I just got a great deal on a used IS350. Black with black interior, sport package, Mark Levinson, and Nav. The previous owner also had the windows tinted, added a Tanabe Medalion exhaust, and hacked the navigation. That's 3 things that I now don't have to mess with although I don't know if I would have gone with the Tanabe but it's good for now. The car only had 11,090 miles on it and I paid $35,500. I'm thinking I got a steal on this car. The previous owner traded it in to a Mazda dealer when he lost his job (poor guy). I bought it from D. Dahle Mazda in Murray, UT and those guys were great. They even picked me up from the airport. I ended up driving it back home 1300 miles away because I was too impatient to wait for it to be shipped. The car was pretty much in perfect condition with only a few paints chips on the front bumper. I plan to touch those up and then get a clear bra.

I must say the ride was really comfortable even for a trip that long. I never found myself aching like I have on other long trips in other cars. The car drives smooth and quiet even at very high speeds (wink wink). I love this car. I've test drove one before but never really messed with all the options but now after owning it, WOW! The Mark Levinson sound is much better than what I thought it would be. I was planning on adding an aftermarket sub but this thing pumps out some serious bass already. It has a nice balanced sound. I may just save the trunk space. I also got much better gas mileage than what I was expecting. I got 33.5 MPG on my second tank. I even verified this at the pump. I did have a 70 mile per hour tail wind but still. If you've been watching the news you will know about all the heavy wind in that part of the country. It was crazy. Flipped trucks all over the highway. My other tanks, I was still getting 29-30 highway miles. I'm quite happy with those numbers especially considering a 306 hp V6. I'm anxious to see how my city driving numbers look like.

The only minor complaint I have is the navigation doesn't have my house address for some reason. My house was built in 1999 so I would think it would be on there. It's almost like the info that was submitted for my neighborhood is wrong. The streets show up but they are not drawn out quite right. Some streets don't line up right and some connect to streets that they shouldn't. I may visit my local Lexus dealer to see if the latest version fixes this. Not that big of deal though. I just manually put in my home address by looking at the map.

First on my mod list is tail light red outs and smoke outs, reflector smoke outs, new fog and parking lights, and new wheels. I'm also thinking about having slightly darker tint put on the front windows. I may add an intake too but still undecided.

Enjoy the pics. The car has not been waxed YET. I'm going to get a Porter Cable first.

 

Nice ride. It sounds like you got a good deal and it's already slightly modded. Enjoy it!!

 

Congrats on the car, and welcome to Club Lexus. That's amazing gas mileage -- better than I've ever done, even on long trips.

You'll find that the nav systems doesn't have exact house addresses. The map data may indicate that a particular section of a street has addresses from 101 through 171; the nav software will assume that they are evenly distributed along that section. If in fact the homes are actually bunched up at one end, the system will tell you that you've arrived at your home too early or too late.

 

Part of the reason I got such good gas mileage was I had it on cruise control almost the entire trip. I was on I-80 for almost 900 miles. I couldn't believe it when I actually had those numbers though. My old 4 banger Eclipse was barely better than that. Lexus sure knows how to make effecient engines.

 

I envy you ML guys! Nice purchase.

 

very nice... congrats on your purchase!

 

Congratulations on your new car. I have the 2007 version of the IS and my street that I live on the Nav. has the numbers backwards. It has higher numbers going south rather than the other way around. Thus my home is wrong on the Nav. Weird huh.

 

congrat on the new car

 

Yay!!! You saved 10k off MSRP and the car is basically brand new! Good Job! Pretty!

 

damn thats a good deal on a very rare option build, my car (see sig) was about $39908 OTD new

 

Congrats!!! Welcome to the club...

 

very nice very nice...

 

Try putting in your telephone number,...my house number does not come up on the NAV, but if I use my house phone number it gives the correct address Oh, it's on the second destination page,...

 

I don't have a land line. Only a cell phone. The streets are there but they just aren't drawn out quite correctly. It's no big deal. The guidance gets me to within about 500 feet of my house so I can live with that. Heck I really only need it to get me to my city. I mean it's not like I don't know my way to my house once I'm in city limits.