FLU, what do you mean by G35/37 and IS250/350 not a track friendly car? I take my decently loaded G35 to the track several time and it handled it just fine. The Brembo brakes never fades and the handling is not bad at all. All for a price of a base 325Ci.
I felt it (the one I drove) was slightly (and I say slightly) on the soft side around the corners compared to the a 3xx, but that's just me. Could have been tires, could have been suspension setup (though both was running stock on both cars i think). The bimmer had aftermarket brakes, but so did the infiniti, so it was pretty much a wash. For me the bimmer just felt better, and no I don't have a bimmer fetish.In any case, both did better than my audi that has a front overhang issue. Though I love seem folks with rwd only drive in snow and ice. Oh wait, it doesn't snow in SD.
Not trying to nark on what people drive frankly, my original thread was just to make an analogy… I don't race for a living, and rarely go to track event these days anymore, And my 8+ years audi is starting to show it's age, with aftermarket turbo that's howling like it's going to keel over tomorrow, an chipped ecu tha died once to a bad soldering job, and a custom exhaust that while lessens the flow restriction to the turbo is nevertheless is slightly more annoying in my golden years, a timing belt that is 6 months overdue for a replacement, and ZR rated tires purchased from costco that more feel like SR rated tires (being that they BFGoodrich are made in thailand) that can't handle a single drop of rain that lands on asphalt, and other odds and ends "modifications" that in my younger more foolish days totaled $8k in unwise "investments". Heck, I'm so lazy, I don't even want to change my own oil every six months. If I were to buy something like an RS5, i probably won't even put it on the track, so I'd just be one of those annoying people doing 75-80 on the freeway, or worse actually drive 65 in a 65 zone.
So let me retract my statements about people's cars. I'm getting old in my approaching my mid 30ies, and to echo raptorduck's feeling of being an old fart, the entire slushbox shifting is getting tiring. Old Man's best auto invention was a DSG transmission put in a car that can fit a infant seat in back, which will outshift most of us most of the time when the infant isn't in the backseat. And with VW/Audi no longer having the exclusivity of that technology they borrowed from BorgWarner, that's good news to the rest of the auto makers.
Anyway, I'm going need to go back to work. I have more doors to knock on, and don't want to miss the next person that has an urge to spit on me.
