Average fuel efficiency has been around the 14 km/L mark throughout my ownership.
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2025 May update [Car is 8 years, 11 months old, 2 years 2 months under my ownership, Odo at 235870]
Here are the main updates since Jan until now.
Mid Feb:
New tires: Picked Nokian Seasonproof 1 225/60 R18 104W (M+S) All seasons at the local shop closer to home. So far so good.
Mid March:
Annual major service + APK (“APK is the annual MOT/Fitness test here in the Netherlands) at 230235 kms – No call outs, all went as planned and no surprises.
Mid April:
Just came back from a 10ish days roadtrip covering 3626 KMs, visiting the Pyrenees mountains [Mountain range between the border of France and Spain]Andorra and Barcelona.
What a destination! If you are in Europe and looking for something up in the mountains / great hikes / nice roads – Pyrenees is a great alternative to Alps.
We then visited Andorra [Andorra, if you did not know, is a small landlocked country between France and Spain] for a day and finally Barcelona as well before driving back to Netherlands.
It needs a dedicated travelogue, will create a one sometime later. However here are some sneak peaks.
Lexus did exactly what it was asked to do + more. Extremely comfortable highway cruising, no unexpected events, great air conditioning (some days were really warm).
While being in the mountains, I did take it a bit for climbing some unpaved roads and for a fair amount of green-laning and it did surprisingly well to my expectations (New tires helped too). With electric AWD, I was expecting only basic extra grip, but no. I can confidently say that it can do more. It’s not a replacement for a ‘proper’ AWD tech, but it’s definitely valuable for the type of trips I was into and it can get into places where other ‘normal’ cars cannot get in.
While driving back from Barcenola to Netherlands, we passed the famous Millau Viaduct. It is the tallest bridge in the world when measured to the top of its structure (not the road deck), reaching a height of 343 meters (1,125 feet)—even taller than the Eiffel Tower.
Below the red mark, you can see a small white spot – thats a car. Just marked it to give you a sense of the scale. Its massive.
Finally, some numbers as usual:
TOTAL ODO: 235870
- Kms under my ownership of 2 years 2 months: 58935
- Average Kms per day: 74.7
- Average per month: 2278
- Average fuel efficiency [tank full to tank full] under my ownership: 14.27 (It was 14.40 kmpl during last update, dropped a bit due the trip to Pyrenees and higher speed cruising on French motorways)
- Min fuel efficiency [tank full to tank full] under my ownership: 11.6 kmpl
- Best fuel efficiency [tank full to tank full] under my ownership: 16.5 kmpl
- Total number of refuels: 120 [tank full to tank full] which is a total of 4167 litres, overall averaging 495 kms per refuel.
Now its time for getting back to official durties of school drops, office runs, groceries and so on. Will be back with another update later this year
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