Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

When the original Lexus GS 450h debuted in 2007, it entered the market as the world’s first hybrid luxury sport sedan. Time moves on quickly in the automotive world, and today the Lexus GS 450h has hybrid challengers from Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and even upstart Fisker.

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GS 450h Lexus 2013 Hybrid 90

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

From 2007 up to the end of the first quarter of this year, almost 100,000 hybrid vehicles have been sold in the UK; the market share of hybrids has almost doubled, from 0.7% Sales of hybrid-electric vehicles in the UK have steadily risen over the past five years, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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GS 450h Lexus Toyota Hybrid 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Succeeded by the RX 450h in 2009, it has claimed the largest share of Lexus hybrid sales (51.2%), with 259,000 units sold through to November this year. Lexus’s second hybrid model, the GS 450h, was introduced in 2006 and was the first premium production sedan to be fitted with a rear-wheel drive full hybrid powertrain.

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LS 600H HS 250h Lexus GS 450h 246

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

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. Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000. million vehicles through January of this year.

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HS 250h Lexus LS 600H GS 450h 150