Originally Posted by TurboLuver
Any thoughts or experience with this vehicle? It's a RWD F Sport model with 42,xxx miles, original owner, all scheduled maintenance performed by Lexus.
First generation IS was dubbed by Toyota as BMW 3 killer. It even had inline six engine. While it has some fallowing, it never was competition. Lexus figured that and made IS more attractive to their traditional audience. That is why they moved to V6, they dropped manual, but kept some interior dimensions that are more suitable for 3 series etc.
I think it is interesting car for people who want some performance, but also more forgiving car than BMW, or Audi. I would say closest match would be Mercedes.
The question is what you looking?
If interior dimensions are OK for you, and you want reliable car, I would say by all means go for it.
If you are stuck on performance, there are far better choices (not to say that IS does not deliver).
But as turbo lover, will you like torque at 4700rpms? I found these Toyota's to be very anemic at low rpms, and that is fine if torque was available to 7,000 rpms. But it is not. They IMO have very narrow torque curve at high rpms.