Mileage 6635 List price £67,995 Target Price £64,807 Price as tested £69,095 Test range 190 miles
IN MANY WAYS, my Lexus RZ continues to delight me. It's quiet, comfortable and very much helped by its excellent driver assistance systems - extremely relaxing. However, I can no longer ignore the elephant in the room, nor the hippo in the corner or the rhino under the stairs. These uninvited mammals won't shut up about the RZ's disappointing range and efficiency.
Regular readers might have noticed that this very car finished at the bottom of the table in our 2024 winter range test. It managed just 159 miles on our test track - 92 miles (or 36.7%) short of its 251-mile official range. Okay, no electric vehicle (EV) can reasonably be expected to deliver its best during the winter, but only one model (another Lexus: the UX 300e) delivered a worse shortfall: 37.6%.
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