Lexus has had a go at an electric car before — the underwhelming UX300e — but the RZ 450e SUV is the first step in the Japanese brand’s march towards full electrification.Continue Reading

There must be something about Lexus design that just works. All those sharp edges, straight lines and contradictory angles on the NX leave some viewers aghast but, for every hater, there’s somebody that thinks a Lexus is the bee’s knees. If Marmite made cars, they’d build a Lexus.Continue Reading

If you’re looking for a reasonably compact premium SUV but want to avoid diesel and go for a hybrid option instead, then you’re out of luck. Or at least you were, until the Lexus UX arrived in UK showrooms earlier this year. Take that, Audi, BMW and Volvo.Continue Reading

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Three-thousand two hundred… three-thousand four… three-thousand six… BAM! The Lexus RC F forgets Japanese discretion and screams with joy in the Spanish evening sky, eight cylinders drumming as fast as your heart beats. Drum again, Yukihiko-san. In a world where engines are downsizing and turbos are added in multiples, theContinue Reading

Monday 28 April, 21:50.Chicago, Illinois. You never need an excuse to take a road trip, something I’ve done many times in the trusty old General Lee(xus). To those who don’t know, the General is an old Lexus LS 400 that’s been very unsympathetically painted to (vaguely) resemble the famous orangeContinue Reading

Barely awake despite an early-morning alarm call, I was handed the keys to the new Lexus CT 200h and sent off in to the Friday morning rush hour traffic. That’s usually a good way to wake up the senses, but when the city in question is Rome, the adrenalin startsContinue Reading

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Lexus, the bigger but more exclusive brother to Toyota, has been pushing hybrid technology for some time. While the Toyota Prius has been around for 13 years, it was only in 2005 that Lexus took the technology and put it in the RX 400h. Since that time the firm hasContinue Reading

There’s only a few months before Lexus send the all new LS luxury saloon to their dealers, but we took the opportunity to try out the outgoing model to see just what the 2013 car has to live up to.Continue Reading

The original Lexus GS arrived in the UK in 1995, seen as an attractive and imposing sporting alternative to the mainstream German alternatives of the day. Since then the GS has faded away a little, with few knowing what it was really about; was it a luxury car, a sportingContinue Reading