2008 BMW M3 vs. 2008 Lexus IS F - Comparison Test
theoptimisticpessimist submitted on 4/10/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:27:07 PM
109 user comments | Category: Spy Shots | Source: | SOURCE: www.caranddriver.com
“Competition,” said John D.
Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and an early poster child of the business monopoly, “is a sin.”
He’d certainly be horrified by the competition going on these days among the makers of sports sedans. To many, these are the jewels of the high-performance market, and yet they seat at least four and don’t require fortunes associated with Google stock.
Although the genre is deliciously broad, we’ll concentrate here on two cars: the cat’s meow of sports sedans, the BMW M3, and a newcomer from Lexus, the IS F. This fourth generation of the BMW M3 debuted last fall and is available as a two-door coupe, a four-door, and, coming soon, a convertible. Last December we pitted the new M3 coupe against the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and Audi RS 4 [“Gluttons for Punishment”], and the result was a rout for the Bimmer. Neither the Lexus, which only comes as a sedan, nor the four-door M3, was available for that test, so this duel was a given.
Read Article