RUMOR MILL: Lexus To Salvage IS-F From The Bone Yard - Will They Have Better Luck This Time Around?

The IS F has been discontinued and no 2015 model announced by Lexus. However, a reliable source says the car is coming back.

Torque News was one of the first outlets to bring the sad news that the Lexus IS F would be discontinued. We saw it coming. Sales of the car had slowed to about 100 units per year and were frankly never that robust to begin with.

However, the car was special and it represented the most sporting sedan that Lexus could field. Although the IS F is now out of production, a recent tidbit in Motor Trend has given us some hope that the car might be coming back.


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TheSteve - 8/26/2014 3:35:21 PM

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From the article: "Sales of the car had slowed to about 100 units per year and were frankly never that robust to begin with" and "However, the car was special."

So why were the sales dismal? Was it unobtainable? Computer glitch kept it off TV, showroom floors, reviewer lots, and price lists? Priced like a supercar? Only available in lime green? Nope, nope and nope!

It's a product exceptionally few people wanted, in spite of some folks feeling it's "special." Time to rethink bringing it back, unless you put so much cash on the hood that buyers figure, what the hell, at that price, why not?

MattDarringer - 8/26/2014 10:57:58 PM

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The ISF was my choice over an M3 by far...much more of an American muscle car feel than the German thing and I loved it.

w222 - 8/26/2014 4:59:24 PM

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I've driven the ISF and think it's a very capable and balanced car. The problem is the competition is simply better. People that are shopping for this car will likely sacrifice a little comfort for more performance. That's why being a jack of all trade but a master of none isn't going to cut it. F should be all about performance, pure and simple.

MattDarringer - 8/27/2014 8:16:01 AM

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That's precisely why I loved it. Sometimes the "jack of all trades/ master of none" are the ones you want to be on when driving the 405 through Los Angles. I've driven quite a few different cars on my twice-monthly trek to Newport Beach and the ISF was a silky hammer where as the Germans are just hammers...and as hammers go, the CTSV--a sledgehammer--is more engaging. The Germans have a high level of technical perfection, but they can be cold and sterile too.

MattDarringer - 8/26/2014 8:19:14 PM

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The ISF wasn't killed. It was the ISF on the last IS that was killed. Lexus is doing an ISF and a GSF to battle BMW M editions.

HughJass - 8/30/2014 9:01:48 PM

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Rebadge a BR-Z and give it the IS-F engine or bring back the Supra. Sales show people aren't willing to pick an IS over one of the Germans. So its not a sedan, who cares. If Lexus wasn't a performance car other than the LF-A then they need not worry about how many doors a car has.

I'll take an M3 over an IS-F any decade.