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Probably, we should expect something like that. Mercedes-Benz has an extensive line of charged AMG cars, Audi is monstrously fast RS, BMW has its own sports series M. But this recognized premium brand has such a recognized premium brand, as the Lexus of super power cars was not at all over the entire twenty-year stamp history. With the advent of IS F, everything has changed. The Japanese thoroughly prepared to rivalry in the highest speed league and issued a stunningly strong car. So, make bets. The race involves 423 white hillside from the Fuji Speedway nursery and 420 of the Fuji Rysakov, climbed in Bavaria.
BMW M3 sedan In our test, the role of a reference sports car was prepared. Look at the technical data, and you will make sure it is perfect for comparison.
The highlight of all Emok has always been the motors. On modern BMW M3 (using the multiple number, because the car is produced in three bodies - a sedan, coupe and convertible) a light high-speed V8 is installed, which produces 420 horses on the will with a crazy 8400 rpm. The engine can give the power to the rear wheels or through a mechanical six-speed transmission with a lightweight ventilated clutch, or through a seven-step automaton with two coupling DCT DriveLogic, which provides a continuous stream of power and allows you to accelerate the sedan to one hundred only in just 4.7 seconds (two tenths faster, than with a handle).
Lightweight body, reduced center of gravity, increased rigidity of the running part, compound brake discs, configured for sports ride Dynamic stabilization system DSC and the main chip - adjustable differential, capable of providing one hundred percent blocking - gives modern EMME True racing habits. Bavarians long and painstakingly debugged their car, chasing her on the northern loop of Nürburgring, and, judging by the times, which were shown there - everything that was mentioned above, not empty ripple.
 
