snuggles

It certainly gets better with age

Was 35 to 45mpg up to 15k but now it quite happily gets 45 to 55mpg

So I'm happy again.

I'm biased at the mo...luv my IS220d SE

Fuel economy wasn't great at first 35 to 45mpg but now I've had my 20k service it's tonnes better 45 to 55mpg

Had an IS250 Auto as a courtesy car, yes it was fantastic but couldn't justify the extra 50quid a month at the time...maybe next year when my baby goes... :o

Well this certainly makes me feel old

10 yrs ago was driving my pride and joy a Celica GT4...miss that baby

20 yrs ago was a Corolla GTi

suppose I've carmed down now (not)

Meeting time and place is

10am Charncock Richard Sevices (Northbound M6) Just past junction 27. For those coming from the North is there a good place for you to meet us ?

Then a nice drive onto Blackpool at a steady pace, once there everyone can do what they want wether its the Pleasure Beach or what

3pm perhaps a photo oppotunity somewhere

Add your name to the list

Attending

Chris

Gord

Rogue

Stav

Aztecbandit1

Rory & Human Error

Sarah r

Moffet

Edd

Rikos

Jamie & Jenni

Maybee's

Mat C

Would an IS220 be welcome?... ;) cause I'd luv to come

I'm really new to UK (concerning driving) - this is (IS220d) my first car in UK :)

It seems that i'm requiring some fueling soon (in one or two weeks? i love diesel!!!)

I'm not really sure that the quality of fuel is the same on every gasoling station...

Can you please advise me - which "network" is the best?

BP? Esso? Or may be "supermarket" like Tesco and so on?

I'm ready to pay a little bit more for best quality diesel - just because it will be better for engine and slightly more economical mpg...

My IS220d luvs Shell...got 56mpg on a run last week

Brilliant....and I'm a woman

i agree i dont like the 2nd gen IS people

:tsktsk: whats wrong with us?

Snuggles, ( I really can't believe I'm typing that)

I'd be pretty miffed about changing s*x half way through a reply.

It shows a lack of downright ambitious lack of proof reading,

which in turns is just plain dis-respectful in my opinion.

G

Thanx for that....good to know that there are some nice people out there.

I'll just have to be less heavy right footed I guess, see what happens now I've just had my first service...Lexus Bradford said it should get better!!!

Just received this reply back from Lexus GB... :tsktsk: doesnt help much, especially when I change gender by the end of the reply.

Anyone further comments?...looks like I'll have to put up with it...or get rid, luv the car but thought it would be more economical compared to the Corolla compressor I traded up from

Dear Miss Stewart

Thank you for contacting Lexus.

In response to your question concerning fuel consumption on your IS 220d; I

can advise you that there are several factors that can affect the outcome

of the MPG. One point to consider is that the MPG figures that are stated

for the IS 220d, its is quite hard to produce these results when driving on

the road. When you consider that each driver has their own style of driving

on the road, in regards to how rapid

acceleration and braking are applied. Also depending on the period of time

that you are in idle traffic and starting and stopping in urban areas. In

respect to driving on a straight run even though there are less factors

involved the style of driving plays a big part, such as the rate of gear

change and at what revolution the gear is changed. What I can advise you Mr

Stewart is that with diesel engines the MPG that is produced will gradually

increase as the engine has been run in more.

If there is anything else that I can help you with please don't hesitate to

contact me again by any of the methods indicated below.

Kind regards

Omar Cheema

Customer Account Manager

Lexus Contact Centre

Congratulations

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Doctors and Dentists never wore latex gloves.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

After running into the bushes a few times, we learned how to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable or satellite, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

I finally found out how to average over 40mpg - drive to Hull (from Reading) and back. I picked up a friend from university today. I sat there for mile after mile with the cruise control set to 70mph and the tank average was 40.5mpg when I got back. For a lot of the time it was showing around 41-42mpg :D Perhaps I just need to go via Hull on every journey

I think I managed to get a speeding ticket though I knew the camera was there and I had been doing 70mph but there were four other cars around me doing stuff that I needed to keep an eye on and I might have slipped over cause one of us got flashed.

I've managed 47mpg on a round trip from Huddersfield to Manchester...and doing between 70 and 80mph

The speed cameras in Yorkshire wont flash until you are doing over 79mph, so hopefully it wasn't you

Well this is going to be controversial:

** **** *....****** ** ****.....******* *** *** **** :mat

**please dont post what could be deemed as offensive, **

I have put my car (IS220d) in for a little bit of work to my dealer. I have a car from them (IS250 auto). This car doesn't rattle at all. My seats and drivers door rattle

Does any one have the same issue??

No rattles with mine...just the annoying crack from the dash, will get it sorted at my 10k service.

I'm on an 06 plate (March)...only problem I've had was it jumping out of 4th gear...lexus sorted it now, new bits in gearbox, apparently only two cars in Europe have had this problem :duh: just my luck!

Any problems I've had have been done quickly and well by my dealer cant praise them enough.

Hope you get it sorted and can enjoy your car in peace.

HI,

Thought I would just make a "hello" post. Iam new to owning a lexus and will recieve my IS 220d SE-L in 2 weeks time. Cant wait!!

Hi and welcome...newish on here myself, had my IS 220d SE for a month now and its just fantastic!