Just as a great actor like Robert De Niro can waste his talent in a flop like “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” it turns out Lexus can fritter its auto-building flair on a drab luxury sedan like the HS250h. Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota, applied its considerable attention to detail, lavishing the HS250h with exactly the kind of unseen features that have made its products the darling of upper-middle-class consumers.
After all, can anyone really tell the car employs Pulse Width Modulation to control the speed of the air conditioner’s fan for reduced energy use and noise? Probably not. But it is the kind of effort the company has always made to ensure its models were more special than the lesser Toyotas from which most of them are derived.
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