Keep this in mind if you are not familiar with Toyota’s premium brand derivatives marked with the letter “F” were sports versions of the models Lexus. Now they have all disappeared from the catalog, but in 2008 it was the IS sedan that was eligible for this treatment to compete with BMW M3Mercedes C63 AMG and other Audi RS4. And the result was, to put it mildly, convincing!

Terrible V8 under the hood!

To stand up to its German rivals, Lexus didn’t do anything by halves. Japanese engineers managed to install an atmospheric 5-liter V8 under the hood of a sedan! The latter is developed no less than 423 hp and 505 Nm of torqueall sent only to the rear axle! Suffice it to say, the Japanese couldn’t be more playful. And quickly. Indeed, he is it needs only 4.2 seconds to reach 100 km/h, while the speedometer needle can reach 270 or even 320 km/h as an option!

Do not hold in all hands…

Without a doubt, for the first test, Lexus did well with its sports sedan! but this car is not probably not to put in all hands… And the driver in the video below is irrefutable proof! Very likely after turning off all driver aids which at that time were not as many as today, he is trying to drift in the middle of the city! He manages to drag the Japanese for the first time, but he loses control on the second attempt and sends his car into the oncoming lane where another car is coming from the wrong direction! The crash is spectacular and brutal to say the least, as you can see in the video below: