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Lexus Announces Pricing for LFA Supercar

March 1, 2010

Twenty years ago, Acura challenged the notion that only Europeans could produce an exotic sports car with the NSX. In 2010, Lexus ratchets that challenge up a few notches by producing Japan’s first supercar, the LFA. Apart from being groundbreaking cars for Japan, the similarities end there. The LFA will employ a 4.8L V-10, rated [...]

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Review: 2010 Lexus HS250h

October 13, 2009

The Lexus HS250h is an all-new model for Toyota’s luxury brand. Although Lexus is no stranger to hybrid technology, the HS (for Harmonious Sedan) is their first dedicated hybrid. According to Lexus, 60% of entry-level luxury car buyers said they would consider a hybrid in that class if one were available. There is a huge [...]

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Driven: Lexus IS250C

September 21, 2009

Here at The Garage we’ve been tracking the second convertible in the history of Lexus, the IS250C and IS350C. At the IMPA Test Days press event held in the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania, I was able to sample the IS250C. The IS convertible is based on the IS sedan, but the only body part [...]

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Lexus IS250C/350C Ready for Spring

February 26, 2009

While Toyota and Lexus get all kinds of praise from Consumer Reports and JD Power, those of us who cater to the automotive enthusiast have been less than kind. No Supra. No MR2. We moan that Toyota treads out the most boring, uninteresting Japanese cars out there. So isn’t it a little ironic that no [...]

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2008 Lexus GS 350: Sporting elegance in The Garage

September 30, 2008

The Lexus GS 350 is a performance luxury sedan that is aimed at the consumer who wants a few lavish touches in their daily driver. Someone who’s kids might be getting a little bigger and who might have some upscale passengers on occasion too. Perhaps that owner still wants a sporting vehicle but doesn’t want [...]

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2008 Lexus IS-F: A wounded duck in The Garage

August 2, 2008

That’s right. I’ve gone and gotten a flat in on the Lexus IS-F and essentially buggered our weekend plans to shoot a road test video. I suppose it would hurt a little less if I had been hooning around in the car, but that wasn’t the case. Here in Ontario, the boys in blue have [...]

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This week in The Garage: 2008 Lexus LS460

July 2, 2008

I have often said that a great car reviewer is one that can place themselves in the shoes of a potential buyer of any vehicle they may be handed. This week, I truly feel like a duck out of water. The 2008 Lexus LS460 is a magnificent ride, one suitable for shuttling executives and their [...]

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Child’s Play

January 8, 2008

A couple from Kilgore, Texas, Craig and Sondra Harrington, have this thing about car names.
They are not car enthusiasts or employed in the automotive industry yet can’t resist Porsche, Audi and Lexus.
It appears the Harrington’s have a daughter named Lexus. To keep the car theme going they recently had twins and named them [...]

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Canadian Motorsports Expo

April 7, 2007

This weekend is the first ever Canadian Motorsports Expo, hosted by Glenn Butt who most enthusiasts know from his involvement with Mosport. With a many Canadian racing stars coming by for autograph sessions, it looked like a promising day, so I took a couple of the kids out for a walk around.
For the first year [...]

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Lexus includes book of Valet parking tips with ES350

August 9, 2006

Up here in the Great White North, we only have valet parking at hotels, theaters and weddings. When I was in Chicago last summer, I was amazed to see Valet Parking signs all over. There was Valet parking at every door of one shopping mall we went to! How lazy is that?
In the spirit of [...]

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