it's time for show-off Sunday where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner, rev up your Lexus
hello everybody my name is Martin and I run Marty motoring and today I'm going
to be showing you my 2007 Lexus is350, now I've owned this car for about two
years and I've done many modifications to it and documented that on my channel
and today I have the opportunity to share my car with you
Scotty's viewers so thanks Scotty, so Lexus was created by Toyota in the late
1980s and proved to be a success as a luxury brand with its quality
craftsmanship advanced engineering and untouchable reliability, in the year 2000
North America got the Lexus IS 300 which was known for its 6-cylinder 2jz engine
which was a non turbo variant of what the Toyota Supra had, and it was also
known just for its sporty looks and Toyota reliability in the form of a
sporty luxury car, fast forward six years later North America got the Lexus IS 250
and 350 in the Year 2006 this time instead of an inline engine they got the
v6 engine we know Scotty loves his Toyota v6s
the is250 has a 2.5 liter v6 producing 204 horsepower with rear-wheel drive and
all-wheel drive options, you could actually get it in the manual in the rear wheel
drive variants, now those are a little bit more rare but it was one of the only
lexus manual cars besides the SC and previous IS, the 350 in is 350 stands for
the 3.5 liter v6 engine pumping out 306 horsepower at the crank mated to a
six-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters, now the is 350 only came
in automatic and rear-wheel drive when it was first released, Lexus achieved 306
horsepower at the crank by having a compression ratio of eleven point eight
to one, along with that high compression ratio this two gr FSC v6 engine features
a timing chain instead of a timing belt and it has direct and port injection
which just speaks to the advanced engineering of Lexus and the low
maintenance as well, so this looks like a small luxury car but is it really a
sport sedan, this car does do 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds which is pretty quick
also the v6 engine does sound pretty good with the f-sport exhaust I have on
personally I think this car handles great too from the factory
I've actually lowered it 1.5 inches on hnr Springs and it handles even better
now, in terms of performance this car is not crazy fast but it is very quick for
what it is and it predates the lexus is-f which is well known for its 5.0 v8
engine and 8-speed transmission, where this is kind of its baby brother where
it has the six cylinder engine with the six-speed transmission, now there were
more of these is 350 s made than the ISF which makes it a little easier to get
your hands on, for a luxury sport sedan with zero to 60 under five seconds and
Toyota reliability this is a good bang for your buck, speaking about reliability
I've had the car for about two years and I've replaced the alternator, battery
done oil changes, and everything else was an upgrade like wheels, suspension and
so on, the car has a hundred and sixty six thousand miles on it which surprises
some people because it doesn't look like it would have that much, when I bought
the car about two years ago the factory HID headlights were actually yellowed
from the inside no matter what I tried to do, so I actually replace them with
these VIP Moto's, I've replaced the front bumper due to rock chips and it stayed
pretty clean so far, I've changed the grill to the ISF style mesh grill and I
think it just looks a lot cleaner and I've also gotten rid of the chrome up
front with a black surround, I also have a hard pipe intake and a factory f-sport
filter for better air flow, these cars come with staggered wheels from the
factory for the rear-wheel drive versions
I kept the 18-inch dimensions for my aftermarket wheels but just went a
little bit wider in the front and rear, I upgraded my rotors with slotted rotors
and the brake pads to ceramic for better stopping, moving to the rear I have some
cosmetic things like a trunk lip and spoiler, as well as a license plate to
let people know what kind of car this actually is, I have the Lexus F sport
axle-back and it sounds great as you've heard, the taillights are aftermarket and
pretty much they make the car look like the newer generation IS, all-in-all this
car is a nice little luxury sports sedan for the cost and its age and I've really
enjoyed owning it, on the road this car handles great and I really
taking on the back roads, a lot of people ask me about the paddle shifters and
they do work well, I've driven many manual cars but I actually don't mind
driving this automatic transmission, just put it in Drive and go, in the interior
you get all the standard stuff plus 2007 navigation that I haven't updated, heated
and ventilated cold seats and an awesome sounding Marc Levenson audio system 14
speaker, also I've connected a Bluetooth adapter into the aux jack and that
sounds pretty good as well, the back seats don't have much room which is why
I always joke that this is a four-door two-seater there's just not a whole lot
of room for a standard sized adult, especially somebody like me being 6 1
I've also upgraded the shift knob to an F sport carbon fiber and leather
stitched shift knob, since this car is a luxury package it comes with memory
seats, on your center display you have climate your audio settings your info is
your typical stuff like you can log your maintenance in here as well as telephone
for phone calls, like I said the map is outdated but it does work for anything
that's been there before 2007, now I've tried to update this with CDs I got on
eBay and it didn't work out too well, so I'm just gonna leave it how it is and
use my phone, another notable feature on this car one that I don't really use but
it's pretty cool is the rear shades so you just hit the button up front and on
the back window the rear shade deploys, and lastly I like the push-to-start
button and that the steering wheel comes out to the last position I had it in, my
goal is to hit 200,000 miles in this car which really shouldn't be too hard
considering I'm over halfway there, so I will need to do some proper maintenance
like a transmission drain and fill, Lexus says these have a lifetime
transmission fluid but we all know no fluid is lifetime, and I actually
switched the oil over to full synthetic high mileage Mobil one and it's been
working great and very quiet and smooth operation, if you're interested in
learning more about this car and some of the modifications I've done to it, check
out my channel Marty motoring, thanks for watching and thanks Scotty for having me on,
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