From the "MT CONFIDENTIAL" section of the August 2016 issue of Motor Trend magazine.

 

I'm not surprised and actually kind of relieved. In SoCal, I see a ton of CT's around and would appreciate having a car that is more unique among the plethora of cars out there. Also, if they made a new CT model I'd be kinda jelly

 

lol i guess everyone wanted to have the hybrid MPG, but in style.

is there a car club for the CT owners in socal?

 

I hope Lexus doesn't cancel the CT but instead expand the line to add:

CT 200t
CT 200h
CT 300h

F Sport all variants...

 

I wouldn't mind seeing a HS200t, if that ever becomes a thing, if people want hybrids. With the price of gas being pretty low, though, I think hybrids in general aren't as desirable as they once were.

 

i have serious doubts it will be discontinued. the CT was low production to test the waters but it flew off the lots. the CT brought people in their 20s to Lexus dealerships and got them to stay. going back to the ugly and inefficient HS would be a mistake. young people like hatchbacks, look at the Mazda 3. doing anything but a slight update and ramping up production would be a mistake. if nothing else, they should keep it as a CAFE compliance vehicle.

then again, we're talking about the same parent company that is pushing hydrogen FCVs.

 

CT didn't sell as well they thought globally? Maybe UX has better luck.

 

The UX will do well because in general SUV's/CUV's do very well and people love the space, utility and ruggedness.

I think Lexus should keep and expand the CT luxury hatchback. The CT 200h did a much better job than the Audi A3 hatchback. The A3 sedan appears to be doing well.

 

Just what Lexus needs.....another SUV/CUV. BLEH! Here in KY people look at me like "What is tha.....oh...a Lexus?!"

 

LOL. ANOTHER SUV. Just what the consumer market needs.

 

So its about the same size as the Juke it seems?

I know people that have a Juke even though they think the it is ugly, but its small size and the fact that you sit higher up were the big selling points for them. They just couldn't find something similar. So this might be a decent way for Toyota/Lexus to go.

 

That's funny. Just to the right of you over here in WV nobody blinks when they see a Lexus SUV or whatever else. They see the CT and don't know what's going on and always give compliments, sometimes saying something like "I didn't know Lexus made such a small car, it looks so cool."

I've also had people say while they don't want to own one because it's a hybrid, if it was a 2.0L turbo they'd trip over themselves to the dealer to buy one because they love the way it looks and handles but not so much the performance.

 

Slowly the 2017 CT's are coming in. Lexus already has the 2017 brochure and it's also updated on Lexus.com.

http://www.lexus.com/models/CT-hybrid

So if Lexus will keep the CT hopefully the 2018 model year will be the 2CT...

 

And maybe they will finally add blind spot monitoring.

 

I hope so too - I really would like to replace our CT with a 2CT!