Pavel Karin, newspaper Autored
Was the Lexus to scare competitors or so far only mocked?
About the laugh is definitely not going. They reached the BMW M3 level, but until they surpassed it. For the first step, IS F is a breakthrough.
Motor, transmission, brakes, suspension, carving in our test at Lexus with listed everything was excellent. And you?
He joined only in one test smoothness. IS F threatened the coverage on the waves. But, confess, we could not compare it with competitors on the track in the mechkovo, as the test was held in two stages. Theoretically, IS F would lose both M3, and Mercedes because it is deprived of the blocking of the differential. But the C63 AMG on the track overheats the box, and how the lexus machine behaves in these modes, we do not know.
For a car that is asked for three million, is it too poor salon? Because of this, IS F will not buy ...
Maybe. This in the case of Emka to the salon no one looks at her take to drive. And on the IS F you can pushed every day in traffic jams and here the interior is here, like a neighboring IS 250, can disappoint.
M3 has another unique feature - adaptability. The M DRIVE system allows the driver to program the machine for itself - to customize the engine control characteristics, electronically adjustment of the shock absorbers, the efficiency of the Servotronic steering amplifier. Click the M DRIVE button on the steering wheel, and the machine from the submissive cavalry turns into a bucafula.
Behind the wheel of this car, a smile will not come down from your face - promises Lexus, presenting IS F. The idea to make a powerful version of the compact sedan IS came to mind the chief engineer of the Yukihiro Yukichi project a couple of years ago. He took as the basis of the five-liter engine from Ls and from him - the only one of its kind 8-speed SPDs automatic with an aluminum crankcase, then squeezed it all in IS and forced a new shell very quickly and endlessly reliably.
Important modifications: The engine has an additional large inlet pipe, which opens at 3600 rpm and is better filled with cylinders. Light titanium intake and heat-resistant outlet valves serves a system of variable phases with an electric drive, which more accurately changes the characteristics than the traditional hydraulic circuit. 19-inch discs and aggressive external body kit makes IS F similar to a drift-based race car, but it's all - not a beauty for the sake of (although, admitting, acting - the jaw falls at the owners of ordinary ice). Discs are made by the BBS method by forging, and the body kit passed numerous purges in the aerodynamic pipe and better distributes the clamping forces when driving at high speed. Even under the bottom of the car installed composite fairings. The final Founding of the IS F was held on Fuji Speedway - on a motorway, which belongs to Toyota, is located at the foot of Fuji and is used to hold Formula 1 races and a number of national and world competitions. Literterka F in the name of the machine exactly on this and indicates.
Egor Dobrovolsky, What Car magazine?
You have experience in operating the third Emca with both the handle and the M DCTelogic machine. How is a new box?
Probably, if we talked about the ordinary car. But on Emka with a handle ride more pleasant. The car is alive. The machine makes it some kind of virtual. In addition, there are small delays.
But in the city probably the car with the handle is not so comfortable? In addition, she is not the easiest pedal.
For me there. Very clear grip, very clear course of speed switching lever here is all close to the ideal. As for the stroke of the pedals, then I, for example, I get tired not so much from heavy as from long pedals. Here Audi S5 is exactly the machine is not for traffic jams.
How to characterize the suspension?
EMCA is not a stool like evolution. It is nice to ride every day. It is only a little tougher ordinary tres. This is her raisin.
It seemed to me that the Motor on M3 is blown early at the top, although BMW presents it as a high-speed ...
Yes, I also noticed it. But this is eight! She has a very good average range.
About prices. IS F in the US is offered for $ 56,000. In Russia - for 3 million rubles. Very cool for Lexus. You can consume only the fact that the price initially a little more expensive BMW M3 sedan in a comparable configuration (automatic, electric heating, navigation, adaptive lighting, rain sensor, parking sensors and something else on trifles) is also tightened to three lemons.
Advertising slogan Lexus: Power - nothing without pleasure Japanese should have tied up with the GS model, but with IS F. Because here and forces, and passion - in excess. This machine gives such sensations that are worthy of the most expensive and thoroughbred sports car. Acoustic comfort is unpretentious. The smoothness of the stroke for sports squeezed pendants is very good. And the 8-step automaton should generally recognize the work of art. Shift shifts are carried out without jog and timely. Manual mode works clearly and even involves into the process, but the portion of the exciting ride can be obtained without jerking the submissive petals. Leave the selector on the drive, activate the sport mode and before you think about someone to overtake, slowly knock on the gas pedal - the machine courtesy signal will instantly make an inconspicuous reciprocating and proceeds to transmit below. But now - full gas! How quickly it breaks forward, how frantically begins to devour the air! The sound of the Lexus Sports Eight on high revs is difficult to even compare with something. Jaguars, Astons and other representatives of elite breeds are also able to jig, but they turn out it is loud and rude.
Five starts from the place of writing - and all five wins Lexus! It is necessary to be an ass and mercilessly quickly distort the handle of the mechanical box in Emch to keep up with more than a housing from the Japanese in a 400-meter arrival. Such a feeling that the White Machine Fora is not three power horses, and all thirty three (in fact, thanks to say the 8-speed box and the monstrous moment V8).
