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Nope neither can i...!!!

well reminded 2D

I know how i would feel if i 4got

Ive got 5th gear selected to record on SKY+ and series linked it so i dont forget....

will try my hardest not too forget! thanx 2d.

top gear is better tho!!

I agree i like Top Gear Best 2

Im guna tape it 2 so i can drool over & over lol

Plato & IS-F OMG OMG

Will it be Plato or Tiff ?

It's going to be Tiff.

I met Tiff when I was at the qualifying for the British GP at Silverstone in 2006, I was given a FREE ticket and I had VIP access it was wicked.

Anyway, I sat with Tiff for a while and asked Tony Jardin if he ever saw Lexus doing hardcore Performance, he said NO it won't happen.

Put it this way, from my inside informations this is going to be the worst review of the lot, I hear it will only get better as we see other tests on Top Gear etc!

Missus is watching some Toss film so got it on Sky plus, so until then i'll avoid this topic.

Stav

missed it a mate at work told me that it was on is it repeated later in the week or is it on youtube

so is mine.Its that stupid movie on BBC2 "A good woman" and we aint got sky +(gutted)

its just starting now,quick stick channel 5 on!!!

Well that wasn't too bad apart from the beeping flappy paddles. I was expecting it to get slagged off royally for not being an M3 but it came out rather well didn't it? What will Clarkson and Co reckon I wonder...

Looked crap in white though.

me wan' me wan'

cant wait to see one in the metal.

That engine sound - wow!

He didn’t like the beeping gearbox, did he? Otherwise, it got a good review and that engine sounds fantastic. Nice colour too!

sounds lovely.

I wonder if it will appreciate in value? as there is only 150 coming to the UK, or is 150 per year?

I would double check your sources mate Was a good review, but I can see the point on the beeping gearbox

150 a year thru Lexus

Sounds like a great engine - titanium valves, direct injection and a scavenge oil pump is class leading and has loads more torque compared to the M3.
Brakes and forged wheels also now up to european sporting standards.
I'm sure the build quality will be top notch.

But 1700Kg curb weight and not having a DSG style (twin clutch semi auto) gearbox is a concern...
I also suspect drag coefficient is above .3 and it does not generate downforce.

Will be interesting to see how it drives...



Paul

I don't need to check my sources, I said it was going to the worst review of the lot, I didn't say it was going to be a bad review.

Yes you understand now, if this is the worst review which was good, yes this car is going to be a Phenom!!!!

and did you hear what Tom Ford said, he's drove one and it's awesome, better than your M3 and exclusive.

I'm a little disappionted in Tiff, he didn't mention the speed of the gearchanges (fastest on any road car and the brakes are out of this world!

Well Done Lex IS F!!!!!!!!!!!!

the "beep" is also in the is300 and i know how he feels, it gets anoying when trying to down shift a gear and u hear that bloody beep.....
cant wait to c one is the flesh though, engine sounds awesome.

My Aristo does it as well..............to prevent engine over reving

Clarkson gave it a good report on top gear web site, it was a toss up between white or the grey when I ordered, Thought white might have been a bit over the top so to be safe ordered the grey, hope I chose right one,let you know in a few weeks

I hate the White and the Gearbox Beep.
Surely the Ferrari's have a system where you can get a gear on demand and if the revs
are too high you can't select the gear ?

So if that's all there is to complain about, form an orderly queue

the only thing i didnt like was the wheels

To get Tiff's approval, the car must be pretty good - but I've gotta say that bleep would really annoy me too! There has to be a way to disable it! And I can't see any reason for it - ok don't let the gear change down, but there's no need to keep beeping............

And I think the reason for the autobox is so it's just as quick as a standard sequential manual, but can also slip into luxury cruiser mode as well, which in my opinion is a better compromise as most of the time on the road you're just driving around normally.........

Iv met Plato & couldnt contain myself lol

Didnt mean he was guna drive it just i was guna get 2 thrills in 1 show

Am I the only one who thought that review was rubbish!?!?

Don't get me wrong: Tiff is an amazing driver but all we got was about a 3-4 minute section with lots of "oofs" and "yeahs" but precious little information - no real details of the fairly amazing speed of the tiptronic gear changes.

I felt the same about the GTR review last week: one of the most technically amazing cars to be build and all we got was Plato gurning "I like it".


They spend 3 minutes on important car reviews and ten minutes on Plato massaging his ego by beating Vickery in a time trial. (you're a professional race driver - OF COURSE you're going to beat him!?! Let's see how you do in the pack against the All Blacks and then see how smug you are!)


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I love Top Gear - but it's not really a car review show anymore - it's solid entertainment. There doesn't seem to be proper car review shows on anymore.

I want one. I want one. I want one.

(Even thou the review wasn't that great!)

Would my local dealer do a part-ex?

I'll give them my Supercharged 200, my Celica, my R6, my girlfriend and... erm... a kidney?

Is that enough? I don't have anything else!!!

Yeah gotta agree with that, although to me it seemed as though the test ended really abruptly, kinda faded out as though there was more to the test but they cut it short..........

5th Gear review on YouTube.

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Yep seamed to be a bit of an anti climax ....all you had was that tiff toff showing you how much he could power slide the bloody thing....i wanted to know a bit more about the important stuff rather than tiff trying to make himself look the muts nuts.....same as the GT-R all you get is 3 mins of them being *****... show me the car inside and out,what the brakes are like ,the engine,stopping power,inside info on why and how they built it.....

how much of the urban legend intro was true? (built by bored passionate Lexus engineers after hours)

not really on topic, but i just came back from the sheffield wednesday game and passed Lexus Sheffield. parked bang outside the entrance door was a brand new white M3. im 99.9% sure it was an M3 as it looks far more aggressively styled than any of the new 3 series ive seen

I was thinking the same thing - I'm sure the IS-F started life as a spreadsheet that justified whether it was economical to go forward with the project!

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I watched the review last night, just fast forwarded through all the rubbish beforehand and was singularly unimpressed with Tiff's piece. It was so wishy-washy, no real judgement, just a continuous moan about the beeping. The problem with all of these "shows" is that they always drive the car on the limit and I doubt something like the IS-F will ever be driven like that. It's not a track-day car for god's sake, it's a performance saloon. At least Jezza will have an opinion if and when he tests it for TG.

The only good thing about 5th gear was VBH, but she looks like she's starting to let herself go a bit as well...

Same in the new GS.

What's your point, that after watching Fifth Gear the M3 owner wants to swap his M3 for an IS F?

Well I woudn't be surprised!

LOL

Hmmm, does the new IS do it too? Can't remember if I thrashed it hard enough when I last had one to even cause a beep though

crap review but at least it was positve.

those bleeps can be disabled i bet!... engine sound was awesome.

No doubt you can disable the bleeps....

BUT regardless of beep no beep you will not be able to change down as the revs are to high...............

unless you disable the whole thing and blow the engine up

For what its worth if thats all he can moan about then the cars a good un

de solder the beeper!