Depends do you prefer shots and macca's(1jz-gte) or fine wines/scotch and good food (7m-gte) really there is not much difference 7m blows the head gasket and you have to fix it, 1jz pops the turbo's and you have to fix it!
All depends on your prefrence, I like my auto and the 7m pulls you back into the seat and (currently) the only thing that stops that feeling is the speed limiter at 180... nice and smooth got the auto the LSD the climate and the cruise control im happy!
Others like there manual 1jz with locked diff cherpy cherpy around corners... slaming it into each gear (doing all the work on my cars and haveing been there with manual cars with lockers im like grited teath at this point picturing the driveline parts twisting and assoated parts dieing), but if thats what you want go for it!
EDIT: 1G-GTE is GAY not worth considering you dont save anything on rego over here with a 2ltr you only get laughed at at the lights