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Top 10 Fastest Sedans in Lightning Lap History

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Old 11-18-15, 11:57 AM
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2011 IS-F - just squeaked in..

http://www.caranddriver.com/flipbook...g=cad&dom=fb#1
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Nice to be in that league with those other cars! If I'm not mistaken the ISF had the least amount of HP out of all of those on that list??

I wonder how it would do with the USRS bushing installed giving more feedback at the wheel and less of that vague feeling under braking???
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Glad to know how awesome our F still is. I think they made a mistake on the 2013 M3? Twin turbo V8?
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That's the M5..
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thats really cool ! Proud F owner right here
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Impressive. Has the least horsepower by far.
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Very nice! The only naturally aspirated engine of the group.

What's interesting also is with the upgrades Lexus did to the 2011+ IS-F, it was both faster than the C63 AMG and M3 of it's era.

The CTS-V was marginally faster but it also has 140 more HP.
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2011-2012+ are the best of the breed.

Sucks that as the car got better they sold dramatically less units. Not 100% sure but I think a very large relative number of the total units sold in 08-09. Before it even got a proper LSD.
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^^^^
Yea if I remember correctly about 75% of all F's sold in the U.S. (approx. 5,200) were sold in 2008/2009.

I know only 502 were sold for 2010 which leaves 500 other 2010's besides ours lol....
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very nice love the F
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Reading stuff like this makes me love it even more, if that's even possible.... such an awesome all round machine, practical in every way from track to lugging kids and grocery shopping
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That is impressive company to be listed with
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Originally Posted by ISFLexy
Reading stuff like this makes me love it even more, if that's even possible.... such an awesome all round machine, practical in every way from track to lugging kids and grocery shopping
Yes sir, add to that our cars are bulletproof reliable and gets upper 20s MPG on the highway.
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Only 2/10 slower than a new m5? That's very impressive @@
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That lap they did at VIR on the 2011 model was the reason I decided to get a 2011 or newer. Amazing how much some suspension tweaks and a LSD did for its track performance.


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