In an interview with Automotive News, Jim Lentz, COO of Toyota sales, said that the “time is right to stretch Lexus as a core-luxury brand," but backed it up by saying no announcement would be made yet. Lexus has always done things a little differently to ze Germans, so we have a feeling they may choose to install hybrid engines as a “power boost” for their top end performance models. We’ve already driven the high-performance Lexus hybrid GS450h and performance is stunning.