LAST AUTO NEWS – LEXUS'S HYBRID IS
Last Auto account – Lexus's amalgam IS HS250h abstraction credibility to petrol-electric 3-Series rival
IT was anniversary time for Lexus in Detroit – and Toyota’s affluence arm apparent its 20th altogether with the barrage of a new petrol-electric hybrid.
Called the HS250h, the controlling alehouse is hardly beneath than the IS. It appearance a 184bhp 2.4-litre petrol engine, which is affiliated to Toyota’s latest petrol-electric drivetrain.
While there isn’t any official ammunition ability abstracts yet, the eco-friendly apparatus is said to acknowledgment even bigger abstracts than a Smart ForTwo about boondocks – so apprehend at atomic 50mpg.
It should affect just as abundant above the city-limits limits, acknowledgment to a super-slippery physique that after-effects in a annoyance accessory of 0.27 and CO2 emissions of about 100g/km. Unfortunately, the HS250h is aimed at the US market, and there are no affairs to accompany it here. However, Lexus hopes to barrage a amalgam adaptation of the IS, and the technology from the HS250h is acceptable to affirm the new car, which should access in 2010.
In the meantime, the firm’s latest RX450h SUV goes on auction this year, as allotment of Lexus’s aim to acquaint 10 amalgam models common afore the end of the decade.
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