Lexus is test drive since 2009 sedan
The secret of youth
A sedan that can accelerate to 100 km/h in less than 5 seconds is already enough to arouse interest! Sergey Kanunnikov tried to comprehend phenomenal indicators. Photo: George Sadkov. And the seat is close, puts the body on the long-loving stiffness, and the roar of the engine of four exhaust pipes (the dream of a street racer!) Annoys with volume and pressure. So I thought: each potholes and bump of Moscow Lane is recalculated by a stiff, unbending pendant. Boy! I apparently outgrown this age.
About the quirks of psychology
The stricter speed restrictions, more closely, the fines are larger than the class of very powerful and fast machines. Figures of manufacturers? But they find a lively response in the hearts of consumers!
Well, where, tell me the mercy, realize these 423 forces and 505 Newton meters? Forcibly fixing the first gear (the box allows this), on Lexus-ISF (F from the Japanese Avtzi Speedway Automotive River), it is not difficult to break off the traffic lights with a roar, so that, barely having time to switch to the second, finish the winner of the next. Dubious pleasure! Well, it would be a compartment: a two -door car can be represented on a weekend on a closed racing highway (we have such a delicious one), if the owner has time, money and courage. But the sedan, even if so lean and aggressive, is more difficult to associate with such a pastime. There will probably be lovers. But we communicate with Lexus in the city
At first glance, nothing special, not too large squat sedan. But the eye caught the swollen wheel arches, wide tires, grinned the gratings of the radiator predator, only slightly disguised as a pet, but already ready to a powerful jump, inexorably attracts his eyes.
It seems that he was already accustomed to strict seats gathered and concentrated. And the steering wheel lay in his hands somehow especially deftly. Yes, and the roar of the motor no longer presses, but pleasantly responds with a rapid pulse. The leg is more energetic affects the gas pedal About material
Who are you, Lexus-impf? The squeezed sedan is not very spacious ahead. The plastic in the cabin next door to the skin could be richer. Or maybe it was generally worth it to go broke on a real, not a fake metal? By the way, the price of the car is not yet called, but probably it will be comparable to the German competitors of sports versions of standard sedans.
But what is posture, wheels, tires! This car will always attract views all the more so since many of them are unlikely to appear on the streets. Will we write to the asset?
From the point of view of driving, question signs are sinful! Acceleration? It is difficult to wish a more intense, especially for a four -door car. The box works perfectly, switching is almost invisible. And having transferred the lever into manual mode, it is not scary to make a mistake with the programs the engine will pull out from 60 km/h to the sixth. Yes, how! True, why then go into manual mode?
Slow down, provided by brakes with 360 mm disks in front and 345 mm behind, adequately acceleration. The steering wheel Lexus obeys clearly, quickly and accurately. The rolls are minimal. Only slippery leather seats, even so strict, sports,
for energetic turns, the body is not suitable for at least a little, but crawls. Naturally, the handling fee is a hard suspension. It is funny to watch how on a rather flat Moscow street a white hood jumps in front of his eyes as if on a rally bon. But here, Lexus deserves praise: there is practically no noise, and most importantly, unlike other analogues with clamped sports pendants, the car does not dine on longitudinal bumps, does not require nervous steering. The course stability system makes it possible to seriously experience its strength, since it turns on very late. It even seemed to the test site that I accidentally turned off the electronics (the button is provided). In the turn, the car’s nose is already briskly shifting towards the lawn, the tires whistle (even in this situation the car is practically not tapping!), And the electronics sleeps! Well, under the quiet chatter of Lexus, slightly, but confidently besieged by the brakes, entered a safe trajectory. Uf! And if the device is really disconnected
Such a car will undoubtedly be appreciated by those who know a lot about controllability. However, it is suitable for daily driving. But on a long run along Russian roads, I would not go to ISF to be scorched! Yes, and the tires almost without meat do not mutilate for long. And as I present a handsome man on winter slush streets of Moscow Br-R! Yes, and winter shoes in the kit with disks will cost, I think, as a slightly traveled low -iority. At the ISF in the summer, but somewhere in Germany, however, there are a few sections of autobahns, where the speed does not limit the rules or traffic.
About poetry Restrictions, road irregularities, discs, prose tires! They say that at the age of 20 a person is simply obliged to write poetry. But some carry this age -related vice throughout their lives. Like love for extraordinary, thoroughbred, high -speed cars. Sometimes, however, passion subsides along with the appearance of pain in the lower back and the next women of the luxurious wheel in the ditch, which he missed.
Lexus-Asf from those cars that are able to again arouse the craving for high. With him, you feel like young and albeit not reckless, but not boring and creative. And it is sometimes worth a lot too
Lexus ISF
The sports version of the IS sedan debuted in Detroit in 2007. In Russia since 2008.
Engines: gasoline V8, 5 l (423 hp)
Gearbox: 8-speed automatic with the possibility of manual switching.
+ Excellent dynamics and handling, large trunk.
- shortcomings in the decoration of the salon, close back seat.
Lexus ISF is not lost among machines combining the advantages of a sedan with the capabilities of a true athlete.
Source: The magazine "Driving"
