And are we now suggesting that German manufacturers have had a runaway success with their performance parts while Japanese divisions like TRD, STI, Mugen, Mazdaspeed, and Nismo have been totally ineffective? Let’s not forget that these companies have spent the last I don’t know how many years juicing up standard models in Japan as a way to get around the “gentleman’s agreement” between manufacturers not to exceed 276-ish horsepower.

GMSales: “A piece-of-junk Toyota.”
I hereby accuse you of redundancy

The reason performance parts work for MB, BMW and Audi is because they are parts brought down from their performance division for the regular line of cars. If Lexus wants to get into this market they should produce a line of cars from a separate performance division. This would be similar to MB’s AMG, BMW’s M or Audi’s RS. Toyotas TRD doesn’t count since they do not mass produce any cars for the public – its not a proven, trusted name for mass produced parts – at least not from the general public point of view.

People arent going to put their money behind Lexus performance parts if Lexus isnt willing to put its money behind a true performance division & line of high end performance cars. Lexus performance parts sound more like a marketing gimmick than true performance modifications.