G'day Waycool, Welcome to the forum!! Good choice to move away from the commie and into something smaller. The diff's between the Stivo compared to the Levin's and accents is pretty large IMO. Stivo has Leather, Six Speed, and the 2ZZ. Its a kick ar#e motor, same used in the Lotus 111R/Celica. It will drag of a 6cyl commie no worries (stock), and wind out to over 220kmh. and the thing sounds like an animal. You could mod a 1ZZ to perform as well as the stivo, but then mod the 2ZZ and see what happens. For 25K you will getinto a used Stivo pretty easily, and I think its excellent value for money. I used to drive falcons and thought they were tuff as, till i got my Stivo. Now I wouldnt buy one unless it was an F6. Basically, yeah the stivo is what its cracked up to be and more :D Do it!