All-New Lexus Hybrid to Make World Debut at New York International Automobile Show

All-New Lexus Hybrid to Make World Debut at New York International Automobile Show

Lexus will unveil its all-new LS luxury hybrid sedan next month at the New York International Automobile Show. Arriving next year, Lexus’s hybrid version of the upcoming model-year 2007 LS sedan will introduce impressive new standards in styling, engineering, technology, safety and performance.

The hybrid version of the brand’s fourth-generation flagship sedan will make its world premiere at the auto show’s first press conference at 9:25 a.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 in the Galleria Ballroom of Jacob Javits Convention Center. The press conference will be streamed live via the Lexus Web site at http://www.lexus.com/autoshow.

About Lexus:

Lexus is a brand name of the Toyota Motor Corporation for its line of Japanese luxury vehicles. Lexus-branded vehicles are sold in North America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania. Until 2005, Lexus vehicles were sold under the Toyota marque in Japan until its introduction there that year.

Lexus was inspired by the success of the Toyota Supra sports car and the luxury Toyota Cressida models. Both the Supra and Cressida were rear wheel drive cars with a powerful 7M-GE/7M-GTE engine. The first Lexus-badged models, the V-8 powered LS 400 and the smaller, Toyota Camry-based ES 250, appeared in 1989.

The Lexus marque was launched in the United States in 1989, prompted by the successful launch of the Acura marque three years prior. Lexus launched later in the UK and Australia, in 1990.