It looks like Toyota will have to recall something else now - the brochure for the new Lexus CT 200h, which has fallen into journalists' grubby hands well before the car's Geneva debut.

For some reason the internet's been springing leaks left, right and centre in the run up to this year's Geneva Show. First there was the Porsche Cayenne, then the Audi RS5, and now this. Someone needs to email www.plumber.com to get the whole thing fixed. (Car Enthusiast is not responsible for the content of external sites we've made up that may or may not exist.)

Ok, the matter at hand. We already knew the Lexus CT would be a hybrid, based on the Prius's system, but the brochure reveals it'll have four driving modes and be 'powerful' - suggesting more poke than the Toyota version.

Those modes are EV, Eco, Normal and Sport. Like the Prius, the first three will allow electric-only driving for a short time before waking the 1.8-litre petrol engine up again. These modes will apparently be biased towards smooth, comfy progress, with matters altogether sharpened up in Sport - which also turns the instrument binnacle from blue to red.

The chassis is entirely new too, so it's not based on the Prius, and Lexus promises 'unprecedented' refinement for the class. If it's better than the Golf, that's quite some achievement.

As an aside, the brochure boasts that 500 orders have already been taken for the car at the opposite end of the Lexus scale, the LFA. However, it'll keep the order book open, just so it can choose the best 500 people from a big list then boast about how many folk it's disappointed. Oh well.

Mark Nichol - 24 Feb 2010