Hmm let me guess... Too many people uploaded "bad" pictures of theirs to the site to the point that Lexus felt necessary to make the site viewable only to those who obtained user/pass by first passing a "credit card check".

Sick, was that you?

 

Damnit (in Frank the Tank Voice)...I did upload pics of me and chicks and the old GS but nothing bad, I don't think

 

Yep, it's back to the old '401 authorization required' bit...oh well.

 

probably fixing all the small mistakes or even putting in the forums.

 

anyone has ideas whether this is an official lexus site or what? i didn't see the usual lexus corp statements but they are using the word lexus everywhere

very interesting that they shut down the site for now

 

Yes, the site is registerd to Toyota Motor Sales, USA Torrance, CA

Domain created on Thursday, July 28, 2005

 

At least the TomCat site at port 8080 works.
http://www.thenewis.com:8080/

Could just be the ticket to hack into the root filesystem and retrieve those files served on port 80.

 

This is getting stupid. The link is even on the Lexus home page now with a sizeable banner but the site remains password-protected. You'd think that they'd make sure that the site is actually working before putting the link in their front page. Not the best demonstration of Lexus' technological marvels if you ask me. Apparently their IT guys just aren't very bright.
http://www.lexus.com

 

i don't see it on the homepage.

 

Hmm so it was removed. Took them half a day to notice that the site that the link on the home page points to still doesn't work. Oh well.

 

Perhaps they read your post!

 

Anyone have any idea?

 

I guess by the time the mosaic site is up, people will be submitting pictures with themselves AND their own new IS's.