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 ...

Yet Toyota achieved it in less than one with its Lexus luxury offshoot. And the car that really did the business for the Japanese firm was the flagship LS400. At its 1990 launch, it made an ...