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Custom Lexus IS With Duct Tape Wants to be the Next IS F

It all started when a Spanish website published the photo above, showing an interesting looking 2014 Lexus IS with added body parts and badges covered with duct tape. Then Lexus Spain posted it on their Facebook page and everyone got berserk, thinking its the new IS F.
fake Lexus IS F 1 photo
Photo: Lexus Spain
Well, it’s nothing than a bad joke. Indeed, it is a good-looking 2014 Lexus IS with that black roof, trunk spoiler lip and restyled bumper, but it’s not the next IS F undercover.

Yeah, it has the duct tape to cover all the badging, but why would it need one so big on the right if three letters had to be there? Moreover, the exhaust tips are wrong and ultimately, this is just a TRD bodykit from Japan.

It costs ¥437,700 ($4,281/€3,326) and comes with some nicely reshaped side skirts, front lower singlets, rear bumper with air diffuser, trunk-lid spoiler and double-tipped chrome exhausts.

TRD also offers performance dampers and member braces as a kit for ¥288,750 ($2,824/€2,149) if you want a more sporty feel with all those interesting body parts.

However, the current Lexus IS just got some updates for 2014, which in fact are the last ones, because it will exit production soon. And this means that the one based on the current generation is closer and closer. Who knows, it might even look similar with this one. It will also probably come with the new 5-liter V8 from the RC F, boasting over 450 hp.
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