REVIEW: Lexus IS-F's New LSD Helps Closing The Gap Between M3?

Lexus’ BMW-bating IS F heads into 2010 with a raft of small but worthwhile changes and something this magazine has asked for right from the start: a proper limited slip differential.

It’s a desirable sports package, the IS F, with that brilliant wuffly 5.0-litre V8, fine body control, good style, plenty of speed and impressive all-round refinement. For all that, one relative weak point has been the car’s electronically-controlled open diff. In high speed corners, the transition from tailside back into line could be smoother, we felt, and traction improved too.

The arrival of a Torsen LSD as standard kit is the answer. Lexus claims that traction and high speed stability are now vastly enhanced, to the point where the IS F is now two seconds a lap faster around Fuji Speedway, the ISF’s home track.....



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