Featured Lexus UX crossover photo and video released ahead of Geneva

The market is so full of crossover options right now. This one hopefully carries a good engine.

 

My guess would be:

UX 200: A20A-FKS (2.0, 169 hp)
UX 250: A25A-FKS (2.5, 203-206 hp)
UX 250h: A20A-FXS+P711 or P810 depending on how it's designated? (2.0, and probably in the ballpark of 160ish system hp)

 

UX200t - 2.0turbo 2AR-FTS 240hp ?

 

Well, UX 200, UX 250, and UX 250h are what's been trademarked.

Also, nowadays, the 2AR-FTS is being called a "300" instead of "200t".

 

My guess is that it's simply following the badge inflation trend that the Germans started in the early 2000s - Mercedes called a 1.8 supercharged engine a "230 Kompressor". And now, the numbers on Mercedes and BMWs almost never have anything to do with the displacement, and the same displacement can have a different number based on how much boost it has.

And, really, there was precedent for it in the Lexus line - after all, the hybrids always had inflated badges.

But, you get the weird case where an "IS 300" could be a 2AR-FTS 2.0 turbo, or it could be a detuned 2GR-FSE 3.5 V6, now, depending on whether it's RWD or AWD.

 

Basically, "my dad's bigger than your dad."