Loved my parents’ IS200 when they still had it, except for the horrible throttle deadzone, but I looked up the BEAMS engine of the Altezza: 5th gen 3S-GE, 207 HP from a 2.0L inline 4, damn. No wonder Altezzas are so sought after.
Is it just me or is the rear wheel under quite a a camber angle?
Don’t forget the 1G-FE straight 6 that came in a lot of them. Was an older engine but still had about 150-160 hp. Most of the altezzas here have this engine.
Like I said, my parents had an IS200 for 10 years. Really never had any issue with it whatsoever, just normal maintenance. The clutch was quite worn when we let it go though after 150k km ish