Its three major snags all come from Germany: the BMW M5, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and Audi RS6 Avant, which mutually have each place of the executive performance saloon market sewn up.
Even though there’s ample to like about this eastern luxury, the GS F – the noise it makes, the pleasing ambiance of the cabin and the ideal experience – a few flaws in key areas means it represents a left-subject alternative rather than a specific challenger to that Teutonic trinity.
While all people else seems to be shrinking their engines and including turbochargers, it packs a whacking-first-class 5.0-litre Lexus engine with an amusingly distraught persona. It provides a right muscle car soundtrack when triggered, yet cruises in a well-mannered way on the motorway when you need it to.
Compared with its compelled induction competitors you absolutely have got to wind the colossal motor up to get the great out of it, with its 470bhp maximum arriving at a lofty 7,100rpm, and top torque of 530Nm on offer between 4,800 and 5,600rpm.
It makes the GS F believe relatively sluggish however, handy to power at low pace, and likewise inspires you to head for the pink line and soak up the impressive range of noises from the engine and exhaust when driving at speed.
Whilst this style of vigour supply suits a sporting activities automobile like a Porsche 911, we’d have liked a bit of extra get-up-and-go from low down within the rev range to furnish lazy overtaking energy, anything the dual-turbocharged unit in the E63 AMG does very well.
Lexus invariably scoring significant points for cabin design – there’s something very appealing about the way in which technology and traditional design have been integrated. There’s a noteworthy 12.3-inch display nestled deep through the dash, now not just placed on the core as an option is ready against an average speedometer. It’s just a shame that the quadrangular touch pad device used to manipulate all of it, is so awkward – BMW’s iDrive is far more instinctive and Audi’s MMI is less complicated to use.
At least, the riding role is spot on – it’s set a little bit high, but this makes it less difficult to get in and out and there are plenty of high-satisfactory substances which look durable too.
