All.. I own a 2010 IS350 and I'm kicking tires between an IS350 non F sport, Q50S and ATS 3.6. One of the things i want to do with all 3 cars is take an extended 100 mile or so test drive that has both freeway and twisty bits in the route to compare the cars. The other 2 cars had no problems with this but my Lexus dealer was not at all willing to let me do this with the IS350.

So anyone else taken a longer than average test drive on the IS350??

 

Nope just did the standard 5 to 10 mile test drive. Drove an IS 250 F sport and a regular IS 350 since the 350 F sports are all gone here.

 

I didn't test drive the IS250. Did you notice big difference? What was your assesments?

 

Liability. Also means the demand for the car is there and they don't need your business that bad. No offense but that's a far distance. Now if you said let me jump on the highway and drive 20-30 min I am sure they wouldn't mind.

 

Only thing I really noticed was the power was similar to my wife's 4 cylinder Camry. Which was pretty surprising to me.

 

Back in the late 80's and early 90's car dealers would let you take a car home for the weekend. Which was pretty crazy sounding but it happened to me a couple of times were I wasn't sure I wanted the car / truck or not. Dealer let me take one of their loaners for the weekend. Didn't go on any crazy long trips or anything. But both times I ended up buying a car and a truck from them.

Yes, I am old.

 

Resale/reliability alone I would count out the ATS (yes I own 3 GM products). The Q looks nothing like a IS so it would be matter of preference at that point.

That being said some dealers will do this for used cars but rarely on new ones.

 

100 miles??? Got to be kidding... Seriously, consider yourself lucky those other two dealers did it.

 

Buying a car with 100 miles is like buying a used car.

 

Ha, I remember this as well in the mid-90s! We did it with GM.

 

Mazda will let you take a new car out for a day. They did it with a CX7. But then again its a Mazda and they have to beg you to buy it.

 

Haha it was a GM Truck.

 

Some dealers will still do that. I was offered the Jeep for a weekend and the GS for the weekend. Didn't take them up on either because I had already decided to buy them. Typically dealers will do this with a demo, not something off the lot.

 

Only way I could see this is if you were a long time Lexus owner who has purchased a couple of them from the same dealer. Also Infiniti and Cadillac are probably more desperate for sales than Lexus right now.

 

I was offered to try the IS over two days. Pick up early day one, and return before closing time day two.