One of the most mesmerizing aspects of the Lexus IS-F has to be the exhaust note. The sound of those eight-cylinders kicking you into furious forward motion is one part American muscle, one part F1 precision—and it’s addictive as hell. Lexus dropped a clip of the car running through all eight gears on an ad [...]

Ah SEMA. For genuine Fiends, the show is like Christmas, your birthday and a bachelor party all wrapped up in one horsepower-dripping good time. Case in point: Fox Marketing and Artisan’s 600 pony Lexus IS-F. The car rocks a completely built bottom end with JE pistons and Crower rods to help deal with the uber [...]

While BMW deemed the CSL M3 unfit for consumption, the good folks at Lexus have managed to ease our pain at the lithe Bimmer’s passing with word that the Japanese lux manufacturer is planning a light-weight IS-F. The delicious 416 hp 5.0-liter V8 already manages to, uh, scoot the sizeable sedan along, but you know [...]

The folks at Lexus really, and I do mean really, want us to believe that the IS-F was designed by a small team of performance minded engineers in their off time without having to answer to bean counters or mid-level management. If that were true, the car probably would have never gotten out of bar-napkin [...]