THE411VM

i have a 1998 gs400 on 20 inch lexani's. everything basicly stock, theres an aftermarket sub and amp running on the stock deck w/ cd changer. no navigation, no satalite radio, no heated seats, no gold emblems. AND.... i love it. i live in Texas, the A/C blows ice cold 24/7, i'm having alternator problems right now, but i have like 120k on the car. all of the power windows work good, everyone is fully automatic up and down. the tires on the 20's don't last as long as i'd like and clearance is tight, but it skates on the road great. 5 speed automatic cruises excellent on the highway. Same mpg on the highway as my the steering wheel manual shift is neat and fun but it's not really worth it. it provides no use at all from dead stop, it is made more for passing people on the highway for quick downshifts, or lets say theres all of a sudden a huge wreck on the highway and you need to slam on the breaks, the normal automatic downshifts to provide transmission braking but if you use the manual shift you can break harder. for the speed factor the manual shift in the steering wheel is absolutly useless, but for the braking factor it's genious. my friends have cadillac cts's and gs300's....... pieces of *BLEEP*. not really, they are good cars too, but lesser cars by far. gs400's are comparable to the cts-v's, except the cadillacs have a real 6 speed manual. considering the price of a cts-v being closer to 30g's and a used gs400 is closer to 15g's, the automatic tranny with triptonic manual steershifts is clearly the better buy. GS400's still beat new Mustang Gt's, but not something GM. being z28 camaro's, trans am's, corvettes, cts-v's, xlr's, gto's, G8's. oooooo yeah something i'd trade my GS400 for is either a brand new GS400 or a new pontiac G8. 4 door v8 with 6 speed is the way of the future, besides those futuristic japanese princess's called prius's heated seats are over rated, atleast for Texas, Navigation would be neat but you can easily upgrade to aftermarket navigation for like 600 bucks and be able to watch REAL movies not just an artificial view of your city all day. and if you get an aftermarket navigation system you can add backup camera's for like 50 bucks. and any new aftermarket nav system you'd buy would automaticly be satalite radio ready, and who wants gold emblems on their car's now a days???? that was so early 90's. :P

My GS400 started doing that, then the alternator popped. I thought it was the starter forever, turns out the alternator finally went out. it's a straight !Removed! trying to find another one at a decent price, and the water pump is in the way for do it yourself removal. god damn jap's