefully see you at JAE in a couple of months

[codlord]

Hey there, I just replaced my GPX with an IS200 Sport too!

FTO is a great car but really enjoying being back as a Lexus owner.

[Robin H]

welcome to the club

[sammyh]

Hey there, I just replaced my GPX with an IS200 Sport too!

FTO is a great car but really enjoying being back as a Lexus owner.

Thanks guys - good to be on board. I know how valuable these forums can be. I suppose I will just have to learn to use my right foot a little more delicately!

[chips229]

Hi and Welcome to LOC :)

chips..

[dorians]

:D After five years in the Mitsubishi camp I've deserted to become a Lexus owner. They were a great bunch of guys (and gals) in the owner's club who gave me endless help and advice with the pair of GPX FTOs I owned. Finally the wife told me to grow up and get something more sensible.

I did - an IS 200 Sport.

Lovely car and I'm well pleased - not even missing my FTO too much. But I seem to be getting about 22 mpg. Could this be right? Maybe I'm driving too much like my FTOs which need a lot of revs. - 4000 to get the MIVEC to kick in. The car is still very standard, no mods to speak of. Any views appreciated

Other than that I'm enjoying being a Lexus owner.

I seem to get 360 miles per tank, almost whatever I do (although admittedly a lot of my driving is on A roads/Motorways), which works out at 28 miles per gallon. I have always been really pleased with the fuel consumption of my IS 200 Sport, particularly after some interesting experiences with a Celica GT Four in the past! Welcome to Lexus ownership!

[maneesh]

Welcome to the club matey! Ahhh, forget fuel economy..What you really WANT is to stick a supercharger in that engine..you won't need to rev as much as you do now ;-)

[SammeH]

hey i just replaced my Veilside fto for my lexus and have no regrets, much nicer drive! and better on fuel too as i dont drive it a toca driver :)

i was in the FTOOC too for a few years