Their glossy plumage gleams in the sunshine, turning from black to green, then purple as it catches the light, refracting colours like petrol on water.
If you have been caught up in the petrol pump panic of recent weeks, then you have also been part of the political drama which has seen Len McCluskey pitted against the coalition government.
The Auris' 1.6-litre petrol engine may compare favourably with rival normally-aspirated engines of similar size but most European competitors have moved on, replacing their engines of this type with smaller turbocharged petrols that deliver better power and economy, a trend that seems to have caught the Japanese and Korean manufacturers, who were also slow to get into diesels, napping.
"As [petrol] prices continue their upward march, fuel efficiency catches the public eye," Jim Press, vice-president and chief operating officer of Toyota's US sales arm, said.
One bit of spending that has caught the eye of Tom Coburn, the Republican senator for Oklahoma, is the $6 billion a year the government doles out in tax breaks to refiners who blend ethanol into their petrol.
We'll see the petrol-electric NX300h, petrol-only NX200 and, in a first for Lexus, the NX200t, which uses a turbocharged petrol engine.
Commonwealth prosecutor Kate Milbourne said the act was premeditated and fire would have caused significant injuries if the petrol had caught alight.
A Queensland woman allegedly caught on CCTV petrol bombing police vehicles and council chambers in NSW insists the evidence against her is circumstantial.
The petrol watersports haven't caught up with carbon offsetting yet.
I couldn't get the lid off the petrol can.
