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I was looking at the Skylines and wondering how comparatively easy they are to live with in terms of being a road vehicle and running costs. (Did a bit of searching around but I didnt find a specific topic on it so sorry if its being a bit of a rehashed subject.) Being an old bastard I've owned, run, borrowed and used a lot of cars from Mk1 escorts to late model 5.7L commodores and I imported an S13 K's which has been my daily driver and general 'toy' to run around in for the last six years. Being both ford and holden havent made a decent product in years worth my money I'm looking at another import, the Silvia is a lovely car and done well by me so the next logical progression for something larger and slightly more modern is a skyline.

Fuel costs aside, I already pay for one very thirsty, high maintenance car with spine snapping suspension and anti-social behavior I can live with

My heart is leaning towards the R32GTR, late model around 93-94 era but I've not got a lot of experience in AWD cars aside from a friend letting me generously put-putt around once in his R34GTR (which is so far out of my price range its not funny) which from the get go suggested a lot different driving techniques to RWD big horsepower beasts. I've also had a soft spot for the GTR ever since it sent aussie motorsport back to the stone age so to speak.

The R34GTT, in a manual with the nice Neo RB25DETT is also very appealing because it looks like it would be a fairly easy car to get used too driving and being a bit more modern less likely to have more suicidal second hand owners in its life. However like the R32GTR I'm still not sure how expensive they are in terms of parts and finding people that can service them without destroying them in the process.

Not looking for a heavily modified vehicle either, mostly just that in stock configuration.

cheers for any help

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Hay if they are anythinglike running my bike, it's expensive. But in reality any car can be expensive. I have a 207kW at the wheel magna, thats righ a magna, 207kW. YESS you may lough but the dam thing is FAST and it's ATMO. Cost 5 grand to get that power and to make sure the gearbox doesn't die on my. Now that car can just purr along in town and still uses 12l/100 and on the higway 7-8l/100, but on the track having fun i t does about 26l/100 so it depends on the driving.

If you do regular maintnace yourself and so forth you will asve money. Also i found it is far better to fix a littel problem straight away, then to let it get worse.

As to the antisocial behaviour and spine crushing suspension, oh well, you gota live with that.

Esentialy i don't hink it's any more expensive owning a skyline then it is having any other high performance car.

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