Lexus News

Last week, we reported that Toyota had told dealers at NADA in Las Vegas that it would be releasing 19 new models across its Toyota, Scion, and Lexus brands in the next year. Specifically, we have driven the 2013 Lexus GS and Toyota Prius v and ...    Read more

Intellichoice has released its annual list of cars it considers a Best Value of the Year. Analyzing every new car for the 2012 model year, Intellichoice applies cost analysis to determine cars that have low total ownership  costs as well as lower than expected costs over time. Looking beyond the initial ...    Read more

Ignore all the froufrou about the Acura NSX, pictured above, and the sleek, unpronounceable Lexus concept that were hyped up at the last auto show. Some significant Japanese cars came out this month, and their sales figures reflect the shininess: the Toyota Camry, Honda CR-V, and Subaru Impreza ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

Like a well-manicured lawn (or Alec Baldwin's hair), a meticulously-maintained ride is a thing of beauty. In my first years driving, I'd spend an entire day vacuuming, rinsing, drying, and hand-waxing my car just so it would gleam under the evening moonlight for a night on the town with a ...    Read more

Its been a busy week here at Automotive.com, and there's a good chance you missed some of it. So to help out, we've compiled our top five stories, one from each day, to help you stay on top of what's going on in the automotive world. Monday, January 23 ...    Read more

If you think the Lexus LF-LC is ugly, wait'll you see the inside. Wait, no, I got that wrong. It's pretty much the opposite of ugly, and despite being leaked online days before the Detroit Auto Show, Lexus' newest head-turner positively wowed the automotive press. You’d think they'd run into ...    Read more

You paid for the whole seat, er, Internet connection, but you’ll only need the EDGE. The Motor Trend Channel is launching on Monday, January 30th—and if you want to know what to expect, watch this trailer and prepare yourself for world-class drives, supercars, motorcycles, the latest news, the best and worst ...    Read more

The past few years has seen major shakeups in the automotive industry, and it shows in a recent survey on brand perception conducted by Consumer Reports. Once dominant players Toyota, Honda, Ford, and Chevrolet remain on top, but each automaker has seen its points gap decrease compared to last year. ...    Read more

Like many other Japanese auto makers, Infiniti was affected by the earthquakes and tsunamis that ensued shortly after earlier this year. Sales figures for many of Infinitis models declined with the exception of the ever-stalwart G sedan and coupe and the QX SUV. However, company officials believe the recently-introduced JX ...    Read more

For a piddling $80,930, you can lord your weight over the masses in the sort of chrome-bedecked style instantly familiar to Las Vegas real estate developers in the 2013 Lexus LX 570. We are the one-percent paved highway grade! The price for the LX 570 doesn’t include an $875 destination fee, ...    Read more

Despite rough times for millions of Americans, the Great Economic Letdown had the fortunate effect of killing the auto industry just enough for it to acknowledge and address its shortcomings. Dealing with certain inadequacies while planning for pending CAFE legislation, the industry's glorious recovery is borderline legendary status. Consumers now ...    Read more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But it was really only that bad if you happen to be selling a truck-based SUV. Although some companies had growth in demand for the off-roaders, the available selection for such vehicles is dwindling, and it will be ...    Read more

Lexus has graced us with more pictures of its LF-LC hybrid sports concept it plans to introduce this month at Detroit’s 2012 North American International Auto Show. This time, instead of pictures of the car in a dark setting, Lexus has given us the full monty with a side profile and ...    Read more

The all-new 2013 Lexus GS was first unveiled last August, and with it went to rest the stereotype of traditionally conservative Lexus design. Though the GS retains most of the same dimensions as the current GS, Lexus found room to revamp the interior with class-leading technology, improve fuel efficiency by ...    Read more

Luxury Japanese automaker Lexus has made many a fine vehicle over the years. Though not exactly the embodiment of avant garde, the company has developed a reputation for quality, reliability, and solid construction. Looking to add some punch to the Lexus nameplate, the company has made a potentially exciting concept, ...    Read more

Lexus has just announced that it will unveil a concept car at the upcoming North American International Auto Show in Detroit this January. The car, designed by the company's Newport Beach, Calif., design center, "showcases the new design direction embraced by Lexus." And, that's about all the info we have, but ...    Read more

Japanese automakers are very likely counting down the days of 2011. In a year of earthquakes, a tsunami, and even more recent flooding in Thailand, the end of December can't come soon enough. Manufacturing and parts have been limited, inventory has been affected, and if you haven't noticed— the economy ...    Read more

Owners of the Chevrolet Volt have latched on to their cars and helped push the innovative plug-in hybrid to the top of Consumer Reports’ Owner Satisfaction Survey. The annual survey takes owners of cars made in the last four model years—in this case 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012—and asks them ...    Read more

This week, Toyota released pricing info on most 2012 models and select Lexus vehicles. Most which saw slight price hikes, with the exception of the Matrix hatchback and Venza crossover. The 2012 Toyota Matrix, also known as the Toyota Corolla Matrix, carries on unchanged into the new model year which includes ...    Read more

If you've had the privilege of trying out some of the new voice-activated infotainment systems from today's newest manufacturers, like Ford's MyFord Touch, and Toyota's Entune/Enform, among others, you'll have noticed that the next-generation technology could make life pretty swell. At the moment, though, these systems hold little more than promise. That's ...    Read more

Toyota announced today that it is issuing a recall on approximately 420,000 of its Toyota brand and Lexus vehicles in the United States, with an additional 130,000 worldwide. According to a press release issued by the automaker, the issue prompting the recall stems from parts in the affected vehicles' engine-driven pulley ...    Read more

Auto racing is a dangerous, potentially lethal sport. So we have to wonder what was going through the heads of Dr. Ulrich Bez, CEO of supercar maker Aston Martin and Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motors and one of the world's largest automakers. They not only decided to race ...    Read more

Japan's Big Three isn't fully recovered from damage and supply issues caused by the March earthquake and tsunami, but October was the first month where production and supply stabilized. Unfortunately, flooding in Thailand may adversely affect November and December. In the meantime, though, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda continued their steady ...    Read more

Four days. One hundred thousand visitors. Two thousand vendors. The Specialty Equipment Market Association converges upon the Las Vegas Convention Center once a year to show off the future aftermarket equipment bound to be bolted on to tomorrow’s cars. In more recent years, automakers have jumped on the bandwagon to ...    Read more