Finally! Lexus Museum on the way!

Is this an early April Fools joke?

Lexus has put out some good product and it has changed the luxury landscape, but it is only two decades old. Seems kind of premature to me.

— HSCenterconsole (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 4:38:48 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 18   

Hahahahahah

— uall (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 4:46:35 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 19   

MEUSEUM.....THIS HAS TO BE THE FUNNIEST THING I HEARD SO FAR THIS YEAR

— B7FAN (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 4:50:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 16   

monkey see, monkey do.

let's name all our models using alphanumerics.
let's have 3 tiers of luxury sedans.
lets mimic every innovation of our competitors.
let's open a museum to showcase our 20 whole years of existence.


hahhahahaahhaaaa!

— enthusiastx11 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:02:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 15   

I can hear it now

"Way back in 1989 the Lexus..."

— IamEvilHomer (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:04:34 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 20   

I wonder if they'll have a separate showroom for their racing cars?

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:09:04 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 12   

How can you build a museum on 20 years of history? It's just going to end up looking like a dealer's lot.

I mean every car that they put in there would be available for sale at dealers!

— audispy (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:09:57 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 20   

Yaaaaayyyyyyy!!! I am so TOTALLY excited!!! You guys stop making fun! Lexus has been around for ever and ever- almost before I was totally even born!!! They have totally been on the forefront of incredible innovations like door-weights, blue-tinted sunroofs, weird spikey hair-dos, mis-matching name brands in the same outfit, and most important to the auto industry, creating the need for after-sales products like rust-proofing. You will all be totally eating your words when you see this museum! My daddy is going to buy it for me when it comes out- and I'm going to charge all you silly nin-cum-poops DOUBLE to get in!!! So THERE!

— HelloKittyLexus (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:15:12 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Don't you first have to have a history to build a Museum? Strange....monkey see monkey do.

Oh, Sailor, you forgot Inglostadt and Zwickau where you can see 100 years of automotive history, technology, and motor sports including the legendary Silver Arrows and the dominating Quattros.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 9:02:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

What are they going to showcase in it? An LS400 and SC300 coupe? Because those are about the only Lexus I can think off that will ever achieve classic status.

— Wimmer (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:45:25 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Oh yeah, that spokesperson is full of BS. I mean:

"the heritage and success Lexus has enjoyed around the world..."

Now that is funny.

— Wimmer (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:48:30 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

We all know that Japanese cars don't last and Lexus is no exception. I am not surprised they want to preserves some examples, considering that is hard to find one that is more than 5 years old in acceptable condition.

A Lexus that managed to survive 10-15 years is extremely rare and can no doubt be considered a museum piece.

— Star (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 5:54:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

the original LS was decent...the original IS was...unique, i guess the first 2 generations of GS were...okay.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 6:20:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

The new cars look so old, Toyota can drive them straight out of the factory, and straight into the museum.

— cococo (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 6:28:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 10   

What would they put on display? This has to be a joke.

— Obliv (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 6:33:14 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9   

if you thot you were being funny, then people in the know at least will just LAUGH AT YOUR IGNORANCE.

look at any listing of days worth of inventory. both toyota and lexus have the LOWEST numbers. cars move off their lots faster than from ANY other volume dealerships.

back in '89 and '90, lexus had already gobbled up so much of their competitors' sales that MBs were filling up storage lots, as the dealers could not move OVERPRICED, unreliable cars as they used to BEFORE lexus came on the scene.

THIS IS HISTORICAL FACT. (not that all you critics have much sense of history.)

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 3/6/2009 12:42:29 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

ROFLMAO...
They need to place endless rows of beds in order to keep people from falling on the ground sleeping. Perhaps full staff of medical personal for American old folks on each booths are necessary too. We all know that our old timers are responsible for Lexus being where they are today.

— 2001W210 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 6:53:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

Lexus builds the most reliable, beautifully engineered and high quality luxury cars out there... every Lexus dealership is a museum :)

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 6:54:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -16   

Hilarious post! I'm still laughing so hard!

— ErichHartmann (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 7:06:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Yeah baby +1. Germany forever!

— Fourth_Reich (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 10:38:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

+1 Rising Sun. Great post.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 3/8/2009 2:08:44 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Is it going to be in a two or three car garage?

— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 7:53:11 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9   

Seriously?

