Yes, those model numbers have been discontinued, but the same body style and general configuration lives on in the LS 430/460, GS 350/430, ES 350 etc.

The SC 300/400 are truly the exception that proves the rule in Lexus' lineup, namely that the next generation flows directly from the first. From the ES/IS/GS/LS and also RX/LX, the following generation has largely built upon and improved on the original, with the same mission profile.

However, the SC 430 was a much more radical redefinition that was not a true successor to the SC 300/400, it was a different vehicle...a very nice convertible hardtop, but more of a 2-seater than the SC 300/400 was, and actually shorter, different stance, different target market etc. So in that sense, the SC 300/400 body style has been discontinued for Lexus...there is no longer a regular, non-convertible, long V6/V8 coupe in the Lexus lineup.

 

ALMS is not the same as the 24 hr of LeMans.

I would like to see the LF-A at Lemans tho..that would be pretty cool.

I think also that if they build and IS hardtop CC there is no need for a soft top convertible or a reuglar coupe. Have the regular IS in CC form and the IS-F in coupe form.

 

I hope when the IS coupe/convertible comes out that it looks nothing like these pics. I dont like what I see at all. These looks somewhat 1-Series(ish)/previous generation civic to me...

 

I don't see how a single auto maker can take over the world, no matter how good or big you are. Even if Toyota becomes the true number one automaker in the world, it wouldn't even come close of knocking out the other automakers combined together. So what you could make several super cars, so do many others. In fact, Lexus is only doing something that several successful European automakers had been doing for years, nothing too surprising.

 

Hehe although Toyota's market capitalization is more than the major automakers combined together...

The Lexus division has a lot of potential, we'll see if they capitalize on it.