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Is it just me or did the car seem to bog down from the standing start suggesting Launch Control wasn't used on the power lap?

F*** me thats FAST!

dude the Z06 has 505HP and weighs only 1420Kg, of course its going to be faster than the GTR (and many other cars) from a rolling start or in gear acceleration. By all accounts there have been many magazine tests that got 11second 1/4 mile times with the Z06.

And, is that car in fact a ringer of any sort? I can believe times that are marginally faster than Z06's or GT3's, but that time on wikipedia (I don't want to give any clues as to where it sits) can't be possible with standard car running standard tyres.

No way! I'll believe that time when I see the episode!

just watched the video's, and they're AWESOME!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Good on you mate, you've done a wise thing - at least you've invested your money in something that will grow in the long term; thats better than buying a car. BTW I'm not a financial advisor, my rant was just my personal opinion and just some food for thought and I could be completely wrong. And lets not forget that each state will be different, as will eash suburb, when it comes to growth of house prices. I hope that your house price goes up sooner rather than later and rewards you for your investment!

Firstly, you'd be stupid to put leisure ahead of investing once you are working full time (its very difficult to save anything as a student on shitty wages). I think the thread should be changed to "Car vs Investment" because houses aren't the only investments you can make. Just be careful with purchasing a house now as an investment. There are some false beliefs regarding houses as investments and this can cause financial heart ache. For one, house prices do NOT double every 7 years, they have just happened to double in the last 7 years. There was a roughly 10-15 year period before that where the majority of house prices were stagnant. We can observe a similiar cycle during the 80's, when house prices skyrocketed as they have now and then there was a good 10-15 years of stagnation. This is one of the most fundamental concepts of investing; after a huge growth/loss period there will be a long period of stagnation. At the moment the median Melbourne house price is around $470,000; meaning it is somewhere around 8 times greater than the average wage - this means that it is incredibly difficult for the average person to afford a house. We will at the very least see a prolonged period of stagnation in the price of houses in Melbourne (and undoubtedly Australia) because wages have not grown as fast as house prices. In my opinion, there will be many people who will receive a rude shock over the next 5-10 years when the price of the investment property they bought doesn't increase by a very large percentage (if at all). When you factor in the impossible high prices of homes compared to the average wage and the expected interest rate hikes; there is every chance that the housing market could actually retract like it has in the USA, UK and parts of Europe because the average person simply can't afford to buy a house. Keep that in mind when deciding on whether or not to purchase a house. To answer your original question, at least if you buy a house its value will increase in the long run (10+ years), and if you buy at the right time and buy the right property you could snag yourself a bargain and sell it for more than what you paid for it. You can't do that as easily with a car.

it might be a good idea to do an advanced driver's course, similiar to the ones done by Driver Dynamics EDIT: i should learn to read all of the posts before I repeat what others have already said; lol.

You'll enjoy it more (and others won't be as envious) when you can afford to buy your own with your own hard earned cash

He probably is. If he were driving an R34 GTR as opposed to the sedan I'd be inclined to elevate him to drug-trafficker.

Go the evo mate. Its a newer car and will be just as quick (if not quicker) on the roads. GTR's aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Sorry, I misunderstoon the maintenance part (I thought it was a scale of how much money was needed to maintain the car as opposed to how well the car was maintaned). In which case Maintenance is 9/10 (its my baby after all!)

Car make/type/model : Nissan Skyline R33 GTR Vspec Year : 1996 Overall condition of car: 8/10 How is the car treated: 3/10 (Its my daily driver and I drive like a grandmother and stretch its legs maybe ONCE per week. Having said that I only do around 200kms per week) Maintenance level: 5/10 (car is stock so apart from the usual maintenance routine of servicing/tyres/insurance etc there isn't much) Modifications: (Air pods, exhaust - so its fairly stock) Insurance: Its gotta be shannons comprehensive Estimaged power: not sure, but as its stock probably somewhere around 140-150 awkw Estimated $ spent per year to maintain: probably around $5-7K including insurance.

Remember to take into account the difference in excess between just cars and shannons. IME shannons has slighly higher premiums but much cheaper excesses (as in $900 vs $2500!!!)

No, not yet as its fairly stock. But its due for a service soon, so I'll get that done as well as some other tests.

bump, open to any reasonable offer.

Dunno about that. I've had a couple of middle aged guys stop me randomly on two different occasions when I was parking to have a chat about 'Godzillas'. They appreciated what the R32 GTR had done at bathurst and what the GTR heritage stood for. I think the 'enthusiasts' know and appreciate sports cars for different reasons; such as motorsport success and history, innovations introduced by the car, etc.

hmmm.. maybe; if it were a beanie like the ones worn by the warfies...

Depend on how the baseball cap is being worn: Cap backwards = hoon Cap forwards = enthusiast

Thanks but I'm just after the pipe connecting the condensor and compressor.

I'm not one to normally make generalisations, but the average VN-VP SS drivers are wankers compared to other drivers.

244Kw @ the fly sounds about right for a flat or low 13 second 1/4 mile @ around 160kph.

Do you have any of the A/C assembly for sale? I'm after the pipe that connects the condensor and compressor.