IS-F Clicks Off a 12.89@111mph

Not bad for a heavy sedan.

The specifics:

Reaction - 1.49
60 FT - 2.04
1000 ET - 10.85
1/4 ET - 12.89
1/4 MPH - 111.66

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IS-Fs off the Showroom Floor, Onto The Streets

For those of you wondering who would drop $70k on a Toyota, your wait is over. Some members over at the Lexus IS Forum have begun taking delivery of their respective 2008 IS-F sedans. Pictures show some details - vented fenders, big calipers, drilled rotors, and some massive wheels that show you precisely what you're getting for double the going rate of an IS350 (oh yeah, and they throw in a big honking V8 as well!).

Truth be told, the IS-F is really one mean looking sedan. What does everyone think? Is it worth 70k? Or maybe an M3 sedan instead?

EDIT: Despite many reports of the IS-F going for 70, the original poster on this thread claims low 60s as the purchase price of the black one pictured above.

TL-S, IS350, G35 Willow Springs Shootout

Callmedoc on the Car Lounge forums posted this interesting tidbit from a Japanese publication. Apparently they took a sports sedan from three major marques - the Acura TL-S, G35 sedan (the new one), and an IS350, shipped them overseas to WSIR (Willow Springs International Raceway). and put them in the capable hands of the Drift King himself - Keiichi Tsuchiya.

If your first assumption involved the IS or the G35 duking it out for first place, you'd be wrong. Dead wrong. The TL, being FWD and having the lowest output of the three, came in nearly *2* seconds faster - quite a margin.

For fun, they also threw in an RDX, which lagged a good five-six seconds behind the pack - which isn't surprising from a cute-ute with a turbo 4.