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Lexus adds to the IS family with the addition of a new two-door, convertible hard-top version called the IS 250C.

With its two doors and three-panel retractable hard-top roof in the up position, the new car has a very coupe-like appearance. With the push of a button, the aluminum roof panels retract to provide open-air motoring for up to four passengers. The new IS 250C shares the same powertrain as the IS sedan – a 2.5 liter V6 mated to a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic. Comfort and safety features carry-over largely unchanged from the sedan.

The Lexus IS 250C receives smart stop technology for 2012.

Newport Convertible engineering was first US coach builder which designed, engineered and distributed  Lexus SC400Convertible.

Lexus lx 570 convertible

While most proprietors of extravagance SUVs will at times put their vehicles to a definitive test, LX owners can have the most extreme trust in their car in a bad climate or while battling their way through the most exceedingly terrible risks of urban life.” This theory was proclaimed in the 1996 squeeze unit for the first Lexus LX, a vehicle that kicked the extravagance SUV range up a couple of indents by improving a Toyota Land Cruiser with included standard hardware like calfskin, wood trim, a redesigned stereo and a third push situate. Despite the fact that the car commercial center has changed impressively from that point forward, today’s Lexus LX 570 still takes after a similar theory.

Underneath the LX 570’s naturally dynamic styling lives a harsh and-prepared, body-on-edge truck stage intended for certain rough terrain obligation. Clients today are nearly as far-fetched to wander onto sloppy trails as they were back amidst the Clinton organization, yet that hasn’t prevented Lexus from stuffing a full scope of difficult rough terrain empowering advances into its most new LX. In the meantime, this is a standout amongst the most beautiful vehicles Lexus makes. As a vehicle that can do it all, the LX 570 is nearly without associate.

Weighing about as much as two Toyota Priuses and pressed with enough extravagances to fill a little summer home, the Lexus LX570 SUV is the direct opposite to the cutting edge product of conventional hybrids growing up like growths. Despite the fact that it and its Toyota Land Cruiser mechanical twin were last updated for 2008, the LX is still as inordinate and lavish as ever.

New Stuff

The LX570 swims into 2015 confronting a scope of altogether reexamined, highbrow contenders, including the Mercedes-Benz GL-class, Cadillac Escalade, and the Land Rover Range Rover. The LX has gotten its particular host of redesigns since our last test, the most evident being the fitment of Lexus’ biggest shaft grille to date, alongside fancier LED lighting components at both closures.

The inside has additionally picked up a multifunction TFT shading show in the gage bunch with a digital speedometer, and also an overhauled infotainment framework that components the Lexus Enform suite of the route and mixed media applications. Despite the fact that that request-based framework is somewhat awkward in operation and does not have the reconciliation we expect in a $90,000 fix, Apple devotees will, in any event, be cheerful that Siri Eyes Free availability is recently curious to see what happens. The innovation is gotten to from inside the LX’s huge eight-traveler lodge, which gloats 83 cubic feet of load space with the second and third lines stowed. The far-reaching windows bear the cost of phenomenal permeability, and a lifted seating position disregards the full hood. Solace is high and, in standard Lexus form; interested clamors are small. The slick split liftgate/rear end setup in back expands the adaptability of the payload compartment, which likewise incorporates control controls for storing the third line of seats.

Recognizable StuffThe Lexus’ horde catches, switches, and flips scattered about the dash and comfort, notwithstanding, can plague at first and take some time getting used to. (A brought together framework utilizing a control handle or the like would be useful here.) The LX’s generous body-on-casing development additionally restricts the adaptability of the rearmost seats: despite the fact that they control overlap to the side of the payload territory, they honestly don’t stow away. That bounce situates additionally require a vault to reach, and they sit level on the floor, extremely restricting legroom. As in the Cadillac Escalade, they’re best left to little kids and grown-ups you’re just grudgingly bringing along.

The guts of the LX are to a great extent the same as when it received the most recent Toyota Tundra’s running rigging in 2008, including the pickup’s 5.7-liter V-8 and six-speed programmed transmission. What’s more, in spite of the fact that it was a bit too charming for us to take mudding, the LX570 remains bounty fit in the unpleasant: The full-time four-wheel-drive framework incorporates a low-go proportion, a Torsen focus differential, and a rough terrain speed control setting, among different doohickeys. The four-wheel independent suspension (control arms in front, a four-connect setup in the back) offers almost nine inches of ground leeway and additionally amazing verbalization. Lexus’ Adaptive Variable Suspension and Active Height Control with three damper settings (Comfort, Standard, Sport) hold the body’s movements under tight restraints and the ride all-around charming.

Another give up for all that mass is proficiency, with our test truck averaging an unimportant 13 mpg over about 900 miles of blended driving—1 mpg less than the EPA’s 14-mpg joined rating. We can just envision how parched the LX would be while maximizing its 7000-pound towing limit or on broadened quick runs. Yes, the LX570 is shockingly fast for a tank, with its V-appraised Dunlop Grandtrek PT2A tires (measure 285/50R-20) allowing an asserted top speed of 137 mph. We could just oversee 133 at our test track, yet that was a bounty, the LX meandering down the straight in crosswinds like it just originated from a bar crawl.Despite its asphalt pulverizing circumference, the massive LX is a real entertainer and keeping pace with comparative extravagance SUVs. Whenever nudged, our 6155-pound test truck achieved 60 mph in 6.5 seconds and secured the quarter-mile in 15.1 seconds at 93 mph. Both braking execution from 70 mph (176 feet) and parallel grasp around the skidpad (0.76 g) are entirely respectable for something this size, in spite of the dubious, quieted directing and cushy suspension. In any case, the LX is still enormous and essentially not as sensible as some of its littler and lighter opponents—not that a 5887-pound Cadillac Escalade, for example, is in any capacity lightweight.

Cash Talk

With a completely stacked Chevrolet Suburban scarcely splitting 75 thousand, the LX570’s $84,105 base cost is eye-watering. However, it must be noticed that the Land Cruiser’s MSRP is a sparse $3025 less. However even at our test case’s as-tried $90,970—including a 19-speaker Mark Levinson sound framework ($2350); a back seat amusement structure with double screens ($2005); the Luxury bundle’s upscale cowhide trim, ventilated seats, and then some ($1510); and a propelled stopping help framework with different cameras ($1000)— the LX is sensibly estimated inside its sumptuous organization. Despite everything it does not have the highbrow snot claim and general theater of a Range Rover, however, the maturing LX570 stays ultracapable and an excellent option for those searching for extravagance on the most fantastic of scales.