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When photographer (& Flickr user) Gideon Gillard happened upon the yellow Lexus LFA out on the highway during the Pebble Beach Concours, he chased it down and made sure to get some absolutely fantastic photos of the supercar (click for larger images):

My favorite though, has to be this shot:

Highly recommend going through the rest of Gideon’s photos — he’s spotted some very exotic exotics over the last few months.

Lexus Magazine writer Rod Mackenzie took an RX 450h on an adventure through Malaysia in a quest to find a remote resort called Fraser’s Hill:

For years, I’ve fantasized about penetrating Malaysia’s dense jungle interior on a modern-day Heart of Darkness journey, complete with creeping tigers. This exotic road trip, however, comes with a major perk: after crossing the Singapore/Malaysian border, my chief rest stop will be the urban jungle of intriguing Kuala Lumpur.

My excitement builds on the drive to Fraser’s Hill. The drive isn’t long (64 miles), but it feels like a road trip to Avatar’s deep-space Pandora. The road gets twisty, and the scenery, which is growing ever more dense, couldn’t offer a more striking contrast to Kuala Lumpur’s glass and neon playground. The farther I drive, the more I feel myself disappearing into the jungle’s 20 shades of green.

The stunning range of Malaysia, from ultra-futuristic Kuala Lumpur to the lush Titiwangsa mountain range, is beautifully detailed in this photo essay — definitely worth clicking over and looking through the slideshow.

[Source: Lexus Magazine]

Club Lexus’ Flipside909 was at Lexus HQ in Torrance, California and spotted two CT 200hs in the parking lot — one was Matador Red and gone like a flash, and the other was this one in Obsidian:

This CT shows some new details like the (likely) standard projector front lights and exposed rear wiper — too bad the rear wiper wasn’t integrated into the roof spoiler like the current RX, but it’s been made just about as tiny as possible and hardly noticeable.

There’s plenty more photos of this CT 200h over at Club Lexus, and be sure to check out the full gallery.

[Source: Club Lexus] (Thanks Ryan!)

The Lexus LFA made an appearance at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed in England this weekend, were it took part in the event’s famous hillclimb (driven by James Baggott from Car Dealer Magazine):

The #50 LFA from the Nürburgring 24h race was also there, and both sported black armbands in honor of deceased test driver Hiromu Naruse:

A very touching tribute to the “Godfather of the LFA.”

Update: James Baggott wrote more about his experience of driving the LFA up the hill for Autoblog.

And here we go — the first high-quality photo of the Lexus CT 200h in something other than white (click for a larger version):

Seeing the CT 200h in blue is somewhat curious, considering it wasn’t listed as one of the colors on the Lexus USA mini-site — but it would hardly be the first time a car was offered in different colors for different markets.

As for the other CT, I can’t even guess what color it is — what does everyone think?

Update: Just received a message from Lexus Europe letting me know that the blue CT is in fact Smoky Granite Mica — the color shift is just a weird effect in the photo. Also, to clear up the mystery, the second CT is Brown Spice Mica.

(Thanks Seal!)

Lexus Europe has teased their Twitter fans with some quick photos of the latest addition to their fleet: a Brown Spice Mica CT 200h:

Sure, the photo quality isn’t all that great, but it’s enough to give an idea of what the CT 200h will look like in darker colors. It’s certainly a tidy looking car — can’t wait to the first proper photoshoot to show up.

[Source: Lexus Europe Twitter]