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Elhigh
11/03/09

In reply to Lexus GS F-Sport Accessorized In Brown For SEMA
When you shovel a few thousand bucks worth of contaminants up your nose, you're an addict. When you do it with your car, you're an "enthusiast." But I think it amounts to the same thing. After a while, you're down a few thousand bucks, you and your ride look like hot buttered hell, and nobody wants anything to do with you. And yet, paradoxically, there's a few folks out there that look on you with a perverse sort of envy.
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rigidjunkie
11/03/09

In reply to Lexus GS F-Sport Accessorized In Brown For SEMA
Is this thing rolling on 15 inch wheels? Those things look tiny, the rear especially. Someone meeds to tell Toyota that SEMA is about extreme not about being brown. #lexusgs
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Ash78, cube farmer
11/03/09

@rigidjunkie: Deep dish always look smaller than they are, by 1"-2" (that's part of why I prefer flat/lipless rims). But it doesn't help when a car has big rear slab sides like that.

I bet these are 18". #lexusgs
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carmosexual
11/03/09

@Ash78, gleaming the cubicle: They're actually 19s #lexusgs
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Ash78, cube farmer
11/03/09

@carmosexual: Oh, man...yet they still look almost too small. #lexusgs
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snapoversteer 'bout to get told
11/03/09

In reply to Lexus GS F-Sport Accessorized In Brown For SEMA
The GS is a great car, but about the best thing you can say for the looks is that it appears functional. #lexusgs
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Ash78, cube farmer
11/03/09

In reply to Lexus GS F-Sport Accessorized In Brown For SEMA
Needs more debadging. This looks more like an everyday tuner, not a SEMA special. Still, it's a well-designed car to start with. #lexusgs
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MushyHeirloom
05/19/09

In reply to Lexus IS C, GS Get F-Sportier
And that'll help with the numb steering and huge body roll?
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
05/19/09

In reply to Lexus IS C, GS Get F-Sportier
I resent using the term "Fancy Toyota" on the IS, GS and LS.

They're not shared platforms and not sold as Toyotas at all, therefore they are rightfully Lexi.

You can call an ES a Fancy Camry all day and night and a GX a badge-engineerd Land Cruiser, and the RX a fancy Venza since it's built on Camry Architecture (I hate the RX-class, I really do).

Like it or not, the IS, GS and LS are rear-drive and have the option of a big motor. So hey, F-sport parts are fine, if not stupidly pricey.

On a sidenote, I wonder just how much they're going to gouge the 25-year old bank employees that usually drive the IS and hot it up for that silly (and pointless) engine cover?
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reefer
05/19/09

In reply to Lexus IS C, GS Get F-Sportier
Do not hate on the lexus, sure the new convertible is ugly but we rip it up in autocross. My IS300 is semi competetive in the class I'm in and my buddy in stock class on r-comps places first almost every event!

We get many comments about racing our 'luxo barges' at many events.
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A strolling player
05/19/09

@reefer: A 2002+ IS300 with a five-speed and limited-slip is exactly what I want my next car to be. That thing handled more sharply than any car I've ever driven, from a sport-package G35 to an '09 Corvette.

It's a shame the manual is only offered with the IS250 in the new generation. I'd love the 306 horsepower with one, and the new IS is quite a handsome car. That sharpness isn't really there, though, either.

A ♥-click!
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Bertone77
05/19/09

In reply to Lexus IS C, GS Get F-Sportier
Sorry for the thread jack, but am I the only one who the little preview photos in posts don't work for? I thought it was just my work (websense) but when I go home they still don't show?
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djthekidd
05/19/09

@Bertone-77: They don't work for me either.
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Bertone77
05/19/09

@djthekidd: @Alfisted: Those Gawker hamsters always messin' with us dammit!

Seriously, it would be nice to preview the photos to choose which ones I actually want to see bigger. As it sits now I can only guess what magical surprise awaits.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
05/19/09

@Bertone-77: That might actually be okay if there were something other than tarted-up Toyotas waiting behind the electronic curtain.
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dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
05/19/09

@Bertone-77: Same here. I've tried Safari, Chrome and IE6...
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Flathead Smith
05/19/09

In reply to Lexus IS C, GS Get F-Sportier
That four wheel brake kit cost more than any car or truck that I've ever owned, wife's car excluded, but not by much.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
05/19/09

@Flathead Smith: Don't look up how much it costs to upgrade to PCCB brakes on a new Porsche, then. Your eyes are probably going to fall out of your head.
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