Hi, I joined several days ago, but just now had some time to interact with you guys.
Hopefully you'll appreciate my honesty, as I don't own a Lexus (yet!), planned to get 1st gen IS300, thought about swapping it to manual. I still really like the shape (and obviously the 2JZ-GE), but I'm thinking about something bit newer. GS 250 (from 2013 onwards) is nice, I prefer not having CVT. But it feels like the car won't fit my expectations, I want something more nimble and I feel too young for GS too. 😉 So the idea of V8 5.0 Lexus was born in my head, yes, the IS-F. 🙂 Not sure when exactly, but I will buy it, I'm determined. I'm a type of guy that would rather have smaller house and have a nice car than big, fancy house and no/crappy car. 🙂
If I may, do you think it is worth to pay so much more for facelift one (like 7-10k difference right now)? The big thing is LSD, I've heard is much better with mechanical one, but does it justify the price difference?
Also, would you consider importing RHD from Japan for example?
I'm doing a lot of research and any additional advice would be golden!