Best car review i've seen on YT. Largely better than journalists who just have fun with the car but unable to try it as a user. Great job.

Great review ! I am a newly owner of an 2008 ISF .. I loved it. Learned aloe from your review!

Excellent review! You covered the "normal" commute type of driving very well. I think the one area that this beats the BMW and Mercedes is in the reliability factor. Very few cars today have both the high performance and great reliability built into their designs. That's why I just purchased a beautiful 2011 IS F 5.0 ;o)

Great review Ive watched it countless time looking forward to getting one too ........keep up the good work

Amazing review, couldn't agree more! I have owned multiple BMW's , Audi and MB cars, while I do really enjoyed them. I own a Lexus IS F and drive it daily. You just can't beat the full package you get with the Lexus F models. Yeah they are not the fastest on the road but are more than enough to keep you happy with such low maintenance and reliability...

Bloody good review mate. I clicked on this video only wanting to spend a minute or so watching it, but you've done such a good job crafting your dialogue and points that I've kept watching! Keep it up brother!

Spot on with the review. I'm lucky to have both an ISF and E92 M3 (which I just did the rod bearings on haha). They sure don't make cars that sound like these anymore!

Awesome review! Very valid points everything was spot on 👌🏼

Very nice review, you clearly understand Lexus' point of view. The duality within F and now the F Sport Performance lines are clearly the best of both worlds. Give me a comfortable ride with decent tech during the week and a Mountain Sweeper / Canyon Carver on the weekends! Thanks for posting.

Love the content dude, very underrated channel

I bought my in May 2008 and I still enjoy every minute of it @ 44,000 miles. Changed tires ones, battery twice, air filter once, flush coolant once. Everything is factory. What a fantastic value! It has all the power you need on public roads. ❤Only issue is, the sun visor is too short when turned to cover the sun from the window. I am 5,11.

@skrrtgarage 13:02 you should be able to turn "Day Mode" off in the display settings so that the screen automatically goes darker when the headlights are on. Also, make sure your Instrument panel lighting knob isn't turned all the way up (past the click) to allow the screen to dim

Great review! Subscribed!

It feels like you have been reviewing cars for decades , the level of qaulity and simplicity its a great review m8

Videos getting better by the day!

Great video! About the map being too bright, there is a dimmer switch on the left side of the steering wheel turning the map into ''Night mode''

Great Review, we have only between 200 - 220 Units of the ISF in Germany :) the perfect Sleeper on the Autobahn . Best regards from bavaria

Fantastic and super fair review. I will likely keep mine forever (2011, USB)

Love the ISF content man

You’re absolutely Right!!!! I love ISF Great video 👍🏼

love the review, almost purchased one myself prior to getting my f type. just moved down from WA to OKC, are there any car meetups down here for euro's or in general?

I believe this was my old isf !! Was this car registered in SoCal from 2016-2018?

Love the car! It was a beast that not a lot of people were aware of until they got smoked! I now have a 2015 RC F and it too is awesome!

I think your iPhone reference is backwards 😂 the AMG and M3 are definitely the iphone users showboating about how great they are.... while the ISF android user is the easy one to live with, and just flying under the radar with people not realizing what they're missing. Android is so much simpler to use than iPhone in my experience. Facetime is cool though. I just wanted to chime in on that, but great review and video! I really enjoyed it

Best way to describe this car Jekyll and Hyde. X pipe, Headers and 30% ethanol mix to wake it up a bit. Miss my ISF. Excellent review

Great review! I own a 2008 Lexus IS-F, it just rolled over 270,000 miles. and the only repair I’ve ever done to it, is replaced the starter…. I wonder if M3s and C63s have that kind of reliabilty😂😂😂😂

I always thought the IS-F was underrated. Every now and then I'll see one on the freeway and they still look and sound great.

At last someone that appreciates the car. Agreed with you about the car.I daily and track the car. Good review!

I think this car has a bit of every platform you mentioned in the beginning of the video. It handles great, not as precise as an e90/92. It has the characteristics of a muscle car, yet it’s not as brutal as the displacement as the 6.3 in the MB. It has tech ahead of it’s time that got made fun of & now everyone has adopted it. In the end I think you end up with a balanced product. I’m on my 3rd IS F & absolutely love it.

