Lexus is a label name, which is used by Toyota for luxury automobiles. Lexus competes directly with traditional luxury marks such as Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi. In the year 2005 Toyota started the selling of the mark Lexus also in its homeland Japan.
With the LS Lexus brought 1989 its first model to 400 on the US market. The vehicle did not have large thing in common with the Toyota models offered before there owing to its 4-Liter V8-Motors. Mainly for its low noise level and its outstanding quality of workmanship was praised and could win large market shares on the North American market within a short time. Gradually followed further models and model variants, which stepped all into competition to the other manufacturers of luxury automobiles. Lexus vehicles achieve highest places in their categories in renowned industry inquiries to quality and buyer satisfaction. Lexus engines apply with competitors as reference regarding reliability and quiet running. On the other hand by the technical literature the sportyness lacking and the conservative Design of the vehicles were criticized.
Lexus automobiles are manufactured to a large extent in their own factory in the Japanese town Tahara. The jeep RX is only produced in Canadian Cambridge.
The market share in Germany is infinitesimal small. Thus Lexus counted straight with the conception of the last LS430 on a paragraph of once 200 copies per year. There is a dealer net abgegliedertes of Toyota, which is accordingly grobmaschig. The dealer service is however on high level. Thus for example a fetching and a bringing service belong usually to the standard.
The newest developments are the hybrid models RX 400h and gs 450h. Both vehicles combine gasoline and electric motors and achieve by it over the competition lying torque values with moderate consumption. The electric motors fed by batteries permit a temporally limited emissionless enterprise with both models also.
| Lexus IS300 | Lexus IS200 sport CROSS |
(not for the German market available)
| IT 300 of 2001 | IT of 2003 | IT of 2007 |
| Lexus gs (1998 to 2005) | Lexus gs (starting from 2005) |
| Lexus LS from the year 1999 | Lexus LS430 from the year 2002 |
| Lexus RX 300 | Instrument panel of a Lexus RX 400h |
(not for the German market available)
| Lexus LX 470 |
(starting from the sports club 430 on the German market available)
| Lexus SC400 of 1998 | Lexus SC430 (Silver barks OD.) from the year 2001 |
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