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Is The Lexus RX400h Going To Be The Benchmark For A Green SUV? |
During the first 100 miles in the 2009 Lexus RX 400h, the first thing you have to get used to is starting it.
It's strange to turn the key and nothing seems to happen with this luxury hybrid. When in electric-only mode, the RX 400h makes only the slightest of sounds. However, don't mistake it for a namby-pamby underpowered econo-crossover. It's far from it.
Lexus, Toyota Motor Co.'s luxury brand, mated its hybrid system with a 3.3-liter V-6 (208 horsepower) that allows a quick launch, highway passing power and still delivers 26 mpg in city driving and 24 mpg on the highway for the all-wheel drive model. The front-wheel drive model is one mile better in the city. At the end of 100 miles, I only needed four gallons of gas to fill it up, so the EPA estimates are dead on.
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