A recent series of earthquakes in southwest Japan that have killed more than 40 people and injured more than 1,000 have caused Toyota to shut down a great deal of its vehicle production in the country.
The Lexus badge says a lot of things to buyers of the brand. Among other things, it announces, “This is a quality automobile that you can rely on for years of reliable service and luxurious travel.”
Well, that didn’t take long. In January, we got wind that Lexus was planning a hybrid version of its LC 500, which was an award-winning hit at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Now comes this news.
The creation of the IS F wasn’t the first time Lexus put one of its V8s in a car smaller than the LS. Sure, they put one in the GS, but the oddity you see here, the 1994 Lexus Landau concept, is even shorter than that.
When forum member DONT SLEEP bought a 118,000-mile 2003 Lexus LS 430 as a winter car, his GT-R’s trade-offs made him see the sedan as more than just something to keep road salt off of his Nissan-badged road rocket.