NEW FRONT AND REAR LIGHTING SYSTEMS
Lexus stylists, and those at other luxury and high-end sports car builders, are enjoying a new freedom in their designs of today's cars front and back ends. Cars to be sold in the US marketplace were designed by stylists tied to decades-old sealed-beam lighting systems. Lighting regulations in Asia and Europe have had fewer restrictions, but the US being the largest market for many car-makers virtually guaranteed hard corners and sharp edges on all their vehicles. Newer and highly-improved HID (high-intensity discharge) systems and especially the growing (and now legal) use of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are allowing new freedoms for designers, allowing them to create front and rear looks for vehicles which haven't even been thought of as yet. LS600h L has front and rear lights moving in that direction.