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Lexus is the luxury arm of Toyota, and focuses on building top of the line comfortable cars. Although Lexus focuses on luxury, the marque does offer some sports oriented options, such as the IS-F and LFA. Models to watch: CT200h, GS
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Lexus Launches F-Sport Registry
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Lexus has just launched a vehicle registry for the F-Sport product lineup, allowing owners to plot their locations on a map, and see where other F-Sport owners are hanging out. The registry is open to owners of the IS-F, LS460 Sports, vehicles with F-Sport accessories and the LFA supercar. As of now, there are allegedly…
Video: How The Lexus LFA Shattered A Champagne Flute
The sole commercial for the Lexus LFA shows the $375,000 supercar doing a seemingly impossible feat; shattering a champagne flute with its engine note. Watching the special “behind the scenes” video put together by Lexus makes it a lot more believable; a physics professor from the University of Southern California was brought in to help…
Lexus SC430 To Bow Out After 10 Years As Retired Persons Droptop Of Choice
The Lexus SC430 has trundled on for 10 long years as the convertible of choice for Lexus devotees who are well heeled enough to buy a hardtop convertible, and don’t want the sporty driving dynamics of a Mercedes SL or BMW 6-Series – in short, wealthy old people. Now, after a decade of production, the…
Ryuji Miki’s New Drift Lexus SC430 Spied Ahead of Formula D Round Three
This weekend is Formula Drift’s Round 3 event at Wall Speedway in Wall, New Jersey. So naturally people are already sneaking in photos from what’s being unloaded in the pits. One of the new vehicles uncovered is Ryuji Miki’s new drift Lexus SC430. And while we’re surprised by how physically unappealing it is, we’re excited…
Psyche! Lexus LFA Units Still Available
Despite a barrage of stories to the contrary, the Lexus LFA is not sold out, and Lexus is more than happy to take your $375,000 in exchange (sort of) for their flagship supercar. Inside Line put in a few calls to Toyota, and discovered that by some kind of numerical wizardry that rivals Enron accounting…
Lexus LFA Exhaust Note Shatters Champagne Glass in new “Perfect Pitch” Video
The champagne glass has been with Lexus since the beginning. Back in 1989, Lexus launched the LS luxury sedan by revving the car’s engine while a pyramid of champagne glasses sat atop the hood – unmoved. Now Lexus is putting a new twist with a short video spot where a lone champagne flute is shattered…
McLaren To Spearhead Carbon Fiber Technology With New Supercar Lineup
Once a fixture of only the most expensive Formula 1 race cars, carbon fiber monocoques have now filtered down into the slightly more accesible world of supercars, and McLaren is leading the charge, after announcing plans to build two more carbon-monocoque supercars after the MP4-12C. McLaren will be partnering with Carbo Tech, whose factory in…
Lexus LFA Is A Hit In Europe, With 33% Of Continent’s Sales Coming From Germany
It’s no surprise that Lexus has taken deposits for all 5o0 LFA supercars (despite the skepticism of various internet forum posters). As its $375,000 pricetag may suggest, this car is only for the extremely well-heeled, and at this price point, individuality matters more than quantitative performance. One place where the LFA seems to have taken…
Toyota Sienna, Avalon and Lexus RX Awarded Top Safety Pick From IIHS
Finally, some good news for Toyota – three new Toyota vehicles have been given Top Safety Pick awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Getting the award are the 2011 Toyota Avalon and Sienna for achieving the institute’s highest ratings in front, side, rollover and rear crash tests. Also picking up an award…
Lexus LFA Caught in Action at Nurburgring 24 Hour Race Thanks to Porsche GT3 Cup In-Car Video
Clash Productions just posted this highly entertaining in-car video on YouTube, featuring world-class Touring and GT racing driver Tom Coronel in the Lammertink Racing Toyo Tires Porsche GT3 Cup car at the start of this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hour endurance race. We particularly enjoyed the start, where Coronel mixes it up with one of the…
Toyota Recalls 11,500 Lexus LS460 Models For Steering Defect
When it rains, it pours, as Toyota knows all too well. As if their spate of problems wasn’t enough, fate seems to be pouring even more salt in their wounds, as the company has been forced to recall their flagship Lexus LS460 sedan due to a steering defect in the Variable Gear Ratio Steering system….
