UNLESS you have given up on the car market and foresworn all your worldly automotive aspirations, you would have heard that Lexus has embraced forced induction with a vengeance, albeit rather belatedly compared to the Europeans.

The Japanese luxury marque's two-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine with its in-house designed and produced turbocharger seems to everywhere, including in the new Lexus RX200t.

But even more interesting is that this smallest of engines for the RX comes at a time when the mid-size luxury crossover is at its biggest.