That was a beautiful start. Im 100% with you that the early to late 2000’s cars were the absolute best. Analog enough to be fun, modern enough to not be complete tin can shitboxes and had the most interesting drivetrains.

to avoid the bright nav startup - press display and turn display off. you can go into nav, etc whenever you like. super simple! also have your night mode on when you do end up hitting the nav button.

I thought those Sparco’s looked familiar 👀 lol I’ve now added a third spacer to the steering wheel 😆 haha. I also like the wheel right in my lap. Really nice review 👌🏾

Watched this review again. Makes me love my 08 usb even more each time. Amazing job man. Ps: the throttle controller I have made a huge difference in the way it feels. Night and day. I can go full grandpa mode or coked out if you sneeze the car will punch you in the back of the head mode lol.

Finally someone who's had all three cars to give a real review.

that's it. I was looking for an excuse to save for a ISF. you sir. just gave me one. I also love that 90% of people don't know what it is. styling wise it's a really bland car. everyone knows the M3, and C63. but not many people oudside of the diehard car fanbase know of the ISF and what a cool car it is.

Like always great IS-F content. The noise at 3500 rpm comes from opening the secondary air intake.

2005-2015 honestly were those golden years. One day one of those cars in the screenshots you showed will be mine ;)

The ergonomics are soo perfect for a manual, that’s the only reason it was knocked. My only other complaint is about the seats. The top half of the seat back goes is at nearly a 45 degree angle. The headrest ends up like 6” behind the lumbar support. That’s why you see all of those folks in Japan with the little airline pillows on their seats.

Good review and great era of cars... being 40 I am pretty nostalgic for the late 80s to early 00s... back when your right foot was directly connected to the throttle body (not that it is necessarily better)! :)

Amazing review! By the way, have you noticed your ISF shifting gears a little jerky from a cold start? Mine does that and I'm not sure why. It goes away after about 3 minutes though once the car has warmed up.

I agree with you on the seating position. I just wish it had a better range so you can lower the seat if you wanted but I think the engineers goal was to keep you high up so you can see over the front end of the car when you’re tracking.

Thanks for this review. This car is actually soo underrated it’s criminal. I’ve never heard about the ISF till like a week ago. I knew about the 250,350. Was planning on one of those and was looking at video that was comparing them and the guy says; “yeah, the 350 is pretty quick, just a good amount over the 250 blah blah Till the ISF came along”. This peaked my curiosity so I researched and now I’m obsessed with it. V8, 4 doors, reliable, comfortable, subtle. Got to have it.

In the stock intake, you can cap off the vacuum actuator and have the secondary intake open all the time. I didn’t care for it but it’s worth a try. I didn’t feel the “extra” sound from what-ever-cruising-rpm (1000-2000) to 3600rpm was that special, because it revs through it so quick. I also noticed a lot of gas consumption running it like that. Also, the secondary intake path does not have a fresh source of air like the main inlet does. And so when you’re idling I’m sure the air temps go up kinda high being stagnant like that in the engine bay. Good review, I always wanted to try a tuned W204 C63. Also agree on this era of cars 2005-2015.

I just recently bought my buddies 2013 ultrasonic blue ISF I’ve had the car for a week now I’ve only driven it twice. This thing is amazing. It has Hayward and Scott exhaust on it and the Apex intake tube has 285s on the back.

Intelligent video good job. What I dont like about all new cars all the buttons. Im happy with a few switches and nothing on the steering wheel. Yea, DSG transmissions shift fast as hell.

I have a IS500 (my first Lexus with a V8) and I thought everything you said is exactly true with the IS500. Things havent changed much and I like that lol.

