Btw, give me $25k to invest in either car and I'd rip any bloated E46 a new one. Light weight and acceptable power rules the track.

 

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uhhh... who the **** crawled up your ***? mahjik would rather take his m3 out on the track cause he can basically get in and drive. and this offends you how?

 

HPF Stage 4 E46 M3 , over 1000+ hp. Not sure if you can beat cars with these kits in the straight line.

Loaded M3 CSL Supercharged, lapped the Nurburgring in 7 Min 22 sec.

Not sure if you can beat these cars.

 

Seems pointless to sell your FD, buy another one and build it up again. You might have 5k left over after it's all said and done but I doubt it. People usually spend what they can afford and if you have 25k you'll likely have that magic number in the back of your head when you go shopping. The build ups are fun but I think I'd keep what you have and know what you've got, have some peace of mind, have something thats sorted out and that works.

As far as M3s are concerned, they are not even in the same ballpark IMO for one reason. You can't likely work on them yourself like you can an RX7. They also have a lot of room to fall with depreciation. I decided a few years back when I had the S60R that I would never own a car I couldn't feel confident about knowledge and mechanics wise. The newer cars are always going to cost more to fix because they have so many more sensors, emmisions junk (not that the RX7 doesn't) computer controlled drive by wire everything, six throttle bodies, etc, etc, etc. M3 buffs don't get me wrong, the cars are great but just not the same to live with and modify. You'd be getting better than top dollar, looking for a lower priced M3. In a way you are taking a step down. Why not keep the nicest RX-7 you could hope for rather than and M3 with lots of unknowns.

 

If you are looking for a fun track car M3, get an E30. Those are pretty cool, hold their value well and would be much easier to tinker with than an E46 or E36. They are also nice and rare so you won't have something that every other 30 yr. old day trader has. The E28 and E34 M5s were pretty nifty.

Nobody ever mentions the 90-95 MR2. I've always been a fan. Similar to size as the RX-7 and capable of big reliable power.

 

MR2 is a great car, tons of power, but a pain in the *** to work on

 

Make a nice down payment on a Cayman.

 

Words of wisdom. I don't think there are enough people that truly appreciate a good running, street legal, reliable, comfortable FD in very nice condition .............. until they don't have it any more

 

I would sell my FD in a heartbeat, as much as I love her, 25k is too good to pass up when I paid 14. As has been stated I would buy another black or white roller and build it how I want it. I've already got some of the more expensive parts in my garage that are just extras right now that I could use also

and I've got a perfectly good daily as it is, so if I was offered the integra I would take it, sell it, and have that much extra to build my car with

But hey, that's just me

 

+1, 3sgte is one of the underrated engines imo, it does everything a 4g63 or a sr20det does but came in the less popular cars. I owned two MR2's (a turbo and a N/A) and I loved both, great to drive but difficult to save once the back lets go and pita to work on, plenty of cuts and backache trying to reach anything in the engine bay without scratching other things.

 

unless the price is crazy unrealistic, or else i would never sell a 40k miles white FD to anyone.

 

$25k is pretty crazy unrealistic...

 

What he said. Sell it.

 

Sounds familiar. We all already have at least one car like that.

 

FDs are retarded easy to work on compared to 300zx tt, 300gt, RS4 tt, etc etc.....

 

you can sell your car and buy two fd's for that much. SELL IT>

 

Stock sequential FD engine bay looks a little like a salad, never fully worked on one except changing an alternator but i'd say you have to remove lots of things out of the way to get to other things. However from the pics single turbo FD engine bay looks ridiculously easy to work on.

 

The new Cayman S is a nice car, but why not just get a 911 at that point. You're still looking at about $70k...

 

Both Cayman and Boxster S cars are selling for very good prices used along w/ lots of other nice sports cars which is why this car isn't worth 25k even with 20k miles on the clock, 10k miles and 25k would be about right and it certainly wouldn't sell over night.

I just bought a black r2 w/ 8600 miles on the clock this summer for less than 25k with 10k plus in nice mods and most of the stock parts. It was listed on ebay for 6 months starting at around 28k. It's by far the cleanest FD I've owned and I've had some nice ones.

I've said this over and over again but the guys on autotrader aren't interested in selling there precious FDs most of them have been listed for over 12 months and these cars will still sell like hot cakes when priced properly. Most are asking for 20k plus for a decent car when they didn't sell for those prices 10 years ago. I'd love to know where the assumption of value on these cars comes from. I think the owners believe because they paid 15k and another 20k keeping it running and adding mods they should get some sort of return

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chrom...item2a03664a60

The above is a good example of a valuable FD and it probably won't sell for 25k.

Probably won't even sell. The bidder at 22,500 has zero feedback just like the individual listing the car

 

Fritz, your black R2 with 8,600 sounds very nice, wish I would have seen that one. Are you going to re-sell?

 

That's a heck of a nice CYM and it's right in my backyard....hmmmmmm

 

who buys a unique car like ours at market value..
ill tell ya.. someone who is either looking to generate profit.. or cant afford it..

 

Values seem stable or slightly increasing. Let's face it, there are fewer and fewer pristine examples of these one-of-a-kind, completely unique cars. As one of the more rabid FD lovers out there, you know this