— Htay7500 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 7:54:25 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

they going to showcase the last 20yrs, 4 getting money from the old German drivers that turn Lexus drivers...FACT

— Denali (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 8:03:54 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -6   

most lexus drivers are museum pieces...

— enthusiastx11 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 8:51:52 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

wow..... I'd better of believing in a toyota museum even though its still kind of unbelievable seeing that more then 85% of the cars we see out there are toyotas... Because Lexus museum?... they have got a lot to put into a museum with only almost 20 years worth of heritage.... Seeing that Mercedes Benz has atleast 100 years... well dont mention, just take bmw as an example.... I would say atleast a 50 year range would be a better time to decide on a museum... unless they really got something to suprise us with...?

— shabaru (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 9:04:22 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

"Leksis = to wipe your ass in Turkish!?

ROFLMAO!!!! I love Turkish already! I want to learn Turkish!

Imagine if Lexus decides to sell cars in Turkey! Lexus - The Passionate Pursuit of Ass Wiping is how the Turks would perceive that brand! Lexus Leksis!!!!

I am leksisin in the bathroom! LOL!!!!"


Post of the Week! Thanks for the great laugh. Too funny!

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 9:05:12 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Yeah, kind of delusional, so outrageous this can't be true.

— _43LE (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 9:50:23 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -7   

I guess they could display the evolution of lexus from toyota in the museum. They should also put king sized pillow top bed around the cars for people falling asleep looking at their toyotas

— bimmerMeister999 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 10:16:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Which museum would you rather visit? Lincoln, Cadillac, or Lexus? German cars are not included in this comparison since they are all located in Germany.

— woood (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 10:38:29 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

....and in 1948 Toyota was born, in 1989 they ceated Lexus or Luxury Export US. Toyota accountants had discovered that vain Americans would pay more money for a Toyota if they could get a free coffee, have a steak and their nails done while they were shopping for a new Toyota. Seriously, is it April 1st yet?

— 1evlaudi (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 10:45:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Hey German blowhards!

have ya'll seen Minority Report? did you notice the awesome futuristic vehicle Mr. Cruise in rollin in? it's a LEXUS.

have you retards any idea how forward thinking the Japanese are? cars that are self-cleaning that can be driven in an accident free system and can change colors on command are some of the things Lexus has right now... what about the MAG-LEV system that's incorporated into buildings so that it transforms driving experience into an environmental experience... you people need to get a clue, it's not about racing heritage this or brand pedigree that.... Lexus is not concern with such frivolous activity, but the wonderful technology that's in store for the future.

At the pace Lexus is moving right now and the way this brand will transform is ultimately what this museum will showcase.

Japan = most technologically advanced nation on earth... and 2nd wealthiest nation on earth, all in less than 50yrs!

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 11:04:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -9   

Neat, I admire Lexus. We are in our Beginning Lexus Phase Now, thanks guys for showing us here at Hyundai the way.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2009 11:45:30 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Lexus museum!!!

Lord have mercy what's next, the Blink 182 museum o_O

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 12:41:08 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

No, the North American Hyundai Museum, opening May 2025.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:06:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Chinese Automaker Geely opens up Museum in Detrot.

H.Smoke
Associated Press

May 11, 2042

Chinese Automaker Geely will open their Museum on the Detroit side of the Detroit River today, to showcase their modern Luxury and racing heritage. The Museum will open up in the derelect GM headquarters building. Local Detroiters were not too happy about the situation. However, they remembered that it was Chinese Automakers like Geely who repioneered the industry with those little old subcompacts,and gave them jobs by building factories in the Motor City, While American automakers long abandoned Detroit 25 years ago for Chongqing, China, and various marktes that were described as thrid world hellholes at the time. Young Detroit Mayor Kwame Killpatrick III said, "This only strengthens the bond our city and the Chinese Automakers have, and only reaffirms our once controvesrial decision to accept Chinese Plants (Before Return of Christ and Total World Peace Era) 20 Years ago."

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:25:57 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Thanks man - that was fun reading that. :)

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 3:20:23 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

"You DoucheMobiles fanbois fail so bad"!!!

true.

all the rancor they express toward lexus is simply a REFLECTION of the inner disappointment they're ashamed to admit or express over being RIPPED OFF paying WAY TOO MUCH for german iron that can't even match TOYOTA standards of quality and reliability.

