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    Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides

    Sir Paul McCartney Horrified His LS600h Flown To UK, Challenges Lexus To A Joust
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    As the resident transvestite petrol head on this site, I feel I should point out that a racer girrrl always rows her own, especially in a drag race. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Holy crap? #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Is the LS600H all wheel drive or is that pair of gears on the side for a PTO? #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity: It powers the cupholders. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity:

    Saw that too, apparently it's AWD:

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    Which I had never heard before. So basically what we're looking at is the combined tranny and center differential. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity:

    Other than the AWD portion, it looks like a similar concept to GM/Allison's "Two Mode" tranny. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Actually, that's both the transmission and the two primary electric motors. . . the actual "transmission" is the little planetary gear set in the center of the unit, the "Power Split Device." The fact that they can incorporate all of the hybrid drive systems into the same space as the traditional transmission bodes well for the "hybridization" of existing car designs as well as making for a much more reliable transmission as there are no clutch plates to wear or meshing and un-meshing of gears like a traditional tranny.
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    10/21/09

    @skiboxing: Right, I thought Toyota's split device/hybrid synergy drive used one of the electric motor and planetary gear to act as a continuously variable transmission without any belts or V pulleys.

    @ray: Lexus's LS600h L site says "Dual-stage Electronically controlled Continuously Variable Transmission (ECVT)", it doesn't say anything about the 8-speed transmission Ray Wert mentions. But the gearshift lever's gate looks complicated, maybe Lexus programmed some arbitrary shift points just to give the driver something to do. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Hmmm, what are the chances I'd end up back on Jalopnik after searching for something - completely unrelated to cars - on Google... #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    I understand, and could theoretically reproduce (with the right tools) practically every part of a working internal combustion vehicle - except transmissions. Looks like alien technology to me. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @avconsumer2: Transmissions especially the new fangled automatics, DCTs and the like have always been more complex than engines (no matter how high tech) design wise and will continue to be for a while to come... #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Man.

    I wonder how long it'll be before some idiot swipes the car to pull the transmission for the gold plating, not understanding how plating works.

    Additionally, I can only imagine the fields of these there will be after being abandoned because of transmission repair cost, in about 8-15 years. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: I hate to tell ya man, but it's brass, not gold.
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    10/21/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: I hear you there, I rebuild all my own transmissions, that one there... I wouldn't touch it. Something tells me the labor costs would be astronomical, maybe it's the millions of parts visible with the case open. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car!:

    Yeah...I've had an automatic's valve body apart one time...to 'fix' (read: camouflage) a shifting problem in the V-8 Grand Cherokee I had. It properly freaked me out with the apparent maze and identical balls which fall out if you do it wrong.

    I wish digital cameras had been invented by then. I mean, it all went back together, first time, no problem, but I saw it and it scared me a little.

    I never want a transmission full of neutrals.... #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @bob__84:

    forgot to add /sarcasm

    Gold is a worthless plating for contact like this, being soft and all.

    Now, heat resistance on-the-other-hand....

    /wants McLaren F1 #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    So that's what a tranny looks like. Well that's much nicer than what I'd been led to believe. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Wow, that is easily the sexiest thing I have seen in a while. Is that sad? Yes, I think it is... #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Ray, your semi-erotic description of an automatic transmission will doubtlessly be detested by lovers of the ball-and-stick. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    I like Gooooooooooold! #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Heh, heh. Input shaft. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @smalleyxb122: And gear grinding. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @pauljones: master and slave #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @Alfisted: Oops, it's an automatic and doesn't have. One more reason to prefer a stick. #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Lexus LS600h Tranny Gets Naked, Shows Us Insides
    Hot tranny porn is exactly right. And that unit looks enormous, too. Of course, the front half is mostly the motors. I wonder if this is just the stunt double they bring in for the close up R-rate stuff? #lexusls600h
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    10/21/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: On the plus side, they cannot possibly stuff this in a FWD car. So its got that going for it.
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