So is owing your car worth it..
09-12-03, 02:28 AM
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I'd recommend you try a MR2...very awesome sportscar overall, very light (first generations), and with some nice boost and powerful setup, you will be flying. But it's not really all designed for the 1/4 mile, unless you do a mk1.5 conversion 
I own one, and i am VERY HAPPY. Yet I will still save up for my 3rd gen RX-7 turbo 5spd
THe car in my signature is the one i drive now. Drive one or get a ride in it, and you may just fall in love with a mid-engine, RWD layout
If you can't afford or don't "feel like" maintaining a real sports car, then you don't deserve it really....a sports car needs a willing and aware owner...not a luxerious mr. pepboys maintainance freak...
I own one, and i am VERY HAPPY. Yet I will still save up for my 3rd gen RX-7 turbo 5spd
THe car in my signature is the one i drive now. Drive one or get a ride in it, and you may just fall in love with a mid-engine, RWD layout
If you can't afford or don't "feel like" maintaining a real sports car, then you don't deserve it really....a sports car needs a willing and aware owner...not a luxerious mr. pepboys maintainance freak...
11-07-03, 06:32 PM
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Originally posted by tgriesel
Mahjik: It might be interesting to start a thread on how many of us would sell our cars if we didn't have so much money invested in them. Like stocks, it's never considered a loss until you sell. As long as we hold on to them, we never have to come to grips with the reality of how much time and money we actually spent on them. Tom
Mahjik: It might be interesting to start a thread on how many of us would sell our cars if we didn't have so much money invested in them. Like stocks, it's never considered a loss until you sell. As long as we hold on to them, we never have to come to grips with the reality of how much time and money we actually spent on them.
Tom
11-08-03, 01:30 AM
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No it's not Turbo'd
I wrecked my first one, if you'really interested do a search in the west forum for the complete story... but I swore off Rx-7's I said that's it I spent too much money and it's all down the toilet.. the insurance will give me blue book and all those mods for nothing...
Well after going car shopping and mind you the '94 was semi stock if anything I was getting 250 to the weels...
I was driving everything you listed, subaru, s2000, Corvette, Celica GTS .... and everytime I stepped on the gas the Sales guy was always nervous... and I was thinking this car lacks "Power"
Especially on the S2000 the manager came out and pleeded with me, what do we have to do to get you in that vehicle, I kept on humming and hawing... and he came down from 24K to just over 20K and I said flat out it's not the Money, it's that for that cash I can get a kickass FD with much more power !! STOCK !!!
The guy finally left totally frustrated, he thought I was trying to bargain with him.
I was concidering going back there with my FD and offer to give him a little test drive but who knows if he still works there... maybe then he'd understand...
BTW, in the Subaru WRX I constantly felt like the dammed thing was going to tip over in the corners, the FD corners so hard and has very little body roll, that if you have another car with similar feel as far as performance goes... WRX... and then try cornering... (I'll watch you screaming for your good old FD)
So in the end I bought another one and moved a lof of the performance parts over to the new car, which was paid for 90% by the insurance sttlement...
-DC
Well after going car shopping and mind you the '94 was semi stock if anything I was getting 250 to the weels...
I was driving everything you listed, subaru, s2000, Corvette, Celica GTS .... and everytime I stepped on the gas the Sales guy was always nervous... and I was thinking this car lacks "Power"
Especially on the S2000 the manager came out and pleeded with me, what do we have to do to get you in that vehicle, I kept on humming and hawing... and he came down from 24K to just over 20K and I said flat out it's not the Money, it's that for that cash I can get a kickass FD with much more power !! STOCK !!!
The guy finally left totally frustrated, he thought I was trying to bargain with him.
I was concidering going back there with my FD and offer to give him a little test drive
but who knows if he still works there... maybe then he'd understand...BTW, in the Subaru WRX I constantly felt like the dammed thing was going to tip over in the corners, the FD corners so hard and has very little body roll, that if you have another car with similar feel as far as performance goes... WRX... and then try cornering... (I'll watch you screaming for your good old FD)
So in the end I bought another one and moved a lof of the performance parts over to the new car, which was paid for 90% by the insurance sttlement...
-DC
11-08-03, 02:52 AM
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I'm a newbie to the forum but go back with the RX7 more years than I'd like to admit. Suggesting that the RX7 is unreliable is relative. I'm not a mechanic, but it "seems" that the amount of problems go up with the amount of mods. Probably because those cars are being driven harder, not because the RX7 is inherently fragile. Geez, take any other car and get that kinda HP out of so little displacement, then go run it at an autoX or track event. You'll probably have ALOT more problems than with the RX7. Those that work to install the mods do so for alot of reasons, but almost always because that is just another way of enjoying the car. Not my way, but I respect it, even envy it sometimes. Besides, I'm old enough to remember the real crap-for sports-cars...MGs, Jaguars, Triumphs, Alfas, Fiats etc. With those cars, for every hour you drove them you worked on them for two hours.
Admittedly if ALL things were equal (like price) I would have gone for the Z06, but fun for the buck, low taxes, lower insurance, and above all, not seeing the same car going the opposite direction every few miles...give me my FD.
If you want something cheap, with a reliable motor and you can relax with, buy a bass boat. Hope I didn't offend anyone out there, just how I feel.
Admittedly if ALL things were equal (like price) I would have gone for the Z06, but fun for the buck, low taxes, lower insurance, and above all, not seeing the same car going the opposite direction every few miles...give me my FD.
If you want something cheap, with a reliable motor and you can relax with, buy a bass boat. Hope I didn't offend anyone out there, just how I feel.
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