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DerbyInformer.com The Derby Recreation Center will be hosting an upcoming class aimed at helping first-time car buyers. Dollars & Sense: Buying Your First Car will be held from 6-7 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Greteman Room at the DRC. From evaluating priorities and…

About Lexus

Lexus began with a dare. In the 1980s Toyota set out to build a luxury sedan better than anything from Germany, and in 1989 the LS 400 arrived in America with a silence and smoothness that shocked the establishment. One famous commercial balanced a pyramid of champagne glasses on its hood while the V8 revved, and not one fell. Along with the Camry-based ES 250, the LS launched a brand that redefined what luxury buyers could expect from a dealership, a warranty and a car that simply never broke.

Lexus soon discovered its true calling: the luxury crossover. The RX, launched in 1998, essentially created the segment, and the RX 400h of 2005 made Lexus a hybrid pioneer in the luxury world. The brand added rugged GX and LX SUVs derived from the Land Cruiser family, the IS and GS sport sedans, the F performance line and, in 2010, the LFA supercar, a ten-cylinder masterpiece built in tiny numbers. Critics have long teased the polarizing spindle grille and the touchpad infotainment, both now softened or retired.

The current lineup is dominated by SUVs, from the small UX and LBX to the RX, NX, TX, GX and LX, alongside the redesigned ES sedan with its first electric version, the RZ electric crossover and the LM luxury van in some markets. Sedans and coupes are thinning out, with the LC grand tourer reaching the end of its run. Lexus has laid out plans for an electric future, previewed by the three-row TZ and an all-electric successor to the LFA.

Lexus still tops many dependability surveys, and its rivals are BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Genesis, Acura, Cadillac and Volvo. News here covers reveals and redesigns, recalls, reliability and sales rankings, pricing, F performance models, electric plans and comparisons with every German and Korean upstart claiming the luxury throne. The open questions are big ones: how fast Lexus shifts from hybrids to battery-electric models, whether its sedans survive the SUV era, and whether the brand can keep its dependability crown as its cars fill up with software and screens.

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Toyota's luxury arm, born in 1989 to beat Mercedes at its own game, now selling hybrid SUVs by the hundred thousand and previewing an electric LFA.

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RX The SUV that invented the luxury crossover in 1998 and still anchors Lexus: hushed, hybrid-heavy, endlessly reliable and forever cross-shopped with the MDX.
NX The compact Lexus SUV that sells on comfort, hybrid frugality and quiet confidence, now an all-hybrid lineup with a plug-in that can commute on electrons.
TX The three-row Lexus built in Indiana for American families, with real adult room in the back and hybrid and plug-in V6 power at the top of the range.
GX The body-on-frame Lexus with Land Cruiser bones, reborn as a boxy twin-turbo V6 adventurer whose Overtrail trim made it the overlanding crowd's darling.
LX The Lexus flagship SUV, a Land Cruiser in black tie for the Gulf, Russia's elite and American off-roaders, now with a twin-turbo V6 and a hybrid LX 700h.
TZ The three-row electric Lexus SUV, a big battery-powered family hauler that slots above the RZ to take on the Kia EV9, Volvo EX90 and Rivian R1S.
ES The comfortable Lexus sedan that outlasted most of its rivals, now in an eighth generation that is longer, bolder and available as the first electric ES.
IS The compact sport sedan Lexus never let die, from the Altezza-born original to the V8 IS 500, still rear-drive and still charming its loyalists.
LC Lexus's concept-car-come-true grand tourer, with a naturally aspirated V8 and a convertible, now at the end of its run as one of the great modern coupes.
LFA The Lexus V10 supercar of 2010, just 500 built and tuned to scream like a race car, now reborn as an all-electric concept developed with Toyota's GR GT.

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