Xanadu350

Hope this isn't a repeat, it says Sept 2005 & I have not seen it. Why are they still saying 220 hp for the IS250? Why is it so hard to get the figures correct?

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....&page_number=1

encore888

Toyota Crown platform? Wow I didn't know that...

Gojirra99

I' ve heard it's on a shortened 3GS platform, but I guess the Crown's equivalent to the GS's . . .

isdsms

Did they say it would have 220 before. I think the only place i've seen 220 was an Austrailian review.

What if the 250 really does have 220?

dampfnudel

The IS250 has about 220hp (if you go according to the old hp rating).

yaro1

I've been so used to car magazines hating the GS that it was a nice change to see them talking abotu a Lexus in a positive tone.


YAY!

party at LexFest

flipside909

The article was published for September 2005, but I can bet the article was written months prior during the IS press review in Japan a few months back.

redkingjoe

The IS sits on the Japanese-spec Toyota Crown platform, but it is obvious that the Lexus employs its own specially tuned steering, suspension, and brakes.

it doesn't sound very right to me... crown is such a hugh car...it's much much larger than a camry and is almost the same size of the LS430...

almost everyday, i return home from work on a toyota crown taxi...the leg room at rear seat of the crown is even more than my 2000LS400

(99.99% of taxi in HK is crown)

XeroK00L

Your observation is correct. The article is only half-accurate. The IS does sit on a Crown platform, but a shortened one. It's the GS that shares the identical platform as the Crown, the most obvious evidence being their identical wheelbase length.