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Originally Posted by serialk11r
You said the WRX had a long shifter throw and high seating position...well, shifter throw can be changed if you don't like, but the rest of the cars you listed also have a pretty high seating position too.
Personally, I think in this class of car there's only so much you can ask for, and the WRX is probably as good as it gets. Decent power, AWD, and a slick gearbox compared to the BRZ's IMO.
The E46 M3 sounded really cool to me and I strongly considered buying one...until I read about it and got that thought out of my head quickly. It has a belt driven radiator fan for god's sake...even for 2000, that is next-level dinosaur tech, and the rear sub-frame apparently can get bent? That turned me off from the BMW brand enough that I never even bothered to read about the E39 M5.
Between those I'd go WRX, since I don't really like the 2JZ-GE engine in the IS300. Are IS250s that bad? I've always wanted to try a manual transmission one...
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Apparently the IS250 has an awful shifter that makes automatics the preferred choice.
The WRX shifter bothers me, not by the throws, but the sloppy, vague feeling (and rev hang) - if I do go WRX, definitely will be grabbing a shifter stop and shift knob (carry over from the brz). Have heard that these mods make huge improvements to the shifter, so I'm optimistic.
Entirely possible that I'll just get used to things like seating position.