Lexus will no longer sell cars with a V8 engine in our latitudes. Not even the British, who are not members of the EU, are allowed to keep the big engines.
Lexus has dropped the last cars with a V8 engine in Europe. Toyota's premium division also only had two models left with 8 cylinders.
That's what Autocar writes.
But they are now both disappearing. Both the one and the other car are coupés with 5-liter V8 engines at the top of the model range.
Autocar quotes Lexus as saying that it is 'regulations and homologation requirements' that are killing the two models in Europe.
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And Lexus is not the only one to think so. Due to completely new cyber security requirements, Porsche has to bury its most popular model in the whole of Europe.
After that, both the 718 Cayman and the Boxster actually follow. However, the GT4 version of the Cayman cannot be killed by EU regulations. Read more about it here .
Back at Lexus, no further words are put into what exactly it is that causes the two models to disappear from Europe. But it is not inconceivable that it has something to do with both emission requirements and cyber security.
The Lexus RC alone is a 10-year-old car. Thus, it will have been developed long before the EU began to join hands with Germany on the upcoming and partially watered-down Euro7 requirements for the emissions of fossil-fuel cars.
The same applies to the completely new requirements for cyber security. In any case, it is now clear that Lexus has not found it worth the effort – and above all the cost – to update the cars.
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