MotorWeek proves '90s were awesome w/ Supra, Stealth, RX-7, Corvette, 968, 300ZX ...
 

MotorWeek proves '90s were awesome w/ Supra, Stealth, RX-7, Corvette, 968, 300ZX comparo

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlF9Uz6hhIY"]MotorWeek | Throwback Thursday: 1993 Sports Car Comparison - YouTube[/ame]

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/24/m...e-stealth-968/

z32TT has to be one of my top 5 favorite cars.

Lots of room for improvement with just a tune and replacement of the restrictive aspiration. Stock turbos and internals can be tuned to 400rwhp easy.

RX7 hands down for me. One of the most pure driving experiences you can get, 20 years ago, or even now.

And it's pretty. I wish more cars these days were as pretty as an FD RX-7 or Mk IV Supra.

Agreed. However, it is interesting to really look at what these cars, that are so revered by today's car enthusiast, had to offer and at what price. In today's dollars the cheapest one would sell for over $53K and the quickest of them gets from 0-60 in just a little over a second less than the "underpowered" FR-S.

Sometimes the good old days actually turn out to be today.

Still, what I would not do to own an, all original, 1993-95 RX7.

2014 Porsche Cayman 0-60 5.3 seconds, $52.6k
1993 Mazda RX-7 0-60 5.4 seconds, adjusted for inflation $54.3k

The good days certainly are today as you can pick up an RX-7 at a fraction of that price.
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Great cars, many memories.

I knew John Davis had slimmed down, but wow, didn't remember how much!

I don't need a video to tell me how awesome the 90's were. I just wish I was old enough to drive these cars brand new at the time.

Supra, for the engine and the fact that now a clean, low mile example is worth more than the original MSRP.

Found one with 28k original miles for $49k. Found another with 54k original miles for 42k. Mind you, these are STOCK and MINT. I'm beginning to think it's too much...just too much :/

Supra :D

dat RX-7 ... :drool:

2014 Porsche Cayman: 30-40 mpg on the freeway
1993 RX-7: <15mpg?

LOL

We haven't gotten to estimated time before engine rebuild yet.

If you can find one with an original motor.

Yep, and if it did not carry the Porsche nameplate it would cost $10K less.

While I respect, admire and lust over the Japanese supercars of the 90s, especially the FD35 RX-7, the FT86 is just an all round better performance car dollar for dollar and pound for pound.

Sorry I didn't consider factors that you did not mention in your post.

Of course a 20 year old car has issues that a new car doesn't have, much less one with a radically different engine design. Personally I'll take a rotary rebuild or two over Porsche maintenance costs for a toy car:

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/2014/..._of_ownership/

2014 Cayman rated at 32 mpg freeway
Practical average is in the low 20's:
http://www.fuelly.com/car/porsche/cayman
Practical RX-7 average is high teens:
http://www.fuelly.com/car/mazda/rx-7
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I'm not here to make the argument that the RX-7 is somehow better from my armchair quarterbacking paper comparisons, only that those cars are still damn competitive and $53k today is not exactly going to blow a lot of those cars away if you're buying a new car (since that's the only reason to adjust for inflation for a comparison).

Throw whatever salvo you want with costs and numbers and reviews we're in agreement that it's an awesome time to be an enthusiast no matter what you're into (unless it's old Porsche's, yikes on those prices).

Edit: @Rampage Agreed, which is why I'm driving a Toyobaru and not a Mazda today. And dollar for dollar pound for pound many cars surpass the Toyobaru like Focus ST (more conventional engine, better fuel economy, cheaper to buy/insure/run, 'amenities') Mustang V6/GT (performance/$, 'amenities') but here we are. And maybe in a few years I'll have my dorito powered sports car, apex seals and all.
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I said freeway for a reason, a Cayman will actually get 40mpg if you are just cruising at 60. An RX-7 can never dream of a number that high under any situation, it probably doesn't do 40mpg if you are rolling along in 5th gear at 20mph. Naturally the Cayman guzzles gas in city driving but what 6 cylinder car doesn't. Also let's be real here, 17mpg vs 22mpg is still 30% more fuel usage.

Also a rotary rebuild or 2? I dunno man, Porsche maintenance especially with the newer DFI engines doesn't sound as bad as blowing engines and topping oil off all the time. Engine remove and replace is a lot of money.

Fuelly doesn't distinguish between base Cayman and S, nor does it distinguish between manual and PDK. Both of those factors can make a significant difference. It also only has 2 cars listed that are 981s, which isn't really a representative sample. For what it's worth, my 06 S with the manual gets about 21mpg mixed, and I would expect a PDK base 981 to get substantially better than that (maybe 25-26 mixed, and probably well into the 30s on the highway). Sure, you could make it get less by driving like an idiot, but that's true of any car.

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Whoosh.