/> And boy does this puppy deliver. It’s brutally fast, sounds like Dale Jr.’s Chevy on the Daytona banking, is as agile, grippy and responsive as any Euro rival and has the rice-rocket looks to go with it.

It’s based on the slightly oddball (for a Lexus) IS 250 and 350 sports sedans. To give it some “show” to match its “go,” the body gets a serious dosage of collagen, bloating the front and rear fenders and swelling the aluminum hood.

At each corner, sinister-looking 19-inch dark gray BBS forged alloys fill the wheel wells, while at the rear, quad tailpipes stacked in a funky one-on-top-of-the-other arrangement – likely to be a ‘F’ design cue – add to the visual muscle.

If it looks a tad front-heavy, that’s because the snout has been thrust forwards three inches and widened by two to accommodate an engine the IS was never designed to accommodate – the whopping 5.0-liter V8 from Lexus’ flagship LS600hL.