Sports sedans don't look to be going anywhere soon. Some of our favorite auto brands are still turning them out with gusto; take BMW's M sedan range, Mercedes-AMG sedans, the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, ...

Cars like the Lexus IS500 are a dying breed, and it's likely the last time you'll see something like this from Lexus. Hybrids and EVs are the priority moving forward. That's just how it is. But for ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...