Lexus News

Toyota is about to take a radical step by entering a crossover in one of the world’s toughest races, the Nürburgring 24 Hours. That's right. Toyota and its motorsport partner Gazoo Racing will enter a modified version of the C-HR subcompact crossover concept. This will be the 10th year...

The 2018 Lexus LC was easily one of the most exciting reveals at this week’s 2016 Detroit Auto Show. We’re still more than a year out from seeing the stunning coupe in showrooms but you can get a taste of what it will be like out on the road in this interactive 360-degree video. The...

It was at the Detroit Auto Show back in 2012 that Lexus first stunned audiences with the original LF-LC concept. The sexy two-door proved such a hit that almost immediately after the reveal Lexus managers were already hinting at production. Now the production version of the LF-LC concept has been...

Lexus has confirmed plans to debut a new vehicle at next week’s 2016 Detroit Auto Show. Unfortunately, there’s not much else in the way of official details but a teaser image of some burnt rubber on the Lexus website suggests we’ll see a sporty car unveiled. Lexus has two major...

Will Lexus follow Mercedes-Benz with a luxury pickup truck of its own? It’s a possibility, according to a senior executive at the Japanese firm. Speaking with Australia’s Motoring, Lexus product chief Makoto Tanaka said a pickup based on the mid-size Toyota Hilux platform was one of the...

At this week’s SEMA show in Las Vegas, Lexus announced it is forming a partnership with organizers of a new racing team called F Performance Racing. The new team will field the Lexus RC F GT3 race car in a soon-to-be-announced sports car racing series based in the United States, with the...

We expected Lexus to introduce a concept version of the next-generation LS flagship sedan in Tokyo. We didn't expect that it would be a fuel cell vehicle. The Lexus LF-FC concept features a fuel cell stack mounted in the trunk, with the power control unit under the hood and the hydrogen storage...

Although originally intended as a concept to preview future styling themes, rave reviews following the reveal of the Lexus LF-LC concept at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show persuaded managers to put the stunning two-door into production. We now have photos of a prototype for the production version, which...

Toyota is a key proponent of hydrogen as a next-generation fuel source and has been demonstrating this enthusiasm with the roll out of its Mirai sedan, the world’s first mass-produced car equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell stack. Toyota is planning more fuel cell cars, though, and some of...

Lexus has been talking about starting production in the United States for years, and this week it finally happened. The first Lexus to be built on local soil was a 2016 ES 350. It rolled off the line at a plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Toyota’s first plant in the...

For going on a decade now, Lexus has been on a mission to convince enthusiast buyers who might gravitate toward European cars that it, too, can build world-class sports cars and sports sedans. It started with the 2008 IS F, a would-be BMW M3 competitor that showed promise but just couldn’t...

Lexus engineers are working on a new generation of the LS flagship sedan, the nameplate’s fifth, and while there have been reports we’ll see the car make its debut at this month's 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, sources have confirmed it won't be at the automaker's home event. Instead, Lexus...

The current Lexus LS is now entering its 10th year on the market, making it a veritable dinosaur in automotive terms, but the good news is that a new one is in the works. We’re expecting this all-new LS in the second half of next year, as a 2017 model, but even with its impending arrival...

In a market in which luxury brands are seeming queuing up to change naming strategies for their vehicles—Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz, and Cadillac, for example—the 2016 Lexus RX lineup carries forward with the same familiar RX 350 and RX 450h (hybrid) badges. Truth is, it’s changed so...

With Lexus, the F badge on a car stands for a lot of things. Most notably, to us at least, it stands for "Fun" because that is what you're in for when you fire up a Lexus F car. The automaker has taken a look at the history of its F family in a new video, and it takes it all back to the start of...

It was at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance back in 2011 that we first saw the current Lexus GS. Now, on the eve of this year’s event, Lexus has unveiled an updated version of its mid-size luxury sedan. The updated GS arrives in showrooms later this year, as a 2016 model. We already...

After numerous leaks, Lexus has finally revealed its updated LX 570 which is due in showrooms later this year as a 2016 model. The current LX 570, together with its Toyota Land Cruiser corporate cousin, traces its roots back to the 2008 model year when it was introduced as an all-new model. It...

Lexus has confirmed plans to unveil two updated models at this week’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance without going into detail over the identity of the vehicles. The reveal will take place Thursday, August 13, at 7 p.m. PDT, and we already have a pretty good idea as to what is coming...

One of the most painful parts of buying a car is the haggling process. We have to assume that the sale folks hate it. We know that car buyers hate it. It's so frustrating that an entire company has sprung up around the fact that you can buy cars from them with the prices being firm and upfront...

Talk of a new Lexus crossover with third-row seats dates back several years, with Lexus even rolling out a concept of just such a vehicle, the HPX, as far back as 2003. However, Lexus general manager for the United States Jeff Bracken said in an interview last year that the brand may simply launch...