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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 11:30 AM
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Default The "double take" factor...

Originally Posted by Ice350
Guys, do you ever wish the ISF was more different looking than the IS? We know the difference but many others don't.
I like mine just the way it is... kind of call it the double take factor... the great masses think it's just another IS until they look again... just different enough to blend in but unqiue so that you don't see yourself coming and going at every intersection.

Interesting side note: Went to local "cars and coffee" car show this past weekend and was ushered out of the show area (I was parking next to that icon of American high performance sedans, a Pontiac G8.) I was approached by one of the show keepers in his golf cart who politely asked me to move my car because where I was parking was reserved for high performance cars. Damn... see what you get when you buy a friggin' Toyota?!?! Maybe a hood scoop and some tail fins would have been good. Apparently he didn't see my tail pipes. I moved, checked out the Mustangs and Camaros then, with a tear in my eye, drove my sorry Super Camray home. Sigh, no respect.

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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by lowrideraz
Hey Lance

How do you figure? I weighed a 5 qt jug of Pennzoil Ultra - Weight 9 lbs. So 1.8 lbs per qt. IS350 holds 6 qts, F holds 10 qts. 4 X 1.8 = 7.2 lbs. So, F must have only 7.2 more lbs. of oil than a 350.

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Ah crap, there I go again...yes, your numbers are right, I keep confusing quart and gallon when I'm thinking about oil - at least I get it right with gasoline
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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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I think the isf is fine. the C63 is not that different than the c350. of course being a car nut i can spot the difference a mile away, but to most people the only way they can tell is by looking at either the exhaust or the badge
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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by lobuxracer
No, it isn't. My IS350 weighed 3620 with nav and lux package. My IS F weighed 3742 with nav and parking options and about the same amount of fuel. The V-8 weighs more and has 24 more lbs of oil in it, the brake discs are a LOT heavier (28 lbs a piece in the front), the rest is incremental. 122 lbs for another 110 hp isn't too bad at all.
Lexus website has the 350 @ 3,527 lb and the F @ 3780....just going off those numbers and exaggerating my rounding
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Old Oct 15, 2010 | 01:24 AM
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Good one MaddMaxx thats what my coworkers call it, a supped up toyota!
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Old Oct 15, 2010 | 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by pgoffner
Damn the ISF is almost 300lbs heavier than an IS350....bigger motor, bigger trans, bigger brakes...what else?
......bigger fun factor.
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