What are your guys' thoughts on the model. The new addition I noticed are the LED Strip style DRL's. The brakes look to be a bit better as well.

 

The DRL look like tears welling up in lower eye lids...Poor thing.

 

the new front bumper is so fugly...

 

I would have personally preferred the LED's to be in the lower fog light area, but that's just me.

 

i personally like the headlights. OEM black housing.

 

Personally I think nearly every exterior change they've made after the 08 models made the car either uglier, or a lot uglier.

And those LED lights mean you lose AFS, which sucks.

 

Really? What's ugly about the 09s?

 

the only thing different about the 09-10 and 06-08 is the turning signals on side mirrors and the xtra lip piece of the front bumper, nothing else changed that is really noticeable

09+ FTW!

 

yeah.. the 2is so far doesn't really have any drastic changes until '11 IMO

 

Yeah, I think the turn signals on the side mirrors are ugly on the 09s... the lobster claw wheels are hideous. Also not a fan of the 09 tail lights.

 

The 2011 front bumper is UGLY, I wouldn't mind the Audi knockoff LED's except that because of them there is no AFS. I do like the new F sport wheels. Overall I dislike it so much that I am going to try to extend my lease and wait it out for the new model. BTW to all the 09 haters, I love my 09 tails and lobster claw wheels!

 

I like the fact that you can now purchas ethe USB color... that is my favorite color.

 

Personally, I don't like the changes after 2008 either with the exception of the grill (however to each their own).

Anyone know what they tuned in the 2011 version? Supposedly the suspension was tuned by guys from the LFA project. http://www.youtube.com/user/LexusVeh.../2/CMcWk5w_37w

 

I never paid attention really to the later ISs after I bought I my '08 IS 350 in Jan '09. But w/ the commercials on tv, the youtube campaign, and even the presence at the verizon center, the '11 IS is really catching my eye. I'm liking the way everything looks- at least on video and the pictures.

I'm curious to know what the differences are between my '08 and what I'm seeing on TV. And changes to looks and performance I can do on my car to bring to the (at least in my eyes) head turning level.

One thing is that I really like the rims (http://www.lexus.com/performance/#/f...IS/highlights/). In Spring, I was thinking about getting nicer looking rims than the stock/oem '08 IS 350 gunmetal ones.

Since I've killed my summer tires now and will be doing my winters soon, my original plan was to find used IS-F rims and getting the 19" tires I would need to put on there. but now I'm interested in seeing about these.

 

hmm... did anyone notice in the drum cm, under the fogs is that supposed to be the new GFX lip (edges more like)? looks like the corners of a Axis cut off and stuck on.