Article: LEXUS LEADS, BUT LUXURY SEGMENT IS STILL A WAR.

LOS ANGELES - It has taken 10 years for Lexus to become a luxury brand icon. In that time, Lexus has moved ahead of its long-established European rivals, and may become the first import luxury make ever to outsell Cadillac and Lincoln for a full year.

For the first eight months of 1999, Lexus led the luxury pack. It was 3,000 sales ahead of Mercedes-Benz, nearly 6,000 ahead of Cadillac and about 11,000 ahead of Lincoln.

Lexus has grown despite some difficulties in the mid 1990s, when a strong yen and a wave of resurgent German products made Lexus vehicles less appealing.

But in the past two years, Lexus has thrived with the GS 300 and 400 ...

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