The automotive car - Lexus LF-Gh

Car news from The Automotive Car - The Shanghai Auto Show may be stealing much of the hybrid limelight, but Lexus won't be letting the concurrent New York Auto Show go to waste: a new hybrid concept car, the LF-Gh, will be on display.

We don't know yet exactly what the LF-Gh might be, however. Some are speculating that it'll be a hybrid GX SUV, but a few minutes of thought makes that seem less than certain. Why? For one, the car is being touted as the "future of Lexus design," and for another, it's being called a "concept car." Calling an SUV a car isn't the sort of thing we'd expect of the lovers of precision at Lexus

There are some LF-Ch design cues with the chrome accents on the front grille and the light hous­ing design, but there will be no mis­tak­ing this for a giant-size CT. For one thing, the front grille is MASSIVE, and in my mind, just the kind of bold move that was needed with the next-gen GS. The inset LED day­time run­ning lights are likely a con­cept twist along with the bubble-ish LED headlights.

One sur­prise is the absence of the GS’ tra­di­tional quad head­lights, which may be the biggest indi­ca­tion that Lexus is plan­ning to take the GS in an entirely new direction.

Next up is this rear shot:

Again, the LF-Ch design has been car­ried through with the rear lights, and another thing this photo shows is the over­all shape of the LF-Gh — it looks as though the fast­back design of the current-gen GS may have been minimized.

There’s still plenty left to see, but I like what I see so far. These teasers seem to point towards exactly the type of aggres­sive & sporty design that the GS needs — very excited to see the rest of the car in NYC.

[Source: Lexus]