Claus Ettensberger, the CEO of the Claus Ettensberger Corporation (CEC), has been awarded the dubious honor of being the first person to receive a speeding ticket in the Lexus LFA. While details are limited, Ettensberger took a short test drive and was ticketed for doing 91 mph (146 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) [...]

Claus Ettensberger, the CEO of the Claus Ettensberger Corporation (CEC), has been awarded the dubious honor of being the first person to receive a speeding ticket in the Lexus LFA. While details are limited, Ettensberger took a short test drive and was ticketed for doing 91 mph (146 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) [...]

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Is Toyota turning into Apple? Selling you its product but dictating to you how you use it? Well, the rules of purchase may be easing up a bit for U.S. customers of the Lexus LFA supercar. When Lexus announced the LFA last year, the Japanese automaker said it would only be available to customers in [...]

Looks like Lexus is using the South African market to rip on a few of their rivals.  A new ad from the Japanese luxury automaker not-so-subtlely mocks their German counterparts for the high prices they charge for “extras.” Lexus says items like a high powered sound system, power seating, voice-controlled navigation, reverse camera, USB and [...]

Lexus has released a new commercial which shows the LFA breaking a champagne flute. Dubbed “Pitch,” the commercial was filmed in a specially-designed audio studio with the LFA on a dynamometer. Once the car is started, the driver (Scott Pruett) accelerates past 170 mph as the exhaust note gets louder and louder. Eventually, the champagne [...]

Lexus has outsold Mercedes-Benz to become the U.S. market’s number one premium marque for both the month of May and year-to-date sales. In a booming U.S. car market, Lexus sales rose 31 percent in May, spurred on by incentives the brand provided to customers. Lexus sales for the month were 22,216 with a year-to-date tally [...]

Contrary to previous reports, the Lexus LF-A is not sold out. The Japanese premium brand now says that there will still be some LF-A supercars available for lease to U.S. customers. Parent company Toyota told Inside Line on Thursday that there were still some production spots available for the car. Lexus will make 500 units [...]

An accident, on local roads near the Nurburgring, has claimed the life of legedary Toyota chief test engineer / driver, Hiromu Naruse. While details are limited, the 67-year old was piloting a Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition when it crashed into a BMW 3-Series. Both cars were traveling in an area with a speed limit of [...]

It looks like Toyota too is considering making an all-electric supercar to rival the likes of the Audi e-tron and the SLS AMG E-Cell from Mercedes-Benz. Help could come from electric-car maker Tesla, with which Toyota recently announced a $50 million (€35 million) partnership deal to co-develop electric propulsion technologies. According to Motortrend, a Toyota [...]