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Lexus Hybrid sales top half a million
Sat, 22 Dec 2012Lexus has revealed that they’ve sold more than 500,000 hybrid cars, with the Rx 450h the top seller and the CT 200h catching fast. Unsurprisingly, as it was the first Lexus hybrid to be introduced in 2005, the biggest seller - accounting for half of all Lexus hybrid sales to date (259,000) – has been the RX 400h / RX 450h, but the CT 200h, which was only introduced in 2011, is catching up fast with sales to date of 122,000 to date. During the last seven years Lexus hybrid sales have risen from 26,000 to 113,000 a year and 25 per cent of those Lexus hybrid sales now happen in Europe, even though we don’t get cars like the HS 250h (56,000 sales) and the ES 300h (8,000 sales).
2012 BMW 1-Series: The Marketing begins +video
Wed, 08 Jun 2011Freddy and Adam and their 2012 BMW 1-Series The 2012 BMW 1-Series made its debut over the weekend, with lots of details on the thoroughly refreshed, higher quality and bigger BMW 1 Series. Not only did we get details on the new 1-Series but we got plenty of 2012 1-Series photos. And by plenty, we do mean plenty – over 100.
Shooting for the Scirocco
Thu, 04 Apr 2013The prospects for a U.S. return of one of the ultimate enthusiast unicorns--the Volkswagen Scirocco--are looking better for two critical reasons: VW's American brass want it, and it will be based on the company's widely used global underpinnings. The latest generation of Scirocco launched in Europe in 2008, though U.S.