Toyota announced today that it will soon resume production of the Prius and two Lexus hybrid models, while competitor Honda on the other hand has extended its Japan auto shutdown until early April. Many Japanese automakers suspended production after the March 11 earthquake due to damage to supplier factories in northeastern Japan and power shortages. [...]
Lexus announced that it will return to the 2010 SEMA Show with an impressive lineup of custom build vehicles following the brand’s official debut at the 2007 show. As the only luxury maker to offer five hybrid vehicles, Lexus will feature six electrifying hybrid vehicles at its exhibit. The luxury Japanese brand is also celebrating the launch [...]
We could make our job here extremely easy by saying that the 2010 Lexus HS 250h is a merely a dressed up Toyota Prius; but that would not do the car or our readers any justice. In all actuality, there is a considerable amount of similarity between the Prius and HS 250h, but there is [...]
Toyota announced yesterday that it will be recalling 17,000 Lexus HS 250 h units after a testing conducted by the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration showed that fuel can spill during a rear end crash. The testing found that fuel leaked during a rear impact crash at 50 miles per hour on a 2010 Lexus [...]
According to data by WardsAuto, U.S. sales of the Lexus HS 250h hybrid are running below the automaker’s target. Lexus had originally hoped to sell 20,000 to 22,000 units annually in the U.S. but is on pace to deliver less than 14,000 in 2010. In April alone, Lexus sold 1,076 units of the HS 250h [...]
Toyota Motor Corp’s Lexus and Scion brand have been pretty safe when it comes to the company’s recent surge of recalls; however, Toyota is now looking into see if its Lexus HS Hybrid has the same braking issues announced in the Prius last week. “They have very similar braking systems and we are currently checking [...]
As reported last month, Toyota has released the details on its new dedicated hybrid for the Toyota brand, the Sai sedan. Based on the Lexus HS 250h, which went on sale in the U.S. in mid-September, the Toyota Sai is virtually the same thing with some Toyota design touches. Power for the new Toyota Sai [...]
When Toyota’s new 2010 Lexus HS 250h went on sale in Japan in July, the automaker was hoping to sell 500 units in the hybrids first full month of sales. Instead, Toyota received a staggering 10,000 orders for the new dedicated hybrid model for Lexus. According to a report by Automotive News, booming orders in [...]
The brand new Lexus HS 250h, which just made its debut last month in Japan and the U.S., is selling like hot-cakes. According to Japan’s Nikkei, Toyota was targeting 500 sales per month, but has already received close to 9,000 orders. Toyota, which produced 2,000 units of the HS 250h in July, in now looking [...]
Toyota is hoping to sell about 25,000 units of its all-new 2010 Lexus HS 250h in the first 12 months of the cars sale, said Mark Templin, group vice president of the Lexus Division for Toyota North America. Lexus’ first dedicated hybrid model is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. later this summer and will be [...]
