Last night, I was with my friends friend in an 2001 IS300. He has a laser jammer, so he was driving like a beast. Anyways, he was taking the turns insanely fast everywhere, and the is300 didnt even skid. The handling was just truly amazing. I think it would destroy our stock Cl-S handling, and even beat the Cl-S's handling with sways. However, his car was like 33k and in my opinion it was a POS. I'm guessing though that with new better rubber the Cl wouldnt skid as much. Here's the things I did not like about the is300:

-The suede in the interior was pretty gay in my opinion.....
-The speedometer looked really stupid
-The dashboard looked cheap, and it was too congested.
-The shifter gate looked cheap as hell
- Shifting gears in tiptronics is on the steering wheel and you start in 2nd gear, at least u start in first in the CL
-There are no radio control buttons on the steering wheel
Not impressed with the interior at all... also the car was soooooo slow... he was flooring it and I almost cried... how the car hit 80 after forever. The best part is a 1989 Saab 9000cd turbo.. which was my others friend car... with like 130,000 miles on it destroyed the is300 from a roll at 20-80. The saab has no mods.
Overall, the is300 is nice and the handling is sweet, but sorry Id take my Acura any day.

 

ya no question.

but its an is300 and feels like crap when your driving it.

looks good and handles great tho. imo

 

my cuz has 1, i gotta drive it before her lease ends

 

Hrmmm, I don't deny that the IS300 is a better handling vehicle. But...

Turns worthy of being an example in south Florida. Most of what I see is straight and flat. Heck, there is nothing south of Orlando over 50 feet elevation except for a couple of land fills.

South Florida suxs for the enthusiatic driver. Rentals rule down there...

 

You are a SEXY BEAST!

 

 

I like the feeling in the IS300 when it reallly feels like the back ends gonna break loose and your gonna lose control, but you end up gliding through the turn, good times