Those of you who have been following Lexus for years--what happens next as far as more specific specifications, options, and pricing are concerned for the LS460? Do we wait for a brochure? A press release or press conference? Leaks in the media? And with an estimated October date for the LS460 to be in showrooms, WHEN could these announcements be expected?

 

There will be several Press Releases giving more info on the car as the arrival date closes in. Depending on what the Lexus Product Planners are trying to package/finalize, you will see them come in the next coming months for sure.

 

for sure i will be snapping one of the first brochures

 

Yeah, but...

WHEN do you anticipate pricing or options will be announced? Those of us with an LS460 on order will have to know by August (I figure) what options and pricing will be in order to get delivery of what we ordered in October. Now its going on May. Over the next 3 months whats gunna happen and when?

Impatient...

 

lexus is pretty good on keeping prices. the prices of the 2is and 3gs weren't out until the car was almost here, so...

 

How am I to order the exact color and options I want and still get the car in the first month of delivery if the prices aren't set until the car is almost here? Maybe I won't want to buy the car at all if I then judge the price to be too high. Who DOES figure out what options come on the early cars that are delivered, the local dealer or Lexus in Japan? Very strange.

 

i believe it's the dealerships who choose what options to get, though regional office has some controls as well.

not sure how the pricing and such work with pre-orders though, didn't pay much attention with the 3gs and the 2is

 

I called my sales rep Brittany Steele, at Lexus of Westminster last week, and she said they have preview brochures of the 460...

 

haha and i already have them for a while

 

That's why you = Da Man!!

 

haha nah, other stuff i might not be as hardcore, but everything about the new LS i am on it

 

im wondering about the mid cycle re-fresh, know its a few years away but what else can you do to the car? i mean its already beautiful and theres not really nothing else to add? i know will have to wait till like 2011 to see or something but its a wonder.

 

I bet it's going to get the 5.0 V8 to become a LS500, other than that, it's probably little tweaks & adding some newer features . . .

 

that's my guess as well actuaally

 

I'm wondering what the development costs on these 4.6L and 5.0L engines will be...after all the original LS 400 engine lasted 2 models, I believe, and was modified for the LS 430...(newly-bored out and all that)...

...so would they then move the 4.6L engine out of LS class and keep it for, say, the GS? And then would the LS 600 get a 5.5L or something or maybe not? All these Lexus rumors of more and more engine changes has my head spinning a bit.