Edmunds Follow-Up Test: 2007 Lexus IS250

The X Package improvements also translate to the track, as our slalom test confirms. Although it's down over 100 hp on the IS 350, the IS 250 is nearly 4 mph faster through the cones with a 70.4-mph result. This is blazing speed, and it puts the IS 250 ahead of the BMW 335i, not to mention about a half dozen very capable sports cars.

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I love the new ISs, even if all of you think the mirrors are huge. After driving one a 350 for a week I was hard pressed to give it up.

That one in the pic up there looks sexy. I wish the 250 could have a tad more power, even though Ive never driven one. It seems as though Toyota has done some good to make these heavy cars move though.

Edited June 19, 200718 yr by fuel_sipping

What a blah slab sided looking vehicle. It looks like a $15,000 car!

What a blah slab sided looking vehicle. It looks like a Grand Prix with no stupid cladding

Fixed. :AH-HA_wink:

Fixed. :AH-HA_wink:

Holy crap, now that you mention that, it actually does.

Grand Prix with Mazda headlights and an anyone in the world grill

I guess the rearviews give it extra stability.

Except it looks thrown into the dryer, so it looks stubby.

Probably one of the nicest looking cars on the road today. It looks modern yet not too overdone with the lines.

Probably one of the nicest looking cars on the road today. It looks modern yet not too overdone with the lines.

And, surprisingly, I would agree that - within its class - its quite attractive except for the mirrors. And I know it sounds like I'm just being a douche, but they really, really, really don't mesh with the car. I swear an RX300 is missing theirs somewhere.

Oh, it's nowhere near as worse as the ES.

I gotta say, and it actually hurts to say this... I'd take one over a new BMW 3-series. I just don't like the 3-series as much as I used to.

Think fast... what is each car? I bet you had to spend more than a second to decide.....

I like the new IS and am sad to say it is one toyota/lexus I would consider owning.

I'd like a new CTS more....but you get the point.

And, surprisingly, I would agree that - within its class - its quite attractive except for the mirrors. And I know it sounds like I'm just being a douche, but they really, really, really don't mesh with the car. I swear an RX300 is missing theirs somewhere.

This is where Toyota does it's cost cutting. NPR did a story months back about the domestics <basically a bash piece> saying how GM had something like 27 rear view mirror designs while Toyota has 4. They were praising Toyota for it, but in my mind I was thinking to myself... well, at least GM's look right.

Think fast... what is each car? I bet you had to spend more than a second to decide.....

Considering it took 5 minutes for them to load... But I instantly knew what each one was. Oh the joys of being obsessive.

Anyways, I agree, the IS looks like an edgier Grand Prix with its ass cut off. I don't like the Grand Prix and I don't like the IS. Both need makeovers to be attractive in my eyes. Granted, atleast the IS has competitive underpinnings, powertrain and a great interior.

Yeah that wasn't too challenging oldsmoboi, I'm too obsessed with cars to not know the difference.

Maybe it's the rear window/D-pillar kink? I forget the formal name.

Lexus really needs to put a manual in the IS350. It doesn't matter if the IS250 manual only sold a few hundred copies...it's the image and preception of a manual transmission in a 300 HP entry-level lux sport sedan.

Hoffmeister kink. Though, the Grand Prix's is not so much a kink as it is a bulge.

Edited June 20, 200718 yr by aaaantoine

Pontiac wishes the Grand Prix looked like the Lexus IS.

Pontiac wishes the Grand Prix looked like the Lexus IS.

Don't worry in Jan, Lexus will wish their IS looks like a G8.

Oh, it's nowhere near as worse as the ES.

Old people need big mirrors to see out of.

But the IS isn't that bad looking of a vehicle, I will admit. It's easily the best product Toyota has in production right now.

Pontiac wishes the Grand Prix looked like the Lexus IS.

I would hope not.