I'm not overly convinced that the ability to "race away from traffic lights the fastest" is a sensible basis to choose a used car on but, anyway........

I wanst meaning it like you say. You certainly can relate to any 0 - Fast-ability. Im not basing my car choice on any traffic light grand prix. I just want the similar performance. You telling me you never grin when you launch your car off the line?

RX-7... That is a great idea. The car is not going to be used on a daily basis. Could be worth looking into.

Ive got to stay Jap and Turbo.

Looking like Evo 6's and 7's are out of the price range.

Decided I dont want another Subaru.

RX-7s are awesome, just keep them well fed with oil and petrol (lots unfortunately) and they're really good cars.

i for one and pleased your not going for another scooby mate and shame about the evo as they are a nice car

always had a soft spot for rex's BUT i would defo go look at a pulsar as they are a very quick car and suprise alot of people (be awear of dodgy gearbox's as ive heard bad things and they weight a ton if you have to remove one haha my mates didnt nearly drop one on them selfs honest)

My mate wayne is selling his concourse ivory pulsar alot of cash has been spent on it hes selling for around 5k get in touch if ure interested and ill sort out a meeting if u want

Any pics Mr. Ball?

Ill get on it,


Rest assured before I do its very nice Ivory one with 15 inch BBS rims

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/625434.htm

This post was last modified: 25-07-2008 11:16 PM by Meatball.

that Pulsar is Mint!

Just take your time wardo if your looking at liners, they seem to be so common at the moment and most because they are "Skylines" have the fuck kicked out of them with very little maintainance - not sure if there the same as the 200 brigade but regular oil changes and correct fueling MUST be looked at before any power is eeked out!

My thoughts would be looking towards a fresh import so you know that no UK owner has used and abused it and places like DCY will look after you and wont sell you a wrong un!

if you wanna have a go in my 200 mate shout up, its not a liner but you can at least have a feel for RWD turbo and a similar set up, although im sure Jody will let you in the liner!

oh and Skylines:

R33
GTR - 2.6 TT 4WD
GTS-T 2.5 T RWD
GTS 2.0 RWD

how you know they aint been thrashed in japan? i think it was lee who tole me that majority jap cars have low mileage cos they use them as track cars and thrashed every mile. Prolly mine has lol

go for a GTR wardo , they dont seem to be as comman as GTS-T

i thought it wa mainly emissions over in japan! after a car is ie- 5 years old- it fails new emission regulations and usually ends up being what they consider as useless!

Other than that! id rather it be driven hard by the japs- and maintained well- than threashed over here and not given a rats ass about!

Places like DCY look after their customers AND have great contacts over in japan!

You wont find a high performance jap car that doesnt get driven hard- thats what they are built for lol- its just finding one thast as sturdy as nails and has come from a reputable english and foreign dealer

Glad your not doing the scooby thing- seems to be oh so common like the skyline these days- A 200 is a good way to go if you decide you like Rwd- not as common and you can really stamp your mark on them!

Then again does it really need to be turbo? would you not consider supercharged or anything like that?

sell your kidneys/livers/anything else like me and buy the new GTR when it comes out in manual .. then you can have 2 turbos heheee

This post was last modified: 28-07-2008 10:09 PM by bexy.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/601361.htm

i think thats the pulsar my neighbour used to own, not 100% sure tho

he had a print out of 404bhp and that was without the 100 shot of nitrous wired up

i drove it round town, and its fuckin unreal!


actually, its not, i just found the ebay auction for it, and its not the one, but you get the idea

This post was last modified: 28-07-2008 10:54 PM by wrdevelopments.

you say scoobys are common then you reccomend a 200? I seeing more and more of these attracting "wanna be drifters" because they can't afford a liner insurance costs. Give it a year and people will be moving from the saxos to 200's. I'm not knocking 200s I was gonna have one because there more then half the insurance of the wrx

and for the 5 year rule can't be right surely mine was imported direct from Tokyo in 2006? And it's MY93

It's 10 years. Once a car gets to 10 years old in Japan the owner is subjected to a massive emission based tax, and in most cases the car has to be sold. As they're virtually worthless in the JDM, they get exported.....usually to us!

Chances are you're car was either sat around doing nothing in Japan for a few years Ant or it was imported long before it was first registered.

As for the SX, comparing it with a Subaru is like chalk and cheese; the Impreza was launched to give them something smaller and more nimble than the Legacy to go rallying with, it's aimed at competition in essence hence the complex drivetrain and Happy Shopper interior. The SX is a grand tourer (Nissan advertised it as the "iron fist in a silk glove") and was originally meant as an executive express, it just happened to fit the bill as an affordable rwd car that was easy to tune and slotted in to the drifting world quite merrily.....worlds apart from the competiton roots of the Impreza.

(IMO) The Subaru will always be more common and will always be the more logical step for Saxo owners looking to move up the chav ladder as unfortunately that's just the image they have developed. Imprezas like the RB5, 22B, P1, Type-R and RB320 are all awesome cars but are still few and far between, the majority on the road are got Lex-arse light equipped WRX or turbo "mental-mega-on-a-mission-innit" sheds driven by numb-heads who are convinced they're the fastest bloke on the road in an effort to woo whichever pregnant 16 year old is looking their direction.

Where the 200SX is concerned, there are 2 distinct owners I reckon; The first type appreciate the tuning potential of the engine and chassis and modify the right areas to turn them in to a more complete package. the second type are usually those that whack up the boost with scant regard for the rest of the engine and think that a Nismo sunstrip and Halfords induction kit will turn them in to Tarzan Yamada or Ken Nomura. The first owner is the one that bought the car because he loved the way it looked and saw it as a great base for a modified car, the second owner is the one that never knew the SX existed 2 years ago and bought one because "it's a drift car mate". The first owner will still have his in a few years time and will remain tastefully modded in all the right areas, the second will have either written it off or got bored of the maintenance costs long before and moved on to whatever else is "in fashion" at the time.

I hate to see silly kitted S14s with bullshit ebay rear lights and smacked up panels but unfortunately they've become very affordable and were bound to atract the drift brigade as soon as it became more popular. Thing is though, sooner or later all the rough and abused ones will give up the ghost and get wrapped up leaving the lower mileage tasteful ones to become rarer and appreciate in price, which in turn will place them slightly out of reach again. For this reason I don't ever think the Nissan will become the next step for the stereotypical Saxo lad, unfortunately that car will always be the Impreza.

The Nissan is already a lot rarer and also a lot harder to execute a clean "traffic light launch" with. It's very hard (but not impossible) to launch an SX cleanly from a dead stop, especially against an Impreza, and in Saxo lad's world where he who gets away from the lights first obviously has the larger reproductive appendage, the traffic light sprint is key. Another reason why the stereotype boy racer will scour the classifieds for a £2000 Subaru before considering the Nissan.

The exact same pattern follows with the Impreza as it does the SX, there is one owner who keeps it well maintained, clean and appreciates he's got a good car, then there is the other type that is only interested in treating every journey like the last lap of a Formula 1 qualifying session and has an Impreza to say he's got an Impreza. The fact that there is a massively greater supply of the Subaru will keep it favourite among "Roy Bacer" and his extensive collection of social misfits. It's true that you can't go quicker for cheaper, but people who buy one on that basis alone will never get behind the wheel of a 200SX.

Anyway........buy that Pulsar!

Hahahahah,

no you have to guess which of our respectiv impreza and 200sx owners this post indicates because its the truth lol,

that post deffinetly sums alot up.


And buy that bloody pulsar (the one I put up) Its 18 year old and never been fingered

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