Category Archives: Lexus
- June 30, 2010
- Kazama Lexus IS-GT
Sure you have some nerve to take a fairly new car and go get serious changes, but when you own a shop Kazama Auto tuning and nothing is doable, even if a 2005 Lexus IS with intentions more luxury than sport. Kazama Auto was one of the top tuners in Japan specialized in drifting, so [...]
- June 21, 2008
- Lexus IS-F gets tuned by Wald– also posted in Tuners
The extrovert of the entire Lexus lineup, the IS-F isn’t light on visual or actual horsepower. Japan’s Wald Tuning hasn’t let that fact get in their way of releasing the Sports Line Black Bison bodykit.
Wald’s setup adds some visual aggression through an increase in the number of strakes and vents, as well as a trunklid [...]
- December 5, 2007
- Lexus exceeds LS600h sales target by three hundred percent
Remember when the Lexus LS 600h was on the way, and there was head-scratching aplenty about the $100K+ price and the delay? At the time, Lexus said it only planned to sell 2,000 of the hybrid cruisers per year, and that they already had orders for 1,650 of them.
Then the car came out, and in [...]
- November 27, 2007
- 2007 Class of The World’s Most Beautiful Automobiles– also posted in Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Lamborghini, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, Supercars, Volvo
The Lamborghini Reventón has been named L’Automobile più Bella del Mondo. Translation: The World’s Most Beautiful Automobile.
It earned this honor in the Special Models category of this annual automotive fashion show, recently held for the fifteenth time at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy.
There are eleven categories in all, though the Special Models category is [...]
- April 25, 2007
- $126k Lexus goes on sale in Japan
Toyota launched the most expensive Lexus to date–the LS600hL hybrid luxury sedan–in Japan. Fully loaded, it costs a pricey 15.1 million yen ($126,000) and is easily the most expensive Japanese brand passenger car on the market.
Just as important, it’s also another warning shot to Mercedes Benz and BMW that Toyota is deadly serious about eating [...]
