Lexus RX 450H Is A Great Hybrid

Question: What does the Lexus RX 450 Hybrid have that the Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid and the Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid don’t have? The answer is two-fold: one, the RX 450H does not have as hefty a price tag as its two chief competitors and two, it does not have the poor fuel efficiency of those…

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Lexus LS600h, A Thing of Beauty

Take a luxury sedan, add its most powerful V8 engine, add two electric motors, and what do you have? You have the Lexus LS600h, the first full-sized luxury sedan to offer a hybrid powertrain. This is an example of good intentions meeting up with the laws of physics and quite frankly, it didn’t work out…

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Nissan Used Cars and Used Parts

Sit back, grab a cold one, and prepare to learn about one of the pillars of the automotive industry. Nissan Motors, one of the giants in car manufacturing and as dependable a name as you could ever hang your hat on, began its empire in 1914 with its first car, the DAT. The name Nissan…

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The Lexus CT 200h Is Impressive

Here is a riddle for you: what looks like a Lexus, smells like a Lexus, drives like a Lexus, but costs below $30,000? Give up? It’s the Lexus CT 200h Hatchback, new in 2011 and a hybrid by nature and comportment. Picture in your mind the classic hybrid look of recent years: can you think…

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Jaguar 2012 XJ: The New King

The little British company that seemed to forever cling to tradition has just tossed tradition out on its tail with the 2012 XJ. After a disappointing 2011 with sales tanking, the brains at Jaguar Motors decided it just might be time to toss out the formula that once worked but then just felt stodgy, and…

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