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World motorcar giant Toyota Motor Corp. Will make new, already the third car under the account, working on gasoline and an electricity, and will begin sales in since December of this year in the internal automobile market of Japan.

New hybrid Toyota SAI

New hybrid car SAI becomes already to the third under the account hybrid model Toyota after release Prius in May of this year and Lexus HS 250h in July.

The new hybrid is a car a sedan with volume of the engine 2,4 litres. The fuel expense makes one litre of gasoline on 23 kilometres that is comparable with usual midget cars.
At the price of Toyota SAI should take a median place between Prius ($20,000US) and elite Lexus HS 250h ($44,000US). The price of model SAI in a base complete set makes about $37,000US.

Sales of the new hybrid car will begin on December, 7th this year in all four dealer networks Toyota.

Hybrid popularity

Hybrid cars and, first of all, Toyota Prius use the big popularity in Japan. This car became the leader of sales in Japan following the results of six months (April-September), all for this time has been sold more than 116,000 cars. In many respects it is connected with entered by the government of Japan indemnifications and tax privileges at purchase of harmless cars.

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Company Lexus is full determination to create track supercar LFA updatings which weight will be lowered, and all necessary units are prepared for use in amateur racing competitions. On it informs British magazine Autocar referring to not named sources inside Lexus.

The track version of supercar Lexus LFA

On weight of the track version supercar Lexus LFA, which weight “in base” how many is planned to lower makes 1,48 tons, and to what completions the car will turn up, at present is not specified.

I will notice, that usual LFA it is equipped with 560-strong atmospheric motor V10 in volume of 4,8L, the robotised 6-step transmission and differential Torsen on a back axis. According to Lexus, with 0 to 100 km/h such car is dispersed for 3,7 sec, and the maximum speed makes 325 km/h.

The limited version LFA

In total it is planned to make only 500 copies supercar Lexus LFA, however the prices for a novelty are not known yet. On preliminary data, cost of the base car in Europe will make about 368,000 euro.

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The American national administration of safety of traffic (NHTSA) has received some hundreds complaints from consumers on brake system of minivan Honda Odyssey, because of malfunction of brakes of this model in the country happens ten road accidents.

Officially it is not confirmed

But while experts do not dare to assert officially, that the car is unsafe, writes Japancar.
Since May of current year drivers began to complain, that sometimes the brake pedal suddenly becomes soft, and operation of brakes is late, and the car cannot stop. Probably, air gets to the closed contours of brake system.

Experts NHTSA declare a high probability of a response of cars. Under suspicion there were more than 343,000 cars 2006-08 of release.

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Tuners not often undertake operational development of hybrid cars, preferring more powerful cars, but recently studio nevertheless began to pay more than attention to hybrids, for example, on Toyota Prius last generation.

Hybrid Toyota Prius by TOMMYKAIRA

The sad design of an ex-terrier hybrid Toyota Prius does not cause enthusiastic emotions in potential buyers who first of all appreciate profitability in the car. But after in studio TOMMYKAIRA for the car have developed body-kit, Toyota Prius can safely apply for a rank of the legislator of a fashion in the segment.

In studio for hybrid model have created at once some variants of stylings-packages, but all of them include same: an aggressive forward bumper with additional optics, the forward spoiler, a new lattice of a radiator. Many details are executed from carbon. A special glamour to the car give a new exhaust system with four branch pipes and 18-inch disks of various design.

Cost body-kit yet does not disclose studio TOMMYKAIRA.

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