Greeting,
Newbie post here. I'm looking for input on what I should do. A little background: I've owned 4 cars, all Toyotas, zero problems. I traded my '87 Camry (187K miles) in on my 2000 Solara SE V6 Manual. Before I bought the Solara, I was seriously looking at keeping the Camry as a beater, and buying a 1993.5-1994 Supra TT. To make a long story short, because I have 2 little boys I needed a more reliable family-ish car: I picked the Solara. At first I was driving my boys to school rarely, having 2 doors didn't bother me. Now I drive them EVERYDAY.
Three months after I bought the Solara I saw my first IS300 commercial and started kicking myself.
My weighting is:
1st. Fun
2nd. reliability
3rd. Function (family runs)
4th. cost (initial price as well as gas, insurance, and possible upgrades)
Do I:
A.) Keep the Solara, and have TRD's body kit and supercharger added. (Note: Having a FWD sporty car kind of bugs me. I'm really leaning towards a RWD car)
(the rest of these I will sell the Solara)
B.) BMW 330i/xi. Not trying to start a flame war, I'm little concerned about the reliability. Also I live in Indiana, not much snow, is AWD worth it?
C.) IS300, I love the fact that the engine is the little brother of the 2JZ-GTE. I may also wait for the manual. Looks very cool and it's a Lexus.
D.) MAYBE an Audi S4. I would have to drug my wife to get her to go for a $40K car.
E.) Toyota ECHO, hear me out, and also buy a '93.5 - '94 Supra TT. Use the ECHO as a beater and the Supra on weekends
I'm looking for something a little different from the crowd. I see a ton of BMW 3-series around, while I've only ever seen one Supra, and 2 IS300s. The S4 is 5th right now only because of the price, and it doesn't sound like there is any hope for a discount.
This is not meant to be flame bait, BMW's, Audi's, and Lexus' are all GREAT cars, I'm just looking for honest input.
Thanks
Farch
p.s. I tried to read all the posts on IS300 VS. some-car.
Newbie post here. I'm looking for input on what I should do. A little background: I've owned 4 cars, all Toyotas, zero problems. I traded my '87 Camry (187K miles) in on my 2000 Solara SE V6 Manual. Before I bought the Solara, I was seriously looking at keeping the Camry as a beater, and buying a 1993.5-1994 Supra TT. To make a long story short, because I have 2 little boys I needed a more reliable family-ish car: I picked the Solara. At first I was driving my boys to school rarely, having 2 doors didn't bother me. Now I drive them EVERYDAY.
Three months after I bought the Solara I saw my first IS300 commercial and started kicking myself.
My weighting is:
1st. Fun
2nd. reliability
3rd. Function (family runs)
4th. cost (initial price as well as gas, insurance, and possible upgrades)
Do I:
A.) Keep the Solara, and have TRD's body kit and supercharger added. (Note: Having a FWD sporty car kind of bugs me. I'm really leaning towards a RWD car)
(the rest of these I will sell the Solara)
B.) BMW 330i/xi. Not trying to start a flame war, I'm little concerned about the reliability. Also I live in Indiana, not much snow, is AWD worth it?
C.) IS300, I love the fact that the engine is the little brother of the 2JZ-GTE. I may also wait for the manual. Looks very cool and it's a Lexus.
D.) MAYBE an Audi S4. I would have to drug my wife to get her to go for a $40K car.
E.) Toyota ECHO, hear me out, and also buy a '93.5 - '94 Supra TT. Use the ECHO as a beater and the Supra on weekends
I'm looking for something a little different from the crowd. I see a ton of BMW 3-series around, while I've only ever seen one Supra, and 2 IS300s. The S4 is 5th right now only because of the price, and it doesn't sound like there is any hope for a discount.
This is not meant to be flame bait, BMW's, Audi's, and Lexus' are all GREAT cars, I'm just looking for honest input.
Thanks
Farch
p.s. I tried to read all the posts on IS300 VS. some-car.