New Lexus HS250h to get Toyota SAI counterpart
Monday, September 28, 2009
Toyota SAIWhen the Lexus cast was assuredly alien aback in its citizenry of Japan, it apparent the end of the Toyota-badged Lexus articles such as the Toyota Harrier, which was about a Lexus RX. The Land Cruiser and Lexus LX twins are still on though.
Or so we thought, because the new Lexus HS250h will be launched in Japan as a Toyota alleged the Toyota SAI, alongside the aboriginal HS250h which has already been launched in Japan, which isn’t absolutely absolutely aboriginal at all, actuality a restyled Euro-market Toyota Avensis (platform additionally acclimated for the Scion tC) with the Camry Hybrid’s gaso-electric powertrain. Boy, that was confusing!
Toyota will be accession the Toyota SAI as a beyond hybrid-only car compared to the Prius, admitting back they allotment the aforementioned 2,700mm wheelbase I don’t apprehend the autogenous amplitude to be all that different, admitting rear allowance should be better.
In the HS250h, the anatomy had to handle the artlessly beyond 2.4 liter Amalgam Synergy Drive amalgam arrangement but some are adage that the Toyota SAI will use the 1.8 liter adaptation thats in the Prius. There are of advance additionally account that it will use the aforementioned 2.4 liter HSD agent as the HS250h. What it will accept is a able boot, while the Prius is a hatchback.
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