Lexus Plans Sport Version Of LS460, But Will Be Enough To Ride On Mercedes Coat Tails?

Sport version of the LS460? Talk about an oxymoron.

Its less of an oxymoron when GM tries to call the Mustang a sports car.

veyron, do you mean Ford? Ford builds the Mustang. GM's muscle car is the Camaro.

Supra = discontinued = non-existent = not being built.

"Sport version of the LS460? Talk about an oxymoron."

How true. Adding a firmer suspension, better brakes, more HP and a body kit to an overwieght luxury car may make it more sporty but it doesn't make it a sports car. This is true of any brand.

eyecarehawaii: Have you driven a S63/65? I think most who have would consider them to be the preeminent "overwieght luxury car" successfully transformed in to a sports car. Don't get me wrong, the S550 drives remarkably, especially given it's heft.

Umm, I think there's already been an SZ (Who can forget the Alfa Romeo SZ?)....

BUT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE LEXUS MAKES IT WILL NOT COMPARE TO ANYTHING GERMAN. MAYBE IF THEY THROW A 12 CYLINDER IN THERE THEY MAY HAVE A CHANCE.....LOLOLOL....WHO AM I KIDDIN.....THAT CAR WILL BE MADE TO GO FAST FOR THE 50 AND UP CLUB WHICH MEANS SAME ENGINE, NEW BODYKIT, BRAKES, AND WHEELS THAT MEANS IT WILL HAVE A SPORT LOOK BUT NO SPORT MOTOR THAT SAYS NOTHING BUT THE SAME BULLSHIT DIFFERENT LOOK......WHOOPDEE F__KING DOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah how come they never made it to the states?
and i just googled it and there are reports of toyota (which is lexus) making a v12?

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT........Invisible........

Welcome back David969,
Handling is actually more about driving than seeing...
Lexus LS "sport" will be as sport a as 1993 Ford Aerosport.
A nice body kit and stacked exhaut pipes, woo-hoo

— MSP6:

| Lexus LS "sport" will be as sport a as 1993 Ford Aerosport.
| A nice body kit and stacked exhaut pipes, woo-hoo

How can you opinion a car that does not exist yet?

One thing for sure, Lexus LS460 handles more SAFELY than Mercedes S550, BMW 740, Audi A8 and Infinity M, look at test below, braking on the curve:

http://www.56.com/u49/v_MTU0MzQ0NDY.html

Brat, because all Lexus fanboys are doing so, including you.

All the window dressing of sportiness without the sportiness. Will the LS customer base (60 yrs old+) even care for this?

Please, it just another attempt for Lexus to OVERCHARGE for a model that does not stand up to the competition. HELLO IS-F

"The LS isn't sporty enough."

Lexus begins offering a sporty version of the LS.

"Um, well....the LS still sucks."

No matter what Lexus does, it will never be enough for 009 and the usual anti-Lexus dudes here.

My question to has always been, if you hate Lexus and are happy with the European/American competitors in the luxury segment, why the hell do you care about every little thing Lexus does?

Ah well. There I go using logic again. I know it has little value in a place like this.

-ANSWER

It's not about "hating" Lexus,I don't hate Lexus at all. I think they,re a little boring but it's personnal taste.

Why is there some dumb idiots that keeps saying that a car that are is intended to be roomy, quiet, reliable, and that is meant to isolate it's occupants from the road and the outside world is "THE BEST HANDLING CAR I'VE SEEN" ? thats so stupid.

The Lexus LS going sport is a little bit like Susan Boyle becomming a pornstar. The're both not meant for that.

MSP6,

FYI, in case you haven't already taken note, Mitchell is actually a German car fan trying to make Lexus fans look idiotic. I guess it's working.

EL34 = Racist

Correction : "a car that IS" not "a car that are is"

Sorry

A sport model LS460?!?

The LS460 just made the cover of Blimp and Driver.

:-O

And EL34 just made the cover of Dumb & Dumber...

And the Roam & Park cover is next :-)

_43LE,

You must be referring to Obama and Chavez.

Dumb & Dumber, get it?

:-D

MSP6,

The LS460 will be on yet another magazine cover for "Unoriginal and Garbage".

:-/

EL34,

No I'm not referreing to Obama and Chavez. If you bothered to read my comment and really understand it, it was obvious that you "just made the cover of Dumb & Dumber". How could anyone not understand that. Oh, my mistake, this is you we're talking about...Why should I, or anyone, think that you could understand a simple concept?

GeorgeWJoke,

With all the unemployment from the closed car companies and the car dealers I think your boy Obama better do something about illegal aliens and them taking jobs from unemployed Americans.

Lookit, your boy Obama is and always will be a day late and a dollar short and thus he just made the cover of Monkeys and Coconuts.

