Iron Chef

Link! Surely they couldn't be that stupid...

For the love of Tsuchiya, please, ditch those rims and lower it.

I've done a few exotics ex UK, prices are a bit better there at the moment with the exchange rate the way it is. Feel free to shoot me an email with what you're after, the other guys should be able to help you out too if you prefer.

*Sigh* I'm supposed to be on holidays... If it has come in under SEVS, then it will need to be stock standard when it goes for the ID check, and will need to have brand new tyres. If not be prepared to get sent over the pits and raped by TransportSA. If it's a pre-89 import, it will be going over the pits. PS If your import broker knew sh*t from clay, he should've already advised you of all this.

2009 wants its news back...

Whoever did it, I think they picked the wrong person to steal a car from...

That's Cronic - I told him when he first got the damn thing to get that exhaust changed!!

The Cube definitely has appeal to people of all ages, just based on the people who've come up to me asking for more info when I've been driving mine around. I'm searching for three or four baby boomers at the moment. To answer your questions: Q1. Probably, although the Cube is a fair chunk smaller on the outside and has a much smaller engine. The Cube also has a 7 seat option that the Rukus doesn't. Q2. Younger buyers will probably mod them with aftermarket gear, the factory individualising stuff is best left to people who buy Kia Souls. Older people won't really car that much. Q3 & Q4. I doubt you'd see a Cube dip under about $7-8K unless it had really high mileage. The Cube will depreciate better than a Rukus purely because it doesn't have as far to fall. I think if the Rukus had been sold here from 2005 or whatever, it might've been a different story, as there would be used examples of both on the market to get a better comparison. It's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison, but even still, a used car will always depreciate better than a new one.

House hunting as we speak

lol another mate of mine spotted both you AND my wife on the same road! haha It's a touch different now though...

^^^and more accurate...

My thoughts exactly...

Sorry, what was that? I got to "thumb" then saw your sig and missed the rest of it...

If that's the most bitter experience you've had, then you should be counting yourself very very lucky. Anyway problem solved - it was just a misunderstanding between the OP and the workshop. Car should be done in a couple of weeks.

*sigh* PM me the name of the workshop...

I was gonna say, for most people these days, R33s are irrelevant - they're old cars, too old to be of interest to the general public, but not old enough to be considered a classic. Per capita, there are probably more Skylines in Australia than in Japan.

Personal import - would've been cheap to buy in Japan, the owner would've brought it back rather than give it away for free over there. Stranger things have happened...

lol check the video - driven like a true rally driver! There's even a fluffed gearchange at one point...

That must be a pretty long street if you're in Lonny Grab the chassis number if you can, the PM it to me. Jury's still out on the kms, but either way it'd be a deadset bargain for a VS2.

lol even in Tassie, no-one would be stupid enough to sell a V-Spec 2 for that kind of money if the kms were legitimately that low.

Please, no more talk of Nismo Z-Tune engines - you'd be looking at a minimum of $50K to buy just the engine and import it.

There are plenty in Japan

Damn that looks heaps like me!!

Please tell me you didn't join up just to make that comment...