Well, I am hesitant to blow the money needed to fix my truck transmission, and I wanted something else for a daily driver. After much thought and shopping, I landed on this. It's a 2004 Lexus IS300 with a rare 5 speed manual (you all know I have to row my own ). It is fast, handles great, and is all around just a hoot to drive. I love it. I paid 11k for it, it came to 12k out the door on the dot.









The red '95 ram is still for sale, if anyone wants them d60's, but I might end up throwin a new tranny in and keeping it if no one wants it.

 

If you were closer, I would be interested..... Ah well....

And, just to play devils advocate here..... 12K would have bought a nice trans, and a LOT of gas....

Sweet ride though. Congrats.

 

i wish i had the money to take them 60's and that 241 off of your hands

 

What engine is in that thing? Looks good!

 

Yes It would But it bought me a Lexus instead

Gdstock it has a 2jz-ge 3.0 inline 6 in it. Basically a Supra motor minus the turbo.

I couldn't keep relying on junk to be dependable, that's why I was willing to (for the first time in my almost 20 years) go into debt for this thing. Now I will not try to tell you I bought this thing for purely economical reasons. I bought it because it fills a need, and cuz I wanted it . I could have bought a boring front wheel drive 35+mpg toaster brand new for this kind of money, but you all know I am EXTREMELY picky when it comes to what i drive haha. I wish that Mopar believed in manual transmissions in RWD cars, because if i could've gotten a Magnum with a 6spd and a hemi, there would've been no contest.

Wow I just gave a speech haha! Thanks for your complement's everyone!

 

Very nice car with Toyota dependability, best of both worlds

 

Cool car, I've looked into these before, when I was going through one of those I want something new but I know I can't afford any of this stuff phase. Are you sure the 5 speed is rare? I've seen more Manuals in these than Autos.

 

Never seen a stick one but even the autos are quick little cars, not bad of a choice

 

All I can say for sure is that there were only 2 manuals within 400 miles of me that had low enough miles for me to consider... I had to drive 400 miles to pick this one up.

There were TONS of auto's everywhere...

 

That is an awesome car...Even better if it was the super-rare wagon.