Lexus is out to show the world it is serious when it comes to German-rivaling sports sedans.

The first indication came with the arrival of the Lexus IS F (see TMR’s roadtest review) in 2007 and now Lexus is planning on turning up the heat on its V8 powered sedan just a little further.

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Take one smallish sedan, drop a thumping 5.0 litre V8 in the snout, give it hard-core handling and tough, out-there style… been done before? Yup. But Lexus does it again and gives us its own howling ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, the IS F.

It can be an exercise in futility splitting hairs over the performance margins [...]

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