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Old 07-01-2010, 05:43 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by corbin View Post
Yeah, dude, send me to the loony bin because I want this car to be competitive on the track. Only crazy people care about the performance of their car. From where I'm sitting that was a strange outburst... maybe you have some unresolved issues if you telling me I'm crazy and need to "get a grip on reality" because I want Japan to finally start making cars again with the potential to be top-level track cars.

Your point about buying used is valid and adds to what I'm saying. All I'm talking about is the chassis/drive train potential, and when these cars can be had on the cheap and the aftermarket is huge, the possibility of having what RX-7s were a few years ago (minus reliability issues) is there.
Just do lil speculation:
Buying GT-R (R35) is $85~95k
Buying FT86 is $23k~$30k
Now, you still have $55k~$72k to tune FT86 to be faster or fast as GT-R... & if you can't do it with that money and you have problem. Now if you want car that already have 400~500hp car then go ahead and buy GT-R or LFA.

Words "Cheap" & "Fast" never belong together. What you pay is what you get. This math always the fact in auto world
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