Last year the new IS300 came with two retaining clips to hold down the drivers side floor mat. Mine moves around too much with just one and if they could add a second or change the desgn so it works better that would be great. And of corse, cruise control

I would buy one with cruise and nav, and not feel "compromised." An automatic is pushing it though.

IMO some good options would be...

6spd
auto climate
cruise control
performance wheel package
gauges
leather/acantara seating surfaces

Do JDM Evos have cruise?

I gotta say that cruise + turbo + manual = suckage. At least the way Mitsubishi does it. Maybe their cruise "systems" have gotten better since my '98, but I can't see how they can overcome the fact that the cruise and the progressively building boost don't get along. Oh sure, if you are on a flat road with no traffic it is okay, but throw in a few hills and some semis and your car will start bucking and jerking like a bipolar mule. My turbo is an Evo3 B16G same size as all of yours, just old tech and not twin scroll, it doesn't build full boost 'till like 3100 RPMS. If you try to add in a few mphs under load, or start going up a hill, the turbo will spool quicker then the cruise can react and then all of a sudden your going too fast and the cruise shuts down. Its like hitting fuel cut all the way down the highway. I tried using it for a while on the way to NOPI last weekend, and after a few minutes it pissed me off so I realized this might be why Mitsu doesn't offer it.

Have any of you with aftermarket cruise run into this issue?

Bump for a valid question and good point

The only thing I dont agree with is the part about manual tranny having anything to do with it

Brakes and wheel downgrade to cut cost, like a proper RS should be...

option: kevlar underplating HAHAHA and kevlar recaros, just a full spec rally car as an option hahaha.

You're right. The manual has nothing to do with the turbo spooling, but let's look at another scenario, or two:

You've been cruising behind a semi or RV at 70 and you start up a steep grade. The semi suddenly drops like 10-20 mph. You pull out to pass.
Or let's say you;ve been cruising at 55mph through a construction zone in fifth and once you are in the clear you want to kick it back up to 75-80. (Speed limit in Alabama on most interstates is 70- used to be 75 in some places.)

In either case the cruise in an automatic car would downshift for you and get you to your target speed, or maintain your current one. Its not a big hassle to downshift for the pass, but you have to disengage the cruise first. Mine won't if I press the clutch, so I have to give it a quick brake tap, downshift, accelerate, an upshift then resume. But add in the effects of a turbo under cruise - (which come to think of it was a hassle when I was on the stock T-25) - and you get compressor surge, BOV flutter, over compensation, and a lot of unsettling jerks and bumps - unless you do it yourself, which kind of defeats the purpose. The cruise tries to ease out of and into the gas, smoothly and gently - and that just doesn't work. The results are anything but smooth and gentle.