Lookers plc will soon start major redevelopment work at its Charles Hurst Group headquarters in Boucher Road, Belfast. The redevelopment will be centred around the creation of brand new separate Nissan and Renault showrooms, supported by a joint back-office facility, and the building of a separate Lexus showroom.
It seems strange that drivers could turn their backs on the Lexus IS200 for failing to cut the mustard in the performance stakes.
Lexus should be the wise motorist's alternative to the premium German marques: all the technology, refinement, build quality and performance with the perceived bonus of value for money.
Lexus (GB) has announced pricing on the IS300 saloon and SportCross which go on sale from October. The IS200, on sale since 1999, also features an improved specification from September.
The Lexus LS430 has been named as the only car to achieve the maximum five-star rating for resistance to being broken into and to being stolen, according to security tests.
Inchcape Retail has completed the redevelopment of its Toyota and Lexus dealerships at Darby Road, Nottingham, costing £2.4m.
Lexus is claiming the accolade as the fastest growing prestige brand in the UK in the first six months of 2001 with sales up 31.7% on last year.
Bristol-based Bryan Brothers has returned to the AM100 at No75 after a 55% increase in turnover to £85.4m. The group, which dropped out of the AM100 last year after finishing 63rd with a £95m turnover in 1999, was a victim of network restructuring, losing its Ford, Toyota and Lexus franchises in the South-west. It also halved its Iveco-Ford portfolio to two outlets.
The Rover 75 is pleasing people who bought it two years ago and shares fifth place with the IS200 from Lexus, the champion of this year's JD Power survey.
Jaguar has again come second in US-based JD Power's assessment of the satisfaction (or otherwise) expressed by British owners of two-year-old S- and T-plated cars.
Toyota and Lexus will move to their purpose-designed new headquarters at Burgh Heath, Surrey on Monday, April 30, from their current HQ in Redhill.
Lexus is the highest ranked manufacturer in the 2001 UK Car Customer Satisfaction study conducted by JD Power and Associates.
Plexus Online, the internet-based accident management company that went live this year, has signed up more than 360 bodyshops on the promise of more cost-effective repairs.
'You have arrived'. The increasingly common chime of a satellite navigation system rings very true when you pull into your destination in a Lexus RX300SE.
##75 Tourer(2)--left## The Rover 75 Tourer, the first compact-executive estate car from the company, is among a host of unveilings due to take place at next week's Geneva motor show.
Lexus is fielding a challenger in the burgeoning executive 4x4 sector, more than two years after the vehicle appeared in the US.
The reputation of the London Motor Show has received a further blow today with Toyota announcing that neither it nor its premium brand, Lexus, will be appearing in 2001.
Lexus GB has taken more than 100 orders for its luxury sports coupe, the SC430, filling the 2001 order.
Volvo Car UK believes the new S60 will enable it to mount a challenge to the BMW 3 Series. Communications director John Lefley said: "The BMW is still the benchmark car worldwide but what Lexus has achieved with IS200 Volvo can achieve with this car.
Plexus Online, the internet-based accident management company, goes live in September with two unnamed clients and a 300-strong bodyshop network. It aims to maximise repairer and insurer profits on every job while raising customer satisfaction.