You can adjust the navigation display for when you are day and night time. Atnight it turns dark and during the day it's light automatically

Love my ISF. As you say, to just dawdle around town it is easy. Very tight turning circle too. Only downside for short city driving is the fuel consumption. About 15 litres per 100km or 15.5 mpg (US) You can bypass the 3,600 rpm intake flap by removing the small vacuum hose and plugging the ends. Sounds great from 1,800 or so 👍 When modified you keep the mild mannered car but at the track have a low 12 second or even high 11 second weapon. Mine is nice and quiet but capable of amazing performance. The only issue mechanically I have had is the famous (or infamous) valley plate leak. These are so reliable. Just get in and drive. Thanks for the review of your beastie.

Salute i love this car❤

In my '08 I've found the best workaround for the lazy around town transmission is to just keep it in sport and manual mode unless I'm in a residential zone and need to watch my speed. It's honestly too much fun to not drive it that way all the time

Those gear changes are so satisfying!

The nav has a night mode that makes the screen black. Check your manual or play with the settings under display I believe.

Truly amazing review, agree with almost every point, as I have been daily driving a dark grey '08 ISF for over two years and it is such a sleeper, had many confused Porsche Dirvers at the 🚦, almost no one knows about this car, which is a charm for me. Moreover on the highway, at a speed of 45-50mph, I get about 35mpg. Some annoying things I have had, 1) the transmission has no option to start from 2nd gear (maybe in the snow mode, didn't try that), 2) the ride is a bit stiff, I know some aftermarket parts to help improve, but I prefer stock. Things to love about....can't list them all, but everything about the car is special.

Just acquired a 2008 IS F with 43,006 original miles - it was my mother's car that she rarely drove. It does need interior door panels though - missed the recall period. Great car!

You are correct sir on those points!!! My 08 just hit 140k and still going strong EASTER EGG DO THE Lexus "PEDAL DANCE” ups the performance even more. You’ll def notice the difference

how's steering feel?..compared to the latest models ??

You need to adjust your head unit settings. You can default it to stay on the last screen you were on. Mine does not default to nav. Also. Don’t turn your cluster illumination knob all the way up or it will lock the screen into full bright all the time. Also…my 2010’s sport button is in the same place on the dash as yours. That may be a 2011+ thing, but I had never seen that button until you showed it.

I wish I could have gotten an ISF but I’m pretty happy with my is350 soon tho hopefully

What tyre sizes are you running? Cheers

I have a 2009 Toyota Crown Athlete (with the 2GR-FSE - 3.5L V6) as my daily driver and a 2002 Nissan Silvia S15 Spec R (running 410hp) for the summer - I've been looking around at what will replace my Toyota for a while and I think it's gonna have to be an ISF! I wanted a big VIP car but couldn't justify a Crown Majesta with a 4.3 or 4.6L V8 as a daily driver... but my Crown was getting about 25mpg (20mpg in the US) and on a long run, it got 35mpg (29mpg US) which is pretty damn good for a 310hp car that weighs 1800kg! While they aren't amazing figures, they're great for what they are. But the Crown is just such a polar opposite car to my Silvia, so I want something a big more sporty, i.e. faster gearbox, shorter wheelbase, less boat-like handling characteristics but also still fairly luxury. Looks like this ticks all my boxes! Also, the bit you spoke about at 10:15 is called dual VVT-i, where it changes the valve timing at that RPM to allow for more fuel/air (but not to increase valve lift, like VTEC does - Toyota's version of this is called VVTL-i and Nissan's is NeoVVL.)

Nav is bright because you have the dim setting on your gauges all the way up. Turn it down a little and it will use the auto dim

I believe what your hearing is when you hit 3500rpm yes the secondary throttle opens in the throttle and VVTi kick in at the same point, this was the way the 2 and 3uzfe lexus v8 did it

There a toggle switch on the left to turn the brightness down

I have a 2011 IS-F. I don't think I'll ever own another car as special as this one. I haven't had 1 problem with the engine. It's a car the wife will like and you can take your kid to school in. That's the definition of a daily driver. They did make some improvements in the later model years. Also holds a great resale value. Mine has 75k miles and I could get $31,000 for it easily. Only about 5000 of them were sold TOTAL in the US ('08-'2014). 650 sold of the 2011 model year. Very rare!!

Love the video but Bruh to turn off the screen u press display and there’s a screen off button

Hey man how tall are you? I’m 6’0 and sat in a is250 and it seems small af.

