There are as of science fiction in the air

Close once the door of the Lexus GS450h, is like to renounce something became us essential. And the words are not too strong! It must be said that the swift prestige sedans as a racing car (5 seconds and dust to reach 100 km/h) and less than 9 l / 100 km, as a simple Peugeot 407 of the "families", do not run the streets. The "Béhèmes" 545i, Audi A6 4.2 l and Mercedes 500 E competing with big V8 crammed in the super (12 l / 100 km in the low word) can only make the weapons to the Japanese who, moreover, has the wisdom not to dismiss the atmosphere that 186 g CO2 per kilometer is better than the latest Renault Vel Satis... diesel. There are as of science fiction in the air.

"Green limousine".

This is breathtaking. It should be noted. The GS450h is part of the family of vehicles offering an avant-garde technology: "hybridization" or, more prosaically, the marriage of the fairy power with oil. A technique further here at its peak, as GS brings not two "small engines" as other cars of the category, but, for the first time in the world, two giants: a dashing V6 3.5 l 296 ch bagatelle and an electric engine developing not less than 200 c. mystery of the technique, the sum of the powers reached 496 not 345 c. that is important. The result is unique. The GS450h with performance of Porsche Cayman S and its consumption of "family" grants to immediately the title of "green limousine". As silence is rampant.

In the city, electricity can be enough (if it is not too seeking the accelerator). The result is a quiet which resembles one difficulty sometimes in a bed and breakfast, an open field, where it rediscovers the sounds emitted by his own breathing or the ticking of his watch... For those that this lack of "noise pollution" angoisserait, hi-fi installation DVD Mark Levinson knows very well change this Abbey in concert hall.

The taste of perfection is also found in the Interior where leather beautiful, woodwork and instrumentation iridescent! worth the glance. Does that to debunk the prejudice: "No, Lexus copy more Mercedes." What is also damage to some details, such as fold mirrors electrically or open trapping gasoline, because finding buttons command at the first glance is the feat.

For the rest, the car is long 4.82 metres but not more than its rivals. No doubt less agile than a winding road, but never far behind "Béhème". The automatic box, is not sweet. The price high in absolute terms (70.500 euros), appears to be "reasonable" since the Lexus offers "all-inclusive" (Xenon, GPS, speed regulator intelligent, etc.), which is obviously not the case of its German competitors.

Only two points are really annoying. The first is technical. The trunk is not greater than that of a Clio. This is explained by the fact that electric batteries occupy much space... The second is intellectual. Some denounce in this bolide approach a kind of "safe conduct green for rich and rich only". Toyota, craftsman of the hybridization for ten years, will in any case everyone agreed to here in 2010. Batteries of reduced sizes will emerge and half of the range will be affected by hybridization... Wonders that are manufactured in China. Good news for the planet.