Lexus turned the luxury car market upside down in America when it introduced its big LS 400 luxury sedan in 1989. Suddenly, it seemed as if you were a sap if you bought a Cadillac or Mercedes instead of the LS, especially in trend-setting places such as Beverly Hills—although Lexus had no luxury car track [...]
The revamped 2013 Toyota Avalon sedan is a far cry from the first Avalon, which debuted for 1995 as a stretched, roomy version of the Toyota Camry with a front bench seat (remember those?) and a column shifter. Toyota called it the “most American of Toyotas,” and it was sort of a Japanese Buick. The [...]
The 2014 Lexus IS has completely redeemed itself from the previous model which was a good car in its own right. It’s not that much quicker, it’s not that much larger and the important bits are not that impressive when compared to the last model. Nevertheless, the 2014 Lexus IS 250, 350 and 350 F-sport [...]
Lexus announced the pricing for the redesigned 2014 Lexus IS sports luxury sedan line. The good news is that the IS 350 models get a 2.1% (or $885) dollar reduction in starting price. Not many redesigned new vehicles in the luxury segment can claim a price drop. On the flip side, the IS 250 models [...]
The 2013 Lexus ES 300h is a part of the freshly redesigned Lexus 2013 model year lineup, which also includes the GS and the LS. The ES has a long lineage that dates back to 1992 and it’s also the second best selling Lexus vehicle (behind the RX crossover). This year it defends its position [...]
The 2013 Lexus ES 350 is a modern sedan with almost every modern creature comfort and that really means that it is crammed full of the newest technology. In this Tech Talk video TFLcar technology Editor Nicole Wakelin shows you her Top 4 Technology features of the 2013 Lexus ES 350. Is it all clear [...]
In the final installment of Gone to the Guillotine, let us pay our respects to great cars brought to a tragic end. Gone to the Guillotine: MAZDA RX-8 Mazda emerged from a line of indistinguishable products with the Miata and all-new RX-8. Three doors and Mazdaspeed is all I would need for this quirky sportster. However, [...]
Perhaps it was climate change. Maybe a meteor hit and killed them off. Or maybe, just maybe they were wiped out by a superior species. The cars that I’ve liked over the years died out. Let’s look at some more of them. Gone to the Guillotine: CADILLAC XLR-V Badge-engineering at it’s finest. One the plus side, [...]
The new 2013 Lexus ES 350 and the new BMW 335i have one very important thing in common…they are the most popular cars that Lexus and BMW builds and sells. For over 15 years the Lexus ES has out sold every other Lexus model in the Luxury Toyota line-up. The BMW 3 series is ( [...]
I recently had the chance to ride around in the 2013 Buick Verano and Buick Verano Turbo for an afternoon and came away with a list of things that a prospective buyer should know about this car. AMERICA HAS A CHALLENGER Buick is steadily reshaping their once geriatric image into a stylish domestic alternative [...]
The new, redesigned 2013 Lexus LS460 is the flagship for the Lexus car luxury brand. The 2013 Lexus LS460 is elegant, luxurious, fast and, of course, expensive. It’s finely crafted to represent the very best of what a Lexus vehicle can and should be. In this fun and informative TFLcar review, we put the top [...]
What are your choices if you are looking for a luxurious and very fuel efficient city car? This 2012 Lexus CT 200h is one of the very few choices. Yes, there are other more fuel efficient small cars and also bigger and much more expensive hybrids, plugins, and EVs. However, the Lexus CT aims to [...]
Here’s an interesting question. What is the best new Lexus Sedan? Is it the 2013 Lexus ES 300h or is it the 2013 Lexus AWD ? The new Lexus ES 300h is of course a large 200 horsepower hybrid 4-door Lexus sedan that gets an amazing 40 MPG combined. While the new 2013 Lexus AWD [...]
The 2013 Volvo S60 is still as Swedish as a big chunk of lutfisk with lingonberry topping. Foreign buyouts can be harrowing for automotive companies, but Zhejiang Geely has done absolutely no wrong to this vehicle. The 2013 Volvo S60 is not only worthy of competing with the world’s best, including the Audi A4, BMW [...]
