Tests and Features

Lexus has finally realized that plain cars, no matter how reliable and how excellent their resale value, just won’t cut it anymore, given how fierce the competition has become. As a result, they designed their new models with a much more dynamic style and made them more exciting to drive.

The premise of the He Said, She Said chronicle is simple: we lend a press vehicle to a couple to test drive extensively for two weeks and give the two participants one simple instruction: to take note of all of their impressions, both good and bad. Each of the test …

A few years ago, while thoroughly engrossed in watching that arcane and ancient device known as the television, I recall a documentary that made a pretty compelling argument for love at first sight. Hinging upon the notion that our vision is the first sense with which we experience the world …

Good Lord, Canada can suck sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean right after you deplane in Toronto's -3 weather on a plane that had been bathed in Cuba's 28 degree sunshine just four short hours before. Cold, relatively desolate, and unbelievably monochromatic, it takes a while for Canada's maple-glazed flavour …

Lexus owes its renown mainly to its reliability, and despite its owner Toyota’s recent setbacks, these two Japanese companies remain more reliable than the average. And it’s precisely that reliability that gives Lexus a clear advantage over the other – mostly German – prestige brands. Indeed, German cars are not …

Underneath that modern, trendy, sportback look, the new Lexus CT 200h (CT for Creative Touring) has a lot in common with the Prius: same engine, same (modest) power, same platform, same hybrid system.Will people be fooled? First of all, never let it be said that Toyota/Lexus doesn’t know how to …

In life, there are all kinds of friends. True friends are those that you can wake up at three in the morning to tell them your problems without worrying that you’ll be turned away. There are good acquaintances, acquaintances, and distant acquaintances. Beyond that, nowadays there are Facebook friends, from …

Lexus is a marvel of marketing wizardry. Although having been beat to the punch by more than a few decades, the upscale Japanese brand leveraged Toyota’s reputation for safety, reliability and build quality against a uniquely luxurious design ethos that compromised nothing in its pursuit of motoring bliss. If only …

Homestead Speedway, Florida – The sound of the V10 screaming at 9,000 rpm as I take off down the straightaway at the Homestead Speedway is quite simply mind-blowing and proof positive that the engineers at Lexus have managed to come closer than anyone before them to reproducing the unique sound …

When the Toyota Prius first debuted, its popularity with society’s rich and famous surprised many. Sparsely appointed, unassuming, and quite simply far too humble, it became the steed of choice for innumerable movie stars wishing to capture the moral high ground. But let’s face it, when a lifetime of struggling …