Lexus LS 600h L

Lexus LS 600h L is a first hybrid motor car provided with a V8 and produced by Toyota. This luxury sedan was introduced during New York motor show and it will be sold in automobile sales centers quite soon. By the way, only its extended wheelbase version will be available.

The automobile is assembled according to a more than once tested scheme where a gasoline internal-combustion engine is unitized with an electric motor.

This automobile features electric motors of increased capacity that are fed from increased capacity batteries and as a result the power plant produces up to 430 hp and boasts of 500 Nm torque, which assures the dynamic characteristics conventional V12 engines show.

However if taking fuel economy as a parameter the novelty is the best among all luxury sedans provided with V8 engine and can even compete against some capacious luxury cars provided with a V6.

Anyway, fuel economy has never been the main criterion when choosing a luxury car therefore the novelty can boast of a range of other advantages. Lexus LS 600h L model's sound insulation is perfect, its V8 is the best and newest engine that starts quietly thanks to the electric motors, what is more, this model is provided with an 8-speed automatic gearbox other cars cannot boast of.

It is unrivaled in comparing its ecologic indicators with the indicators of any gasoline-powered car and only some hybrids can try to stand to it. LS 600h L is a Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle, which means that it emission is 90% less toxic than that of an average new automobile.

The model is provided with an air suspension and with an all-wheel drive. What is more, Lexus LS 600h L is provided with a complex stabilization system called Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management that assures safety ride. The automobile "keeps an eye" on the passengers and controls the road situation.

Lexus LS 600h L can also detect the movement of small non-metal bodies, that is, of people. What is more, the model features Advanced Pre-Collision System.

So that's how the system works: there are two cams attached to the forebody section that scan the space in front of the car and one-millimeter-diapason radar helps them. The third cam is located on the steering column and keeps "watching" at the driver's face. This cam warns the driver with a light or sound signal if he or she takes no actions for a period of time or if there is something emerging on the car's path of motion.

The car starts slowing down and the system changes the ratio and tightens the belts if the above mentioned actions don't help.

The interior of Lexus LS 600h L is luxury: four seats, four-zone climate control, adjustable back seats, enough leg room in the back, entertaining multimedia system, electrically driven curtains and headrests, voice-activated navigation system, and 450 Wt that Mark Levinson Reference Surround Sound premium sound system with 19 speakers assures.

Hybrid drive system Lexus LS 600h L boasts of is based on the principles brilliantly incarnated in such corporation's models as Toyota Prius, Lexus RX, Lexus 400h, Lexus GS, and Lexus 450h.

A combination of an 8-cylinder 5.0-liter gasoline V-engine with a large battery of increased capacity assures that Lexus LS 600h L can produce 438 hp, which is as much as a 12-cylinder engine can put out.

Lexus LS 600h L is provided with the newest full-time all-wheel drive system and with an electrically controlled transmission and therefore effective capacity distribution is performed, which allows making the car's acceleration smooth and invisible.

Average fuel consumption is 9.5 liters per 100 km, which makes this automobile the best of all existing 8-cylinder cars.