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https://www.torque-gt.co.uk/ for the Honda. They don't list Lexus but if you contact them directly, they can pretty much get hold of anything from Japan (well for cars anyhow 😉 )

Look like Dixcel Type Z's to me... I currently have them on my FK8 front and rear. Incredible pads 🙂

Randomly I got chatting to the owner back in August. My friend parked his 2011 USB ISF next to him at Brunnchen (although can't find the photo) Lovely motor and it carries a lot of war wounds that need more than a polish 😉 Really pleasant chap, he has put an LSD on the rear and apparently had it mapped to remove the rev limiter (although the beeps remained). His rear wing is a copy of the Lexus ISF race car wing that his friend made up for him out of carbon. Asked him about the standard exhaust and it has to stay as no TUV approved aftermarket exhausts for the ISF in Germany. We thought it was a face-lift at first because of lights until we saw the dash. I explained that I used to have a 2008 ISF in black myself, pointed out I replaced it with a Civic... he did not look impressed 😉

Sounds like you went on same journey as me from ISF to FK8. I was toying with an RCF but new job (albeit with a decent car allowance) has me commuting 2 days a week from Poole to Basingstoke so the FK8 remains as the fun daily driver. The wife has joined the Lexus club with an NX300h which is slower than death but "comfortable" 😉 Currently waiting to get my hands on the new Civic Type R before I decide what to jump to next. Also a Honda fan boy having owned 2x DC2's, a DC5 and an S2000. To keep me interested, my FK8 has now been "tweaked" to over 400bhp and is a rocket (not that it was slow before) I will confess that she doesn't sound anywhere near as nice as my old ISF although the Remus valved exhaust has helped improve the standard exhaust note 😉

Afraid not buddy. Long gone.

Definitely... I have owned 2 x DC2s, a DC5, an S2000, an ISF and come back full circle to an FK8 🙂 There was a BMW 335i (which we won't talk about) and a 350z in the mix as well 🙂

I used to have a DC5 and a couple of DC2s. Great cars. I ran an ISF for about 4/5 years. Loved it. It sorted the V8 itch out 🙂 The FK8 is incredible. Genuinely the most fun and capable car I have driven to date. Pace is on par with the ISF except the FK8 stops and corners in a totally different league. Paying £150 road tax rather than about £600 and 25mpg around town and 40mpg on the motorway are also a bonus. My only issue was the noise. I have sorted that with a suitable ASBO exhaust to match the looks 😉 although I have just bought a Remus valved one so I can go quiet or loud at touch of a button. Also I know the looks of the FK8 isn't for everyone but I think it looks great 🙂

https://www.funkypower.com/index.php/shop-by-vehicle/lexus/is/08-10-is-f/afe-takeda-cold-air-intake-system-is-f.html These guys are based in Scotland and are really good. I imported an exhaust from the USA for my FK8 through them so the price you see is what you pay rather than getting hit with import tax and the like.

So heard it changing down gear and pulling into the Shell Garage at bottom of Holes Bay Road (you are local so should know that) At first I thought it was a nice sounding superbike until I looked around. Only issue was that the noise was masked by the construction work at the station for the Costa drive thru 😞 Didn't hear it start as I think the driver was trying to negotiate the £35 limit on petrol and was going to fill/pay twice. At 1.60 a litre for V Power motion lotion, not cheap. Luckily for me with my 40 litre tank nowadays... Lasts a good month 😉

Yep. Appears to have been driven around by Pistonheads last month so may be part of something they are doing. On Matt Birds Twitter, someone else has picked up on the plate not appearing registered as well. Rather odd.

Think he even put 99 in 😉

Heard it before seen suffice to say 🙂

Randomly my neighbour had a Tesla on a weekend test a few years ago. He decided against it and no word of a lie, bought a 1984 Ferrari Mondial. Ugly thing but sounded lovely. You couldn't go from more of an extreme to another although he potters around in an SC430 nowadays. I drove a friend's electric Mini Cooper S the other day and must say I wasn't blown away although it weighs more and has less power than my Type R, something with a bit more go may change my mind. That being said... The wife is currently EV shopping. The Hyundai Ioniq-5 appears to be the front runner at the moment. She works from home and has to go to Bristol from Poole about once a month so for school/shop runs it makes sense. I also think the Ioniq-5 looks awesome, like an old school Cylon on wheels 😉 I am sticking with fossil juice as long as I can using her as my carbon offset 😉 It's just whether to stick to my Halfords Civic or return to the F fold that I am on the fence with at the moment.

