Originally Posted by
lexusis350
Yea, its kinda sad. The Lexus is brand new and the Jaguar is old. Must mean that the Lexus is not a worthy competitor since it is dead last. Does C&D want Lexus to redesign the LS again? I thought it was a big improvement but I guess I am wrong.
It came in dead last because AND ONLY BECAUSE it has very soft handling. If you read the article carefully, C&D was rather dissappointed in it's softness. C&D is a driver's magazine, so they put performance at a very heavy weight in their rankings. Everything else about the car - fit and finish, quality, power, sophistocation - C&D liked. But because it was very sloppy under hard handling, it lost respect.
For 99% of the people buying this type of car, it's a very fine machine and worthy of every penny on the window sticker. Truth be told, if you remove the handling aspect from all the cars tested, I bet the LS460 would come in first or second.
And yes, it IS a big improvement over the LS430.