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UCS Hybrid ScoreCard Dings Automakers for Forced Features in Hybrid Offerings

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Both emit 31% less greenhouse gas emissions than their base conventional models due to their use of hybrid drivetrains, each of which costs approximately $4,000. The luxury Lexus LS 600h L hybrid is the worst offender. It comes with more than $17,000 in forced features compared with the conventional, base model Lexus LS 460L.

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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. Two months later Toyota launched the Highlander Hybrid sport utility vehicle (SUV). million vehicles through January of this year.

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