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Thank you for the link John. It is one I had seen yesterday prior to joining the Lexus Owners' Club and it did not cover the best conditions for switching between Eco, Normal and Sport. The advice from the man at Reading Lexus remains the most useful. The purpose of my post was to see if others had received the same or even better advice. I've been out today on normal roads and am getting a much more realistic average of 51.9. My apologies for the terse initial response.

Hi John, I had read the owners manual and could find no practical advice on driving technique. Obviously, you have read it. Instead of patronising me you could have told me where the advice is in the bloated 560 pages of this book. But then, you have a 10 year old GS and so have no reason to read the UX manual.

Hi, I have just picked up my UX250h from the dealership after the first service. I have done only 3,500 miles in the year I have owned it from new and today I received the best info from a garage I have ever had. I have been getting an average of 42.5 to the gallon and this was mostly on wonderful French toll-roads. I have never got more than 45 to the gallon. I was very disappointed. Today the service manager told me the following: Use eco in town, use normal on ordinary roads and short stretches of dual carriageway but, and this is the really surprising and counter-intuitive advice, use Sport on the motorway! I zeroed the speedo and followed his advice for the 18 mile journey. To my absolute amazement, the economy when I reached home was 60.9 mpg. The motorway section was largely a 50 mph drag which I always do at 55; I can understand that this would give the best fuel economy but in eco mode, which I mistakenly believed would give the best consumption, I had been getting about 43 mpg. I am impatient to continue this experiment as I hardly believe it. Why don't we get easily accessible advice on driving techniques from Lexus when we pick up the car?