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The start of the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit is just 28 days away and joining the stream of Detroit Auto Show news is the announcement by Toyota USA that there will be a new Lexus Concept unveiled when the show opens on January 9th, 2012.

Students from 11 states won round one of the Lexus Eco Challenge, a fifth-annual contest that the luxury car marque says "inspires and empowers young people to learn about the environment and take action to improve it."

During their annual December to Remember sales event, Lexus just announced they will donate $5 to Toys for Tots for every big red bow shared via Facebook and Twitter. The campaign runs through Jan. 3, 2012, with Lexus providing up to a $100,000 donation for the social media fundraiser.

The news out of Torrance, Calif., is all good entering the Christmas rush as Toyota and Lexus report serious boosts in the popularity of select vehicles, and hybrids. The two car companies saw hybrid sales rise across the board by more than 30% in November.

Lexus hands over a dismantled CT Hybrid to four designers for The Lexus Fashion Workshop

Honda pokes Lexus and its red-bow holiday ads in a new Honda Accord "Car Gift - Happy Honda Days TV" ad.

Speaking this morning in Las Vegas at the media launch of the 2013 Lexus GS 350 and GS 450h Hybrid, Mark Templin, group vice president and general manager, joined a growing chorus of manufacturers who are seeing 2011 sales figures at strong levels and even more enthusiasm for 2013.

Day two of my exciting week of travel began this morning at 6am when I headed downstairs to breakfast with my fellow auto writers and the people from Lexus.

The press days of the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show start tomorrow on Nov. 29 and while almost all the Japanese car makers have world premiers lined up to debut at the show, these three big brand names surprisingly don't have any world premiers.

When the stylish new 2013 Lexus GS350 hits showrooms next year, it will be heralded by the brands first Super Bowl commercial in addition to sponsorship of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. The fourth-generation GS was revealed this summer at the Concours d’Elegance and has made its auto show debut during the currently running Los Angeles Auto Show. The all-new sport sedan incorporates the new Lexus design philosophy, prefaced by the new spindle grille.

Lexus has unveiled the Lexus GS 250 sedan, which will add to the Lexus lineup of GS sedans. The World Premiere of Lexus GS 250 will be at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition in China which begins today.

BMW, the largest builder of luxury vehicles worldwide, is expanding their lineup of hybrids with 340-horsepower gas/electric versions of their two best sellers, clearly with designs on Lexus market share.

Toyota’s luxury brand will use the 2011 SEMA Show to unveiled the new 2013 Lexus GS350 with the high performance F Sport package – adding an aggressive look along with improved handling and braking capabilities to the newly refined luxury sedan.

Toyota and Lexus will be presenting sponsors at Saturday night's 21st annual Environmental Media Awards, which honor film and television productions that celebrate environmental messages in creative and influential ways.

Lexus, the luxury brand of Toyota, keeps making progress rebounding from the March quake and tsunami in Japan.

Toyota is claiming full production will help offset dismal September 2011 sales numbers that saw deliveries off 17.5 percent. Toyota USA reported September sales of 121,451 units.

Only 900 2012 Lexus CT 200h F Sport Special Edition hybrid sports cars will be assembled and put on sale at Lexus dealerships in the U.S. The 200h is one of three limited-production luxury cars introduced this week.

Lexus has taken the wraps off of a $41,000 2012 Lexus ES 350 Touring Edition limited-production model that adds sportiness to the luxury the Japanese marque is best known for.

Lexus has created a Special Edition model for the 2012 Lexus LS 460 Sport, it says to expand the brand’s "wider range of style and customer appeal." It now unveiled the price of the LS 460 special edition.

NADAguides reported today that American car buyers are paying a premium for new and preowned 2011 models that they really want. It's an unusual trend that more than 100 used 2011 models have a premium showroom value that surpasses 2011 MSRP prices – some preowned 2011s are worth almost 40% more than their original MSRPs.

The 2012 Scion iQ premium micro-subcompact car, which is coming to market later this year, will be ready to drive for the first time next month in Detroit at a press preview. TorqueNews.com will be there to provide first impressions of the car after the ride and drive event.

U.S. shoppers are using "bridge-the-gap" car leasing in greater numbers than ever before, according to the Web site LeaseTrader.com. “Bridge-the-gap” leasing is auto industry parlance for people taking over someone else’s remaining short-term car lease until dealer inventory levels return to normal so when they do they can buy the car they want to own.

Among trends in the leasing industry reported by LeaseTrader.com are that short-term leasing "remains strong," lease buyouts for Toyota and Lexus automobiles are easing and the Chevrolet Volt is gaining lease customers.

Toyota will help teen-agers and their parents learn to drive better by enhancing their skills with special driver-improvement training in October through its Toyota Driving Expectations program in California, Connecticut, Colorado and Washington state.

The Dodge Viper has been out of production for over a year but after watching the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the Porsche 911 GT2 and the Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition bump the Viper from the top spot, Chrysler’s SRT division headed back out to the famous German race course with stunning results as the 2010 Dodge Viper ACR ran a lap of just 7:12.13 – easily putting the Viper back atop the list of the fastest production vehicles around “the ‘Ring”.

Toyota’s production of 2012 cars and trucks for sale in the United States and Canada is at 100% and recovery from the March 11 quake in Japan has exceeded expectations, an executive for the Japanese car company told reporters in Los Angeles today.

The Lexus GS 450h was the world’s first hybrid executive sports sedan at its debut in 2007, but returns at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show for the 2013 model year with a second generation hybrid drive system and an Atkinson cycle V6 gasoline engine in a front-engine, rear wheel drive vehicle.

The slump at Lexus is over. The luxury marque sold 10,331 cars last month, an uptick of 6.2% over the same period last year. The ES 350 (pictured), Lexus's entry luxury sedan, was the Japanese company's best-selling car (3,887). Another big boost: Lexus moved 3,238 hybrids in August, an increase of 56.1% over 2010.