;-)

We all know that you're racist EL34. Only cowards hide behind the anonymity of the internet like you do. What's funny is that you just make yourself look worse with every comment you make.

Well, its an attempt against the S AMG, S8, but I doubt it will match them from handling wise. If Lexus wants to make true sport cars then they need to talk to Nissan to get some their sport soul into their lineup.

I'm sure this LS sport will be a great car but won't beat the S AMG, nor the S8.

Now, lets see if BMW will come up with an M7.

Maybe not an M7 but an Alpina B7 for sure.

Strangely enough there is no mention of a horsepower increase and the LS460 can't beat even a plain S Class 0-60 much less the AMG model this is targeted against.

Sometimes I wonder about those boys over at Lexus... Is it all about style or do they plan to add substance at some time.

OMG They are not giving it more power...God Damn them! Cooperate greed and a bunch of dealer installed Gobalegook... A Sport LS460 is like having a Sporty Hurse on your way to the grave!

LS sport would be nice, in fact even more variants like V6 LS are welcome. I think by sport it doesn't mean the LS sport would rival S65 or S8 but the S500 AMG and A8 S line package which here in middle east outsell the standard variant.

S500 AMG sells almost 2 times the standard S500. So a good move by lexus.
S65/S63, S8s are differnt though for those Toyota will have to make 600BHP engines, V10s... etc

JUGNU

Why?

Maybe Lexus is just realizing that M-B still sells AMG versions of EVERYTHING and that BMW is planning to release an M7 variant of the 7-series? Now knowing that BMW did the seemingly "unthinkable" by releasing the X5-M & X6-M SUVs earlier this year, anything's possible.

Its gonna take more than a body kit for LS to compete with the S-Class AMG. Lexus is smart. They know that the old folks that buy these things wouldn't know the difference. Why add better brakes/suspension when a body kit will trick them into believing that the car is an AMG equivalent?

That's what they call the Placebo effect.

really? that makes no sense.

the LS is a super plush, softly sprung car with the handling characteristics of a town car. perfect for the retiree set (average buyer is 62). who would buy this car?

Hell, I'm a Toyota fan and I think this will flop. Take the Camry SE for instance. The fender flares and trimmings look shiteous....almost a if it were done by an amateur or added as an after thought. With the exception of the Supra, Toyota has not proven to me that they have full mastery of the sporty concept. Lets hope this new LS460 will change my mind.

I have no idea what you guys with these comments are talking about. I just spent the last 10 minutes reading nonsense comments about camaros and toyotas. Forget about BMW, and the rest, Autospies is simply asking "Can the Lexus LS compete with a Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG?" My answer is NO. Sure Lexus can create the horsepower, but it just wont be a match.

I dont hate Lexus but the finesse and quality Mercedes-Benz puts is the best. Please see some videos, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMlLgl79ek
(in german)but you can see a good look of the quality AMG assembly line, i am sure at Lexus, it just isnt quite like this.

I understood the sole purpose the GS was kept alive was its supposed sportiness. I remember 001 raving about the GS450h performance vs. BMW 5 series. Now Lexus decides they want to pimp the LS ??? I don't get it.

"Lexus waited to see how well the FWD based crossovers from Mercedes and BWM would do before Lexus would build the RX"

Do you know what the hell you're talking; Neither BMW nor Mercedes make a FWD crossover and never have (Mercedes lone FWD car is the A class and BMW has none). The ML320 did come out before the RX came out a full year before the X5.

SZ badge? what does that stand for? super zippy?

"Can the Lexus LS compete with a Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG?" My answer is NO"

who knows, maybe Toyota would drop the LF-A engine in LS and then LS not only compete with S63 but might beat S65 also. And it's quite possible too as the very advance engine of LF-A would not only be limited to limited edition LF-A.

JUGNU

Jugnu its not about 0-60mph or 1/4 mile, tuned up evo's and sti's are faster than porsches and ferraris, but that doesnt mean jack, its about the quality the car can withstand at 155mph for 2 hours straight, AMG is solely for the autobahn, think about how much heat and pressure the car produces with 600lbs of torque at 155mph per hour, internally AMG is one of the top engineers.

AMG wasn't always Mercedes performance division, they recognized them as being the best at making the mercedes performance more performance oriented and now they are pretty much and in-house tuning arm for them. what people here don't seem to realize is that the SZ is probably a Japan only name for a kit on the LS. It isn't the LS-F. The article says nothing about performance enhancing so why would it be the LS-F? The SZ name was on the Toyota Supra before and that didn't help the engine any, it produced a better transmission for the Supra. Nothing about new turbo's or better suspension parts. Just a newer transmission. So why would this SZ version of the LS be the performance verision of the IS-F equivalent?

Why don't they just call it the ZZZZZZZZZ ?