Top Facts You Need To Know About Lexus

Top Facts You Need To Know About Lexus

Top Facts You Need To Know About Lexus

This is a car facts sheet compilation about the luxury car brand 'Lexus'. Most people even some Lexus car owners don't know this that Lexus is actually the Luxury division of Toyota. The popular Japanese auto maker Toyota decided a different name for their luxury car division due reasons best known to them.

1. Lexus is one of the youngest automobile brands in the world. Other car brands date back to early or mid 1900s , Lexus was released for the first time 1989 with the LS model, weird to imagine that Toyota nursed the idea for over 6 years (since 1983) before eventually releasing their Lexus cars.

2. Only the best Toyota manufacturing professionals are allowed to apply for Lexus manufacturing. Quality control is taken very serious in the production of Lexus products. This is because it's a luxury unit which needs not be associated with any issues and quality related scandals.

3. The Lexus LFA Nurburgring is the most expensive automobile in the entire Lexus and Toyota fleet. It starts at about $375,000(#140million), only 500 LFAs were made within two years despite the fact that it took them 10years to start production ..

4. Ford CEO Alan Mullay was caught driving a Lexus LS 460 in 2006. This is considered outrageous and regarded as insurbodination. When asked ,he said “it was the finest car in the world”

5. Lexus is the industry leader in practical hybrid vehicles

6. Lexus sold its first car in japan in 2005. This was 16yrs after it was available in American market as a luxury brand.

7. Lexus makes its leather upholstery only from cows who live on farms with no barbed wire fence.. the reason being that barbed wires could scar the Leather and leave imperfections. Like I said earlier, quality control is strict

8. Lexus was the first to offer 6 cd charger back in 1995

Top Facts You Need To Know About Lexus