Lexus
This is the catalogue record of the Lexus IS (XE20), one of 72 models Lexus has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Lexus IS (XE20) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Kia Kia Sportage, the Audi AG Audi Q7 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Lexus IS (XE20) reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.2 L Toyota AD engine#2AD-FHV / 2AD-FHV Straight-four engine / I4 (Diesel engine / diesel) / 2.5 L Toyota GR engine#4GR-FSE / 4GR-FSE V6 engine / V6 / 3.0 L Toyota ; kerb weight is recorded at 1558 -; drive goes through 6-speed RA62 Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed RA63 manual / 6-speed Toyota A transmission#A960E / A960E automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed Toyota A transmission#A76; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Lexus's own catalogue the Lexus IS (XE20) sits alongside the Lexus ES (V20), the Lexus GS 450h (2012), the Lexus IS 200 (GXE10), the Lexus LS 400. The record names the Lexus IS (XE10) as its predecessor and the Lexus IS (XE30) / Lexus RC (for IS C) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class = Compact executive car. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Tahara, Aichi (Tahara plant) / Japan: Miyawaka, Fukuoka (Toyota Motor Kyushu / TMK).
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