S2000toIS350

I believe for the US, there were 174 LFAs.

After their US deliveries, a few went to Canada and at least 2 went to Europe.

One was dropped off of a transport truck and I do not believe it will be returned to life (black on camel car that was originally owned by the lady in PA).

With that informal bean counting I would estimate about 160-165 in the US now.

No idea how many ring cars are in the US (at least 2 are in IL, one at a dealership and another in a climate controlled garage).

Nina1

The rarest Lexus is the Brown Stone Metallic LFA only 1 made and it was last seen in Cleveland Ohio being offered for sale by a used car dealership

703

The original ES250. I have never seen one on the road.

mmarshall

Discounting the Original Lexus street-rod (of which only one was built), the 1Gen Lexus IS300 Sport-Cross is one of the rarest Lexus products today, if not THE rarest.

xjokerz

Other than the nasty color, I love it!

Striker223

If we are being technical the LFA is the rarest, however I have seen 2 around me so I may give the vote to the original ES250

mmarshall

It came in the same colors as the 1Gen IS300 sedan. If the yellow is too bright for you, here are some others:

I myself had a 2001 1Gen IS300 in that bright yellow, BTW.....that's how I first joined CL in 2003.

xjokerz

Those are much better lol.

I've always loved wagons. Too bad they don't make many of them.

Och

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The IS sportcross may be rare, buts its sibling Toyota Altezza wagon was all over in Japan/Russia back in the days.

703

Yes we have plenty of Altezzas on the road here. Many with the 4 cylinder turbos instead of the 6 cylinder straight six.

Och

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Where is that?

mmarshall

Yes, very few Sportcross models were sold in the U.S. I've seen a couple of them in the D.C. area, but the number of IS sedans simply dwarfed them. Most of the Lexus buyers, back then, if they wanted a wagon style, were gravitating to the RX300, which itself was still fairly new.

MDlexus

I think the rarest Lexus on the road is the one in the shop…

jadu

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that lexus van is rare for us here in north america

xjokerz

When did they produce a van? Obviously sometime past 15 because of the full spindle but did they make 'em before?