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yeh i heard the roads in Japan are so good(pothole free) that they can run their VIP'd cars so low without encountering damages to the body work

now that you've resurrected an old thread of mine i might consider getting them for my GS3 as i did for my old IS300 😎 I think the OP might throw up after seeing this one below

yeh i know what you mean.. its just if i had a wrap like that i will be worried every where i go in case an idiot decides to "key" it. but off topic Nissan needs to bring back those ZX's I've always thought they looked better than the Supra's of that time. the new Z look good as well

nice looking wrap but i will always be worried parking the car anyway now to prevent haters "Keying" it front to back.

Megane RS , Civic and Integra Type R owners will be laughing at you thinking nice troll 😂 ive had fun in both layouts of cars and not biased towards either..

Same way the 2.4 CL9 Accord was dialled in such a way that it almost feels RWD on the limit handling. case can now be closed

put it this way @Linas.P i have owned 4 RWD's including a V8 4.3 so i know how both drive layouts respond on the limit and those Accords do have the tendency to oversteer and enter corners just like RWD's. its more how Honda tuned the handling rather than how the wheels are being driven duh.. people confuse the notion that a car being RWD automatically translates to it being "sporty" or "fun" over FWD when most forget about how the handling of a specific car has been tuned. and no i'm not disagree i'm pointing out the fact that there ae lots of performance FWD cars which have been tuned to "mimic" the behaviour of RWD when it comes to sporty driving if you missed it clue was in the word "mimic". and two manufactures really good at doing this is Renault and Honda.

I said exactly the same about my previous 2.4 Accord and got laughed at by the same person who says "they generally don't make RWD cars".. like a RWD IS250 will hold a massive driving advantage against a 2.4 Accord in the real world. those Accords do move like RWD's and i have owned an IS300 of the same era of Accord to compare driving dynamics.. shame the last edition of Accords sold in UK did not have the 3.5 litre 300bhp engine from the Legend .. @bpsorrel if you're not too concerned about having a "new" reg car then have you considered last edition GS450h's

i don't think you "need" a drop as it sits reasonably low in my opinion without being OTT.. i think the ride quality will be compromised as a daily driver car. i do remember @ganzoom mentioning in a thread a while back about how his IS300h had better handling than his 335i BMW so maybe you might be changing something that's already there in terms of handling improvement mods..

love the stance.. is the carbon fiber spoiler an addon or OEM? gives it more sporty look. i think the outer looks fine the way it is so i wouldn't go overboard changing bits 🙂

+1 I think some people worry about certain features of cars they might just use once or a couple of times to show off to their friends and will either never ever use again or forget the feature is actually there. cant believe some loose sleep and make a big fuss about some laughable features but each to his own. I enjoy actually driving my GS so much i don't care if it does not have a cup of tea making feature or spotify connectivity within it. all i do is upload my 6 CD changer and enjoy the drive. and when i get tired of music i can always switch to listening to the V6 roar.

was he? didnt even notice 😀

nice review Nick and i echo your point about just feeling the need to drive the car at every opportunity.. they're so well built, spacious and deliver when needed. and i'm the type of guy who doesn't like his car to draw too much attention but still have an element of luxury, comfort and go when needed and the GS fits this criteria perfectly. I might consider a MK4 450h at some point as the rear boot space was improved compared to the MK3 450h and i agree the ES is a beautiful looking car but shame the 3.5 V6 was not offered for those who want that engine in the ES.

yeh labour and cost of oil ain't cheap.. but i'm guessing the idea is introducing brand new fresh oil which includes protective additives will in theory protect the life span of the transmission in my opinion. i'm aiming to do another in the next 15k-20k miles.

give jemlexus a ring and ask for a drain and refill service for your IS250. They did my GS300 about 20k miles ago for around £140 i decided to have the brake fluid and diff fluid drain and refilled aswell for and extra charge. they're very good working on Lexus cars. http://www.jemlexus.co.uk/

Gen 3 GS300/450h will be more fuel efficient than Gen 1, more safer, more toys, and parts are fairly easy to source. Although Gen 1 is a classic GS, they'll be hard to find a well maintained good example. Gen 3 GS300/430 has more trunk space than 450h so that's something to consider if trunk space is high on the list of requirements.

ive had my auto fluid drained and refilled in all 3 of my Lexus's including this "sealed" one in my GS300 and all were fine with no issues. ive put around 15k-20k on this one since then and shifts fine. i'm intending on doing another round after about another 15k miles. i'm more proactive not reactive. but thats me

you could slice and dice it how ever you want to but this does not dispute the fact that FWD is more forgiving in the hands of "average" joe be it in rain, sleet or snow so a driver who's driven FWD all their life cannot transfer the same driving characteristics over to RWD.. and one does not have to be driving RWD at similar speed of the FWD to loose the rear end in those conditions.. FWD might forgive you RWD wont..

trust me Linas i have seem lots of wanabe Hamilton's (BMW) in ditches with the rear of the car taking the impact most of them just after a roundabout.. i can bet you 9 times out of 10 they had their foot down whilst in mid corner which caught them out..

no one is being ridiculed here Las Palmas, but we are not talking 500bhp + here where we all know require AWD or RWD to exploit that power. others are getting into intricate details about grip levels when accelerating from standstill and weight distribution which was a bit pointless considering we are not talking about a sports car here. others including my self tipped the OP on the dont's as a new RWD car owner.. but everyone coudl see how someone else was making it "RWD" is the best thing since sliced bread when we all know it aint.. 😆

OP has 205bhp END OF

i think we can all agree FWD car layouts tends to be "safer" for majority of car drivers when compared to RWD layout.. so all this gibberish being spat out by you know who with regards to grip level from standstill, weight distribution will be meaningless to the "average" car driver. lets be honest here. how many times do we have to accelerate very hard from standstill (0 - 60) where by grip and traction has to be called into question? listen i keep saying this and will say it again suspension tuning technology has closed the majority (not all) of the advantages RWD layout had to about 250 -300 bhp. if in doubt i could bring you a few friends i know with FWD cars who will run circles around that RWD RC200t from standstill acceleration, rolling start acceleration and cornering. modern performance FWD can just be as fun to drive, can grip just aswell, can corner just like most RWD and most importantly safer for the "average" Joe

Tips: never put your foot down when in mid corner especially in wet/icy conditions. accelerate into corner back off mid corner then accelerate after the corner.. FWD allows you to keep you foot in mid corner RWD might catch you by surprise. suspension tuning has come a long way which has more or less evened the playing field where by putting power aside has made FWD cars like Renault Megane RS, Honda Civic Type R out handle well regarded RWD cars on both Track and street.. my 2.4 FWD Honda Accord cornered just like the IS300 i had before it and in some on the limit conditions i actually preferred the FWD Honda where i could actually keep my foot in where as i had to back off in the I300

the Lexus IS200 is a 6 cylinder by the way... if you want an Accord then i'll say go for the 2.4 190bhp version owned one and put about 50,000 miles on it and only thing i replaced was a brake switch and one wheel bearing other than that a very capable engine and handling for a FWD car.. although a 4 cylinder but moved and responds like a 2.5 V6 thats because i owned a ford Cougar V6 some years ago and can compare both. if you want Lexus then might aswell get IS250 more refined, better mpg and performance compared to the IS200...

Supercharger.. anything else on the IS200 is a waste of time. https://rankoneperformance.com/collections/lexus/products/lexus-is200-supercharger-kit-incl-eaton-m62-sc-unit-1?variant=7337561948221