Lexus IS300 - TruckTrend Network
Lexus just released an '02-model-year variant of its popular IS 300 compact sport sedan: the SportCross wagon. The designers would prefer you didn't call it a wagon, however, as they see it as a cross between sport sedan and wagon, hence its name. Yet, with split-folding rear seats and a folding front-passenger seat, it can accommodate a fair payload, including oddly shaped items such as a ladder, television, or mountain bike. The best attribute of the SportCross is that it still shares virtually all the critically acclaimed IS 300 sedan's performance abilities, while its capacity for cargo more than doubles. At our test facility, we expected a wagon based on an already great compact sedan to be good, but not this good-nor this close to the sedan. A 0-60-mph blast takes just 0. 2 sec longer (at 7. 6 sec), and the quarter-mile run of 15. 6 sec at 89. 7 mph is closer still. As if that weren't enough, its slalom speed of 66. 5 mph is a breath away from the sedan's 67. 6-mph best. Source: www.trucktrend.com
