And without that the rather numerous family of hybrids Toyota and Lexus will shortly replenish with the next model. The conceptual sample of a new compact hatchback will present company Lexus. Display of this model under name CT will take place in September on a motor show in Frankfurt.
Now about a novelty only informal information is known. It is informed that hybrid Lexus CT will be issued in versions CT 200h, CT 300h and CT 400h. The base variant of model (CT 200h) will receive the 1,8-litre 136-strong motor, the same by which hybrid Toyota Prius is equipped. Version CT 300 will equip, presumably, with a hybrid drive gear of model Lexus HS 250 (2,4 — the litre petrol motor and the electric motor which as a result give about 189 h.p.). The Top version of model Lexus CT 400h equipped, most likely, with the electromotor and the petrol V-shaped six-cylinder motor. However the information - listed above it while the opinions not confirmed with the Japanese motor-car manufacturer which state foreign automobile editions.
Anyhow, it is necessary to wait for the official information from the motor-car manufacturer, and then — and a debut of the conceptual version new Lexus CT. A pre-series variant of model, possibly, it will be possible to see in 2010 at autoexhibition in Geneva. Probably, in the middle of the next year the hybrid leaves on the world markets where will enter a competition with Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series.
