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back to the future You can always depend on the engineers at Lexus to approach competitive car design as if they’re solving a math equation. Could it be that on some corporate level they’ve made the mistake of thinking that “fun to drive” isn’t a question of human involvement with the car but only of achieving certain performance benchmarks? Imagine 30 years in the future, the Lexus 1S 650—with its solar-powered, fuel-cell, cold-fusion hybrid engine—is capable of 0-to-60 in 1.5 seconds with an electronically limited top speed of 305 mph, while the primary passenger plots a course to his destination safe in his sensory isolation chamber. Back in 2006, with the IS 350, Lexus created the perfect sport sedan for the digital-age consumer who loves performance but not necessarily driving. I…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2006

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