The IS needs a better powerplant for it’s entry level option. If the rumormill is to be believed, it’ll be getting it soon. What if Lexus put their new turbo four into the IS? They could call it, “The IS 200t.”
Lexus’ littlest crossover got it’s official unveiling at the Beijing Autoshow over the weekend, and with it, we’ve got the details on what exactly Lexus has planned for this car. The biggest news about the NX is the drivetrain, strangely enough.
Ah, yes. Money. Lexus knows what it’s like to be swimming in the stuff.
Well, almost. According to Lexus’ U.S. general manager, Jeff Bracken, the company has grown 15% in the first quarter of the year. If things continue at this rate, they’ll exceed their goals of sell 290,000 cars this year.
It goes without saying the the LFA has one of the best exhaust notes of all time. What the noise of the Aventador lacks in similarity to a race car, it makes up for in similarity to a jet engine.
I give the tuning community five minute before you see these perched on the dashboards of IS F Sport owners around southern California. It’s just bound to happen.
The RC F GT500 is a 500 horsepower race car with a half the cylinder count of the production model and less than half of the displacement.
I wouldn’t necessarily call the RC F weird, but there are definitely weird things about it. Yukihiko Yaguchi, Lexus’ Chief engineer, discusses why they made the decisions they did in an interview with Lexus of the UK’s blog.
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