As luck would have it, it was my turn behind the wheel when my friend Marlon and I finally found what we had spent half the day seeking: a long stretch of desolate highway through the undulating sands along the mouth of Mobile Bay.

Our day had started early, and interestingly. Right after breakfast we sat through a technical briefing on Lexus’ first foray into the world of high-performance luxury, the IS F. The F stands for Fuji Speedway in Japan, owned by Toyota and home to the company’s high performance skunk works, the Higashi-Fuji Technical Center. The shape of Fuji’s first tur...

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