Who knew that Toyota had not sold the LEXUS brand in Japan yet ?? (I didn’t!) It was a pure brand especially for the American market. Only now Lexus is “released” in Japan by Toyota. More is available here…http://www.autobild.de/current/anmeldungen/artikel.php?artikel_id=9579 Rolo PS: in 2003 there was already a report about this, apparently Toyota has not yet implemented its project (or the Autobild report is fasch)http://www.autobil d.de/…/article.php?article_id=3646