Phoenix, Arizona - Arizona is a popular place for manufacturers to introduce their latest vehicles. You get smooth roads, brilliant light, exotic scenery and posh hotels - all great for showing off a new car.

The 2008 Lexus LS 600hL fits right in. It's the new flagship for the Lexus brand, with a long wheelbase, innovative hybrid powertrain, all-wheel drive (AWD), more safety features than you can imagine, and an interior that uses leather from special cows that are only found in Germany (more on that later, of course).

Priced at $132,000, or $158,700 for the Executive version, the LS 600hL is the pinnacle of Lexus manufacturing and design, and with only 120 available for Canada each year, it will be an exclusive car indeed. It is, as Lexus points out, "the world's first V8-powered, full hybrid AWD vehicle."

This is a car with so many significant features and thoughtful detail touches that an introductory article such as this is challenged to do the LS 600hL justice.

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Note the trunk space is small for a large car but looks bigger than the GSh. HOWEVER, note that all that space isn't taken up by the battery. Some of it is taken up by the A/C compressor for the rear climate control, there's the rear fridge too and the entertainment system.