Lexus revealed today details on the 2010 GS 450h, that comes with stylish exterior changes, but also with the latest technologies. The exterior chabges include: front grille, special 18-inch light-alloy wheels, a Lexis Hybrid Drive engine cover, blue front and rear "L" logos, a blue tint to the headlamps, clear tail lamp covers and a power meter that replaces the tachometer.
The 450h’s hybrid system combines a 3.5-liter V6 engine with a compact, permanent magnet electric motor that both delivers a total of 340 hp. The 450h sprints from zero-to-60 mph in just 5.2 seconds.
The gasoline V6 uses an Electronic Throttle Control System with intelligence (ETCS-i) and a dual fuel-injection system that combines the benefits of direct injection with those of port injection. Dual Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i) operates on the intake and exhaust valves to further enhance power and torque across a broad engine speed range.
Press release after the jump.
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Lexus GS 450h, first introduced in April 2006 as a 2007 model, remains the only hybrid-powered performance luxury sport sedan in its segment. Based on the new-generation GS platform and featuring Lexus Hybrid Drive technology, the GS 450h offers V8-like performance with greater fuel efficiency
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If you haven’t noticed by now, Frankfurt will be one of the greatest events of the year. Do you remember the number of the new models that will be unveiled in here? We lost count long time ago. And to that impressive number, Lexus will also add a few models. One of them is the 2008 GS 450h.
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According the Playboy’s "2007 Cars of the Year," street-legal speedsters, a hyper-quick hybrid, and a blast from the past that drives circles around the competition.
The cars selected by Playboy were carefully chosen by an expert team of automotive writers who traveled the globe to test drive every new model they could get their hands on. They covered thousands of miles of the windiest, steepest, most challenging roads to sort the best from (...)
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The latest Lexus models for 2006 have been recognized worldwide in their own merit. Lexus is a luxury vehicle with a huge success which impress the buyers by its performance. It is a hybrid powertrain vehicle of the range GS sedan, considered to be the first true Lexus, or the first Lexus designed and built for global consumption, as well as the first vehicle to integrate the luxury marques new L-Finesse design language in production trim.
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Hybrid cars are known to be oriented on reducing fuel consumption and emission levels. They are generally slow and not very pleasant to drive. Lexus has just changed that launching the first high performance hybrid vehicle, the GS 450h. With a total power of 345 bhp, this new Lexus can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under 6 seconds, reach a limited top speed of 155 mph with a combined fuel efficiency of 30 mpg.
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Not as impressive as a V12 diesel engine that usually race the Le Mans series, but this is quite a debut: Toyota Motor has announced that it has entered a race-prepped version of its Lexus GS450h hybrid sedan in Japan’s Tokachi 24-hour endurance race. The car will be raced by Sigma Automotive Racing Division (SARD), a group that races
Toyotas in the Japanese Super GT series.
The GS450h race car features a maximum hybrid system with an output of about 345 hp, with peak output of the gas (...
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Toyota’s latest luxury car is powered by the world’s first commercially mass produced hybrid system that’s especially designed for rear-wheel drive vehicles.
The Japanese automaker said Thursday the Lexus GS450h, powered by an electric motor and gasoline engine, will go on sale in North America and Japan in April and in Europe in May.
Toyota Motor Corp., which leads the world in the new market for energy-efficient hybrid cars, is targeting global sales of 5,700 vehicles this year — (...
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The 2007
Lexus GS 450h is the world’s first hybrid luxury sedan and the first full hybrid vehicle with a front engine and rear wheel drive.
’Once again, we’ve applied our formula of no compromise engineering - this time to a luxury sport sedan which proves to us that hybrid power trains can work superbly in virtually any application,’ said Lexus Vice President of Marketing Mark Templin. ’It’s very important to continue pursuing substantial reductions in fuel consumption and emissions, (...
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