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Finally, a world-class sports sedan from Lexus.
The original Lexus IS F was an impressive and imposing house built on sand. The structure wasn’t stiff enough, the steering wasn’t organic enough, and the resulting handling wasn’t lively enough. Dumping a big V-8 into the IS made it faster, but not much more charming to drive than the regular IS.
All that has changed. This IS350 F Sport is a rock, the solid foundation we’ve been waiting for from the world’s largest car company, which has scrupulously avoided building a world-class sports sedan for its luxury division despite ample need.
This is a foundation on which even greater cars can be built, if Lexus so chooses. The steering is fast and direct. The brakes are unexpectedly strong and fade-resistant over VIR’s long course of torture, and the engine’s smooth power works in concert with the excellent transmission for seamless shifting. Whereas the old IS graduated magna cum laude from the school of snap-oversteer, this car’s behavior is entirely predictable, which lets you take it to its ragged edge of adhesion with confidence.
Its weakness here is power, or lack of it, relative to weight. With 12.2 pounds for each one of its 306 quiet, Camry-hum horsepower (alas, it’s still a Toyota), it is the only LL2-class car with LL1 stats. It could also use a little more grip, as the 0.89-g Turn One cornering force lands it fifth from the bottom in the overall ranking.
Power and grip are two items that are easy to fix, however; core structural and chassis competence aren’t. And it’s these that the IS350 gets so right." http://www.caranddriver.com/features/lexus-is350-f-sport-at-lightning-lap-2014-feature
I would like the most powerful japanes 318PS version (DBA-GSE31-AEZLH) but not much info in english