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Yes the car looks the part for the homosexual crowd. I'll try to do it up with some crazy carbon fibre bits and massive wing so it becomes a bit more hetero

Heh you have to put up/pull down the soft top by hand - no motor! It's cool. The safety of a particular car, unless backed up by some kind of crash video or NCAP rating is always debateable, so can be argued for and against forever.

Heh maybe? I don't know. I just wanted a light car that could be thrown around easily.

Fair point Joe. The S2000 is indeed a better car than the MR-S but from the prices I saw, anything under $30k meant a 1999 model and high kms. Maybe your mate was lucky. I traded it in for $9k. Maybe abit low at face value, but the car was falling apart.

The R33 was getting way too old. Things were breaking or not working and also there was the poor fuel economy of a boosted/modified car. Unless it's some sort of project car, I will never ever ever buy a car older than 5 years old any more.

Vital Specs 2003 Toyota MR-S (AuDM) 6 speed SMT Factory TRD bodykit 17" Speedy wheels with 205/40 tyres Pictures Rundown & Review Firstly let me say this car is pretty slow compared to my boosted R33! The SMT transmission is adequate on the upshift but great on the downshift. The 1ZZ-FE delivers power smoothly and it's very rev happy. Handling wise, the car is very 'chuckable'. A 975kg weight means the car is one of the lightest on the road today. To help prevent any loss of control, the car comes standard with traction control, ABS and most importantly vehicle stability control. With the car being so light, the brakes are more than adequate to stop the car. The brake pedal feel is solid. The only thing I could want from my brakes are for the calipers to be red! The MR layout of the MR-S means you have a very different feel to my old FR Skyline. The front end is more twitchy and even in mild corners you can feel the weight of the engine pull the rear end around. I want to get to a trackday as soon as I can so I know the limits of the car and really learn the dynamics of driving a MR car. I'll shed some light on the SMT here... It is not a traditional auto with a tiptronic gear selector. It is a fully fledged manual gearbox but with the computer controlling the clutch. There is no 'D' gear and unlike automatics, your car will not start rolling forward in gear. You have to also upshift yourself. The computer does downshift to 1st or 2nd for you when you slow down depending on how much you slow down. Exterior wise, the car is black (the best colour!). There are some blemishes such as swirl marks and light scratches so I need to get to a detailer. Any recommendations for a detailer open on the weekends in the Sydney area would be appreciated. The car comes fitted with a factory TRD kit so it saves me the headache and money of attaching a bodykit. Headlights are projector style for low beam, which is great for a HID upgrade. Even with the yellow factory halogens now I can see they have a great cut-off and they are 10x better than my R33's reflectors. The wheels currently on it are some garbage Speedy 17"s. I have to admit the wheels do look decent on the car but of course I'm going to replace them with some quality JDM rims. The interior of the car is fairly simplistic but I do like the leather seats with their fairly low seating position. When the car is parked next to the kerb, the passenger must step up onto the pavement! The doors close solidly without any large rattling which I had in my R33 due to the side intrusion bar installation during compliance. The one thing I miss is the climate control I had in my R33. The car comes with a MP3 6 disc stacker with tape deck. I may change the headunit to an Alpine head unit so it can interface with my iPod. The steering wheel is just the right size and gearshift controls can be found both at the gear knob as well as buttons on the steering wheel. All interior lights including aircon controls, gauges etc light up orange. The soft top roof is very simple to put up or down. I need to work on my left arm muscles so I can do it just by reaching back! The roof clips on with two sturdy clips on the top corners of the windscreen. When the top is down there is a small wind deflector you can put up so that wind does not blow into the cabin so much. One thing I especially like about the soft top is that it has a glass rear window (unlike the plastic ones found on other droptops) and thus also has a demister built in. The car is one of the least practical on the road today. There is a storage space at the front (which is half taken up by the space-saver spare anyway) and some storage bins located behind the seats. Apart from that, that's it for any large storage spaces. I'm debating whether to leave the spare tyre at home to free up more storage room - this will of course upset the weight distribution of the car.

I wonder how many KMs on those cars Imagine driving a 'straight out of the box' R32 or R33 GTR. No aging of parts to wear them down and no rattles too.

Don't think they'd fit unless you have rolled the guards. For GTS-Ts people generally run the maximum widths of 8" at front and 9" at the back. Any wider and they'd stick out of the guards.

Yeah I was considering the ARC one but need to know how much the APX one costs. Also when they say "M8X1.25" does that mean the knob will fit a shaft 8mm in diameter with the thread being 1.25?

Hey Wilbur what's the diameter of gearstick that this knob can be screwed on to?

They look like Buddy Club P1 Racing QFs. One of the lightest, non-magnesium wheels in the world.

I think I've seen that guy around Willoughby area too.

Looks good but really the effort and money it takes to make one would scare me off. Most famous is Bee*Rs R334: http://www.bee-r.com/main/parts/aero/b334r01.htm

Damn that looks nice Thomas.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Are these places generally open on weekends? Thanks but I'm looking for a Alpine headunit with full speed iPod connectivity capability

Spotted Beer Baron walking around in Chatswood Chase

I'm looking to get an Alpine head unit and maybe some splits. Where can I get a good deal in Sydney for such equipment? I know of the usual suspects.. FHRX JB Strathfield Lifestyle Any others I should check out? I thought eBay would be good but they end up being the same price as JB!

Brake pedal and Work wheel nuts SOLD!!

Strut brace SOLD!!

Nope they were saying WSID = good. But cars speeding while exiting the facility = bad.

I haven't made the jump but I've driven my brothers old one fairly hard so I can compare to my mildly modded R33 GTS-T.. First of all, it's about as powerful as my R33 was. Being NA, you get smooth power delivery right from the get-go so I preferred it more to the turbo set up. Handling wise, it was a bit of a boat but I guess you could always make suspension mods to make it handle better. Personally if I got a V35 it'd be a cruiser and not a track-ish car. The car is meant for luxury with decent handling... you chuck on a suspension setup and your ride is going to be harsher, which is not really what the car was about. Same way I feel about Toyota Soarers - don't know why people go about trying to make them track/drag cars when the car's meant to be a luxury coupe. If you want a track car, get the Z33. If you want a cruisy car, get the V35.

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ALL SOLD SALE NOTES Pickup only for front lip Items located in Hills District in Sydney Higher resolution photos can be provided Please place all enquiries in this thread rather than PM so I don't have to answer same questions multiple times.

Don't think there's a passenger seat