06/06/2008 02:50. The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil may have been misunderstood as some form of Satanic worship, but the parable about the devil living in each of us is strangely resonant now that I've driven the Lexus IS F.

Jekyll and Hyde, The Devil Inside -- either way you slice it, that's the soul of the IS F. Mild-mannered Lexus by day, track-chomping, tire-shredding, adrenaline- spiking sports car monster by night.

It's the car that turned Lexus's otherwise painfully considered, careful approach to product planning on its ear. It's the car that nobody, probably even Lexus itself, ever thought it would build.

The F is the Lexus IS that ripped out the Charles Atlas ad and sought pharmaceutical advice from Barry Bonds. It spent the last year bulking up -- thanks to a 416-horsepower V8,... // Brantford Expositor