Both cars, the Lexus GS300 and the Lexus IS250, are fresh from the ground up, and set new standards for refinement and quality in the SA market.
And both come in two levels of luxury, with innovative features which include a built-in reversing camera as standard on the more expensive SE versions.
It all starts with the styling, and Lexus has moved to what it calls its L-Finesse line of cars, with clean-cut lines and modern styling cues.
John Oxley drove both models on the South African launch: