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Apologies, just a dashcam capture seen when I was on the move but it was a real surprise to see this one, especially as it’s one of the original Mk1 models. Can’t recall seeing any in France before.
Perhaps more sensibly than mine (which is in the boot), the CD changer lives inside the upper glovebox. There's a larger glovebox below.
Strobist:
3 lights set up
Camera right with softbox
Canberra left with barn doors and CTO
back seat of car with CTO
Vape for the smoke in the foreground
The Toyota Harrier was launched in 1997 in Japan but for foreign markets it was rebadged as Lexus RX. This one is imported, Lexus started officially selling cars here around 2008.
The SC 430 coupé-convertible from Lexus was built between 2001 and 2010. In 2012 the SC430 was declared the worst car ever built by the makers of Top Gear in terms of handling, ride and style. In Japan the SC 430 was sold as Toyota Soarer.
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Toyota Motor Company launched their luxury car brand 'Lexus' in 1989. They formed a separate sales channel to deliver the kind of sales and service experience to impress the most particular of customers.
Their first car, the XF10 LS400 launched that year was a further testimony to the dedicated focus of the team in delivering excellence. The basic specification was impressive enough - 4.0 L V8 DOHC TwinCam, producing 190 kW. The magic was in the attention to detail of every part and function. The car was near silent, smooth and refined. Everything worked perfectly, consistently and with finesse.
Their were many early critics of both the brand experiment and the car. When the vehicle was disassembled by competitors, they found exactly what was stated - near perfect execution of every detail.
Further models were added to the lineup over time - each with the same ethos, if not the near perfection of the top-line LS. The 'experiment' did, however, force all other competitors to lift their game.
Nissan followed suit with their own luxury brand 'Infiniti', Honda with 'Acura' and Mazda was to follow with 'Amati' - the Asian financial recession arrived before that plan could be executed.
Lexus was by far the most successful, and still sets quality benchmarks for its products. This can be seen in the US JD Power quality surveys.
Lexus offered the first generation IS Series from model years 1999 to 2005 as a luxury compact with more of an emphasis on sport. This one is the SportCross version which was more wagon-like than the regular sedan version. Both the IS200 and IS300 were equipped with rear wheel drive and inline 6 engines, the latter of which with a version of Toyota’s notable 2JZ-series DOHC engine. The IS 300 had the non-turbo 2JZ-GE version.