Hybrid Vehicles

I often log in to the Lexus Australia site to see if the price of the GS450h has come down, because that is my car of choice now that I have accepted that I probably won't ever own a Bugatti Veyron. The GS450h is now only $132,000! I could have bought two instead of my house! Bugger!

I noticed Lexus have a new hybrid out: the LS600hL. I ran down the specs to see what it had and was impressed. But one spec made me reailse the LS600hL is as silly as a hybrid SUV. The petrol motor in the LS600 is a 5 LITRE V8.

5 litre V8! Oh come on, that is just silly. You're pretending to be a hybrid. My brother's super-charged V6 Caprice gets better fuel economy! Strip out all the weighty hybrid tech and you'd have a much lighter luxury performance car and an Audi A8 beater.

Mystery Of The Missing Max

At 9am I was visited by the neighbour from across the cul-de-sac. "Have you lost a rabbit?"

Not long after I saw him as I left for work yesterday, the kids over there caught and caged him. Their father remembered seeing a rabbit in front of our house a few times and came over to ask if we were missing one. So Max is back in the yard, and the gate is even more rabbit proof. I need to spend time on that to do a proper job.

And he would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for them meddling kids.