If you happen to may assemble the proper automobile from elements, what would you place collectively? A cargo-hauling wagon physique possibly, with a stout inline-six that loves enhance and a handbook transmission. If that seems like your supreme fanatic automobile, then you definately’d be nicely served by this completely beautiful manual-swapped IS300 SportCross.
Right here within the States, we by no means received this actual automobile. We received handbook IS300s, and we received SportCrosses, however by no means the twain did meet. Conveniently, house owners have taken to rectifying Lexus’s mistake by swapping over handbook elements into longroof our bodies for prime Jalop motoring, like this pristine instance.
I’m not being hyperbolic after I say beautiful and pristine. This Lexus has 85,000 miles on the odometer, however you’d by no means guess from the automobile’s situation. The paint seems to be mint, the seats look showroom-fresh. Solely the scraped and reportedly “sticky” sprint present that the automobile’s ever even left a showroom flooring — and, in fact, that handbook shifter poking up from the console.
The vendor claims the swap was carried out throughout their possession, however by an area Toyota tuning store. The swap apparently makes use of all OEM elements, save for an ACT clutch and flywheel — a package that I can say, from my very own expertise with quick handbook wagons, is a blast to drive. The IS300 additionally has a set of Fortune Auto coilovers with Swift springs, Kosei K1 wheels, a Tanabe exhaust, and a number of aesthetic items borrowed from the automobile’s JDM twin, the Altezza.
Need the luxury-watch gauge styling of the Bugatti Tourbillon? IS300 SportCross. Want the cargo capability of a crossover? IS300 SportCross. In search of a automobile you possibly can tinker with, tune, and get sideways out on monitor? My pal, look no additional than this IS300 SportCross.