Company Lexus has published the first photo of five-door hatchback CT 200h. The debut of the car constructed in stylistics of concept car LF-Ch, will take place next month on a motor show in Geneva. On it informs network edition Autoblog.
Compact hatchback Lexus
On preliminary data, the dimensional length of compact hatchback Lexus will make 4300 mm, width — 1790 mm, height — 1400 mm, and the wheel base will be equal to 2600 mm.
It is supposed, that Lexus CT 200h will receive units from Toyota Prius: the 1,8-litre petrol motor power of 136HP. Subsequently in hatchback scale there will be more powerful versions 300h and 400h. Also it is expected, that the novelty will be accessible and with usual internal combustion engines.
In salons of the European car dealers compact hatchback Lexus will arrive in the autumn of current year. The car will make competition Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series.
The car for the first time will show to public next week on the International motor show in Shanghai, however to a premiere of a photo of the car are already published.
Off-road car Lexus GX
The second generation of off-road car Lexus GX, as well as the first, in many respects is technical analogue of model Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. Proceeding from it, special distinctions in appearance between Lexus and Toyota to expect it was not necessary, as it has been confirmed definitively after the publication of a series of pictures.
External differences Lexus GX consist in occurrence of own lattice of a radiator, bumpers of other form, the forward and back light engineering entered in ruler Lexus, instead of Toyota. In salon of differences hardly it is more, also they are appreciable first of all on the forward console. It also is executed in style Lexus and whenever possible should not remind about Toyota.
As to a hardware, that, despite lacking official release about specifications and complete sets, about much it is possible to judge even from a model index. The second generation of an off-road car receives index GX460 while former it was known as GX 470. On change 4,7-l V8 comes more modern 4,6-l, on the majority of parametres surpassing the predecessor. Power of a novelty makes 310HP against 263HP at the predecessor.
New car Lexus GX
The version of an off-road car is reflected in the published photos for the North America. The USA and Canada still remain the main markets for model, however the model geography will be expanded at the expense of a number of the Asian countries, and the prime minister in China to that only the proof. In salons of the American dealers the car will appear in the beginning of 2010.
On Tuesday company Lexus has extended the next image of a conceptual hatchback which is a harbinger of similar serial model.
2011 Lexus LF-Ch
The prototype has received name LF-Ch and will be presented in the middle of September of current year on a motor show in Frankfurt.
According to the source Autocar in companies Lexus, a management has already approved creation of a production version of concept car LF-Ch. The commodity car will be offered as with a 187-strong hybrid power-plant consisting of the petrol four-cylinder unit in volume of 2,4 litre, the electromotor and a variator, and with usual internal combustion engines. Now all models Lexus are offered only with rear or an all wheel drive, however a hatchback, according to some information, will receive a drive gear only on a front axle.
As it was informed earlier, in the North American market it will be presented three hybrid versions of compact hatchback Lexus — CT 200h, CT 300h and CT 400h. Such assumption has been made by some foreign mass-media after registration by the Japanese company of the given names as trade marks. It's expected that at the European car dealers serial hatchback Lexus will appear in the autumn of 2010. The car will make competition Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series.
According to Autocar, in Frankfurt company Lexus also will present the updated versions of cars LS, GS and IS. The first of them will receive little changes in appearance and an interior, and also the modernised suspender. At the second model the set of systems of safety and variants of colouring of a body and interior furnish will increase. At IS it will be updated navigating and an audiosystem, and also there will be a sports package "F Sport".
On Tuesday network edition Worldcarfans has published the first espionage photos of updated sedan Lexus ES 350. Pictures have been made in Japan near to one of the dealer centres of mark.
New Lexus ES
Judging by photos, the car has received other forward bumper, a new lattice of a radiator and other rear-view mirrors. In a back part of the car headlights are a little changed. Whether salon Lexus ES will be modernised, and also there will be a technical equipment of a sedan, at present it's not known.
Let's notice, that present ES it's constructed on a platform of the US version of Toyota Camry and it's offered with the 272-strong six-cylinder motor in volume of 3,5 litres. Sedan Lexus ES 350 is delivered only to the US America, South Korea, Taiwan, the Near East and China. In Japan and in other markets with link sided movement such car is not on sale.
Company Mitsubishi has published official photos, characteristics and the price-list on a serial electromobile i-MiEV which deliveries will begin in July, 2009.
2010 Mitsubishi i-MiEV
Ecologically friendly compact penalties it is set in motion by the electromotor power of 63HP, possessing twisting moment in 180Nm. The block of litievo-ionic batteries located under a floor can be charged about 80% of capacity of all for half an hour, using the standard three-phase socket. The full gymnastics are reached for 7-14 hours depending on the electric system.
The information on dynamics Mitsubishi i-MiEV does not differ completeness: it is known only, that the stock of a course of an electromobile makes 160 km. But the price is known, and, it's necessary to tell, — is rather high for so compact means of transportation: 47,500 dollars. The 1st 1400 i-MiEV will be put in leasing to corporate clients, and in April of the next year sales an electrocar to private persons will begin.
Japanese autocompany Toyota has begun release of off-road car Land Cruiser Prado of the fourth generation. By tradition, novelty photos publishes Al Motor News.
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado
Start of sales Toyota Land Cruiser Prado of the fourth generation in the Russian market is planned on the end 2009 or the beginning of 2010. Noticing, that the global economic crisis could introduce the corrective amendments in primary plans.
Photographer achieved six years the permission to shooting of the underground psychiatric clinic located in monastery Lon Fa Tan which patients in the therapeutic purposes are chained to each .
Patients are defined by relatives who consider, that they are dishonoured by the mad member of household. Therapy includes poultry farming, sewing and others "useful skills". Patients are held down on two chains: more open and sociable with closed and unsociable. Such neighbourhood, according to monks, harmonises both.
In 1997 indignation of psychiatrists has led to hearings in parliament of Taiwan. Deputy Hu An has introduced the bill forbidding similar medical experiments. The law has been accepted, but the monastery exists till now.
