I remember talking to guys like you at street drags that thought my mildly tuned Supra must be faster than any car in the universe. Listen. You're wrong. 50-60 grand later you're still pushing a now unreliable Lancer when you could have bought something faster, nicer, etc. For the most part, the import tuning industry is a con.
You talk about tuned Evos and STis OWNING THE STREETS well where are they? They've never lined up with me or Warchild, and we gave them plenty of chances. Where are the throngs of these 4 cylinder supercars?
Oh, and before you start going on about Evo, it's just a boosted Talon (same engine, 4G63) and before you ask, yeah, Warchild's owned one of those too, enjoy the bleachers
Have you seen a fun british program called Top gear? On a closed track stock evo's and subaru's are pretty close or faster in laptimes than stock corvettes.
Don't knock 4wd turbo cars that actually have grip in corners
That being said, I have a 1.2 liter fwd renault clio and I'm probably not one to talk. (even though I probably paid more for that than you would for evo)
a ricer with 10's of thousands of dollars in it.. invest 10's of thousands in the vette, and that ricer is back to being what it was meant to be.. a grocery getter.
a ricer with 10's of thousands of dollars in it.. invest 10's of thousands in the vette, and that ricer is back to being what it was meant to be.. a grocery getter.
My Supra is hardly a ricer, and with 514 rear wheel horsepower on pump gas, will stomp nearly any production car on the road. Running on race gas the car is just plain silly at nearly 700 to the wheels. That's 800 horsepower at the motor!
Right now I'm getting the TRD widebody kit put on it. It will look pretty much the same but be several inches wider all around. Why you ask? Not just for looks, but to fit these bad boys on so I can have some traction:
My Supra is hardly a ricer, and with 514 rear wheel horsepower on pump gas, will stomp nearly any production car on the road. Running on race gas the car is just plain silly at nearly 700 to the wheels. That's 800 horsepower at the motor!
Right now I'm getting the TRD widebody kit put on it. It will look pretty much the same but be several inches wider all around. Why you ask? Not just for looks, but to fit these bad boys on so I can have some traction:
I have raced 2 cars so far in my SS...I don't like to Dog my car either.. I have raced a 3000GT VR-4 and a Jetta Sti or whatever it was had a Turbo... Both where owned pretty badly.
Corvette's & most of the American cars (Like Chrysler's Dodge Viper, Ford Mustang,etc..) get totally owned by European and Japanese cars that can do alot more with smaller engines, and plus they can actualy do corners
You're right because neither the Corvette Z06 or the Viper can pull over 1G on the skid pad. Are you living in the real world?
I got a straight axled 90 Mustang GT on steroids (Factory Alumhead Motorsport motor and many goodies... - 380hp to rear wheels - AZ Plates no cats - Tubelar crossmember, subframes, Arms - Big Cobra Brakes) that will outlaunch, outrun, outcorner and outstop 98.5% of AWD Foreign Cars....
newsflash: The real world is far from beeing US only...
BTW since you can afford why don't you come to Europe to some proper autoshows (tho the Detroit one was well represented ;) ) like the one in Genebra?
Look, I'm not saying American cars are the end all be all of cars. Europe, Japan and America all make some wicked true sports cars.
I'm not big in to cars like I used to be. I've rediscovered my love of sport bikes and I sold my Corvette last summer.
All I'm saying is don't discount American Sportscars as being competitive. Remember where the Saleen S7 Twin Turbo will come from. The Viper and the C6 Z06 are also bad ass sports cars that really handle. There's plenty of C5 Vettes running around with as much power as single turbo Supras and laying down amazing numbers.
Try to remember that making fun of somebody with $100 worth of mods on their mom's DX Civic is not the same thing as saying Japan doesn't make some fast cars.
, your joking right, I dont care how many mods they have, I would like to see those cars give a FERRARI a run for its money
I am and always will be a ferrari fan .. but the 360 modena really isn't that fast for today's standards (it's got a 0-60 of like 4.5 seconds). I mean - it's fast as hell, but there are a number of stock cars that can give them a run for their money now ... the new m3s and late model M roadsters (the 315 HP version), mustang svt, a lot of corvettes..., an assload of lower end porsches (carrera's and such), I don't think it's that far out of line to think that a car, such as a lancer evo, or wrx sti, with a stock 0-60 of very low 5's could be modified to take another 1/2 second off the 0-60 time. But ... there's no doubt in my mind which car would be better to own .. for sooooo many reasons.
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