{"id":2978,"date":"2009-09-28T21:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2009-09-28T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:57:25","slug":"h-and-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/h-and-h\/","title":{"rendered":"H and h"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a paper-plated Lexus HS-250h yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on the JDM Avensis platform like the Scion tC, this entry-luxury sedan is slightly larger than a Toyota Corolla, beating out the next nearest luxury competitor, the Civic-based\u00c2\u00a0Canadian-market-only Acura CSX.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any gripes with the design (it looks great for a sedan), or the technology (Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive is the benchmark), or the market segment (this has been empty since the Infinity G20 disappeared): It&#8217;s the labeling.\u00c2\u00a0 The HS is a hybrid-only vehicle, hence the &#8220;H&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Does it really need the &#8220;h&#8221; after the 250\u00c2\u00a0to drum it into out heads that it\u00c2\u00a0 is a hybrid?\u00c2\u00a0 If they intended to keep the little h to make it fall in line with all the other\u00c2\u00a0hybrid models nomenclature wise, they should have chosen a different series name.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/h-and-h\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to H and h\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a paper-plated Lexus HS-250h yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on the JDM Avensis platform like the Scion tC, this entry-luxury sedan is slightly larger than a Toyota Corolla, beating out the next nearest luxury competitor, the Civic-based\u00c2\u00a0Canadian-market-only Acura CSX.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any gripes with the design (it looks great for a sedan), or the technology (Toyota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-M2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}