‘INSIDE-OUT’
Exterior Designer Stephan Rasmussen said: “Our brief was
to create a new genre of compact crossover; a vehicle that
could progress the user experience and create something
unique from a customer’s point of view. Inspiration came
from many sources, but the main source of inspiration comes
from the key phrases representing the character of the
car: ‘Robust Yet Agile’ and ‘In and out styling concept’.
This comes from one of the Lexus fundamentals, the ‘Yet’
philosophy. We were looking for inspiration representing
the synergy of contrasting values, in architecture,
fashion design or nature, with a view to fusing lightness,
structural, artistic and emotional values”