Toyota Sai Hybrid Sedan

pinzvidz · 10-21-2009, 12:25 AM

The Sai was put up yesterday on Toyota's jp website - here.

edit: oh, and the special site is another one of Toyta's crazy flash intensive mad moments.

cwerdna · 11-03-2009, 11:50 AM

I took a look at the Sai and HS 250h at Tokyo Motor Show. I'll put up pics when I have time once I return to the US. Neither looks too bad in person.

The gauge cluster is different between the two and the Sai has a similar but definitely lower quality interior. Examples: Where the HS 250h has leather and stitching, the Sai has plastic. Where the the HS 250h has nice wood (fake wood?) cover in the center console for the cupholders (?), the Sai just has plastic and no cover. The controller for the nav system is different too. The operation is the same in principle but the Lexus version is much more mouse-like in shape.

On a side note: I couldn't pop the hood a few cars that I tried. The Estima Hybrid's release seemed disconnected. I even saw some stickers at another manufacturer's booth around the release which told you to stay out of/not open the "engine room".

**Tideland Prius** · 11-04-2009, 12:19 AM

The HS should have real wood. I don't know of any Lexus that has fake wood.

10-21-2009, 12:25 AM	#21
pinzvidz Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 64 My Car: Other Non-Hybrid Model: N/A Package: N/A Thanks: 2 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts Friends: 0	Re: Toyota Sai Hybrid Sedan The Sai was put up yesterday on Toyota's jp website - here. edit: oh, and the special site is another one of Toyta's crazy flash intensive mad moments. Last edited by pinzvidz; 10-21-2009 at 12:27 AM.

11-03-2009, 11:50 AM	#22
cwerdna Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Seattle area, WA Posts: 2,306 My Car: 2006 Prius Model: N/A Package: #7 Thanks: 26 Thanked 60 Times in 52 Posts Friends: 3	Re: Toyota Sai Hybrid Sedan I took a look at the Sai and HS 250h at Tokyo Motor Show. I'll put up pics when I have time once I return to the US. Neither looks too bad in person. The gauge cluster is different between the two and the Sai has a similar but definitely lower quality interior. Examples: Where the HS 250h has leather and stitching, the Sai has plastic. Where the the HS 250h has nice wood (fake wood?) cover in the center console for the cupholders (?), the Sai just has plastic and no cover. The controller for the nav system is different too. The operation is the same in principle but the Lexus version is much more mouse-like in shape. On a side note: I couldn't pop the hood a few cars that I tried. The Estima Hybrid's release seemed disconnected. I even saw some stickers at another manufacturer's booth around the release which told you to stay out of/not open the "engine room". __________________ 06 white package #7 (NL); 04 Daytona Blue Nissan 350Z Enthusiast trim; mom has 07 white NAH

11-04-2009, 12:19 AM	#23
Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 19,606 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: N/A Package: Technology Package (Canada) Thanks: 227 Thanked 344 Times in 243 Posts Friends: 23	Re: Toyota Sai Hybrid Sedan The HS should have real wood. I don't know of any Lexus that has fake wood.

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