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Future Lexus Models Going Even Bonkers

Paradoxically, Lexus is the youngest luxury car brand, but until last year only old folks would have bought one of its classy but not-in-your-face-looking sedans. Things turned 180 degrees after the introduction of the spindle design grille on the GS model in 2012 and since then, the brand changed a lot regarding styling and target market. And this is only going to improve in the future.
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Nope! According to a report from Car Magazine, Lexus isn’t going to return to its old down-to-Earth styling anytime soon. The automaker wants to lure in the younger buyers, which means the cars will continue to look nonconservative, come packed with technology and be advertised using fast paced video sequences, dubious divas and trap music in the background.

And all these are backed up by Toyota chief Akio Toyoda himself, who is said to take care of the matter and bring us even more radical Lexus models that will be even more fun to drive.

“He [Toyoda] is keen that the future products will be fun to drive,” said Lexus Europe vice president Alain Uyttenhoven. “The LFA announced that Lexus could go from comfort, refinement and silence to being fun to drive too. From now on, we mean it. The RCF costs a sixth of the £350,000 the LFA costs, but will deliver 80 percent of the fun.”

More F models to come too

This means the striking angles Lexus came with so far on the NX and RC models are just the tip of the iceberg and something even bolder is in the pipeline. Horsepower will come second to styling maybe, but word is more F performance models will be added to the lineup.

We know the GS F is next and we also expect an-all new IS F to follow and continue the tradition. The LF-LC is supposed to spawn a new rear-wheel drive coupe in the close future, which might be split into the standard and F version too, just like the RC.

Don’t expect any of the SUVs or FWD models to get an F variant because it’s not going to happen. The F ideology implies that the car is RWD and can be used to race on a real track at some point.
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