sherwood is right about both HP being retarded (a good example is when they changed the way HP was rated back in 04. NOTHING changed. it just looked like it did) AND about the "F" badging.

car companies rate torque and horsepower at different places on your RPM band. this is why people walk around saying "well my car has 139 ftlbs of torque AND 197 horsepower!" Fine. it does. but when your engine is producing 139 ftlbs of torque, it's only producing 161 horsepower. and when it's producing 197 horsepower it is only making 132.6 ftlbs of torque.

horsepower numbers are retarded. the fact that no car company seems to measure horsepower at the wheels makes horsepower ratings even MORE retarded.


and I think the F badging is nice. "Type-R," "Type-S" and "S" are way overused. who hasn't seen a toyota running around with a red "S" plastered on the back end? and the "Type-R" badging is practically a joke, I don't think I've ever seen a Type-R honda of any sort in real-life, EVER, yet there seem to be a lot of type-r badged cars running around.

F is something new. different. I'm not a huge Lexus fan, but IS-F is ear catching.