Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing gets 300bhp

Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing gets a Supercharger and 300bhp

You may recall, at the end of last month, we reported on the Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing, a pimped and tarted Lexus CT 200h which was going to feature a supercharger bolted to its HSD.

At the time we had precious little detail beyond a photo of a CT 200h being endowed with go-faster body and primed for a paint job. But now, with the reveal at the New York Motor Show, we have a little more. Although still surprisingly little.

What we do know is that bolting an Eaton Supercharger on to the 1.8 litre Atkinson 4-pot has cranked the horses up from a small pair of Blackpool Donkeys to a full-fat herd of rather swift nags – 300bhp in total. There is also a set of fortified batteries, a major suspension tweak or three and a set of big, bad Baer brakes.

Which sounds very interesting. We could  live without the boy-racer special body and paint job (how good would this be if it looked like a bog-standard CT 200h?) but that tweaked suspension and 300 horses is mighty appealing, even if it does seem to still have a CVT ‘box.

But oddly, we don’t have any real clue about how it goes. Neither Fox Marketing or Lexus – who seem to have commissioned this – have divulged any performance details at all and, as far as we can tell, no one outside Fox has driven it.

All very peculiar. Why would you build a car like this with a single raison d’être - to go like no other CT 200h – and then fail to tell the world what you’ve achieved? Still, we live in hope this might point towards a properly pokey Lexus CT 200h.

But we won’t be betting the farm on it.

By Cars UK