Lexus IS250 - Test Drive

So one day my father came up to me and told me that soon his company was going to switch his company car. So he asked me if I had any ideas on what car to buy. So I simply told him that I would get back to him on that. Our budget was about $30,000. So they very next weekend I went car shopping with my friend (more like window shopping to be honest). At that time Lexus had just released their brand new IS. So I went in there and basically told the salesperson my story.

So for five minutes the salesperson told me all about the car. He said it had a 2.5L V6 that gives a total of 200hp and about 185 ft-lb. I was not very impressed at first when he told me that. But two seconds later he asked me if I wanted to test-drive it. I'm not going to lie, I was nervous but as soon as i got into the car it went away. The leather seats are extremely soft and comfortable. The seats felt like they fit me like a clove. Everything in the car that the drive comes in contact with when he or she is driving has the best quality materials. First of all the steering wheel wrapped with leather makes you never want to drive with only one hand, but then again the stick-shift is also wrapped with smooth leather.

After sitting down in the car, the salesperson told me that the car has no key. I didn't know what he was talking about until he showed me the thing that is supposed to be the "key". This car has key-less entry and bottom start. With the little beeper you simply walk up to the car and automatically the car unlocks. So inside the car the guy told me to press the clutch and the brakes, then I noticed that the engine start bottom lite up green. I tapped the bottom the the engine was on, but the thing that amazed me that most were the gauges. After pressing the bottom they lite up with a neon blue color and both speed and rpm pointers moved all the way to max and back.


So I put the car in first gear and left the Lexus parking lot. As soon as I reached the street the guy told me to step on it, so it did. I was impressed with the acceleration with the fact that the car only had about 200 hp. Handling impressed me as well, the steering was really smooth along with the car ride overall. This car is all about luxury but it does have some sporty aspects to it. When reaching high rpm the a light around the rpm instrument will light up. Also a light around the speedometer will light up by doing speeds over 80 mi/h. The shift-light is cool, but there is not point to the other light.The exterior of the car is not one bit disappointing. It looks aggressive, stylish, and slick all at the same time and that is not easy to do. This car flows all together from the front grill, to the slick headlights, making its way back all the way to the taillights. Overall this car is great car for its price. But at the end my dad decided that he needed some more power under the hood, so we ended up getting the MazdaSpeed 6 which is not as luxurious but it does have 70 more horses and it is all-wheel-drive.