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On topic: I think that I smell a little of the old IS430 in all these "spy" shots of the same car. The car needs to shed weight, which isn't going to happen. Taking weight off is next to impossible.
Car and Driver had an interesting editorial a quite while back, it was either Bedard or Csere, about platform sharing and the effect of increasing the weight of the smaller cars built off the shared platform. I think the ISX50 really proves this theory in spades. Just keep stuffing more stuff onto an already bloated car and you get a pig. Now what we really need is the 4WD hybrid version of the V8 model and we can just roll that little porker over to the butchers shop.
The A3 3.2 S-line is a good example of the same thing at Audi.
The 350Z is a good example of it at Nissan.
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v8 doesn't necessary means it's going to add a significant weight. Same thing used to happen in the rotary crowd. Everyone said that significant weight will be added in the front from 1.3tt to 5.7(sbc) and they were proven wrong when one of the owner took his car to the scale.
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im dying to find out what kind of wheels those are too... they're not the RGR because the RGR has less spokes than those one.. i can't find any BBS online that match those..HELP
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