Lexus HS 250h News

Overall, Toyota reported a 5.5 percent decrease in year-on-year sales for the month of December and a drop in annual sales in 2010 of 0.4 percent compared to 2009. However, many of the automaker's hybrid models bucked the declining trend and displayed some decent improvements. Toyota's hybrid sales in December rose 14.2 percent, hitting 20,522 units by ...

Lexus is descending on Las Vegas with a host of custom-built show cars just for SEMA. A total of six models will be on hand for the aftermarket shindig, including an F Sport version of the all-new CT200h. The hybrid rolls on 18x8-inch wheels and sports a high-performance big-brake kit straight from the company's go-fast catalog. But the CT200h isn't ...

Japan's Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reports that Toyota's hybrid production plans for 2011 may fall well short of the company's targeted one million units. The report, drawing information from an unidentified source who is closely entwined with Toyota's production process, states that company recently released its hybrid plans to major suppliers and the ...

Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc., a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, will invest 1 billion yen ($11.7 million U.S. at the current exchange rate) to retool its plant in Kanda, Japan in order to establish a new start-to-finish manufacturing facility that's capable of producing all of the necessary components for the Toyota Sai and Lexus HS 250h hybrids on ...

A Perfect Prius It Is Not Lexus likes to say that it pursues perfection. Toyota's luxury brand has been playing the hybrid game for a while now with converted gas-powered models like the LS, GS and RX hybrids, and few would argue that these models represent the zenith of what a luxury hybrid can be. For that, Lexus finally decided to build a dedicated ...

A Perfect Prius It Is Not Lexus likes to say that it pursues perfection. Toyota's luxury brand has been playing the hybrid game for a while now with converted gas-powered models like the LS, GS and RX hybrids, and few would argue that these models represent the zenith of what a luxury hybrid can be. For that, Lexus finally decided to build a dedicated ...

Back in August of 1997, Toyota launched its Coaster Hybrid EV minibus, the company's first hybrid vehicle. Though the Coaster Hybrid is not a common name, it was the vehicle that started the hybrid revolution at Toyota. The Japanese automaker has now announced that cumulative sales of its hybrids have now topped the one-million mark in its home market. ...

Back in August of 1997, Toyota launched its Coaster Hybrid EV minibus, the company's first hybrid vehicle. Though the Coaster Hybrid is not a common name, it was the vehicle that started the hybrid revolution at Toyota. Just days ago, Toyota announced that cumulative sales of its hybrids have now topped the one-million mark in Japan. In addition, the ...

Back in the 1970s, the Ford Pinto was the focus of many headlines due to a fuel tank issue which caused excessive amounts of gasoline to leak during a rear-end collision. Now, three decades later, Lexus is having a similar problem with its HS250h hybrid, and has filed a report with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a voluntary ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just wrapped up a couple more crash tests of both the Lexus HS 250h and the Suzuki Kizashi. The little luxury hybrid recently underwent both side impact and rollover testing, nabbing Good and Acceptable ratings in each category, respectively. The HS 250h has also received a Good rating in offset frontal ...