Originally Posted by FSportIS

That is why I bought my IS350 all the way from IL and ship the car to CA about 1 year ago. I don't know why CA tends to sell the IS more expensive than many other states. Of course, there is occasionally great deals but they are gone super fast as well. I have been hunting the IS350 for like 3 months before I started to look elsewhere and bammm got a crazy deal lol.

Originally Posted by darkdream

Well for cars that aren't sport cars, they are likely driven in snow. Salt + metal = rust. When I was looking for S2000. In a dealer lot, I saw what I thought was a low mileage clean S2000. I look at its under carriage and it looked like it came out of the ocean.

Originally Posted by FSportIS

Well, I ran my car for like 1 year and it has been through autocross, track and daily driving on bad CA roads without any problem. My take is that as long as the car has good maintenance done, the car should be fine. I do agree that if the price isn't much different, it would be better to get the cars in CA than in snowy states.