Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing gets 300bhp

Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing at New York Motor Show

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

The Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing has debuted at the new York Motor Show, complete with Eaton Supercharger, wide body 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.