Lexus wanted to make the GS F a high-performance sedan that not only offers impressive capabilities, but a sense of fun from behind the wheel. According to five-time 24 Hours of Daytona overall winner Scott Pruett, the company succeeded.

The Lexus GS is an attractively styled sedan, but I think it’s safe to say that most people don’t buy it sight-unseen. They take it for a test drive.

When it became clear that Lexus was going to give its mid-size GS sedan an F suffix, the one question that seemed to be asked more than any other was How much horsepower will it have?

We jumped at the chance to flog the new GS F on the winding roads outside Madrid and the historic Circuito del Jarama. Find out what we thought about the latest hot Lexus sedan.

This year’s Texas Auto Writers Association Truck Rodeo gave me and 68 other writers the first shot at driving the extensively revised 2016 Lexus LX 570.

Tacoma. That name brings many things to mind: rails and sails, whitebark pine trees, Mt. Rainier, and the Pacific Northwest. That being said, you might think Toyota’s new-for-2016 midsize pickup would be far away from home in Texas, a land of oil and gas and cowboy hats and boots.

The Lexus RC F can be seen as a personal luxury coupe. The problem with that is it brings to mind old cars like the Ford Thunderbird. Perhaps the word “performance” should be wedged in between “luxury” and “coupe.”