Remember when Lexus sold a manual, naturally aspirated, rear-drive saloon to rival the mighty BMW 3 Series?
Fancy a rear-driven normally-aspirated manual V6 from a firm with a reliability record that’s second to none? Yes? Well, today is your lucky day because here’s a Lexus IS 250 Sport.
Is there any reason to suppose that this week’s IS won’t follow a similarly trouble-free path? Not according to its even more typically spotless Lexus MOT history. The last two tests have shown no advisories. In fact, the only advisories to have appeared in the past 100,000 miles-plus have been to do with worn or perished tyres, with just one mention of thin brake discs to break up the welcome monotony. That’s pretty incredible.
The direct-injection 4GR-FSE 2.5 V6 produced 205hp at 6,400rpm and 185lb ft at 4,800rpm. In other words, it liked a rev. That wasn’t something the fun-killing torque converter automatic was keen to promote, but with the six-speed manual that’s fitted here you’ll be able to enjoy regular Italian tune-ups on the dual carriageway to er keep carbon buildup at bay officer. Keep it on the boil and you might just about get this 1,570kg saloon through the 0-60mph run in the high sevens.
When the gen-two came out in 2006 it seemed a shame that Lexus had replaced the gen-one’s cool chronograph-style instrumentation with a pair of conventional electro-luminescent gauges, but if you looked at it objectively the old clock arrangement was more about form than function.
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