Normally, cutting horsepower by one-third is no way to make friends. But there are always exceptions…

The Lexus ES 250 is not the sort of car that normally gets a lot of veneration in the automotive press. The ES, after all, is a front-wheel-drive Lexus sedan traditionally aimed at the kind of buyers who once would have bought cars like the Buick Park Avenue: luxurious but decidedly uninvolving four-doors made to make the act of driving as low-energy as possible.
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