Toyota City, Japan, July 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Lexus announces today the new partially redesigned "LS 460", "LS 460L" and "LS 600hL" luxury sedans for the North American market.
The new LS series has been designed with a bold blend of refinement and innovation, taking the series a major step forward. With modern and dignified styling, exhilarating driving performance and some of the most advanced safety technologies in the world, the new LS has evolved into a truly premium sedan befitting the Lexus flagship.
- Vehicle Outline
Design Befitting the Lexus Flagship
The exterior design features the signature spindle grille*, giving a powerful and resolute expression to the modern and dignified styling.
The dignified and expressive instrument panel with new modern layered design incorporates a 12.3-inch LCD multi display screen with the Remote Touch Interface (RTI) for an advanced and modern driving environment.
Driving Performance Maturity and Evolution
The all-new LS 460 F Sport package was designed to offer the ultimate in sporty driving performance. F Sport-exclusive features, such as lowered Adaptive Variable Air Suspension (AVS), a Torsen(R) limited slip differential (LSD) and the Active Power Stabilizer Suspension System (APSSS), come together to create an emotional and memorable driving experience. The F Sport also features exclusive interior and exterior components such as an F Sport-specific grille and front bumper, and leather sports seats.
World-leading Technologies
The new Advanced Pre-collision System (APCS) with collision avoidance assist is among the most advanced automotive safety systems in the world, using a combination of millimeter-wave radar, a stereo camera, and a near-infrared ray emitter to avoid or mitigate collisions with both vehicles and pedestrians, day or night.
The newly developed Adaptive High-beam System (AHS) uses a camera to detect preceding and on-coming vehicles and selectively blocks sections of the high beams that could interfere with other drivers' vision, thereby ensuring high forward nighttime visibility for the driver without blinding the drivers of other cars.
The Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) system uses millimeter-wave radar to detect vehicles traveling alongside and notifies the driver when a vehicle enters his or her blind spot.
For Key Specifications, please see http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/news/feature/20120731.html.
* With trapezoidal contours evolved from current Lexus styling, the spindle grille features the fusion of the Lexus-unique inverted trapezoidal upper grille and a trapezoidal lower grille with a functionally integrated brake-cooling duct. This distinctive new front represents the future direction of Lexus front-end design.
About Toyota
Supported by people around the world, Toyota Motor Corporation (TSE: 7203; NYSE: TM), has endeavored since its establishment in 1937 to serve society by creating better products. As of the end of March 2012, Toyota conducts its business worldwide with 50 overseas manufacturing companies in 27 countries and regions. Toyota's vehicles are sold in more than 160 countries and regions. For more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Contact:
Toyota Motor Corporation
Corporate Communications Department
Public Affairs Division
Tel: +81-3-3817-9150
July 31, 2012
Source: Toyota
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