Lexus unveiled the GS 350 F Sport Safety Car at Sydney Motorsport Park in Australia. The Japanese model is equipped with a standard 3.5-liter V6 capable to offer 306 horsepower and complete the 0-100 km/h sprint in 6 seconds. The new safety car will be present at all the races starting with the Muscle Car
Lexus LFA is a powerful two-seat supercar produced by the Japanese company in a limited number of units. The Lexus LFA has been revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2009 while the production started one year later. According to the official details, Lexus plans to produce no more than 500 units at the
Lexus GS is a four-door sedan model built by the Japanese company since 1991 when the first generation, also known as S140, entered production. The 1991 Lexus GS was available only as a four-door sedan with generous dimensions of 4,9 meters long, 1,7 meters wide and 1,4 meters tall. Under the bonnet, the Japanese company
Lexus RX is a compact SUV manufactured by Toyota’s luxury division since 1998 over three generations. The first Lexus RX had been revealed at the Chicago Auto Show in early 1997 with the sales starting the following year. Lexus offered the model with three different engine options, namely a 2.2 and 2.4 liters inline-six units
Designed to be a middle of the road solutions for those seeking the luxury that the special division from Toyota offered, the Lexus ES has been with us since 1989 and over five generations it’s had something that never changed. This was the Lexus ES drive and powerplant layout, that was constantly a front engine
The Japanese luxury car maker released today a new batch of photos for the new Lexus LS, including the standard LS460 but also the high-performance F-Sport variant. We talk about high quality official photos able to present the new sedan in its full splendor. At the exterior, the Japanese model benefits from a revised grille,
We’re mildly interested in this new leak. I would use excited about the idea of a major manufacturer teasing a new car but this is a special case. The manufacturer in question is Lexus, that’s where most of the interest and excitement wears off. For all those freemasons out there, that might not happen. That’s
Lexus announced their plans to move the entire production of the RX crossover from Japan to Ontario, Canada. The Japanese company plans to hire around 400 new workers and invest more than $100 million in the Canadian facility. The total production will also be tripled from 30,000 vehicles to more than 100,000 units per year.
This is going to be tricky to get down to without considering at least a couple of aspects of history, culture, tradition and humanity. Which is odd, because I plan to talk about a rather boring sort of car, a Lexus. And it’s a hybrid one since it’s the CT200h. As there’s Japanese tuning involved,
Toyota’s enormous recall from a couple of years back seems to have gone away and as Lexus makes a comeback in the luxury sales market it seems to have been put behind us. And just as things started settling into the norm, Lexus make a surprising announcement that just reeks of Deja Vu. They will
Well here’s a surprise, large corporations owning car makers are now thinking of moving production to, instead of away from, the United States of America. In this case it’s a brand that’s very important to the American market, namely Toyota’s luxury division, Lexus. They’re thinking about the ES sedan to make the shift. Obviously, there
As most of us are readying ourselves for a long weekend drooling over the GT action in the Le Mans 24 hour race, others are in the final stages of preparation for Pikes Peak. Pikes Peak is a special event which features a simple sprint race of 12.42 miles. Or is it? Is it really
Lexus is still trying to make its luxury sedan lineup more exciting. For instance, they’ve announced that a new coupe is currently under development. The new two door will be based on the GS platform and is going to rival the likes of the Audi A5, BMW 6 Series and Mercedes E-Class coupe. That’s quite
The news these days, they travel around the world in seconds. And it’s not just the news, the same can be said about the rumors and worries of regular folk. Stuff like this makes it remarkable to find out that the Lexus HS 250h sedan has been dropped. Not only that, the event happened in
This weekend motoring enthusiasts are going to flock to a few small villages in Germany so they can sit around and watch the 24 Hours of Nurburgring. If the fans are a little excited, that’s nothing compared to the roller coaster of joy, pain, agony and exhaustion the manufacturers are going through. Take Toyota for
Lexus, Toyota’s luxury division, maker of some of the most reliable cars out there and quite the contender to the luxury segment. Unfortunately, they’re also the makers of some of the most boring cars ever made and even though they made the Lexus LFA it didn’t change anybody’s impression of the brand. The latest news
The Japanese people from Lexus, Toyota’s luxury division, decided to release a new video presenting the Lexus LFA, the $375,000 supercar being filmed at the Estoril track in Portugal. Behind the steering wheel is Alex Wurz, a former F1 driver which shares its opinion on the impressive supercar developed by Lexus. As a reminder, the
The 2013 Lexus GS officially makes its way to the British dealerships receiving a starting price of £32,995 for the 250 SE model and a range-topping £44,950 for the hybrid model. To begin with, the entry-level version of the Japanese model is powered by a 2.5-liter V6 Dual VVT-i unit able to produce 206 horsepower.
Next year’s version of the Lexus RX crossover has just been leaked in a brochure of the Japanese market that was later on intercepted by the guys over at Carscoop. The leaked brochure boasts pretty much no usable information on technologies employed, specs, performance and so on but, thankfully, serves up decent details on the
Lexus officially announced that the 2013 LX 570 landed in the U.S. showrooms with a bigger starting price comparing to the previous model. To be more precise, the new LX 570 starts from $81,805 including delivery and handling fee, which is about $1,500 more than the outgoing Japanese SUV. In terms of improvements, the LX
