{"id":422089,"date":"2010-03-12T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/12\/rumormill-next-lexus-is-to-re-gain-wagon-variant\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:29:00","slug":"rumormill-next-lexus-is-to-re-gain-wagon-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422089","title":{"rendered":"Rumormill: Next Lexus IS to re-gain wagon variant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Wagon<\/a>, Lexus<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a>, Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some of you will remember that from 2001 to 2005, Lexus<\/a> sold a wagon variant of the IS<\/a>, dubbed SportCross. Unfortunately, relatively dismal sales numbers didn’t really make a business case for keeping that car alive, and Lexus canned it when the second-generation IS debuted in 2006. However, all hope of seeing a SportCross redux has not been lost – Autocar<\/em> is reporting that the third-generation IS, set to arrive in 2011, could spawn a wagon variant once again.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s be realistic. If Lexus does<\/em> build an IS SportCross again, it probably won’t make it to American soil. Why? In Europe, wagons are hot sellers, with the BMW 3 Series<\/a> Touring and Audi A4<\/a> Avant leading the pack. Lexus even admits that not offering a wagon in Europe has hurt overall sales of the car. Mercedes-Benz<\/a> made a similar decision with the current-generation C-Class<\/a> to only offer the wagon version in Europe, while in previous years, the C-Class Estate could be found at American dealerships as well.<\/p>\n

[Source: Autocar<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Rumormill: Next Lexus IS to re-gain wagon variant?<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Wagon, Lexus, Rumormill, Luxury Some of you will remember that from 2001 to 2005, Lexus sold a wagon variant of the IS, dubbed SportCross. Unfortunately, relatively dismal sales numbers didn’t really make a business case for keeping that car alive, and Lexus canned it when the second-generation IS debuted in 2006. However, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}