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With sales well below the 50,000 per annum (16,276 for the year to the end of April), Lexus is a minor brand in Europe, smaller even than Jaguar and about the same size as DS. Unceasingly advertising itself as the hybrid brand in the days when few buyers knew anything about petrol-electrics is the reason why. It's ironic then that just as its hybrids are rising in popularity, Toyota has given the stunning LC 500 coupe a proper old-school V8.