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Originally Posted by silver04rollas
LF-A is a good start. Develop first a halo supercar and then use the technology, experience and development of engine, suspension design etc. to trickle down through Lexus cars.
Lexus has been trying to please the performance oriented people without losing their core customers that demand stale, numb and uninvolving driving experience. That is why Lexus GS and IS failed to make an impact in the young performance oriented crowd since they are too stale, numb and boring.
Create new performance oriented cars that are start out as performance tuned cars and make them daily drivable rather than taking a normal commuter car and trying to making it feel and perform like a performance oriented car.
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^i agree.
for the current lineup, abuse the new-found "F" designation. "F" the fuck out of every model as a stepping stone (save the es and ls). add some sport packages to the GS line and really set it apart from the normal bunch.
for the next iteration of the IS and GS, really do some homework on sportier suspension (read bimmer). nuremberg laps. more track and sport oriented geometry. manual transmissions. at least come up with some genuine sequential manuals based on actual manual trannys. make the IS lighter and further differentiate it from the ES. any normal [non-informed] consumer would just see the IS as a sportier looking alternative to the ES (the website doesn't help).
new ads wouldn't hurt either. the current IS ads are a nice start, but too little and too late imo.
