06-22-2004, 05:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 161
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Originally posted by jade_dragon
Last thing i would do is buy a domestic sports or muscle car (will be a money hole) it WILL break, the more you mod it to make power the more it will do so, anyone who says otherwise does not deal with cars a lot. I was beating vipers in a civic at the track and on the streets i was beating simular cars in an eclipse gsx with lancer evo swap back in the late 90's/early 2000's for FAR less than 100k
For all you guys saying "yeah it will not pull chics like our cars,WRONG The fast and the furious took care of all that, gotta love popular media.
I would not buy a luxury euro car either, they are bottom of the list for dependablilty, so i take it back the euro car would be the last one. If i had to get a euro M3, 8 series benz or jaguar all the way with m3 leading the pack
I would buy an older Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Nissan Skyline GTR, Toyota Supra TT, Mazda RX-7 fc3s or fd32 (savannah efiny), Mazda Cosmo or a prestine Toyota Corolla AE86. The reason?
All of these cars are cheap if you know who to talk to over seas, all are performance oriented, even that corolla that is probably making you big muscle car owners laugh. Your Ferarri's only run about 13 flat off the line but each one of those cars is capable of hitting that and more for around 30k including the purchase of the car, all mods, fuel, insurance, maintenance, tt&l WITH the shop taking advantage of you. But the best part is each car will sell for more than you spent on it when you put it on the market EASY. Book value of a corolla AE86 is about 1,500 the street value is about 5, and one will go for as much as 10 if you put it up for sale in Japan. Skyling GTR will go on ebay for as much as triple the price you got it if you stayed away from motorex.
As far as cars not being an investment, yeah people say that because they depreciate in value as soon as you drive them off the lot BUT like any other investment it is the future you need to look into. Once the car hits 25 the price skyrockets if you kept on top of the maintenance.
I own a jap high performance shop so this is where all that info is coming from, i am not bagging on anyone for their choices, if you had enough to buy the car you probably have enough for mods and fixing it constantly and that high gas bill, but someone asked and i told.
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Your wrong about dependability of german cars.
And whats a benz 8 series?
Jap tin tops are good for a bit of fun.....but when you need a real car....I'd stay clear....they're unsafe and they're a bit boyish. And they also attract the wrong sort of women. |
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