For how much of a splash it made, little about the LS400 is particularly groundbreaking, even for the time. Its styling is clean, albeit unrecognizable as a Lexus amid the yowling grilles of the ...

The original 1990 Lexus LS 400 that debuted in 1989 (internally known as "Circle F" or "project F1") took six years to develop from scratch. It required the brainpower of 60 designers, 2,300 ...

I was eight years old when the Lexus LS400 debuted at the 1989 Detroit Motor Show. My budding love for cars at that tender age manifested in my idolization of bella macchinas from Italy. I was aware ...

The 1990 Lexus LS400 was a broadside shot aimed at the European luxury automakers, and it hit home. Smooth V-8 power, a comfortable interior, restrained styling, and impeccable reliability made it ...

Lexus’s most current flagships, the dazzling LS500 sedan and LC500 coupe, are direct descendants of the first model, the LS400 sedan. The LS400 was unveiled at the 1989 Detroit Auto Show to ...

It isn't always easy to recognize a watershed moment as it happens, but when theAutomobilestaff first drove the 1990 Lexus LS400, editor David E. Davis Jr. recognized the significance.