New 2016 Lexus GS F Review The Best Lexus Has Come yet to Creating a Japanese BMW And that's a compliment

New 2016 Lexus GS F Review The Best Lexus Has Come yet to Creating a Japanese BMW And that's a compliment

F is the scarlet letter we use to mark failure or scorn. Significantly, the opposing is the case in Japan, where whatever connected to that symbol commands trust. Mount Fuji is worshipped as a natural elegance. Fuji International Speedway is Japan’s kind of the Nürburgring. When Toyota projected its assault on the luxury-car business in the late 1980s, Circle F was code for the Lexus LS400 flagship.

For a completely new Japanese car, the Lexus GS F has a quite old fashioned outlook on life. Beneath its dramatically-styled new bodyshell it options a conventional thumper of a 5.0-litre V8 engine, with not an electric motor nor even a turbocharger in sight to help it generate the required goods. Its chassis might have been seriously modified and stiffened in comparison with that of the standard Lexus GS, but at heart it’s always a front-engined, rear-wheel-drive thunder saloon.

The GS F will be using a 5.0-liter V8 engine rated at 460 horsepower and 389 pound-feet of torque. The only available transmission is an eight-speed automatic, that is designed to route power to the rear wheels only. A standard torque-vectoring differential will permit precise control of power sent to each of the rear wheels, making the GS F feel stable at high speeds and agile at low speeds.

However—and it really is a necessary however—when talking about pricing, the GS F's $85,380 MSRP undercuts those two Germans by at least $10,000, though just barely underpricing Le Monster, the CTS-V. Lexus points out that the GS F is a loaded car with common items such as LED headlights and wildly advanced safety features that will push its business competitors to far higher price points.