i drove them for work not pleasure unfortunately although i did have fun once in a while. the worst porsche i ever drove was a 928. they have ZERO redeeming qualities and if you look at the wiring its more complicated than a space shuttle for absolutely no reason. the shop i worked at was seriously considering not even letting them in the shop when i left and they are justified. the water cooled 911s were very big understeer cars and had wonderful hi speed stability. the 924s is easily my favorite porsche and its up there on my all time list.
I'm amazed that you guys have seen Truenos in real life yet. The only 8th-gen Corolla I've ever seen was that one as a Levin. They don't look very nice.
The AE86 will be a legend because of Initial D, I would love a Manga Spec AE86 with the AE101 11,000rpm engine in it....that would be soo good!
Looked like one, so I just assumed it. Don't know much about Corollas. There surey have to have been a lot of people doing that, considering the pictures you see when searching Google for "ae86".
I am after the Group A engine...and I have a friend in the US who managed to acquire the Group A engine...she never said how but shes got a lotta Motorsports contacts....
That engine makes peak power at 9k. It just doesn't drop off till 11k. When the engine revs that hi the flame front can hardly keep up with the piston. Those small displacement race engines are awesome tho.
You rev the nuts off the damn thing and then you get rewarded with all that 240bhp of power...pity it blew up in the end....to defeat that other 3 door car....but a legend was born...
going away from the crowd and choose something french, not japaneese. Citroën C6. Only one of them exists in the USA, and was for sale a while ago. Very rare, prestigious car, with headlights that turn with the steering wheel, head-up display, it reads your text messages and e-mails to you, concave rear windscreen, spoiler that emerges if you go faster than 80 km/h, leather, reclining rear seats, side windows that actually touch the rear light. All that in a car from 2005 is pretty amazing and the last great flagship for Citroën. It has presence. And it's totally affordable now in europe. But will become a great, affordable classic like the DS, CX, and XM. Well, the DS is getting rather expensive actually.
And while we're on the subject of rare European saloons - here's what I believe will eventually become a classic one day - the last true big Lancia to be produced. Very few were made, even fewer still exist. That's why I'm hunting for one...
Everything becomes a classic. Everything. The cars that are cool now but too expensive to afford will still be cool in the future and some of us who make it big will eventually buy them at an even more exorbitant price in the future. Many of what we think of as a muscle car were just regular family cars to the people who grew up while they came out. Dodge Charger, Chevy Impala, Mercury Cougar, Dodge Challenger, and even to an extent the Mustang were not like the challengers and mustangs of today, they were just a cooler family car that we called muscle cars. Cars from around the world wars are an even better example... There really weren't any sports cars back then per say, and what few there were are worth more than 100K now. Despite that a restored anything will still run you tens of thousands. People are paying new luxury car money for a 4-door family car from the 1940's. Think that the fact that a car is ugly will stop people from paying out the nose for it in the future? Wrong, everything has a cult following, whether it deserved it or not. Take a look at this late '50s Jeep Forward Control. If that isn't a face only a mother could love I don't know what is, but as much as they failed to sell in the past, they are rare, sought after, and coveted today. If you want something more modern look at the AE86. It is, in fact, just a carolla. Not even a particularly fast carolla at that, but that doesn't stop people from going to the opposite end of the globe to import them now. Face it people, eventually the prius will be a classic and you'll all be explaining to the kids of the future why we didn't like 'em back in the day and how they were totally normal. I know a guy who will go on and on about how the Hudson Terraplane was known as the "Terrible Pain" back when it was common because they broke down so often.
The Honda S2000 A fun car that has the "myths" surrounding its capabilities, enough to fuel its value in online/in person discussions for many years to come. Plus its quite pretty, especially in person.
And yet, it has fallen victim to the stance community like many other great sports cars: Just, why. Stanced cars as I see it are supposed to stand out, yet every single stanced car is the same, and every single stanced s2000 even more so.
Oh my god my poor E46 what have they done to you? Shhh come here it'll be fine, you'll be on stock suspension again soon.
