Lexus News

The Lexus RC F has just gone on sale, priced from $63,325, and while it may be a tad overweight the car is still impeccably fast and offers plenty of fun behind the wheel. But the days of only one dedicated F car in the Lexus lineup are over, as the Japanese automaker has more performance offerings...

At some point in the early 2000s, Lexus approached peak grandma. Cars like the SC convertible and the ES sedan were arguably its best efforts, just when Cadillac was brewing up a revival and BMW putting out some of its best machinery before electronic controls became a generation's voodoo curse. A...

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The Lexus IS F has driven off into the sunset but fear not F fans as Lexus has a new performance offering, the 2015 RC F, which is on sale now, priced from $63,325 including $925 in shipping. That makes it a couple of grand cheaper than the rival 2015 BMW M4, which starts at $65,125, and you also...

The Lexus LFA was only ever built for a single model year, and it’s likely the company lost money on each of the 500 examples it sold, despite the astronomical $375,000 price tag. But that doesn’t mean the project was a failure, as the halo effect it’s had on the rest of the Lexus...

The 2015 Lexus NX has only been hitting the streets for a short time. That doesn't mean it can't start seeing some upgrades heading its way. It helps that these accessories come way of Toyota's in-house performance team. Yes, Toyota Racing Development, or TRD, is ready to offer up some added...

The current Lexus LS flagship sedan has been with us since the 2007 model year. It was given a major update for 2013 that will see the car up to the end of its life, expected to be the 2016 model year. The good news is that a new generation of the LS is planned for the 2017 model year, and...

Lexus has just launched a small crossover SUV in the form of the 2015 NX, but the automaker may end up launching an even smaller high-riding model to take on the new generation of compact crossovers from luxury rivals such as Audi and BMW. The information was revealed by Lexus’ European vice...

Fans of Lexus’ stunning LF-LC concept car from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show will be glad to know that the production version, which is tipped to revive the SC badge, will look almost identical to the concept. The information was revealed by Lexus’ European chief Alain Uyttenhoven, who...

The Lexus IS was all-new for 2014 but the new model year sees the stylish sedan receive some minor updates. Due to go on sale this fall, the 2015 Lexus IS gets LED fog lights, standard Siri Eyes Free and a handful of cabin enhancements. Siri Eyes Free is designed for iPhone 4S and iPhone 5...

Toyota’s motorsport partner TMG is unlikely to develop high-performance road cars based on Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The motorsport skunk works, which is based in Cologne, Germany, currently builds Toyota’s Le Mans prototypes as well as customer race cars based on the Yaris and GT 86...

Everybody wants a quick fix these days. A few seconds of entertainment, followed by a few more. But if you can spare about ten minutes today, you should use it to watch Gazoo Racing's Lexus LFA race car circumnavigate the famous Nürburgring-Nordschleife in preparation for this year's...

Lexus is set to launch a new RC F sports coupe to do battle with the likes of the Audi RS 5, BMW M4 and a future C63 AMG Coupe from Mercedes-Benz, and just to make sure the car is fully capable of competing with its German rivals Lexus took several prototypes to the home of German performance car...

At the 2014 Beijing Auto Show last month, Lexus unveiled its new NX compact crossover and confirmed that the base model for the U.S. would be a NX 200t powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The engine, Lexus’ first turbo, will eventually make its way into other models from...

It's quite common for automakers to buy examples of competitors' vehicles for benchmarking when they're developing new cars. Only a foolish company would ignore when others are onto a good thing—such as the luxury compact crossover market, populated by BMWs, Audis and Mercedes-Benzes. Lexus...

Lexus applies forced induction to a special-edition SUV.

At the 2014 Beijing Auto Show last week, Lexus unveiled its new NX compact crossover and confirmed that the base model for the U.S. would be a NX 200t powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The engine, Lexus’s first turbo, will eventually make its way into other models from...

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. The last we heard, Lexus was looking at launching a new crossover, possibly named the TX, as a replacement for the truck-based GX...

Lexus has presented its all-new 2015 NX at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show, and that means we have all the specs for the compact crossover, including those of the turbocharged model, Lexus’s first force-fed car. The 2015 NX launches with two powertrain options here in the U.S., one of them the...

The age of digital audio is both a blessing and a curse for audiophiles. While access to music has never been better and songs can be downloaded at the tap of a thumb, digital compression means sounds really aren't as rich as they were in the good old days, when analog was at its peak. Audio firm...