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Old 10-17-14, 01:05 PM
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Just posted this on the blog. How do you guys feel about the deviantART LexusIS F SPORT from SEMA last year? I thought it was cool, if a little over the top, and the BASF Ultra White looked sick.










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WOW, not only do I not like cars without color but I have never been a fan of JC Whitney universal fit fender flares or widened boat trailer wheels! I do love the way the 2014 IS350 F-sport drives!
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definitely hated it...body work was disgusting
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WOW, not only do I not like cars without color but I have never been a fan of JC Whitney universal fit fender flares or widened boat trailer wheels! I do love the way the 2014 IS350 F-sport drives!
Paint actually had a really cool look in person. It just doesn't photograph well at all.
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Ouch my eyes
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The phrase "trying too hard" comes to mind.
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people are so aesthetically challenged. This one should have won. Instead they went with the one that involves virtually nothing. Short cuts are quite appalling

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Originally Posted by Hoovey2411
people are so aesthetically challenged. This one should have won. Instead they went with the one that involves virtually nothing. Short cuts are quite appalling

I do like this one. Too bad it didn't come to fruition!
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I do like the color, but the car itself looks like a transformer that's been beaten up and doesn't work right anymore. The rear doors don't even open for chrissakes!
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Ohh god, I'm in the hate group. Sometimes too much is just..... Too much >_>
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Well, it just got cast in the next Star Wars movie.

After all the tie fighters get shot down, they jump into this to escape.
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Burn it with FIRE...
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Originally Posted by Hoovey2411
people are so aesthetically challenged. This one should have won. Instead they went with the one that involves virtually nothing. Short cuts are quite appalling

god that flows so much better than the white one.
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The problem is that most people evaluate this as whether or not they'd like to own the car and drive it, rather than appreciating it as a piece of art.
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Originally Posted by Infra
The problem is that most people evaluate this as whether or not they'd like to own the car and drive it, rather than appreciating it as a piece of art.
i can appreciate the design...i understand the them, it's the bodywork that has me turned off. just look inside the fender wells and see how cheap it's put together. not to mention the flow of the rear wide body flares, it looks glued on rather than flowing

the same design could have been better executed ten-fold.
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