Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Japan, Hatchback, Lexus, Luxury
Another
Lexus hybrid is coming, and it's coming soon. Remember that
solid gold Lexus LF-Ch Concept we saw last year at the
Frankfurt Motor Show? We referred to it as something of a deformed puffer fish with some nice
Lincoln Concept C cues. Well guess what? It's a concept no more and it's coming to the
Geneva Motor Show in just a few short weeks so that us and the rest of the automotive press can ooh, ah and head scratch in unison.
Not only that, but Lexus has dropped the silly LF-Ch name and replaced it with the not-quite-as-meaningless but equally clunky moniker CT 200h. We know, we know - 200h means the car has a 2.0-liter engine plus an electric motor. How exciting! That is, unless it's like the LS 600hL, where the 600h means the 5.0-liter V8
combined with the electric motor is theoretically as powerful as a 6.0-liter V12. There we go again, attacking overused alphanumerics...
As for the CT 200h, here's your
de rigueur teaser shot. We know next to nothing about the car, other than that Lexus views the gas/electric compact luxury hatchback as a "gateway model" to its other hybrid vehicles. These include the RX 450h, GS 450h, the aforementioned LS 600hL and the
HS 250h that Lexus oddly left out of the CT's press release. Does that mean the CT could be replacing the HS? 99.9% no, but we're grasping at straws here, trying to sex up this post. Perhaps it's best for us just to say, "we'll know more in Geneva." Tiny little information-free press release
after the jump.
[Source: Lexus]
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