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Originally Posted by reni
the camry outsold the f40, I guess it is a better car then
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to live with? yes.
as a car, no.
The F40 was a technical marvel. it the first analog car to breach the 200mph barrier (analog meaning it didn't have computers managing any and everything like modern Ferrari's). But The F40 is not a car the average joe could own.
1. rarity- good luck finding one
2. it's a Ferrari, if you don't have the funds to shelter it then you better be prepared to come out of your home one morning and find it missing.
3. not comfortable in the slightest- super cars are focused on speed, handling, and lap times. damn the comfort.
4. the cost of ownership- be prepared to shelf out hundreds, in not thousands of dollars per service.
the Toyota Camry on the other hand was built for the average citizen. it was cheap to insure, services were cheap, and because it wasn't designed to be the fastest car in the world, cheap to build. This meant that Toyota could build hundreds of thousands of the things. Meaning that because there were so many of them there was a much lower risk of theft. It also means that there would be no shortage of parts if one were to go wrong.
so if some one were to ask "which car would be better to own, an F40, or Camry?" I would go with the camry.
A adore the the F40 but this is the real world we live in.
I digress, you missed my original point.
The person I quoted said that Nissan died with the S-chassis.
I was merely arguing the point that since the S-chassis' demise the 350Z, 370Z, and GTR have come into the light. Now if you sit there and tell me that the 350Z was a terrible car just because it wasn't an S-chassis vehicle I will point you to it's history.
while it wasn't all that cheap, people bought them up like there was no tomorrow. for awhile every tuning shop had a 350Z build. they saturated the tuning car culture sometimes appearing up 3 times as features in a single magazine issue. before the LS swap began to take over people were dropping the 350Z's VQ35DE into RX-7's S13's, S14's, and even the S15's in japan.
the list goes on.
While the 370z wasn't as popular as the 350z it still saturated the market. thought by this time it was overshadowed by the arrival of the R35 GT-R.
now the R35 has been a hit from the start. No one can deny that (I personally don't like it as I think it's TOO technical). People loved that fact that it (at the time ) delivered supercar performance for a fraction of supercar price. and like the 350 before it began to saturate the tuning media. people adored and still adore that car.
So while I'm not a fan of those 3 cars, I will not deny that they are good cars with huge cult followings.
To say that Nissan hasn't been any good since the S15 is just and untrue statement.
-Point