Right Lane Cruiser
06-25-2009, 07:50 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/Japanese_Flag_30x22.jpg Median age of the HS 250h buyer is expected to be 43. (http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10001777/high-tech-lexus-hybrid-goes-after-the-young-and-restless/)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/HS_250h_Passenger_Side_Front_Headline.jpgJim Motavalli - BNET (http://industry.bnet.com) - June 24, 2009
See more here (http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=215415) for a preview of what the car is really worth. --Ed.
TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK—Lexus likes the concept of luxury hybrids so much that it now offers four of them. The fourth, with a tongue-twister of a name—HS 250h—was shown to the press today.
Lexus calls the HS 250h the world’s first dedicated luxury hybrid, which means designed from the ground up. There are actually very few dedicated hybrids at all: The Prius and the new Honda Insight come to mind. Still, there’s a lot of Toyota Prius and Camry Hybrid (mostly the latter) in the HS 250h, which is not a bad thing. Think of it as hybrid-over-easy, all the benefits of hybrid ownership without any of the sacrifices.
Driving it—which we were able to do—yielded a high-tech version of those Toyota cars, bristling with innovations from an exhaust heat recovery system and LED lighting to plant-based eco-plastic materials for upholstery and trunk panels. Someone called it “Windows friendly,” and that’s accurate. Want to play songs from a portable hard drive off the stereo head end? No problem with this Lexus.
The new Lexus, priced around $33,000, has a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Atkinson-Cycle engine under the hood, and together with the electric motor it produces 187 horsepower (50 more than the Prius). That’s quite enough to give it dramatically good acceleration—8.4 seconds to... http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10001777/high-tech-lexus-hybrid-goes-after-the-young-and-restless/
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/HS_250h_Passenger_Side_Front_Headline.jpgJim Motavalli - BNET (http://industry.bnet.com) - June 24, 2009
See more here (http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=215415) for a preview of what the car is really worth. --Ed.
TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK—Lexus likes the concept of luxury hybrids so much that it now offers four of them. The fourth, with a tongue-twister of a name—HS 250h—was shown to the press today.
Lexus calls the HS 250h the world’s first dedicated luxury hybrid, which means designed from the ground up. There are actually very few dedicated hybrids at all: The Prius and the new Honda Insight come to mind. Still, there’s a lot of Toyota Prius and Camry Hybrid (mostly the latter) in the HS 250h, which is not a bad thing. Think of it as hybrid-over-easy, all the benefits of hybrid ownership without any of the sacrifices.
Driving it—which we were able to do—yielded a high-tech version of those Toyota cars, bristling with innovations from an exhaust heat recovery system and LED lighting to plant-based eco-plastic materials for upholstery and trunk panels. Someone called it “Windows friendly,” and that’s accurate. Want to play songs from a portable hard drive off the stereo head end? No problem with this Lexus.
The new Lexus, priced around $33,000, has a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Atkinson-Cycle engine under the hood, and together with the electric motor it produces 187 horsepower (50 more than the Prius). That’s quite enough to give it dramatically good acceleration—8.4 seconds to... http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10001777/high-tech-lexus-hybrid-goes-after-the-young-and-restless/