At long last, flat out in the real thing.
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The new RX is an incredibly nice small luxury SUV.
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"F" for fast, not for finesse.
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Ten years after the first Lexus IS rolled into dealer showrooms, Lexus is finally following its competitors and offering an IS convertible.
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One look at the frumpy 2010 Lexus HS250h confirms what we've suspected all along of Prius drivers: the hybrid's smug visual statement is as important to the purchaser as its fuel economy.
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Our Four Seasons Lexus IS-F heads to the New York Bureau for a few weeks. Here's what they have to say about the car.
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We've crossed the 20,000-mile mark in the Lexus IS-F so it's time to make a list of what has broken on the Japanese sports sedan in eight-months of service. Nothing.
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Lexus finally builds a proper sports sedan and we've got our hands on a nice blue one for a whole year.
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A careful update of the car that lives at the intersection of doing something good for the environment and doing something nice for yourself.
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Overall, the new RX represents a careful evolution of what is, after all, the brand's most popular model, and the hybrid model commendably moves a bit more in the direction of fuel efficiency.
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What's with all the complaints? If it's laid-back smoothness you're looking for, the LS600hL is where it's at.
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It's still the definitive Lexus, but it might be time to stretch the definition.
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A Leatherman on wheels. This dressed-up Land Cruiser can replace a fleet of vehicles.
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We put the new Lexus IS-F on a chassis dyno to measure its output, and it put 333 of its 416 horsepower to the rear wheels.
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Surprise! Lexus builds a car that's better on the track than it is on the street.
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It would be easy to dismiss the Lexus LS600hL as the ultimate feel-good device, a literal limousine for limousine liberals, a $100,000 self-indulgence-mobile whose hybrid powertrain provides a veneer of environmentalism that allows its well-to-do owners to fee
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"What a great car." That's the first sentence in the logbook of our Four Seasons Lexus GS430, and it's a pretty bold statement to make when your audience is a bunch of automotive journalists with an uncanny ability to ferret out a vehicle's hidden flaws. Still
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Until now, there have been only three big dogs in the practical, daily driver, luxury four-door world: the V-8 versions of the BMW 7-series, the Mercedes-Benz S-class, and the Audi A8. Sure, the latest Jaguar XJ8, the Maserati Quattroporte, and the Bentley Con
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Kona, Hawaii - As Lexus sees it, most of the cars in the burgeoning entry-luxury field are trying to be sport sedans. Lexus covers that market with the IS250/350, so it's free to position its other entry-luxury sedan, the new ES350, as exactly the kind of car
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The media and the public are crazy for hybrids, which they see as a magical-mystery powertrain that transforms an ordinary car into a fuel-sipping, earth-saving machine. That image has made Toyota's Prius (a 100,000-plus seller last year) an environmental icon
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So we ordered a flint mica GS430 with a base price of $51,775 and added it to our Four Seasons fleet.
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A high-value luxury sport/ute the RX line revels in refinement, performance, and technology. The RX 400h is the world's first midsize sport/ute hybrid, and also the first luxury hybrid, bringing performance and efficiency to upmarket buyers.
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The Lexus ES 330, a much-refined cousin of the Toyota Camry, represents the most luxurious (and least sporty) take on the entry-luxury segment. With its sumptuous leather, whisper-quiet cabin, smooth ride, and bulletproof reliability, it's a choice pick for anyone looking for a cushy ride and upscal
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The 2006 Lexus IS350 is the latest car to be defined by one of automotive journalism's favorite tropes: "The fill-in-the-blank is the car that's finally going to dethrone the BMW 3-series as the benchmark for contemporary sport sedans."
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The leading Japanese luxury-car maker takes a serious tilt at BMW and Audi with this technology-laden sedan.
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