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 3/6/2009 1:10:34 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

The only ones getting ripped off are Lexus buyers, buying into the marketing hype that somehow a psuedo-premium brand like lexus is actually somehow prestigous to own. The ignorants the only ones to fall for it. Any remotely brain functioning person with some knowledge of automobiles should now otherwise. What has lexus done other than serve coffee and bagels at dealerships to be seriously considered a premium brand globally? Luxury does not equal premium. I can buy a camry fully loaded and it is thus luxury. To be premium you have to prove yourself through technological innovation, develop a racing and performance pedigree, and build a certain type of culture where you are seen as a leader not to mention develop clubs around the globe of enthusiasts and owners. Plus, you must have heritage which shows innovations, racing, luxury, and premium status to be a premium carmaker. Lexus must go head to head in motor sports with Audi, BMW, MB, and Porsche to gain some kind of respect from true automotive enthusiasts. Builing reliable, but passionless cars isn't going to win converts.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 3/8/2009 2:17:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This is the most pathetic story of them all.

— 204E60 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 8:00:25 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

I'm more interested in the BMW Alpina story below.

— adamsaf723 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 9:14:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Maybe Toyota thinks they can give Lexus "heritage" by giving them a museum. All the European premium brands have one (not sure about Jaguar and Lancia). I agree with one poster that it would be better if this was a Toyota museum where they could showcase a little bit of that small Lexus history, because Lexus really has nothing, absolutely thing, that deserves to be displayed in a museum except for perhaps the original LS.

— Willis (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 10:10:49 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

"Japan AND Germany can both make great cars."

- Who said that they didn't? We're just talking about Lexus here. Last time I checked TOYOTA isn't the only car builder from Japan.

— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:10:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

"Japan AND Germany can both make great cars" 'answer'

Wrong again. Japan NEVER built great cars. All they do is attempting unsuccessfully to copy the German Masterpieces.

— Star (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:22:27 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

If you want to see the history of Lexus, just go to a Hyundai showroom.
Same story different time.

— vonbeeler (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 11:52:52 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

But wait..... One thing is different. Hyundai's have some style.
Copied of course, but at least with some flair.

— vonbeeler (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 11:56:32 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

I can understand Lexus having a museum. Lexus vehicle looks the best, performs the best, and tastes the best

- Lexus Fan

— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 12:57:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -5   

Lexus should be in a warehouse museum instead of on the streets.

— supermoto (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:17:31 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

What autospies.com needs is a virtual museum of all the high caliber idiotic douchebags that have posted the most insanely-biased crap here over the years.

— answer (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:46:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -5   

Maybe in 30 years, when thy are 50. And let's admit it: they are building good cars and so they'll be around then.

— Caraficionado (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 1:59:46 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Nobody builds masterpiece cars.

Americans and Chinese have the ability to fastly mass produce cars, yet they have questionable but increasing quality.

Japanese have the ability to produce cars with good quality, however they have been slacking on that, and now they are living on their reputations from years ago. The Japanese only care about making money now. It's a shame, becuase Japanese used to build their cars like craftsmen with care.

Italians build cars like craftsmen. They look perfect, but sadly are probably some of the most unreliable cars on earth. They are perfect if you only want a car for looks and speed though.

Russians Build Rugged little cars, that have questionable reliablity only becuase they dont pump billions if not trillions of dollars into their auto industry. (The Yugo had only 1 recall) The neighbor down the street has a Yugo with 275,000 miles by the way.

Germans build Rugged little cars with clean conservative interiors and fast engines that guzzle gas. Their reliablity has been questionable of late, but they have gotten the hunger back.

The Malaysians build cars like Italians, they Look nice but are highly unreliable.

The Indians are like the Koreans 25 years ago, they built simple little workhorses, with quesitonable reliablity, and the future looks bright becuase management cares.

The Koreans are like the Germans 30 years ago, simple litle workhorses that have the perfected of quality and craftmanship for the value. Now like the Germans did 30 years ago, they are creating elements of their own true style that will be very appealing, yet synonomous with superior Korean quality and craftmanship.

The Germans and Japanese did that to the Americans, the Koreans are now doing that to the Japanese and Germans. I just wonder if the Japanese and Germans will fumble the ball and get tackled in the last play of the game at the 3rd yard line like their American predecessors.

