Lexus News

Design is increasingly a defining factor in the luxury car market, as differences in performance, reliability and equipment levels between rival models grow smaller. It is a factor that has become highly influential for Lexus in the development of its new generation models, leading to the creation of a new design language, L-finesse.

Sound quality has always been a key consideration in the design of Lexus vehicles, from the solid, satisfying thunk of a closing door, to the refined note of the turning engine. It is the quality of the on-board sound system, however, that represents the pinnacle of the aural experience and in the new LS 460 this is taken to new heights.

Lexus’s pre-eminent position among prestige brands in the UK has been reinforced with the 2006 Motor Trader Car Franchise of the Year Award.

Since its launch in spring 2005, the all-new third-generation GS has been a successful standard bearer for Lexus’s advances in individual style, refined performance, innovative safety and advanced technology. The British International Motor Show provides the platform for the introduction of a new version that develops the model’s appeal even further, the GS Limited Edition (LE).

Lexus arrives at the British International Motor Show in exceptional form. A series of new product launches in the past 18 months have revitalised its model range and powered a big increase in sales, both in the UK and Europe.

The fast and furious Twenty20 Cup bursts into action this week with Lexus lining up to support cricket’s liveliest and most colourful competition.

The arrival of the Lexus GS 450h saloon in the UK has at last solved the conundrum of balancing executive car requirements against environmental impact - as Bath’s new Mayor has become one of the first to demonstrate.

The first Lexus to join the 1300-strong car fleet of timber and builders merchant Travis Perkins is a GS300 SE for the group’s Human Resources Director.

Lexus has once again topped the J.D. Power and Associates UK Customer Satisfaction Study, claiming the 2006 Gold Award for an astonishing sixth successive year. The luxury car brand scored a total of 873 points out of 1000 in the ownership satisfaction survey, well above the industry average of 791 points.

The new Lexus GS 450h introduces hybrid power to the premium executive saloon market, a car that delivers exceptional performance to rival its conventional V8 competition, together with fuel economy and low emissions levels that yield equally powerful cost of ownership benefits.