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Location:
Cabramatta, NSW
Registered:
May 2002
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 Test drove IS200 and IS300
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Sat, 28 February 2004 06:15
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Just test drove the Baby Lexii... Here are my thoughts...
IS200
I can say with certainty that I will forever be bugged by this car. I just cannot comprehend how a stock fat severely-underpowered luxury car can corner faster than my lowered ultra-firm car! It's just insane! This is the best handling car I've ever driven, and I've driven a few.
The previous benchmarks were the FD RX-7 and the MX-5 SP, but I can safely say that this thing would outhandle both if it had more grunt!
It was so frustrating without the power. This is the first car I've driven in a LONG time that I couldn't snap seconds... It was so weak!
Another complaint is the crappy steering, you just can't feel anything. You're in such a cocoon that you don't really know what the car is doing, and you can't feel it either. You know that you're drifting (not in the dorifuto sense of the word) at 100km/h because you're exiting the corner wider than you think you should be, but that's about it... Normally my occupants would be leaving fingernails in the dash if I did that in my car. In the IS200, they're just sitting there enjoying the luxury...
I would love to get my hands on an RS200... I reckon I'd fall instantly in love with one of them 'coz I would've bought the IS200 straight away if it had 50% more power.
IS300
Hopping from the lithe, nimble IS200 into this automatic thing was just a disappointment. It really felt like an old man's car. With the heavier engine, they firmed up the front shocks (well that's what it felt like) but they didn't touch the rear end. It leaves a car that's very unbalanced and just unenjoyable to drive when you've just hopped out of the perfectly balanced IS200.
I didn't like this thing at all. The extra power was nice, but totally unusable because of the slushbox.
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Test drove IS200 and IS300
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Nark | Sat, 28 February 2004 06:15 |
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Shraka | Sat, 28 February 2004 15:12 |
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Nark | Sun, 29 February 2004 00:00 |
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no_tofu_speed | Sun, 29 February 2004 05:08 |
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Norbie | Sun, 29 February 2004 05:25 |
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Soarer | Sun, 29 February 2004 05:27 |
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ae86drift | Sun, 29 February 2004 05:36 |
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Nark | Sun, 29 February 2004 05:43 |
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Jag7799 | Sun, 29 February 2004 09:03 |
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KOFFEE-BLACK | Sun, 29 February 2004 12:57 |
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Lambolica | Sun, 29 February 2004 22:56 |
