Power and performance are great, but without handling all you’ve got is an old-fashioned muscle car. Lexus endows the IS-F with cross-drilled Brembo brakes: 14.2-inch front discs with six-piston aluminum calipers and 13.6-inch rear discs with two piston calipers. High-friction brake pads make optimum use of these gleaming pizza pans, halting BBS-sourced forged aluminum 19-inch wheels with 225/40R-19 front and 255/35R-19 rear performance tires. This hardware is bolted to a modified suspension sitting one inch lower than stock, and the steering is tuned specifically for the IS-F. Worried about Lexus’s meddlesome Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management system? The IS-F’s has a sport mode with greater patience, or it can be defeated entirely.