EJ255t

with how tall you are, i'd get the GS350. A lot more space and more comfortable. I think you'll feel squished in the IS. Your wife would enjoy the IS, not sure if you would.

plus, the GS just got a facelift which looks amazin!!

Olasek

Not at all!
My dealer told me that it is the ES that is specially liked by the 'older age group'.

Olasek

I have no problem with the navigation, plus it is nicely integrated with the rest, audio, etc. Works well for me, I simply could not stand a prospect of running wires through my 'luxurious' cockpit. And had to have the ML after testing it on dealer's lot. It is expensive, sure, but in large scheme of things - it was a chump change for me, I paid more for 2 days of scuba diving in Fiji..

rld14

Funny you guys brought this up as I am currently driving a '14 IS350 F-Sport with Nav and ML.. Rare car, I bought this one out of Oregon and had it shipped out here to NJ.

As far as IS350 vs GS350 F-Sport CPO cars... The IS350s bring about the same money as a GS, which is why I sell 2014 GS350 F-Sports like hotcakes and IS350s are a little tougher to move.

BostonIS

Lol Olasek whenever I see another 3gen IS on the road its always a person who is 55+ yrs old at least. Then when I go to the dealership for my services its all old people in the waiting room usually.

EZZ

In So-Cal, most of the owners here are under 50. I believe I read here that the average age of the IS buyers is in the low 40s.

MasonGrey

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I wouldn't doubt this statistic. In Irvine/Newport, other IS drivers I see are at least 35+ whereas GS/LS drivers are closer to 50+.

Sango

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That's a special order to do that for this particular configuration.

I think one person could get like the F-Sport car and special order with luxury features if they want some of those in there.

I do like how the cars are purchased in for the JDM market because every car of theirs is special ordered so you get exactly what you want.

rld14

It absolutely was a special order car, Lexus does NOT build them this way because if they did us dealers would refuse every one of them.

In our market IS350s were basically built w F-Sport, Navi and Blind Spot Monitor OR with Luxury, Blind Spot Monitor, Nav and 18s

LeapFrog

MSRP was $45709 which includes a $925 destination fee. I paid less of course.

BostonIS

Lol I'm 24 yrs old and the wondering thoughts of the older people whenever I go into a Lexus dealership for services are priceless. Work hard, play harder. Right?

That'd be so legit though to special order an IS350 F-Sport and get all the luxury package features as well. I'll try that in 5 years when I'm in the market for another car. Haha

MasonGrey

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I know that feeling all too well; happened when I was shopping around (I'm 21). At least Lexus dealers respect people enough not to blow off potential customers from a single glance.

davyjordi

you can't. i tried. the f-sport package and the luxury package cannot be combined even if you try to separate the components that make up each respective package.

Olasek

I tried that too (on Lexus' website), then my dealer also tried (using their own software) - to no avail. We tried even something a lot less ambitious - to substitute a different wheel design - again no luck.

davyjordi

yep. i was super annoyed that i couldn't combine them. ultimately, though, i chose the luxury package over the f-sport package and am happy enough with that decision. we'll see what comes next -- something teutonic, perhaps? i really like the understated look of the a/s4 and really love the 2 series.