What’s the best way to get around when you’re going from home to work and vice versa?
The correct answer is “in style”. There’s nothing better than pulling up to your office, your home, your favorite restaurant or the hot night club in town in a great car that’ll make people envious when you step out of it.
One name that makes you think of luxury and style is Lexus, and the 2011 Lexus IS carries on an impressive tradition of head-turning cars.
Start under the hood of the Lexus IS where you’ll find a 3.5 liter, 210 cubic inch V-6 engine. When you rev that puppy up, you’ll know where the money went. The Lexus IS flaunts 306 horses helping it get from 0-60 in a little over five seconds. You have to love a car that sounds as impressive as it looks.
Lexus’s new IS comes standard with 17 inch alloy wheels, power windows and power steering, of course, but if you’re like me, you love the buttons and gadgets and inputs a new luxury car features.
The first button you’ll want to press is the one to get the engine started – a nice convenient feature for those execs with a Blackberry in one hand, an iPhone in the other and a tall cup of coffee held only by their teeth.
Once you get nice and settled in the car – provided you haven’t spilled the coffee on yourself – the next thing to play with is the 13-speaker Lexus Sound System complete with XM radio, USB and iPod connectivity and Bluetooth.
Anyone lucky enough to have the money for a new Lexus should go the whole nine yards when equipping the add-ons. The Lexus Navigation Package adds an HDD Navigation System with voice command – again, so you can keep the coffee in your cup and not in your lap as you figure out where you are and where you’re going.
Execs in big cities with varying climates will learn to appreciate the XM Nav Traffic and Nav Weather system which provides real-time updates on how congested your drive will be and how sunny or gloomy it will be.
A sound system with 13-speakers is good, but a 300 watt 14-speaker sound system from Mark Levinson makes the Lexus IS that much better. Lexus buyers can bundle this on top of the Lexus Navigation Package to create a smooth sounding ride full of little dashboard trinkets to play with.
The Lexus IS starts at a price of $38,570 for the rear-wheel drive model or $41,030 for all-wheel drive. Shop for the Lexus IS easily by going to http://www.lexus.com/models/IS/.
