See thats funny I had a similar situation to you divinity. My 8g was in the shop b/c of a neighbor backing into my door and my rental car was a 9g. It drove like shit. Very sluggish and slow you could really feel the weight of the car and 2 extra ft/lbs torque obviously equated to nothing and was no advantage over the 8g. The engine w/ mivec and all was pretty blah. It was the 2004 ES about 20k miles on it and it wasn't really beat on so it was in good condition but I couldn't stand the interior nothing matched up and the parts were very cheap. Obviously they improved some things since then but after that experience I paid no more attention to the 9g so I am a little biased b/c of a bad experience. I do like the ralliart but I couldn't justify spending that kind of money when there are better cars out for cheaper or the same.
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