We’ve owned Lexus vehicles since the 1990s… We’ve been pleased with them, but that’s not the point of this blog. I saw something on the Internet a few days ago that reminded me of an old Lexus commercial. The guy on the Internet was stacking champaign glasses and dishes for some reason. But it reminded me of the first time I remember seeing a Lexus commercial. The TV spot showed a man stacking champaign glasses in a pyramid shape on the hood of a car. The camera then paned around to show that the car was running — with the rear wheels on a treadmill. Apparently the car was running at full speed, near 150 miles per hour. Needless to say, the glasses didn’t fall, or even appear to rattle. I remember thinking it was a pretty cool commercial. I did a little extensive research and found out that the glass commercial was Lexus’s first TV ad. It was promoting the LS 400 — Lexus’s first vehicle. The LS 400 was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show in 1989 — not sure when the vehicles actually went on sale, so Lexus seems to be about 25 years old, more or less….
Happy Birthday.
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