It's an obvious question... But do you not miss the noise? Went I went from my ISF to my FK8 I really struggled with lack of noise of a V8 compared to the 4 pot turbo even though my Type R is faster accelerating mid range. New exhaust has sorted that to a degree ofc 🙂 I can't imagine going from a V8 to nothing. The only people who do that are failed F1 (V6) or Indycar drivers who end up in Formula E 😉 Or am I wrong and the whoopie cushion sound effects while sat in front of an open fire make up for the lack of V8 😉

Lexus Swindon appear to have turned into F specialists recently http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109307952909?atmobcid=soc3

Assume this is the grey one... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109287892776?atmobcid=soc3

The blue one is showing as 1st registered on 28/12/11 so in theory you can get a warranty on it until midnight of 27/12/21 (I did the same on my old 58 plate ISF)

Thanks. Cool. I don't have that problem with a "Championship White" Civic Type R as I can just use Tipex 😉

Assume same colour although I thought USB/AB were different colours.

It certainly was. I started in Dec 97 as IT Support for what was UK Retail and UK Corporate Banking.

Someone somewhere is googling racist insurance companies and getting directed to a Lexus forum 😉

Get the same interest rate if you keep it under your pillow as well 😉

Now is the time to mention... Before working in insurance (Although I was at Fitness First for a year in between) I worked for Barclays for 14 years... 😉 They certainly had some interesting ethics 😉

Never thought I would type this in this thread but to be honest, you do make some good points and it isn't as black and white as it should/would appear. Yep, auditors don't always have a great track record and I question who audits the auditors but then you could go on forever. 3 non fault accidents will count against you. I agree that is unfair. My wife had her car hit while she was parked up (legally I might add) which ended up as a hit and run and her premiums rose because of it (even with staff discount 😉 ) Unfortunately it's a necessary evil and as I mentioned before, you wouldn't want to be paying out for continued care if you hit a cyclist or pedestrian. As someone said to me years ago which I remind myself of from time to time... "The sooner you accept that life and work isn't fair, then the happier you will be" 🙂

The regulations are enforceable by external auditors such as PwC (Price Waterhouse Cooper) before you accuse me of throwing acronyms at you) who are appointed by PRA and FCA do check what the companies are up to. I work for an Insurance company that isn't UK based but owns several other insurance companies in the UK and globally. I manage a load of techies who implement software changes to react to regulation changes/standards such as gender neutral, solvency II, GDPR. I know these changes go in. Actuaries create risk profiles for underwriters. In terms of differing insurance companies and how they create their end price after matching someone up to one of 100's if not 1000's of risk profiles can come down to a lot of different things. The 1st thing the company will/should do is a credit check. That is the first part of the puzzle for a risk profile and it goes from there. Most insurers only view up to 9 years NCB (ours is set to 9 as I type this) so you could have 25 years + NCB and it won't be any cheaper than having 9. I think some only recognise 7 as the maximum NCB they will apply to your policy. I don't know your own personal circumstances, where you live, what you do, how old you are or what car you currently driver other than I assume it's not an LFA. I saw you mentioned earlier in the thread that you drive "like a nutter". That probably doesn't help your case for cheap car insurance 😉 There is probably some stuff going on that is underhand as in most industries. I am sure that there are big bosses all sat having a beer somewhere deciding when they should all bump their prices up or reduce them regardless of anti competition laws because people talk. Insurance companies are far from perfect and I liken it to working in technology. If everything is working people ask "what are we paying for for" or if something blows up you get asked "what are we paying you for" but in the case of insurance, you are best having it and not needing it than needing it and not having it. There was a customer a few years ago who sadly injured young cyclist and the company I worked for at the time spent and continues to pay for the continued care for that cyclist. From a business pov it would have been cheaper for the driver to have killed the cyclist (I am aware how horrible that sounds) as it would have been a one off compensation payment. All it takes is a few cases like that and insurance companies will increase their prices to cover losses. The customer who sat in that risk profile box would mean that the increase in particular would apply to anyone else who fit the profile. Again, personal circumstances, but I am fairly sure most of us on here couldn't afford to pay for continued care if we injured someone while driving.