The display can be turned off , I don’t know if that feature applies only to 2010 and up .

hey connor one of my favorite cars is the ISF connor

Can you do a rcf review

My ISF is going to be my forever car.

Love the wheel is that 2011 stock rim?

If you adjust the screen dimness right before it locks out/clicks. The screen will change from night mode to day mode depending on brightness of the ambience. So, now you only have 2 things you don't like about it haha. Enjoy it I do enjoy mine! 😉

I had a ISF 08 back when it came out, I kept it for 4 years 60k miles 0 issues. Had to sell because of 2 kids and car seats won’t fit. Picked up a 2019 gsf 3 yrs ago. Yes it’s not fast as Germans, well Germans are not as fast as teslas so acceleration is not the only factor. Input on a exhaust and it’s just a rare car and insane reliability in mix. I know ISF owners with over 300k ruining like new

I track my 08 isF once a month and daily drive it . Has over 100k. 50miles a day, only change the oil lol. Love my Toyota oh ya 22mpg also

11.50min, the hidden Sport button, I bought a 2013 IS 350 at the start of this year (2nd gen like this car) and it took me a few weeks before I released there was a Sport and snow button as it was so obscured...glad I found it thio...woo hoo!

Also production Rarity! 2008 model ISF 2733 in the US 2009 model ISF 436 in the US 2010 model year ISF 502 in the US 2011 model year ISF 654 in the US 2012 model year ISF 568 in the US 2013 model year ISF 139 in the US 2014 model year ISF 86 in the US

Dammit, I wanted to get that V-8 Camry license plate too but I live here in California someone already took it

For the map change it to compass its black!

Also the IS F has electric steering. Sport mode changes the feel of the sterring and also the way the transmission shifts.

6 piston front and 2 piston rear.

Same reasons why I bought my IS-F

Conner. You want to sell that daily driver?????

quick note for the video but the 1970 454 chevelle has 450hp but was later gimped in 72 for emissions. only reason I care is because I own both a 69 chevelle and a 12 isf and while I love both the chevelle was the og car in my life

What you really mean to say is... that 2005-2015 was really just the golden era of sports sedans. Every decade has it's genre and hyped vehicle. For example, you can also say the 90s was the golden era of Japanese sports cars with vehicles like the Supra, RX7, NSX, 300Z, VR4, S2000. Also, if you think about it, today is the golden era of muscle cars (not the late 60s) since we have the GT350/GT500, Camaro ZL1, Charge/Challenger Hellcats/Demon etc. I wonder what will be next!

I've been thinking of buying an ISF but prices keep going up. Might end up going with the is500 when prices get better

I love my 2011 ISF - but the suspension is SO stiff it really detracts from "daily driving". I am soon going to go to Tein coilovers to hopefully make it a bit more compliant.....

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Lexus itself is the most underrated luxuary brand. I would chose to buy lexus over mercedez or BM

You mean 6 pistons front and 2 pistons rear ?

You forgot about headbolts snapping on the m156 in the c63 lol

did mention the v10 m5 :/

This car is under rated but over priced. I’d love to buy one but I’m not spending $25k+ on a car from 2008 with 100k+ miles

What’s a fair price u guys would pay for the isf I wanna buy one but looking to see other peoples opinion and how much they would pay I’m 21 making 24 an hour taking care of my mom and brother I am the man of the house looking to move into an apartment to would I be able to afford it?

The shift paddles are magnesium alloy.

The early E90 m3 uses different bearing material than the later ones, that's why you see them fail.

3500 rpm is the signal that you want to speed up, I really enjoy the smooth cruise in a peaceful morning. Ha ha !!

As far as daily driveability goes the Audi and Lexus may be on similar playing fields. Lexus wins reliability hands down, Audi does trail behind. Mercedes and BMW are out of the question

What color is that paint job?

what i have heard about IS-F, if the car breaks down the parts are hard to come by and they come in a premium cost. and that's what scares me tbh.

Not gonna lie I was interested in this car until I watched this video. I respect your transparency as honesty. The car just seems to come off a little numb.