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Old 12-10-07 | 11:42 AM
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A minivan with "L" logo on both the front and back ends pulled up near me to unload at a local shop in Hong Kong. This minivan is slightly modified with body kit, rear spoiler, smoked tail lights, black rims and chrome exhaust.
Here are couple of pictures I took with my phone before the guy drove off to meet Lexmex at the track

Lexus "GPO Motoring" minivan





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Old 12-10-07 | 12:18 PM
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Aha

That is a Toyota HiAce, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hiace

They also sell that down here in Mexico. It is rapidly becoming the vehicle of choice here in Mexico City for the small bus services that are here (that used to use the VW Van).
Old 12-10-07 | 12:21 PM
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Very interesting. Big brother of the xB?
Old 12-10-07 | 12:23 PM
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lol...why?
Old 12-10-07 | 01:40 PM
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maybe with some bigger wheels and air suspension .. it will look nice
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BALLIN!!! thats pretty clean!
Old 12-10-07 | 02:07 PM
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I bet you they just put in Lexus emblems in them. Lexus is only released in the US, right? Or are they being imported to Japan now?
Old 12-10-07 | 02:24 PM
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lexus is starting to be in asia now. toyota wants more money.
http://lexus.jp/
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Lexus is there in Japan, but it is quite a popular thing to remove the Toyota emblems and replace them with those of Lexus. I even have a friend in El Salvador with a Toyota Hilux (with a turbo modification) who added a Lexus badge to the front
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Originally Posted by sgv_bum
maybe with some bigger wheels and air suspension .. it will look nice
I am with you. Hong Kong is a city with high rises but roads are mostly pavement with even surfaces. I even saw a Nissan Skyline (with Hong Kong Skyline club sticker) rumbled by at Causeway Bay.

Pictures of Hong Kong night shot at Wan Chai and a view from my hotel room.
Would be a great fun scene for drifting between high rises for that Lexus minivan


Old 12-11-07 | 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by mandyfig
I bet you they just put in Lexus emblems in them. Lexus is only released in the US, right? Or are they being imported to Japan now?
It would be funny to 'import" them to Japan, perhaps Ironic. I know Lexus has been in the UK for a while so I'm sure they'd be elsewhere too.

I rode around for two days in Australia in a M-Benz minivan, the likes of which I'd never seen anywhere else so I'd say its definitely possible.
Old 12-11-07 | 06:23 PM
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Ugh, hope that mailbox on wheels doesn't make it to U.S. soil. It would kill Lexus as we know it...
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They are here...with the Scion brand.....
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