2015 Lexus LS460 — a quiet and unobtrusive ride - SFGate (blog)
And so it helps to be able to step inside a car that’s quiet, that isn’t asking a lot of you, that isn’t yammering insistently, isn’t demanding and demanding. This week’s entry, therefore, is one of the tried and true members of that tribe, the Lexus LS460. But before you take in the LS460, let’s go back more than a quarter of a century, to the fall of 1989, when Toyota brought to the U. S. the Lexus... Lexus is indeed a big success, and the LS400 spawned a number of other Lexi – the RX300 in 1999, which became the first really popular crossover SUV. and a litter of smaller IS line of cars that kind of brought up the rear, the low end of an expensive line. But it’s the LS that has remained the flagship (the LS400 begat the LS430 and now the LS460. the numbers have a certain kinship to engine size – 4-liter, 4. 3-liter, 4. 6 liter, all of them V8s. ). The LS460, which bowed in the 2007 model year,... But over those same decades, Lexus has seen sales slip away in the face of the German onslaught – Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz all have, to one degree or another, the image of go-fast, you-too-can-drive-a-hot-car. Lexus, then, has created the car we had a for a week, the LS460 F Sport, an $8,350 package that includes a stiffer suspension (a knob on the center console gives you. Source: blog.sfgate.com
