It's a shame that this headline hasn't changed very much. "Car 'x' chases BMW [insert model here]." BMW makes the benchmark, still, and arguably that hasn't changed very much — if you're into a "driver's car."
I'll admit the Lexus IS-F was a close call for BMW's M3, at least from a road-going perspective. Both had V8s, both produced over 400 horsepower and they both were fun. Any honest critic — and a few were — would say that the IS-F just needed a few tweaks and it'd be just as good.
Hopefully that's what the RC-F can deliver. And if there's anytime for Lexus to take on BMW properly, this would be it. Since the launch of the LFA the brand's underwent a bit of a transformation from that conservative company to a brand that produces models with a bit more stride in their step. AND the word on the street is that the all-new is more fun to drive than anything else in its class.
So if Lexus built the stunning LFA that drove sublime, it built the IS-F that was only a step away from an M3 and the new IS is THAT good, can the RC-F finally be "the one?"
I don't know. But what I do know is that we've got the latest spy shots.
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