Finally taken delivery of my Lexus IS250 SE-L to replace my run about Yaris!

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Iceweasel wrote: »

There corrected it for you.

And the answer is yes.

Which is why I change wheels when the clocks change.

Tally ho, makes sense now Thank you!

HBS x

Johnnytwostep

No it is not the car that is the problem in winter, it is the driver not being prepared with the correct tyres. My RWD is fine in winter as I put on winter tyres, and then store them over summer.

DUTR

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

So come on OP, tell us the story of the 51 plate, we're all dying to know.

It could easily be a personal plate, maybe not personal to any of the readers here, but the previous owner.
My car plate in normal guise would appear as a year 2000, however the car is registered 2013.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Please can you tell me a Toyota in the UK market that shares the same transmission, interior, chassis and engine as the IS250?

Yes there are newer Camry's in the overseas market that would share many of the same components of the IS250 but the Camry is Toyota's flagship 'luxury' car and it isn't that cheap when buying new.

Come on pal, be fair. You never said UK, or set any other caveats. You said "No Toyota is rear wheel drive or has the same V6 engine as well as sharing anything in common with the IS250".


You've been proved wrong on that point. Please just be the big man you claim your BMW makes you, and admit when you're wrong.

Bantex_2

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Please can you tell me a Toyota in the UK market that shares the same transmission, interior, chassis and engine as the IS250?

Yes there are newer Camry's in the overseas market that would share many of the same components of the IS250 but the Camry is Toyota's flagship 'luxury' car and it isn't that cheap when buying new.

Do Camry's not come out of Toyota factories?

BeenThroughItAll

DUTR wrote: »

It could easily be a personal plate, maybe not personal to any of the readers here, but the previous owner.
My car plate in normal guise would appear as a year 2000, however the car is registered 2013.

I know that, motoring isn't a complete mystery to me and I do understand VRNs.


I just want to know whether the OP knows what it was about, because I can't for the life of me work out what 'HL51 NAP' could possible mean to anyone.

darkmatter101

Bantex wrote: »

Do Camry's not come out of Toyota factories?

Yes but they are still FWD and a quick dig from wiki also shows that they may share the same 6 cylinder block but the power on the Camry is significantly less, around 40-50 bhp to the IS250.

DUTR

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

I know that, motoring isn't a complete mystery to me and I do understand VRNs.


I just want to know whether the OP knows what it was about, because I can't for the life of me work out what 'HL51 NAP' could possible mean to anyone.

Neil Andrew Palmer born 1951 ?
Strangely the dvla have this as a 2013 model :question:

BeenThroughItAll

DUTR wrote: »

Neil Andrew Palmer born 1951 ?
Strangely the dvla have this as a 2013 model :question:

Plate's perhaps been transferred?


So OP, is it still on a 51 plate, or is there an alternative VRN we should all avoid?

colino

Has the owner of the Lexus IS 300H Luxury Dual VVT-I taken his plate off of it yet?