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I S Lexus finally going to take on the likes of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi in a battle for superiority on the South African market? Put more directly, is the new GS300 going to sock it to the 5 Series? Or are the products from the luxury arm of Toyota set to remain the refuge of the niche client bored with the sameness of German wunderwagens? Lexus has been singularly successful in the US ever since the first model, the LS400, was launched back in 1989. The upper- crust Toyota set standards in quali- ty and refinement that bettered those of the blue-blood German machines it was aimed at. And American purchasers, in general not as particular about handling sharpness as their European coun- terparts brought up on high-speed autobahnen, converted in droves. Year after year, JD Power sur- veys Stateside have vindicated the confidence of US customers