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Originally Posted by industrial
The amount of time produced shows it wasn't around long. The s15 never left the jdm in any form. Your s13 was imported here. That's truely apples and oranges. What happens when some random bits break? You can't roll over to nissan/autozone/junk yards and grab a replacement. You have to special order everything or start fabbing/tinkering. Sounds like a pain to me unless you are a professional auto mechanic.
People will pay what they will pay, that's true. Is the s15 a classic? I highly doubt it. I don't really know. If I'm paying for some imported pain in the ass nissan, it better say GT-R or I'm going to pass. Importing a s15 seems like importing a gts-t skyline to me...why bother?
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Something random like what? The wiring harness? You might be in a bit of a bind there, but for everything else there is aftermarket. The S15 also shares a lot of its mechanical bits with other Nissan cars, including the other S-chassis which is why I mentioned the S13.
I'd rather a GT-R over an S15, but if the S15 can be had cheaper and the OP can afford it, I'd definitely go with the S15 over a twin.
In 5 years or so most people will look at the twins like the do the 350Z, but an S15 will still get as much respect then as it does today.
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Originally Posted by hmong337
With my spotless driving record and 25+ age and married, facility was still $320 a month on the rhd Supra alone!!! That's more than insuring my sw20, FRS, and my wife's Lexus HS combined. It would be a much smarter idea finding something with a proper VIN and paying the extra cash for something legit and LHD rather than putting my monies into some clapped out rhd sportcar with dead end resources. It would cost a lot more in the end owning something rhd than LHD. Especially Skylines or anything exclusively rhd like the s15 Silvia turbo with extremely limited resources to maintain and insure it.
It'd have to be a show only or a track and trailer type car. Plus rhd in our LHD country is just disastrous.
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That is crazy cost prohibitive. Unless you're rolling in the deep I wouldn't even consider anything RHD.