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Introduction to installation and usage of remote car starters.

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Lexus GS450h Road Test

If Bill Gates and his Microsoft Corporation built a high tech luxorocket – it would be the Lexus GS450h.

Push the starter button and although the beast awakens, you are rewarded with stone cold silence. That’s because you have only engaged ‘one’ of the two electric drives on board this vehicle.

Hammer the throttle though, and the GS450h will go from 0-100km/h in 5.9 seconds and that’s quicker than the BMW’s V8 powered 540i and neck to neck with Audi’s A6 4.2 litre V8 FSI Quattro. It’s also no where near as expensive as the two German cars and comes standard with way more techno goodies.

Not quite, just one of these so called ‘motor generators’ let’s call him “MG2” puts out 147kW of power, all on its own. To put that into perspective, Volkswagen’s revered hot hatch, the 2 litre turbocharged Golf GTi, generates the same power figure, in total. Astonishing, I know! This is truly brains over brawn stuff.

And that’s not the half of it, literally. All up, the GS450h delivers 254kW of power and a serious amount of torque which I can’t really be specific about. What I mean by that is, the V6 engine is rated at 368Nm at 4800rpm but then you need add the additional 275Nm rating from “MG2” which comes on song from zero revolutions! It’s not that simple though. The electric motor can’t quite realize its maximum torque output, but let me assure you, it’s substantial.

It seems someone at Lexus has taken a leaf out of the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 1 owner’s manual with regards this total torque figure thing, which although ran a seriously large 6.75-litre V8 engine, only ever listed the performance figure as “adequate” even though, it could stomp on most performance cars of the day.

It’s probably fair to say that Lexus cars have won more awards for luxury, dependability and customer satisfaction that all the European marques put together. You think Luxury, you think Lexus. You think reliability, you think Lexus. You think gold class customer care, you think Lexus. They are pretty much the undisputed world champions in automotive luxury.

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