Faults:

Nothing engine wise. Exhaust, back box needed replacing for MOT.

General Comments:

This car is lovely to travel in. Luxury seating, & passengers remark at the marvelous leg room in the rear.

The only problem is, being an import, most switches are marked in Japanese, which I cannot seem to get interpreted, along with the GPS system, but I am willing to put up with that as I enjoy driving this car so much.

The dash unit is good & informative, with all dials clear & symbols, re engine etc, understandable. One small flick switch above the gear shift on the left is one I cannot find out what it does, no matter how much I try, but if anyone knows, could you let me know, as that does annoy me, but overall I love this car, & with LPG, it makes it cheap to run.

Faults:

Had a transmission problem shifting gears between 2nd and 3rd; hesitates, then does a hard shift.

Dealer service diagnosis was to replace the whole transmission, which will cost about $5000.

General Comments:

Car's been very good so far, but problems started just recently.

Had to replace the air intake control valve, just about a month ago, because the car won't start, and it was not cheap.

Faults:

At 28,000 miles, it started burning oil. Lexus replaced the engine at no cost.

At 100,000 miles, it had transmission problems. Lexus paid half of replacement.

At 167,000 miles, it needs new rear wheel bearings.

I have replaced the O2 sensors twice.

The check engine light is still on.

General Comments:

Believe what you hear about buying first model year of vehicles.

I love this car, barring the fact it's had too many problems for a luxury price range vehicle.

Faults:

My transmission was lagging, and I had a friend look at it. Thought my transmission was going out, but he told me it was the transmission speed sensor. Replaced the sensor, and car runs great.

Hope it helps someone!

General Comments:

Hate the turning radius.

However lots of space.

Faults:

About people complaining with transmission problems. For God's sake, change the transmission fluid with flush.

When I got car, it was 10 years old with 120 000 miles on it. In 2 months, one morning the car refused to move; the engine was working fine.

I thought, that's it, time for new transmission.

Brought it to friend of mine's transmission shop; he flashed the transmission with a special machine, replacing all the old fluid, put in new tranny filter, and the car was driving like new.

His comment was that no one ever changed tranny fluid on this car.

Since then I've put 44000 miles on it, and love this car.

General Comments:

Love it.