Lexus RC F, Rated! - Get in the RC F and press the start button hidden on site next to the gauges. This little tingling crawling up yo...
Get in the RC F and press the start button hidden on site next to the gauges. This little tingling crawling up your spine is perfectly normal. Point that gaping maw pin enraged at your nearest track, skidpad, industrial facility, Ken Block Gymkhana set, or empty freeway on-ramp. Step on the throttle hard. Harder firmer (Stop laughing) Watch this digital stuff gauge, front and center, as bright as Times Square when the needle reaches about 3700 RPM windshield becomes blurred, blood rushes to the head, the coffers of each occupant is pushed firmly against the seatbacks, and exhaust baffles open and the cabin fills with WOOOOHHHHHHHH , deep and slightly warbly and parody of itself. Right now, he is the Loudest Thing in the known universe. And it sounds with the same tremor unique baritone earth as the last-Lexus really crazy expensive F. disappeared IS
Lexus took this photo for our amusement. On the F-Sport show in Las Vegas, where everything goes, but especially the tires
Oh, yes, first hot rod experience of the Lexus IS-F in this most vein American, inventors should. be registered in the lobby Hot Rodder of Fame, right next to Bob Hirohata. RC F is 0 pounds heavier, but packs 50 more horses: it is the ISF, only more in all directions. He shared 5.0-liter V8 of the ISF, but with a lighter crankshaft, forged connecting rods, titanium valves 32 ... outside it is all ducts, fans, rockets and gaping maws that could swallow students jaywalking, which all score with a wannabe street racer east of highway 710. It is very exciting.
Given the above, the RC F puts on a good show. All singing, all dancing, tail-wiggling, noise making. If you conjure a taste of the performance of nowhere, you are allowed to be shouty. Interestingly, flashing ping exactly as grandfather clocks, cup holders squeak constantly when stuffed with plastic bottles of water, and exhaust tips are stacked diagonally finally actual exhaust tips . But that is neither here nor there
What is important, however, is that the RC F addresses two of the biggest flaws of Lexus :. First, control of awkward tension. Turn the drive select button right twice, for sport Plus direction up businesses, the throttle becomes more delicate, and the brakes are pre-loaded for the talentless exuberantly. And here, if you press the traction control button once, you immediately "EXPERT mode . " expert! Nothing more could stoke the ego of our generation Playstation: hell yeah I got all my licenses A Gran Turismo! Time to take every exit ramp on the side! LIFE DO NOT HAVE A RESET BUTTON, SON!
The Sport mode means that you are serious. means Sport Plus mode, you seriouser. (Photo by Lexus)
This is appropriate, this thing video game. Because even if the pallets lend a plasticky feel Forza, they control what is ultimately one of the biggest improvements of the RC F :. , it finally has a competent transmission
The automatic changes to hard eight reports on the full attack, upshifts as fast as you can flick the paddles: bam. Bam. Bam. In some ways, it even launches a bit. (Although not as BMW M4, archnemesis the RC F, which starts you in the kidneys with steel-tipped Doc Martens.) It will hold a gear until aurally painful to do so, then a gas onto a downshift as a machine of the 21st century sports should . Even the LFA was automatic that "sucks a bit." But now here it is: a Lexus transmission makes continuous work of transmission
RC F Turn a corner and the effect is a slight delay there, proboscis cliff as heavy, square front differential mechanical limited slip Torsen to far back, eager and catchy, and the traction control allows to swing a pretty bow before calling. You'll get addicted jump around each intersection at full speed. The brakes are great. The steering is heavy, which is nice, but a bit numb, which is not. Accident on a particularly rough stretch and while bumpy suspension will thrill all your glutes, the wheel will remain rock steady, an exorcism triumphant both feel and bump steer. (It is a good time to mention that the seats are wonderful :. Thin and smooth and perfectly sculpted) But the wheel itself is a small diameter and absurdly thick, like squeezing a lil fat Buddha and our needs, it is just what a wheel should feel like.
This almost flat over suspension, all the time. He shakes, of course, but never abusive, never crashing. Our producer for Hooniverse Podcast, Chris Hayes, met a girl for a date, like you do when the keys-when she asked, where shall we go for dinner? "Why not Santa Barbara?" He said. So they blew up 95 miles from Santa Barbara and then again at night in less than an hour. Why not, indeed. The RC F long legs can do for people.
Lexus wants to BMW and M4, which is a given, because each short luxury manufacturer Bristol wants to take BMW and M4 these days. What is the biggest difference between this and the M4? you can have fun with RC F at full speed. the M4 sneers at your lack of talent, your nonchalance, your daily driving -it grumbles and protests of less than 10 / 10ths, and continue to do so until you press 37 separate buttons to return it to its place. If you panic-flog M4 to the upper limit of your nerves, he yawns like a bored model, unimpressed with your attempts at sexual satisfaction.
Lexus had to mention a penchant for performance of nowhere, and LFA suffers for it * and yet he worked on the iS F, the one side of Lexus we once considered new ground, and revolutionary, and impossible. With the RC F and the recently unveiled Lexus GS F-dare we say we expect now?
* For a completely different set of circumstances, mind you.
The RC F thirsty. Around the city, there is a truck like 14 miles per gallon. To paraphrase Public Enemy, the Eco mode is a joke in your city.
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