complained a columnist in the London Daily Telegraph. It is just like the new Japanese entry to the executive car market which threatens to overtake Mercedes and Jaguar: on the outside it looks like a careful hybrid of European designs, and even its name, Lexus, is vaguely European, she warned, admonishing her readers to beware this "commercial colonialism by charm and stealth."
倫敦每日電訊報專欄作家指出，就像豐田汽車新近發展出身價超過賓士、積架的高級車，外型卻有樣學樣，小心揉合西方名廠設計，且使用洋腔洋調的品牌 Lexus。他告誡讀者留心這個「居心叵測的商業殖民主義」。