From the December 2013 Issue of Car and Driver
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Be careful the fine print. It's the reason your wellbeing club still dings your charge card despite the fact that you've come back to the lounge chair with a tub of Chunky Monkey. Do you even know what the investment rate is on that Visa? On the other hand what's really in Chunky Monkey?
Lexus' request sheet may not be deliberately tricky, however you ought to nearly think about the part arrangement of the Is250 F Sport. Despite the fact that it has a striking resemblance, as the Is350 F Sport that we feted in our last games car correlation. While choosing the 2.5-liter V-6 methods surrendering a liter of dislodging, that is just the most evident concession. Likewise lost are the speedier variable-proportion guiding rack and the firmer versatile suspension, none, of these of which is accessible with the more modest motor.
With only 204 torque, the Is250 is down 102 steeds from the Is350's 3.5-liter V-6. This wouldn't be such an issue if our test auto hadn't been fitted with four-wheel drive, which greases the thing up to 3794 pounds. That is 89 more than our winning back drive Is350. Furthermore that additional pair of driven wheels likewise requires a swelling trans tunnel jutting into the driver's footwell.
Whether this Is250 F Sport is excessively substantial or simply underpowered is a matter of point of view, however a 16.1-second quarter-mile time isn't. It's simply abate. Talking about viewpoint, to see how the incoherence of a moderate auto with a F Sport insignia came to be obliges taking a Lexus perspective: F Sport is dealt with like a supplies offering, in the same way as the Luxury or Premium bundle. What you pay (for this situation $2675) and what you get relies on upon which form of the IS you're adding it to. Fie on the individuals who don't parse the spec sheet.
The individuals who do will discover abnormalities, for example, two different programmed transmissions. Contrasted and the eight-rate found in the back drive Is350, the six-pace in our test auto was dormant in all attempts aside from discovering one of its two overdrive gears. At any rate you can move it with the paddles. On the off chance that you keep the revs over 3500, the admission and fumes sing a decent two part harmony.
At the cost of the four-wheel-drive Is250, you could about purchase the prevalent back drive Is350. Our decision is clear.
There are different indications of potential. The brakes are firm and simple to regulate, and the guiding wheel has a decent strength. Anyhow the F Sport's 18-inch edges come wrapped taking all things together season tires (standard fitment for four-wheel-drive models), which routinely let down what we know to be a sound suspension.
For sure, the best things about the Is250 are those that are unaltered from its BMW-beating sibling. The obsessively definite inner part offers the same LFA-roused instrument board. The Is250 has the same flawless driving position as the Is350. The seats are preferably formed such that a hour of driving is a sensible stand-in for the chiropractic session your wellbeing protection no more blankets
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