Lexus Ranked Most Reliable Luxury Auto Brand

USA Today and the New York Times report that Scion had the best reliability ratings of any auto brand, Lexus placed second and Toyota rated sixth in the highly regarded 2011 Consumer Reports Car Reliability Survey released today. It’s the second year in a row Scion has taken top honors. Lexus jumped 5 spots and Toyota held steady in the top six brands. The findings are based on responses from 1.3 million vehicles owned or leased by subscribers of Consumer Reports or Consumer Reports.org.

Overall, Japanese brands continued to dominate the survey and took the top nine spots with 96 percent of all Japanese models rated average or better in predicted reliability, according to the newspapers. Only 64 percent of domestic brands and European brands received average or better ratings. Ford experienced the largest drop of any major nameplate, slipping from the 10th to 20th spot. Jeep moved up seven spots to 13th, making it the most reliable domestic brand. Hyundai and Kia ranked 11th and 12th, respectively. Luxury cars Audi (26), Porsche (27), and Jaguar (28) placed last in the survey.

Meade Lexus congratulates Lexus and Lexus employees for their efforts in achieving this!

She’s Buying - Article - F&I Magazine

It’s been a year since Meade Lexus earned AskPatty.com’s “Seal of Approval,” and the dealer group’s CSI is now approaching 100 percent. Read more in the August 2011 issue of F&I and Showroom Magazine: She’s Buying - Article - F&I Magazine.

Lexus Presents First Major Motion Picture Created Exclusively for Web Distribution

"Girl Walks into a Bar" is a feature-length film that premiered on March 11th, 2011, and is free to view on YouTube. The new edgy movie follows a series of characters through 10 Los Angeles bars--all of them having interlocking stories over the course of one night.  This sharp-witted comedy features talent such as Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Josh Hartnett, Danny DeVito, and Rosario Dawson.

Zachary Quinto is a dentist in the film who works with a feisty would-be assassin (Carla Gugino) to finish off his plan to kill his wife. While this is going on, he unknowingly sets off a sequence of events that fuels the 10-bar journey--including stops at lounges, bars, strip clubs, and the occasional nudist ping pong club. The resulting vignettes lead up to a revealing finish.

“The movie escapes the confines of traditional film production and is a bold undertaking that is set to transform the film industry,” said Dave Nordstrom, vice president of marketing, Lexus. ”It seems fitting to support this initiative as we launch our most unconfined vehicle yet—the CT 200h hybrid —in a space that we know will reach an unconventional, sophisticated audience.”

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