BMW from the defeat is saved only by a smaller mass and more responsive motor - because of this, the Bavarian sedan turns sharply on the accelerator and does not lose moments when overclocking at the output from turns or at high speeds. Did not cause delight and the operation of the suspension on M3. At first glance, the car is characterized by iron grip - the racks are transmitted on the body all irregularities. But when it comes to sharp maneuvers, EMCA begins to seem to be loosened over the measure, even admits rolls and small leads (though, very predictable). We were able to explain such regress only with tires - there was a low-profile 19-inch rubber on the Japanese, and on BMW - 18-inch.
German has obvious advantages. When Emca is leading at the limit, it is more understandable - you get a lot of information through the steering wheel, through a harsh clamping chair, you catch all the side and longitudinal overloads. Again, the car absolutely definitely understands the driver's teams - the dosing of thrust is not blisted, the reaction is instantaneous. On a patch, the Bavarian sedan is spinning like a yula, baking on asphalt smooth fatty traces of rubber. M3 is better balanced by weight than Lexus, and it allows you to brave turns.
But I also had no complaints about IS F manageability, although this car is clearly configured otherwise. The front suspension on double levers provides comparable, if not even greater accuracy of taxi, but transfers road information to the ram as it were in filtered form. It seems to be felt by every pebble under the wheel, any track makes itself felt, but it does not cause a voltage or discomfort. Another feature: the IS F has a tangible mass on the front axle than to the back, but the car is tuned to clearly insufficient turning. In the bridge, Lexus starts safely sliding the front axle. You can send back the steep arc using a frank provocation. At the take-off strip of Tushinsky airfield, I tried to unwind the IS F on a quick snake when the stabilization system is disabled, but it continued to draw a clear sinusoid in the ventilatry drift. The same experience was able to spectacularly repeat on BMW, but, to admit, from the car I got out with sweating palms and a very rapid pulse.
For such a courage, many love Emki. I do not have anything - if only a person had understood the wheel than he managed. But the Japanese managed to make a car, which, in my opinion, is better adapted for the driver, aware that he is not Michael Schumacher, but adores a quick ride no less than the seven-time champion of the royal racing. My sympathies are on the side of IS F.
Pedals with a elastic dreadful move, thickened rim steering with a soft non-slip leather braid, short-spectal gear shifting and black ceiling - all signs of the racing car in BMW M3 are present. And nothing more is needed. The quality of the plastic, the dashboard design, the compatibility of the gloves, the outbreak of the interior - it all goes into the background, when the start button is running the motor, the arrows of small devices come to life and a pleasant vibration of an eight-cylinder engine touches to you. The fundamental differences in the Emki cabin from the standard treshki, except for the defiantly red skin of the seats and some unobtheal decorative stuff, I did not find it. But I praise ergonomics and seats. The latter have a large adjustment range, drawn pillow and customizable lumbar. I liked the powerful fixation in the shoulders area - rollers on the back perfectly hold the driver of the average set from the Boltan and do not constrain the movements with rapid taxi. I did not like the rear sofa - some kind of antisport. And from the multimedia system BMW I was waiting for more: a lot of functions (there is navigation and TV), but it sounds flat and screeching.
Nutro IS-F crumpled a common positive impression. Baranca, covered with perforated leather, thinned, but the pedal node is flawless. Seat from black leather, shivered blue thread, are very comfortable and, it seems, are generally capable of sitting on the body of the saddle. But the torpedo frankly upsets both the form, and the texture - looks like shmat of black rubber. Undoubtedly, the spectacular part is the Optiron dashboard, which when Ignoring welcomes the sword of blue arrows. However, the Americans are stronger stronger. On the door handle - the mirror adjustment buttons. The same horizontal buttons rushed on a bar under the devices - it's good that they are not visible driving. And on the right, something dying-shapeless: from the center, painted with a gray shock paint, into which the display with large buttons around the perimeter, digital watch and the mouth of a primitive CD receiver, which displays the name of my long-time friend - Mark Levinson. It's a shame that the car with such sophisticated features received the salon, completely devoid of internal speakers. Revival in the interior make fiberglass lining on the central tunnel, but they also do not really look.

BMW M3.
Gasoline engine, V8
Working volume (cube. Cm) 3999
Power (hp at rpm) 420 at 8300
Moment (nm at rpm) 400 at 3900
Rear-wheel drive
Gearbox mechanical, 6-speed
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4580/1817/1447
Mass Curb (kg) 1680
Maximum speed (km / h) 250
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 4.9
Fuel consumption, city / highway (l / 100 km) 17.9 / 9.2
Price in Moscow 2 545 600 rub.

Lexus Is F.
Gasoline engine, V8
Working volume (cube. Cm) 4969
Power (hp at rpm) 423 at 6600
Moment (nm at rpm) 505 at 5200
Rear-wheel drive
Transmission automatic, 8-speed
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4660/1815/1415
Curb weight (kg) 1700
Maximum speed (km / h) 270
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 4.8
Fuel consumption, city / highway (l / 100 km) 16.8 / 8.3
Price in Moscow from 3,009,000 rubles.

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Text: Ruslan Tarasov
Photo: Andrei Danilov
 

A source: "Autopilot"