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

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

F is the scarlet letter we use to score mistake or scorn. Significantly, the opposing is the case in Japan, where everything involved with that symbol commands value. Mount Fuji is worshipped as a natural miracle. Fuji International Speedway is Japan’s sort 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 the latest Japanese car, the Lexus GS F has a very old fashioned outlook on life. Beneath its dramatically-styled new bodyshell it provides 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 may possibly have been significantly modified and stiffened when compared with that of the standard Lexus GS, but at heart it’s still 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 working transmission is an eight-speed automatic, that can route power to the rear wheels only. A standard torque-vectoring differential enables 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 a significant however—when referring to 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 indicates that the GS F is a loaded car with ordinary items such as LED headlights and very advanced safety features that would push its business competitors to far higher price points.