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Oct 9, 2005 | 07:24 PM

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doug_999

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Originally Posted by mmarshall

Did you find the ride acceptable? ( you may not have been on a rough enough road to really tell ) The new IS series...even the supposedly designed-for-bad-weather AWD IS250....to my knowledge no longer has the taller, softer-riding 55-series all-season tire option the 2001-2005 did. You're pretty much stuck with the 45's.

Yea, unfortunately it was in a parking lot with cones. Worse, the dude in front of me spun at some point and I came up on him and had to nail the brakes and then follow him back. The entire group got a lecture about driving too fast and how if the tires are squealing, then you are going too fast. Lexus has a long way to go in these events I tell you - they might want to attend one of their competition's events where you are encouraged to push the car.

Either way, I can't answer about the tires - I can say that if you stick your 6' friend in the back seat of an IS and you move the passenger seat all the way back, the seat will pin his foot underneath it and he will be stuck in the car. In pain too.

edit: oh yea, not only did his foot get hurt, he got to drive his dream car the E500 and came away almost crying. He couldn't believe how slow the steering was and how slow the car was to react to things like nailing the throttle. All day long I had to listen to him say "I am so disapointed" and "man, my foot hurts"