Making a good thing better, Lexus will introduce all-wheel drive on its flagship LS 460 and long-wheelbase LS 460 L sedans this fall. These mew LS variants expand the brand’s AWD portfolio, as they join the IS 250, GS 350, and LS 600h L. The AWD system uses a Torsen limited-slip center differential that...

Long-term vehicle quality has improved by 5 percent across automotive brands in 2008, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 2008 Vehicle Dependability Study. More than 60 percent of the 38 nameplates included in the study improved in 2008, compared with 2007. In particular, the compact car and midsized...

Sales of the consummate gasoline/electric Toyota Prius hybrid reached a milestone mark of more than one million worldwide, Toyota announced today. Since the Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997, then in Europe and North America in 2000, total cumulative sales through April 2008 hit 1,028,000 units...

News flash: The cost of luxury continues to rise. Toyota Motor Sales has announced updated pricing for a variety of Lexus branded vehicles to take place starting mid May. The revisions see incremental increases in all cases, though the price bumps only impact the models listed below. Base retail prices...

Lexus has released pricing on its Pebble Beach Collection RX 350 and ES 350 special edition packages, marking the first time that these models have received the Pebble Beach treatment. Production of the Pebble Beach Collection RX and ES is limited to 6,000 vehicles each. The MSRP for the RX 350 Pebble...