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28/06/2008 02:04. I live in the suburbs in an area where public transportation is inefficient at best and non-existent at worst. That means you have to drive the car to get groceries, buy the latest widget from a big box store or go to the movies. And, with record-high gasoline prices, watching the oil companies reach into my wallet for an increasingly larger share of my take-home isn't a whole lot of fun.

So, I don't think it was smugness on my part that I was thoroughly enjoying whatever fuel-saving benefits the Lexus Hybrid Drive powertrain -- as found in the RX 400h luxury sport-ute -- was providing.

Actually, I believe it was closer to relief -- make that two-fold relief. The first was in finding how easy it was to adapt to the hybrid powertrain. The second was discovering that a green(er)... // Canada.com