Long story short,
A while back when I was searching for what kind of car to buy, I researched G35's, 330's, and IS300's. All three cars peaked my interest. I like all three but decided on my 330 PP. Which I love to death.
My wife wanted a new car since she drives a '98 Honda Civic. I was like ok, maybe in about a year I'll get her a car. She's been wanting the Infiniti G35 since I made that statement. I really like the G35's alot and I was thinking, man it'd be great if we had a G35 and a 330 PP.
Anyhow, Saturday we drove by a Lexus dealer. I told my wife to just LOOK at the IS300's. We weren't planning on buying anything. We just wanted to rule out any intention on buying one. My wife test drove two IS300's. A black automatic and a red standard. (she has been complaining about her current car which is a standard. With all the traffic we have around here she swore never to get another standard again)
She loved the black car but we found out that it was sold already. (my wife hates bright red with a passion)
I liked the standard alot more than the automatic. Felt like it had tons more power.
Well, since the black car was sold and all they had was a red, standard car left (all of which she hates) I was ready to go home. Lo and behold my wife tells the dealer, for 27,000 we'll buy the car today. My jaw hit the floor. This was totally unexpected and I was speechless. Knowing she wanted a G35, hates red, hates standard transmissions.
The salesperson was like that's 6k off! I doubt it. She came back and said, 27,900. Which is still a good price. My wifes final offer was 27,500 which the dealer agreed upon. So we took the car home...
After driving her car over the weekend, I must admit that the IS300 is a very nice vehicle. It has many upgrades that BMW doesn't even offer in the 3 series. While I'll never admit that it's better than my 330 pp, I have to say that i'm somewhat impressed. The Is300 feels quicker than my car. Perhaps because of the weight?? The seats feel more comfortable to me. Shifting is actually a little easier in the Lexus. The rear view mirror and outside mirrors turn bright headlights green at night so you don't get blinded. I have never seen that before. The paper stats of the Lexus radio and the BMW radio shows that the HK system is superior. However, the Lexus radio seems to blow away my BMW radio. [???1]
Well, here are a couple pics. I just got done washing both of our cars but since we live in a neighborhood with tons of contruction, the tires still look filthy.
At least I get the best of both worlds.
To Elussive: I really really wanted to get that G35. Maybe my next car.
A while back when I was searching for what kind of car to buy, I researched G35's, 330's, and IS300's. All three cars peaked my interest. I like all three but decided on my 330 PP. Which I love to death.
My wife wanted a new car since she drives a '98 Honda Civic. I was like ok, maybe in about a year I'll get her a car. She's been wanting the Infiniti G35 since I made that statement. I really like the G35's alot and I was thinking, man it'd be great if we had a G35 and a 330 PP.
Anyhow, Saturday we drove by a Lexus dealer. I told my wife to just LOOK at the IS300's. We weren't planning on buying anything. We just wanted to rule out any intention on buying one. My wife test drove two IS300's. A black automatic and a red standard. (she has been complaining about her current car which is a standard. With all the traffic we have around here she swore never to get another standard again)
She loved the black car but we found out that it was sold already. (my wife hates bright red with a passion)
I liked the standard alot more than the automatic. Felt like it had tons more power.
Well, since the black car was sold and all they had was a red, standard car left (all of which she hates) I was ready to go home. Lo and behold my wife tells the dealer, for 27,000 we'll buy the car today. My jaw hit the floor. This was totally unexpected and I was speechless. Knowing she wanted a G35, hates red, hates standard transmissions.
The salesperson was like that's 6k off! I doubt it. She came back and said, 27,900. Which is still a good price. My wifes final offer was 27,500 which the dealer agreed upon. So we took the car home...
After driving her car over the weekend, I must admit that the IS300 is a very nice vehicle. It has many upgrades that BMW doesn't even offer in the 3 series. While I'll never admit that it's better than my 330 pp, I have to say that i'm somewhat impressed. The Is300 feels quicker than my car. Perhaps because of the weight?? The seats feel more comfortable to me. Shifting is actually a little easier in the Lexus. The rear view mirror and outside mirrors turn bright headlights green at night so you don't get blinded. I have never seen that before. The paper stats of the Lexus radio and the BMW radio shows that the HK system is superior. However, the Lexus radio seems to blow away my BMW radio. [???1]
Well, here are a couple pics. I just got done washing both of our cars but since we live in a neighborhood with tons of contruction, the tires still look filthy.
At least I get the best of both worlds.
To Elussive: I really really wanted to get that G35. Maybe my next car.
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