Picked up my car yesterday and decided today to rack up some mileage and get comfortable with the car. It's an IS350 AWD with the Executive Package. I drove from Toronto to St Catherine's, so about 120KM each way. It was snowing mixed with rain with little accumulation on the highway both there and back. I am amazed at the drive. The car just feels so TIGHT and planted to the ground, even on wet surfaces. When I got back to Toronto I had to stop for a few things and had to chance to drive in a snowy parking lot. All I can say is WOW! The car just handles so well, turns on a dime, when on a snow covered surface and low speeds. I had it in Snow mode and was stunned. Note that I still have the All Season tires on as I am only getting my winter tires in Monday. I ordered Blizzak LM 32 tires and am very anxious to get them as I know the car will be a tank.
Things I love about the car after 24 hours and around 270KM of driving:
-Handling
-Power is nice, snooty delivery
-Engine seems smooth
-LED Headlights
-Mark Levinson Sound system
-Steering feel, more connected to the road than I thought it would be.... Feels very BMW and it feels like it has hydraulic steering and not electric -brakes are nice
-just a very very tight feeling car. I hope that feeling doesn't go away with age!!

What I am not crazy about:
-road noise. I expected a quieter ride with it being a Lexus. Then again, I am comparing to a 7 series
-hard ride, but it is a sports sedan and forgot what it was like to drive a car with such a stiff suspension, not complaining just takes getting used to it
-there are a couple of features in the usability of the navi interface that do not exist but I have on BMW iDrive.

Thats about it. Overall, very happy. I had a great day, just me and my car, getting comfortable with it.

 

Congrats! I wish Lexus Canada has executive package for IS350 RWD. Mark Levinson and LED headlamp are something I would miss.

What colour combo do you get? There are not that many regular IS350s on this forum.

 

It's Starlight black mica with Flaxen leather. The reason I got the Executive Package was exactly for those reasons. It out weighed the F Sport. Also the seats in the non Fsport are real leather, f sport are not in order to save weight. That's the set up in Canada at least.