Inovev forecasts production of 70,000 Lexus UX per year
- Lexus presents the UX SUV that follows upon the CT saloon that does not seem to have met the manufacturer's goals.
- Replacing a sedan with an SUV is not an absurd idea as the sedan is losing market share to the growth of SUVs, which today represent one in three sales in most major markets.
- This segment C SUV is the third SUV marketed by the Lexus brand, after the RX (E segment) and the NX (D segment). It is based on the TNGA platform shared by the new Toyota Auris and the Toyota CHR, which is a big hit all over the world.
- In 2017, 300,000 CHR were sold worldwide, 130,000 of which were produced in Japan and 170,000 in Turkey.
- The new Lexus UX manufactured at the Japanese Tahara site is presented by Toyota as a premium version of the Toyota CHR, with the intention of extending the strong commercial performance of the CHR to the Lexus UX.
- The Lexus UX will be marketed at the end of 2018 in Japan and the USA then in 2019 in Europe. It will be equipped with a 4-cylinder petrol 2.0 168 hp engine and a 4-cylinder hybrid petrol-electric 2.0 176hp engine. It is unfortunate that this model (like all Lexus models) is not available in a plug-in hybrid version.
- Inovev forecasts production of 70,000 units per year for the new Lexus UX.
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