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Originally Posted by Swedish Brick
Also a whole new ball game with sponsership/marketing etc with Lexus.
Although with Lexus's aim of being a bit more sporty, maybe they would be ok with it.
I dunno. But I'd be surprised if having just built two Camrys, they then went and did a Lexus. But I don't know how deep their pockets are.
Also there is more difference between Lexus and Toyota today. They have learned that having a Toyota model of a Lexus devalues the Lexus rather fast. See ES300 and Camry for that one!
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Perhaps they think that building a Lexus race car would be a more accurate representation of the road car on which it is supposed to be based. Afterall, no Camry on the world market has a V8, or a manual gearbox or rear-wheel-drive.