Redesigned 2017 Lexus IS
04-22-16 | 01:27 PM
#91
Lexus Test Driver
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 9,754
Likes: 171
From: California
Anything is better than the current rear diffuser. All it is today is a black plastic rectangle with no features. That's really where they dropped the bomb with the back of the 3IS.
As far as the F-Sport front bumper, they need to dump the "got hitched up on a curb" look, where the lower edges kink upward. This is opposite of anything sporty. With sport, you want to lower the bumpers closer to the ground to make the car appear tied to the road. Then on the base model, the lower edges need to connect. Having the current gap there makes it look like a plastic model car who's joints do not meet.
BTW, for those feeling they are getting burned by buying the current model.... let that go. There is NO WAY, ever, to be able to always stay ontop of the latest improvements. They will always come, each year or two. There will be an even better improvement in a few years once they redesign it, and so on and so on. It never ends, so don't kick yourself.
As far as the F-Sport front bumper, they need to dump the "got hitched up on a curb" look, where the lower edges kink upward. This is opposite of anything sporty. With sport, you want to lower the bumpers closer to the ground to make the car appear tied to the road. Then on the base model, the lower edges need to connect. Having the current gap there makes it look like a plastic model car who's joints do not meet.
BTW, for those feeling they are getting burned by buying the current model.... let that go. There is NO WAY, ever, to be able to always stay ontop of the latest improvements. They will always come, each year or two. There will be an even better improvement in a few years once they redesign it, and so on and so on. It never ends, so don't kick yourself.
Last edited by Fizzboy7; 04-22-16 at 01:32 PM.
04-22-16 | 01:56 PM
#92
Meh those facelifts are small, no need to cry over if you just bought the car. I doubt we'll even see an interior lift. If anything you might be able to retrofit the bumper and rear diffuser.
04-22-16 | 04:29 PM
#97
Intermediate
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 452
Likes: 7
From: OC, CA
04-22-16 | 10:04 PM
#100
Lol the piano black was 2014 model. It got scratched so easily that they changed it the next year so I think that lesson was already learned.
Last edited by specONE; 04-22-16 at 10:07 PM.
04-23-16 | 05:55 AM
#103
I don't know why some here keep going on about this "rumoured" TT-V6.
This whole update is nothing more than a facelift, which is normal practice by just about every manufacture to maintain freshness of their product, in this case the current 3IS has been in the market for about 3yrs, about the same time the 2IS got its first refresh.
And really why would Lexus debut a brand new engine for a facelift model? I mean they just realesed the refreshed GS and it continues with the same engine, albeit a slightly modified version (FKS)
It would be foolish to expect anything more than the same updated version of the 2GR in the 3IS refresh..
This whole update is nothing more than a facelift, which is normal practice by just about every manufacture to maintain freshness of their product, in this case the current 3IS has been in the market for about 3yrs, about the same time the 2IS got its first refresh.
And really why would Lexus debut a brand new engine for a facelift model? I mean they just realesed the refreshed GS and it continues with the same engine, albeit a slightly modified version (FKS)
It would be foolish to expect anything more than the same updated version of the 2GR in the 3IS refresh..
If the true successor to the 2GR motor is good and ready, this would be the perfect time to unveil that powerplant and re-ignite attention to the 3IS which has been slowly declining in popularity since its initial release.
04-23-16 | 05:58 AM
#104
Racer
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,581
Likes: 133
From: PA
Anything is better than the current rear diffuser. All it is today is a black plastic rectangle with no features. That's really where they dropped the bomb with the back of the 3IS.
As far as the F-Sport front bumper, they need to dump the "got hitched up on a curb" look, where the lower edges kink upward. This is opposite of anything sporty. With sport, you want to lower the bumpers closer to the ground to make the car appear tied to the road. Then on the base model, the lower edges need to connect. Having the current gap there makes it look like a plastic model car who's joints do not meet.
BTW, for those feeling they are getting burned by buying the current model.... let that go. There is NO WAY, ever, to be able to always stay ontop of the latest improvements. They will always come, each year or two. There will be an even better improvement in a few years once they redesign it, and so on and so on. It never ends, so don't kick yourself.
As far as the F-Sport front bumper, they need to dump the "got hitched up on a curb" look, where the lower edges kink upward. This is opposite of anything sporty. With sport, you want to lower the bumpers closer to the ground to make the car appear tied to the road. Then on the base model, the lower edges need to connect. Having the current gap there makes it look like a plastic model car who's joints do not meet.
BTW, for those feeling they are getting burned by buying the current model.... let that go. There is NO WAY, ever, to be able to always stay ontop of the latest improvements. They will always come, each year or two. There will be an even better improvement in a few years once they redesign it, and so on and so on. It never ends, so don't kick yourself.
04-23-16 | 06:47 AM
#105
Pole Position
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,924
Likes: 174
From: Los Angeles, CA