The Chinese and Indians will eventually do that to the Koreans. When the Chinese cars come over, I will probably be one of the people in here cracking on Chinese cars. When I have kids and they buy one, I will probably say why are you buying that crap, but my kids little CHinese car will probably end up being more rleiable than my non Chinese car. That same scenario happened to my parents with my Korean cars, they are not laughing anymore.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 4:09:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Now could you Imagine if Yugo/Zatasva Motors stayed in the US. They'd probably be making some great cars now.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 4:11:48 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

My Stepdad is now looking at trading his Dodge Durango in for a SantaFe, or Sorento.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 4:14:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Should be a great place to catch a nap...
- F666

— formula666 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 4:46:07 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Lots of Lexus haters on this site... but seriously I like some of their cars but there is no way they should have a museum. They're going to have what 20 cars they've had in the last 20 years

4-5 Generation ES
4-5 Generation LS
2 Generation IS
3 Generation GS
2 Generation SC
2 Generation RX
2 Generation LX
1 Generation GX

— jspecrsx (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 5:40:44 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

I AM REALLY AMAZED WITH ALL THESE TROLLS WHO ACTUALLY CONSIDER THEMSELVES ENTHUSIAST. THE NEWS ABOUT LEXUS BUILDING A MUSEUM ONLY EXISTS ON AUTOSPIES, DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING? I DON'T MEAN TO RUIN THE FUN BUT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A HOAX AND ALL YOU SHEEP BIT THE HOOK. WOW! AND YOU EUROPEANS HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL AMERICANS "UNEDUCATED"... HAHAHA! JOKES ON YOU, YOU RETARDS!! UP NEXT: "LEXUS PLANS ON BUILDING CARS ON THE MOON TO HELP PRESERVE THE PLANET".. NOW, FLAME ON THAT YOU TROLLS!!

— Lemonade (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 9:11:24 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Sounds like a bunch of crybaby civic owners in here...

— BarackBush (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 9:36:39 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Lexus has barely been around for twenty years; so I don't know what business it has doing opening up a museum. I'll consider taking them seriously when they decide to engineer something other than an egg on wheels.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2009 10:44:49 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

lol! great comments, tonymountainman.

but go easy on hys=undaismoke. at least he's smart enuff to know too, how overrated the douche-moblies are.

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 3/6/2009 5:35:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Car and Driver magazine comparo

First: 2007 Mercedes-Benz S550
Second: 2006 Audi A8L Quattro
Third: 2006 BMW 750Li
Fourth: 2006 Jaguar Super V-8
Fifth: 2007 Lexus LS460L

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison_test/sedans/2006_jaguar_super_v_8_vs_2007_m_b_s550_2006_audi_a8l_2007_lexus_ls460l_2006_bmw_750li_comparison_test

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MotorTrend magazine comparo

"In the end, the Lexus (LS600hL) strikes us as ideal for CEOs who've made their fortunes plundering the earth's resources and want to appear to be making amends. It said little to us beyond 'Forgive me; I'm not quite the guzzler I appear to be.' Its smugness irked us almost as much as its undeserved 600 badge."


1st place: Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT
Lights up the brain's pleasure centers like no other sedan we know.

2nd place: Mercedes-Benz S550
Pushes the lux sedan envelope in all the right directions.

3rd place: Jaguar Super V8
Disguises modern technology and dynamics in authentic 19th-century elegance.

4th place: Lexus LS 600hL
Overpromises and underdelivers on performance, fuel economy, and even luxury.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_0712_high_end_luxury_sedan_comparison/judgement.html

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"Compared to luxury brands like Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, BMW and Audi, Lexus has the emotional appeal of a public golf course." - Dan Neil's LATimes.com review of the Lexus LS 460.

http://www.cars.com/go/crp/research.jsp?section=reviews&crpPage=reviews.jsp&makeid=27&modelid=8237&year=2007&myid=&acode=&mode=&aff=latimes

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 3/6/2009 12:24:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

I love when all the haters blog about stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

— r_driver04 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/6/2009 1:53:35 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

who cares

— 2ndbimmer (View Profile)

Posted on 3/7/2009 4:43:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Lexus Museum, bring it on! It would be interesting to see what they put in it. I have seen some of the earlier LS400s in great condition. The owners that baby them do a good job. I must admit, the Lexus design doesn't look as dated now as the W126 S-class that the LS400 competed against back in 1989. BTW, I'm beginning to think RISINGSUN is the return of CHUCKYG37.

— 3pointstar (View Profile)

Posted on 3/9/2009 2:01:07 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2