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 ... at the wheel are required ...

Before the LS400, she built a lifted Volvo wagon and took it to a car show, where she first spotted a Lexus on big wheels. "I thought it looked good like that, but it could be more." She bought ...