I don't know if I should take offence of an Imperial being compared to a Lexus. Imperials were made in the age of true luxury cars. The construction, strength, and power put into Imperials is something a Lexus can only dream of. Today there are few true luxury cars. Any little plastic econo-box gets a halfway exotic name stuck on it and that's supposed to be a luxury car. It would be more fair to say that Lexus is striving to be the Imperial of our time. 58 Crown coupe