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Old Sep 18, 2018 | 02:05 PM
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I spoke with a nice lady at Lexus UK Customer Service. I asked her how many IS convertibles are in circulation in the UK. She came back with a figure of 800 or so. This is against a base of 30 million passenger cars on our roads.

Lexus UK are showing a total of 1,823 used vehicles for sale at their dealerships. Only 2 of these are IS-Cs. Each has covered around 50,000 miles and are up for sales at £15,000 (US $ 19,500). They will be fully checked-out and serviced and offered with one-year warranty.
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Old Sep 18, 2018 | 02:19 PM
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It really is a rare car. I would like to know the numbers in the states I have yet to see another in my city
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3 in my neighborhood

and total 5 in my city


Here are the production numbers
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...s-for-usa.html

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Ryan, The table in your link is interesting. 29,400 sold in the US as overall production.

The models in the UK were 250 auto only with successive trim improvements. Given that only 800 are in circulation and taking account of a few write-offs and stolen not recovered (some at the end of their useful life not being a consideration) the total sold in the UK must have been less than 1000.

I can only think that Lexus anticipated more sales than this to have put the car through UK regulatory approval together with marketing costs, especially as it was not priced as a supercar.
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Originally Posted by Mike246
Ryan, The table in your link is interesting. 29,400 sold in the US as overall production.

The models in the UK were 250 auto only with successive trim improvements. Given that only 800 are in circulation and taking account of a few write-offs and stolen not recovered (some at the end of their useful life not being a consideration) the total sold in the UK must have been less than 1000.

I can only think that Lexus anticipated more sales than this to have put the car through UK regulatory approval together with marketing costs, especially as it was not priced as a supercar.
I have family in Brighton and Manchester. 3 convertibles among them. None are Lexus. Lexus IS seen very differently in Europe than in USA

numbers bear that out

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Old Sep 20, 2018 | 09:45 AM
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i see them all the time here in Southern California.
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i see them all the time here in Southern California.
Yes they are. Though the owners are usually 60-70 years old (ones I see)

It is the modern Toyota Solara.
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Old Sep 20, 2018 | 11:53 AM
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yeah.. definitely a popular car with the senior set... especially here in palm springs!! LOL
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Originally Posted by tomdac
yeah.. Definitely a popular car with the senior set... Especially here in palm springs!! Lol
...........true
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See several here in Atlanta area but haven’t seen one like my wife’s. F sport USB 2013.
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I looked at 2 USB
one at South Bay
one at Santa Monica

wife woulsnt buy either of them . Hated the blue. I loved it

then again I was looking for something with 5,000 miles or so, which was hard to find. Matador was essentially only choice


I see a bunch when I go to Alpharetta, GA - mostly silver and black
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Originally Posted by ryanSC300lover
I looked at 2 USB
one at South Bay
one at Santa Monica

wife woulsnt buy either of them . Hated the blue. I loved it

then again I was looking for something with 5,000 miles or so, which was hard to find. Matador was essentially only choice


I see a bunch when I go to Alpharetta, GA - mostly silver and black
Yes. That area has several. Colors I see the most are silver, black and white. Matador is a pretty color
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