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    ALL EIGHT UP

    Mar 26, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS ALEXANDER STOKLOSA

    Here we were worried about the future of performance at Lexus. The midsize GS sport sedan and its spicy GS F halo flatlined last year, and Lexus seems to have busied itself diluting the F hot-rod division’s name with flash-over-dash F Sport styling packages available even on its hybrids, crossovers, and hybrid crossovers.

    Only a single full-blown F model—the RC F coupe—is left, and an entire generation has grown up unaware that the shrieking V-10-powered LF-A sports car existed.

    No wonder the recently updated IS sedan, in particular the IS 350 F Sport model, feels like it’s the chest compressions keeping Lexus performance alive.

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