Fleet World Workshop Tools
Car Tax Calculator
CO2 Calculator
Van Tax Calculator
BiK Rates Company Car Tax

Lexus could drop GS from UK line-up

Lexus is bringing the ES saloon to Europe next January, likely to replace the similarly-sized GS and offered only with a hybrid drivetrain in the UK.

Lexus ES F-Sport

The ES will be available with a hybrid drivetrain in the UK.

The ES is already a familiar nameplate in other markets, but has never been available in Western European markets. In its seventh generation, it moves to a front-wheel drive platform and increases in size compared to its predecessor, positioning it beneath the IS and LS in the Lexus line-up – a niche which is currently filled by the rear-wheel drive GS executive saloon.

Lexus said the ES will be a big part of its ambition to reach 100,000 sales across Europe by 2020; UK customers will be offered a single drivetrain – the 213hp 2.5-litre petrol-hybrid 300h – matching 98.8% of the brand’s 12,671 units sold here last year which were hybrids. This is said to have been re-tuned to drive more like a standard petrol engine, while offering 60.1mpg fuel economy.

FIND OUT MORE: To discover how Lexus’s hybrid range could fit your fleet, visit the company’s stand at The Fleet Show 2018. Click here to register for free.

For more of the latest industry news, click here.

Alex Grant

Trained on Cardiff University’s renowned Postgraduate Diploma in Motor Magazine Journalism, Alex is an award-winning motoring journalist with ten years’ experience across B2B and consumer titles. A life-long car enthusiast with a fascination for new technology and future drivetrains, he joined Fleet World in April 2011, contributing across the magazine and website portfolio and editing the EV Fleet World Website.