Car has a low vibration that comes from the rear end that starts at about 68 MPH. It is not enough to shake the car badly, but it is felt in the seat of your pants. Noise does not change even when you manually change gears, but does with your speed. My car is the seven speed automatic.
Car is pretty quick and has surprised quite a few all out sports car owners.
Handling is very confidence inspiring. Firm, but not overly harsh.
People think you paid a lot more for the car than you did which is not such a good thing sometimes.
Routine maintenance is a bit on the expensive side, but you have greater service intervals than the average car.
Tell me about it; I have a relatively old (1994) BMW that still looks like new and many people look at me like I am the biggest snob in the world because they think I was given a $35,000 car by my parents when in fact it was about 25% of that. It looks the way it does because I actually go outside and hand-wash/vacuum it weekly.
You must be using synthetic oil, which is a good thing, because you mention the servicing is expensive, but infrequent. My synthetic oil changes run about $80, but I can go 8,000+ miles between changes! Good luck with this car, I hope to get one of these soon!
This may sound silly, but I had the problem in my BMW 1 series, but get the back wheels balanced again and the problem will go away!!
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