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Thanks for your reply Dan, 90% of my driving is in town so def sounds like Hybrid is the way to go. Yep i've seen the threads about the recalls, didn't know about the cambelts though so thats good to know when I go out to see some.

Nelmo, the 28-30mpg you're getting in your RX is still way better than the mpg I'm getting in my 118i, I put £30 in at a time and I'm just about getting 120 miles out of it. At a fiver a gallon thats about 20mpg. I know its an auto and its city driving but even so! I had the 118d beforehand and that was about the same. Main reason for wanting an SUV is I had a Shogun a few years back (3.0 petrol auto about 12mpg so it had to go) and I love the high up driving position, and the fact on south London's narrow backstreets most other drivers when they see an SUV heading towards them they tend to let you through lol. Good to know the mileage isn't a problem, I think the Lexus Approved Used all have service history anyway.

Cheers Woody, those mpg figures for city driving are just brilliant, better than any car I've owned in the last 10 years lol. I'm going to have to go test drive a couple of 400s I think.

Thanks for the reply, that mpg figure is amazing, I've been looking at all sorts of SUVs and whether petrol or diesel they show about 20--22mpg in town, and thats the official figures, so real mpg will be even lower, its the urban mpg that first got me thinking about the 400h.

Hello all, newbie here thinking of buying an Rx400h, around 2006-2007 reg. I've read a few other similar topics but just need confirmation of a points please. Most of my driving is stop/start in South London with all it's speed humps, and knowing that the engine runs on electric at lower speeds is it really possible to achieve mpg figures of around 30? I currently drive a BMW 118i auto and just about get 20mpg so anything is an improvement. Some websites show it to be insurance group 26-28, others say 16-17, do you know which is correct, or closest? I'm not mechanically minded at all so for peace of mind would be buying from Lexus under the approved used scheme, a few on there have got mileages of 80-90k, are these engines really so bullet-proof that buying with high mileage is no problem? Thanks for reading and for any advice.