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

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

F is the scarlet letter we use to sign disappointment or scorn. Strangely enough, the contrary is the case in Japan, where almost anything connected to that symbol commands esteem. Mount Fuji is worshipped as a natural charm. Fuji International Speedway is Japan’s kind of the Nürburgring. When Toyota scheduled its assault on the luxury-car business in the late 1980s, Circle F was code for the Lexus LS400 flagship.

For a fresh Japanese car, the Lexus GS F has a particularly old fashioned outlook on life. Beneath its dramatically-styled new bodyshell it features an old-fashioned 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 had been seriously modified and stiffened when compared with that of the standard Lexus GS, but at heart it’s also a front-engined, rear-wheel-drive thunder saloon.

The GS F will be supported by 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 permit precise control of power transported to each of the rear wheels, making the GS F feel stable at high speeds and agile at low speeds.

However—and this is definitely 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 normal items such as LED headlights and vastly advanced safety features designed to push its business competitors to far higher price points.