Lexus LFA Takes Class Win at the Nurburgring 24 Hours
Having failed to complete the grueling Nürburgring 24 Hour endurance race last year, Gazoo Racing took home the SP8 class victory (18th overall) at this year’s around-the-clock race at the 12.9-mile Nordschleife in the #50 Lexus LFA. In a field of over 200 cars including privateers and full-on factory efforts and with some very stiff…
Lexus CT200h Viral Marketing Involves Online Adventure Game
It’s truly amazing what the Internet has enabled companies to do in terms of marketing their products. The advent of Adobe Flash technology and truly interactive experiences allows users to immerse themselves and forget that they’re actually being sold a product. Lexus has taken one of these approaches with their new CT 200h viral marketing…
Gazoo Racing Lexus LFAs Dominate Respective Class at 24 Hours of Nurburgring Qualifying
Gazoo Racing is fielding a pair of Lexus LFAs this weekend at the famed 24 Hours of Nürburgring race. These V10 racecars are out to prove a point; the Lexus LFA is a true contender on and off the track and a genuine entry in the supercar world. Despite unsuccessful entries in the past with…
Lexus LFA and Nissan GT-R Go Head To Head In A Drag Race (Video Inside)
Imagine you are able to bring together some of humanity’s great minds for a dialogue, but you then end up having them give you their picks for who will win the World Series. Motor Trend‘s new video of a Lexus LFA drag racing a Nissan GTR is similarly anti-climactic and a little silly, but we…
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Lexus Announces Special Pricing On F-Sport Packages
Lexus is looking to build up their F-Sport lineup in a similar manner to how AMG and the M Division add a performance boost to Mercedes and BMW. To get the ball rolling, Lexus is offering special pricing for a limited time on their F-Sport packages for the IS and GS350. The base F Sport…
Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package – If You Have To Ask, You Can’t Afford It
Lexus‘ megabuck LFA supercar isn’t even out yet, and there’s already a new option package set to be available on just 50 of the 500 cars. Designed to commemorate the cars running in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the namesake special edition gets a special front splitter, dive plates and rear wing that mimic the…
Consumer Reports Drops “Do Not Buy” Label from Lexus GX460
Consumer Reports has removed the “Do Not Buy” label from the Lexus GX460 luxury SUV, announcing that changes made by Lexus to the vehicle’s stability control program have solved the issue that CR initially said could cause a roll over and, therefore, posed a safety risk. In response to the magazine’s initial test, Lexus halted…
Lexus HS250h Not Meeting Sales Targets
Lexus‘ HS250h hybrid sedan is having trouble meeting sales targets, due to the strength of the Prius as well as demand for the HS250h in Japan. Lexus is on track to sell about 14,000 HS250h hybrids this year, well below the projections of 20-22,000. So far just 4529 HS250h’s have been sold. In an interview…
Audi, Lexus Set Big Numbers In April
Despite a still shaky economy and all sorts of doom-and-gloom rhetoric from political pundits, two major luxury brands posted excellent April numbers, with Audi up 33% and Lexus up 29%. Audi posted exceptional sales figures, with A3 sales up 144%, A6 sales up 105% and the Q5 up 60% from April 2009. Audi credits the…
Lexus LFA Plug-in Hybrid Spied?
Before it launched, rumors suggested the Lexus LFA supercar might be a hybrid. That of course turned out not to be the case, the high-powered and high-priced exotic instead opting for a naturally aspirated 4.8-liter V10 engine. But now several spy photos have emerged showing something that just may prove the original green supercar theories…
Lexus Resumes Sales Of GX460, Soccer Moms Denied Opposite Lock Hoonage
Lexus has resumed selling its awesome drift-wagon full-sized GX460 SUV, with a new software update for the stability control system. The “stop-sale” order was given after Consumers Reports magazine deemed the GX460 unsafe and put it on the magazines “Do Not Buy” list, after the GX460 oversteered during Consumer Reports’ “Throttle Lift Test.” Astute readers…
Report: Toyota To Post A Profit This Fiscal Year
Between sticking accelerator pedals and rollover-prone SUVs, this year has not been kind to Toyota. However the Japanese automaker is poised to return a handsome $532 million profit, despite expectations to the contrary. Toyota had initially forecasted a loss of $213, but a weak yen and a series of cost-cutting measures meant that Toyota is…
Recall Notice: Toyota Announces Lexus GX460 Recall to Update Stability Control Software
Toyota has just announced that it will recall the Lexus GX460 luxury SUV in order to update the vehicle’s stability control software. The recall applies to just 9,400 2010 model year SUVs – which only recently went on sale. This recall comes as just a few weeks ago Consumer Reports issued a “Do No Buy”…
