no i havent test drove all cars yet bc my father wont take me bc he thinks im going to get to attached.. but i did go with one of my friends to test drive the 250 and i was impressed i did sit in the back and it was cramped, but i was impressed, pickup on that car wasent their at all, it had no power. Im going to test drive all 3 prob within the same month to get the best feel for them..

 

Excellent summary, with one exception. The G37 doesn't hit the showrooms for another month +, so very few non professionals have driven it. It is reported to have many subtle improvements, a much better interior, and about 30 more ponies. Not a bad sounding package, but the proof of this pudding will be in the tasting.

Like you say, gotta drive all three. The more times the better, and for more than the three minute salesman oval test drive.

 

When I sat in a 3 series bmw I was really turned off by how hard the seats where. I went to sit down but I smacked my bed into the rock hard seats. The IS has comfortable seats and the leather is softer than other car leathers I've felt.

 

While I enjoy our comfortable IS seats, the BMW's lumbar support was much better. I actually prefer the BMW seats during spirited driving. To me the Lexus leather is softer but the BMW Sport Seats are much more comfortable for my body type as they support your back better.

 

wow... M3 as a bday 21st bday present... must be so nice to have that kind of money... my 21st bday i got a hundred bucks and i was thankful for it

 

BMW SPORTS SEATS hold you in place

 

you kno juust thinking about it i sat in an base model 328i and the interior was a total turn off we all kno that bmw interior is terrible espcially on a base model, but i herd rumors that if you get the sport packages it comes with sport seats and those are alot better, im not sure but thats what i herdd

 

bump bumpp

 

Sometimes I wonder what I'd prefer. How do you top getting an M3 at 21 unless you end up making even more money than your folks, which I assume would be difficult given how high the bar is set. Would you be content with driving a GS or RL at 40 when you had M3's in your 20's? I love my IS at 30 probably partly because I started with a 10 year old Camry when I was 16, and moved onto a 12 year old Legend at 25.

Aw screw it. I'd rather have the M3... who am I kidding?

 

My sister got an M3 at 16. Care to know what the insurance payment was?

I'm actually the black sheep of the family...I took a different path. I asked the folks to buy me a cheaper new car in my teens, and invest the money for me. The new car was a 1992 Celica ST, not a bad ride back then for a 17 year old. I could have had the Celica GT, BMW, etc.

What did I do next? I put 220K miles on the Celica, and used it until 2002. I then sold it to some college kid, who called me back a year later raving about the car. Said it still ran like new, and gave awesome gas mileage.

Oh yeah, and the extra $20K that I saved was invested for me in a small company called Microsoft. This then turned into my nest egg, and eventually my new home.

I view every dollar not spent on a car as another dollar towards an early retirement and financial freedom from my employer. However, you can still have that and a Lexus if you're smart early in life.

Carry on.

 

Unfortunately, the money instead of love school of parenting is ruining this kind of smart planning and creating a generation of poorly educated, immediately gratified super-consumers whose sense of entitlement is rivaled only by its utterly vacuous and irrelevant contribution to society. I shudder to think what this generation will inflict upon its own offspring....

 

LOL! This is true. I mean, think about this...Ron got his IS350 at 17/18 years of age. If he would have put the money away instead, and drove dad's old car for as long as possible, he could have enough money to buy a Bentley in his mid to late 20's. Wait a little longer and he could have enough for a Ferrari.

 

There's some great advice found here, but this thread is rapidly going off-topic. Let's try to stay focused:Javier

 

hehe, agreed, no more social commentary!

 

thanks loll

guys any more opinions??