Lap up the miles in Lexus levels of luxury

AS IS NORMAL with such things, upon returning the Lexus RX450h to the garage from which I collected it, the personnel there were anxious to see what I thought of the car and seemed happy when I said it was a very nice beast to drive and very sophisticated with it. They did blanche however when I suggested it was something they might not sell very many of, writes Declan Colley

Au contraire, a salesman assured me. That garage alone had sold well over 20 of them already this year and were very hopeful of exceeding sales targets for the car. So much for my theories on the matter then.

Was I surprised? Mildly. Was I shocked? No.