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Cumulative global sales of Lexus hybrids pass half-million mark

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Cumulative global sales of all Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)-produced hybrid vehicles—i.e., The RX 400h, launched in 2005, was the world’s first production full hybrid luxury SUV. It took Lexus hybrid power into the luxury compact/hatchback market for the first time and quickly became a major contributor to Lexus’s global sales.

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Total Sales of Toyota and Lexus Hybrids Top 1M Mark in US

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Toyota plans to introduce 10 new hybrid models between now and 2012 in various global markets, with sales of one million gas-electric hybrids per year, worldwide, sometime early in the next decade. In April 2005, Lexus introduced the crossover RX 400h, the world’s first hybrid-powered luxury vehicle.

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