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Check out these pictures of the LFA taken at the UK Lexus head office.
For more on the LFA, visit blog.lexus.co.uk
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.
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January 2023
Lexus has started to become more noticeable lately. I think he knows my vehicle and he's very curious about me. He watches me from a distance. Sometimes if I stay in my car he will come up to the car and look at me through the windows. I was able to put his shelter out today. I found a homeowner who agreed to let me put it on her property and to put his food under her stairs. She is a different lady from the original homeowner who asked me to come to the alley.
This lady is the owner of a pet black cat named Blackie who I did show once before on my photo stream. He is a lot bigger than Lexus and he has a red collar on. When I went over to her house to discuss the details of where to put everything, I was standing inside the house just inside the door talking with the homeowner. Not 10 feet away, just outside the door, both cats were hanging out together. I wished I had brought my camera along. The homeowner told me the two cats play together all the time. I was lucky enough to witness them playing together one evening myself this past summer.
I am trying to trap some feral kittens and their mother not far from where Lexus lives and he regularly comes by to watch me. I have not seen any kittens yet, but I have had several people tell me they are indeed there. I don't know how big they are, but they are probably at least 3 months old. I have seen the (reported) mother twice in the last 24 hours. Once she almost went into my trap, but backed out. The second time was one occasion when I was coming to check my traps and she ran off. I think I will get her soon enough, then I hope I can catch the kittens.
UPDATE: So far, no luck catching anything. I will still keep trying to trap them, but only in the evenings. The past two days I had off from work so I put a lot of time into trying to trap any of the kittens or the mother. Any spare time I have (about an hour in the evening) has been spent out by the local lake as it is very rich with migrating birds right now and it is very beautiful out there.
I am starting to think that the cats are either no longer there, or they have a food source, or both.
Car: Lexus LS400.
Year of manufacture: 1995.
Date of first registration in the UK: 30th March 1995.
Place of registration: Not known.
Date of last MOT: 30th March 2022.
Mileage at last MOT: 212,390.
Date of last change of keeper: 22nd April 2019.
Date taken: 17th April 2022.
Location: Beach Lawns, Weston-Super-Mare, UK.
Year: 2004
Make: Lexus
Model: IS 300
VIN: JTHBD192140081702
Mileage: 150,091 km (CarFax calculated)
Other info: 3.0L 6Cyl
Express Care 03/12/2020 - 147,998 km (vehicle serviced)
Express Care 07/18/2019 - 143,000 km (vehicle serviced)
Express Care 12/03/2018 - 136,999 km (vehicle serviced)
Express Care 05/16/2018 - 130,000 km (vehicle serviced)
AirCare 03/14/2013 - 74,999 km (passed emissions)
AirCare 02/20/2011 - 63,999 km (passed emissions)
Lexus began taking orders for the LFA on October 23, 2009. Buyers were selectively chosen by Lexus in the second quarter of 2010. Production began in December 2010 as a 2011 model. Only 500 total LFA models were scheduled to be made worldwide, with only 20 produced each month. Each car had to be custom ordered to the customer's specifications, and cost approximately US$375,000, depending on options and customization. Following the LFA's release at the Tokyo Motor Show, Lexus unveiled a website with a 'LFA configurator' which allowed users to select exterior and interior colors, brake caliper colors, seats, steering wheel leather, and other interior designs. In total, there were over 30 billion possible configurations. Each LFA was hand-built by a dedicated production team of engineers and specialists at Toyota's Motomatchi plant in Aichi, Japan.
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