Lexus has finally revealed the secret V8 car it has been working on. It's not called the IS F this time around, though. All new for 2022, it's now called the IS 500 F Sport. I have a problem with that ...

You always know when you’re doing something for the first time, but you almost never know when you’ll be doing it for the last. When it comes to driving the 2024 Lexus IS500 F Sport Performance, ...

The IS500 F Sport Performance carves its own path in a very crowded space, shared with the Cadillac CT5-V, Audi S4, BMW M340i, and Mercedes C43, providing a naturally aspirated V8, rear wheel drive ...

Sport sedans are so aggressive these days that you'd swear most of their buyers spend every available Saturday steaming around the Nürburgring. These cars tend to have tons of turbocharged torque and ...

The Lexus IS 500 is the last compact V8 sedan standing in the US market, but its days are numbered. Due to be discontinued in November 2025, the Lexus IS range and the IS 500 F Sport Performance ...

Lexus is still trying to inject some much-needed performance cred into its F performance line. Since the brand's inception, there have been just three dedicated performance models: the original IS F, ...

Lexus has announced the introduction of the "IS500 F Sport Performance," equipped with a 5.0-liter V8 engine, to the Japanese market. The IS, born in 1999 as a compact FR sports sedan, is now set to ...

The Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance is the first IS with a V8 engine since the IS F’s departure back in 2014. And while it won’t be officially released until the fall, Kirk Kreifels gives us another ...

Our time in the IS500's passenger seat was brief, and, in all honesty, merely confirmed the simplistic assertion that an IS350 F Sport with a V-8 behaves much like, well, an IS350 F Sport with a V-8.