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Detroit: More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web [UPDATE]

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Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Lexus , Design/Style , Luxury Thanks to our friends over at Road & Track jumping the embargo gun , we received our first sneak peak of the Lexus LF-LC Concept . Now the rest of the story has been published, with R&T taking a thorough look at how Toyota’s California-based Calty Design Research facility came up with the look of the racy hybrid 2+2 coupe. “Only a few written attributes were given as criteria: avant-garde beauty, originality, driving joy and unequaled technology,” according to the story, which says Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda himself weighed in with a mandate that the car “have the ‘wow’ factor.” Lexus has been working on the LF-LC Concept for a year and a half, so the concept is no mere auto show roller.

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Detroit: More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web

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Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Lexus , Design/Style , Luxury Thanks to our friends over at Road & Track jumping the embargo gun , we received our first sneak peak of the Lexus LF-LC Concept . Now the rest of the story has been published, with R&T taking a thorough look at how Toyota’s California-based Calty Design Research facility came up with the look of the racy hybrid 2+2 coupe. “Only a few written attributes were given as criteria: avant-garde beauty, originality, driving joy and unequaled technology,” according to the story, which says Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda himself weighed in with a mandate that the car “have the ‘wow’ factor.” Lexus has been working on the LF-LC Concept for a year and a half, so the concept is no mere auto show roller. That kind of attention-to-detail shows in the new photos, especially inside the car.

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Detroit: More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web

Detroit: More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web

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Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Lexus , Design/Style , Luxury Thanks to our friends over at Road & Track jumping the embargo gun , we received our first sneak peak of the Lexus LF-LC Concept . Now the rest of the story has been published, with R&T taking a thorough look at how Toyota’s California-based Calty Design Research facility came up with the look of the racy hybrid 2+2 coupe. “Only a few written attributes were given as criteria: avant-garde beauty, originality, driving joy and unequaled technology,” according to the story, which says Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda himself weighed in with a mandate that the car “have the ‘wow’ factor.” Lexus has been working on the LF-LC Concept for a year and a half, so the concept is no mere auto show roller. That kind of attention-to-detail shows in the new photos, especially inside the car

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Video: Aston Martin, Toyota CEOs swap race cars at Nürburgring

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Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Aston Martin , Toyota The chief executives of any two companies will inherently have something in common to share. All the more so for the CEOs of automakers, never mind how big or how small. But Akio Toyoda and Ulrich Bez share more than job descriptions.

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Report: VW to pass Toyota as biggest global automaker this year?

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Filed under: China , GM , Toyota , Volkswagen , India For what seemed like an eternity, the title of World’s Largest Automaker belonged to General Motors . More recently, Toyota was able to wrestle the mantle away from GM as the Japanese automaker made huge gains in GM’s home country and abroad, and Volkswagen has been nipping at the two behemoth’s heels. According to Bloomberg , though, the top three are likely to see themselves reshuffled before 2011 officially draws to a close. Volkswagen, with an estimated 2011 sales tally of around 8.1 million vehicles globally (up 13 percent over 2010), is likely to earn top billing as the largest automaker in the world.

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Teased: Toyota takes to Twitter to tease 2012 Camry… again

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Filed under: Sedan , Toyota Toyota has released a new image of the 2012 Camry , which adds to the growing number of teaser images highlighting the updated sedan. We’ve seen a video of Akio Toyoda talking up his latest product , along with a shot of the headlight. After that came a still image of the headlight, foglight and a portion of the grille and lower fascia . Now, we get to eyeball the backside with a photograph showing the taillamp and Camry badge courtesy of a new image posted to Twitter

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