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Originally Posted by jsimon7777
Fixed.
This thread is awesome. Definitely my favorite. So much hilarity.
Dez, put it back to stock or sell it. As for the C7, it's one of the few cars that looks dramatically better in pictures. I saw one in person and gagged. Get a C5 Z06 and call it a day.
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Eventually it will get parted out but not until I actually get to have some fun with it or it just has some type of catastrophic failure.
In truth I maintain it is really one of the better cars I have owned at any price point. The C5 or C6 Z06 is on a list of future owns and C7.
Not even going to think about that right now.
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Originally Posted by Tromatic
Not jealous. Or is that "jelly"? But for someone who can buy a 25K car and then toss in another 10 or more K for shits and giggles really has no leg to stand on when it comes to bitching.
OP needs some real-life problems money can't fix.
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This is way off topic, plenty of "real" life problems. But this post aint about that, its about modifying cars.
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Originally Posted by extrashaky
Because built not bought.
If you buy a Porsche Cayman, you buy what some German engineers and marketing people decided you needed in a sports car.
If you buy a BRZ or an FR-S, you buy a base car with a baseline set of capabilities that is a fun drive right off the lot. Then you add to it (or not) to make it exactly like you want it. The reality of this model is that, if you really want to, you get a big say in designing your own car. Or you can be happy with what Toyobaru gave you.
Either way, the difference is that you have a choice, and what you end up with is really yours.
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Something to be said for buying a car like a 911 or a Lotus that was purpose built and massaged by experienced/life long performance based engineers. Not some guy who designed a SUV, Family Sedan and then a sports car on the side.
When we get into mass produced sporty production cars from big brands, the engineers working on a car usually as in the case of the 86 were working on economy cars previously. I think this car was a low risk proving ground for Toyota.
Tada San for example, was given free range to do whatever and he came up with something fun and basic and here we are.
But Tada San is no Andreas Preuninger, and that's why someone would buy a 911 etc for that level of engineering.