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Old 03-25-2015, 06:37 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by industrial View Post
Yeah, the car was only made for Japan for 3 years from 99-02. I'm sure it'll be a joy maintaining a 13-16 year old car that was only made in limited numbers in Japan. I'm not even going to touch the resell comment. If this is done, it'll be a labor of love. I don't know how else you justify wasting so much money on a car nobody except JDM car nerds care about. It's not even that great of a performance car. Seems strange now but I remember driving one when I lived in Japan and I ended up buying a wrx which felt MUCH faster and less loose. Something about those 97 wrxs.
I'm not sure what the length of time it was produced has to do with maintaining it.

I had a 89 RPS13 in 2009 and that wasn't difficult to maintain. This would be much younger and would have benefited from a decades worth of refinement, that should make it better.

Resell, you're not going to be selling this to some bloke cross shopping a Camry. Of course you're going to sell it to an enthusiast, and enthusiast will pay. I'll put it this way, I'm not into baseball cards so a $100k card is worthless to me, but my value of it doesn't affect the value of it to those who are into that sort of thing.
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It's based on a RWD Corolla, what do you expect?
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