The team of Townsend Bell and Justin Bell from “Shut Up and Drive” have already taken the Lexus RCF through San Francisco up to one of the most beautiful stretches of highway along the California coast. This time performance driving legend Rhys Millen, takes over for Townsend Bell, joining former Le Mans racer Justin Bell […] More »
Imagine showing up to your local Cars & Coffee event, like you do. You’re just hanging around, talking horsepower with some fellow enthusiasts, sipping some fairly traded exotic dark roast, and all of the sudden, in walks Akio Toyoda.
Toyota’s current GT500 racer is built on the RC F and it looks bonkers as hell. It is all wings, fender flares, and body kit extensions that devours track in the front and spits noise out the back.
What happens when you have the largest advertising budget any dealership has ever seen? You hire World Champion drifter Ken Gushi, get two of the fastest Lexus models ever made, and you make the greatest promotional spot in the entire world.
Plumes of tire smoke reaching for the skies like the water fountains at the Bellagio — deafening engines getting the Harlem Globe Trotter dribble off the rev limiter — Formula DRIFT’s 90-mph tail-out action is more than mesmerizing … it’s life-changing … and then there are the show cars. Finger-licking good.