Sales rep- 1500 miles (mostly highway) a month on average. Absolutely leaning towards the stick, but traffic can be a bear, also love Toyota/ Lexus.
If I get the M2 I’m looking at an extended warranty. I’ll probably keep either car 5 years. What would you pick and why?
the M2 is better in nearly every way than the lexus. the downside is its very ugly and wont have v8 sound. But i’d still pick the M2.
personally for my money i’d take an lc500 for 70k over an M2 if you are doing 18000 highway miles a year.
I would pick the M2 because I care mostly about handling performance and track readiness. Also, the manual trans won’t be around forever and I’ll have the rest of my life to cruise around in heavy automatics.
I’ve never considered the IS to be a sports car. Its a nice tourer and will have a softer ride than the M2. I guess it comes down to what you want. The 500 will be more comfortable, the M2 will be more fun.
I’d think the IS500 would be a much better highway cruiser. I’ve heard the new M2 rides better, but I don’t think they’ve made the gas tank any bigger (52 liters, way too small for a car producing 400+ hp.)
Obviously the M2 will be a much more fun and playful vehicle, but for your use case, i’d feel no shame in picking the lexus. M2 is a nice all-arounder but if it’s light on anything, it’s comfort and luxury.
How tall/ big are you? The IS line is known to be very compact. The backseat space is nonexistent for a 4 seater and it will be a gas guzzler as well. It has good power, but it’s a F performance rather than a true F model…the old ISFs outperform the new IS500 for example.