Talk:Lexus RX 400h

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Does the 400 designation mean anything, or is Toyota just estimating that it would deliver the performance of a 4.00 litre engine? -- stewacide

Not sure if you'll see this, as you asked the question a few weeks ago, but yes, the 400 does imply that the RX 400h delivers the performance of a 4.0 liter engine. It's very common for manufacturers to name their vehicles this way, and very common for the name to not exactly reflect the size of the engine. Check out the available engines for the BMW 3 series for some more examples of this from another manufacturer. The cars' names roughly correlate to the engine displacement, but there are some cases where BMW offers two engines with the same displacement but different levels of performance and names them differently. For example, next year they'll offer the 3 series with a turbocharged 3.0L engine and call it the 335i, selling it alongside their naturally aspirated 3.0L 330i. TomTheHand 18:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)