the Europeans and Japanese must hate us..
#21
You'd be able to afford a skyline if you didnt have to pay the import fee's and certifications, and conversions to US regulations (aka all the B.S.)
Well Europe has the Toyota Avensis....so why are they complaining, they also have the Focus RS (even though I could always care-less).
Well Europe has the Toyota Avensis....so why are they complaining, they also have the Focus RS (even though I could always care-less).
#22
you know how many cars WE DONT GET here? that the manufacturers always give the good stuff to ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES and not here.. it's unreal..
so let them be jealous of the ONE TIME we actually get a good car for our own, it's about time.. way overdue!
so let them be jealous of the ONE TIME we actually get a good car for our own, it's about time.. way overdue!
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Originally Posted by hejustlaughs
Actually other countries usually get cooler cars. The US is usually a _____ market because of all the regulations and etc.
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Actually other countries usually get cooler cars. The US is usually a _____ market because of all the regulations and etc.
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Originally Posted by hejustlaughs
I don't think the tC is that cool of a car to make other people in other countries jealous though.
#27
one more thing on the skylines...
if you have decent credit you can get one pretty cheap from Motorex.... thats how alot of peeps in cali have theirs through them.... i think there is one in EL monte (socal) that is used as a daily driver....
if you have decent credit you can get one pretty cheap from Motorex.... thats how alot of peeps in cali have theirs through them.... i think there is one in EL monte (socal) that is used as a daily driver....
#28
As for the g35 being a skyline .... Thats the body style they're converting to. Theyre getting away from the old skyline body and re-vamping it to "our" g35. Itll be the same skyline motor (althought tuned down for the US market), just in different packaging. And just like how our 350Z is called the Fairlady or our xb is called a bb in japan, our US g35 can be called a skyline.
#31
Ok, let me get things straight with the concept of the Skyline coming to our shores, first yes it is sometime next year but it will be in what we know as the G35, it's already called the skyline in Japan but what it will truly be named is GTR, that is why nissan at this time is making the effort to push the G35 with more horsepower than the 350z , so people can get used to think of the G35 as a sports car not a luxury coupe. But just like the other cars they have tried to come back with that had turbos and no longer do such as the 350z and the rx-8 this GTR will have a v-8 not a TT setup. the pricerange is shocking to around 50,000 to 60,000 dollars once it comes, hopfully that brings an end to the mystery........ but when it comes to being jealous i think we should cause even the cars that we do have in commonm, they are always better tuned and have better spec than the cars we get here.
#32
Originally Posted by musiqdefunk
Ok, let me get things straight with the concept of the Skyline coming to our shores, first yes it is sometime next year but it will be in what we know as the G35, it's already called the skyline in Japan but what it will truly be named is GTR, that is why nissan at this time is making the effort to push the G35 with more horsepower than the 350z , so people can get used to think of the G35 as a sports car not a luxury coupe. But just like the other cars they have tried to come back with that had turbos and no longer do such as the 350z and the rx-8 this GTR will have a v-8 not a TT setup. the pricerange is shocking to around 50,000 to 60,000 dollars once it comes, hopfully that brings an end to the mystery........ but when it comes to being jealous i think we should cause even the cars that we do have in commonm, they are always better tuned and have better spec than the cars we get here.
Edit:: btw, I'd pay 50,000-60,000 for it if it really makes me drool...
#33
Originally Posted by Setarcos4131
Originally Posted by musiqdefunk
Ok, let me get things straight with the concept of the Skyline coming to our shores, first yes it is sometime next year but it will be in what we know as the G35, it's already called the skyline in Japan but what it will truly be named is GTR, that is why nissan at this time is making the effort to push the G35 with more horsepower than the 350z , so people can get used to think of the G35 as a sports car not a luxury coupe. But just like the other cars they have tried to come back with that had turbos and no longer do such as the 350z and the rx-8 this GTR will have a v-8 not a TT setup. the pricerange is shocking to around 50,000 to 60,000 dollars once it comes, hopfully that brings an end to the mystery........ but when it comes to being jealous i think we should cause even the cars that we do have in commonm, they are always better tuned and have better spec than the cars we get here.
Edit:: btw, I'd pay 50,000-60,000 for it if it really makes me drool...
Considering that the current Nissan road race cars in Japan use a destroked and turbocharged version of the G35's VQ35, I figure that our GTR equivilent will get something similiar.
To the person above who said that the new skyline in japan is the same old motor with a new body, you're dead wrong. The RB26dett is as far as I know no longer a production motor.
#35
Ill take the EVO FQ-400, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and only available in the UK for a price of around 70000 pounds ($90000) BTW I think the Europeans and Japanese already hate us for taking their works of art and slapping horribly ugly wings and bumpers on them and then mocking them by putting type R and silvia emblems on there.
#36
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Originally Posted by dieselstation
well.. yeah we don't get the skyline.. but how many of us can actually afford skylines?
-Emo
#37
Originally Posted by Emo
Do you guys mean THIS:
I was at my school's parkinglot and saw this parked there.. I couldnt believe it..lol
-Emo
I was at my school's parkinglot and saw this parked there.. I couldnt believe it..lol
-Emo
THATS NOT A SKYLINE! IT JUST GOT REBADGE! COPIED THE JAPAN STYLE FOR $40 on ebay.