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In the end you can change everything and put all the running gear of a gtr onto a gtst or gts4 but when you put the vin through nissan fast it will come up saying its a gtst/gts4.

i dunno, i've always been under the impression that if it smells like an orange, tastes like an orange and looks like an orange, it must be an orange. If someone goes to great pain to up spec something lower to be as good or better than a "higher" model, then I don't see any harm in them claiming its as good, or is that model.

What I do have a problem with is people who have a lemon, which smells, tastes and looks like a lemon, but insist its an orange.

If I eat viet food, dress like a viet, speak viet, get a viet haircut, get a viet girlfriend, have viet friends...does this mean im viet?

should i go around telling people im viet?

no.coz its confusing as hell. lol

im not actually viet. hahahaha i dont even know why i chose that example...i think its cause i want pho. :D

How about if a mate showed up at your house party with an expensive bottle of wine, that you later learned was just a cleanskin with an expensive label put on it?

Maybe you were still drunk and couldn't tell the difference, but wouldn't you feel a bit cheated?

It's a tacky move, but people probably should have been a bit nicer about it. I've definitely seen tackier before anyways.

actually mazda did have a GTR. it rocked. mazda familia GTR was one of the best rally cars ever made.

Small, light-ish, all wheel drive and with a bit of power they really haul ass. They are bloody fun to drive.

Now i miss my old Familia GTR :P

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i dunno, i've always been under the impression that if it smells like an orange, tastes like an orange and looks like an orange, it must be an orange. If someone goes to great pain to up spec something lower to be as good or better than a "higher" model, then I don't see any harm in them claiming its as good, or is that model.

What I do have a problem with is people who have a lemon, which smells, tastes and looks like a lemon, but insist its an orange.

I dont see any harm in someone putting the time and effort in making their car better in everyway such as the engine, running gear, looks etc but for me i would still say i added all those things not claim it came from the factory as something it didnt.

so if you wrote off your GTR, you wouldn't use a GTS4 chassis to rebuild it? even though the Nissan part number for the chassis on both cars are the exact same? I mean... going by what you're saying it'd then make your GTR a GTS4 right?

I get why you guys get all wound up like schoolgirls with runs in their panties when it comes to say a blatantly obvious GTSt with no mods and 6" wide wheels sporting a GTR badge. But when someone takes great pain to build what they have to something they aspire to have, I don't see why they should be shot down, especially if they've taken great effort to make sure its as good or better than what it claims to be.

so if you wrote off your GTR, you wouldn't use a GTS4 chassis to rebuild it? even though the Nissan part number for the chassis on both cars are the exact same? I mean... going by what you're saying it'd then make your GTR a GTS4 right?

I get why you guys get all wound up like schoolgirls with runs in their panties when it comes to say a blatantly obvious GTSt with no mods and 6" wide wheels sporting a GTR badge. But when someone takes great pain to build what they have to something they aspire to have, I don't see why they should be shot down, especially if they've taken great effort to make sure its as good or better than what it claims to be.

You dont have to defend yourself dude, people have a way of being soooo sensitive today and turning every little thing into an international incident.

By the way do you know about the r33 gtr in New Zealand which is actually a gts-4 convert? It was on the high octane dvd series (#2 i think)

An amazing trust 700hp gts-4 with a gracer bodykit painted in purple, it raced the ford gt40.

Not defending myself, just playing devil's advocate. I've got a GTS4, and I know how amazingly easy it is to make into a GTR down to the last bolt... hell my car's already halfway there. I wouldn't personally put a GTR badge on it even if I did swap the engine out. I know its not worth the time and money when I could just as easily buy a real GTR. That said if I saw someone go to that much effort to own a GTR... I wouldn't make fun of them.

I mean, heaven forbid if a company went off and converted a 4 door HNR33 to an RB26, and then went and plonked a mighty big old GTR badge on the rear. Surely that's not a GTR? And then the audacity of the company, lets hypothetically call it... oh i dunno.. "Autech"... that's a nice random name... to sell this 4 door "GTR" with an HNR33 chassis and a bolted on "BNR33" plate as a "limited edition"... of course... no one would ever buy that. Never.

</sarcasm>

:P

yeah you could potentially mock up a GTS-4 to GTR spec - but no one would realistically do that would they.

GTR badges on anything thats not are lame and tryhard, no matter whats under the bonnet, people look, realise its not the real deal and think 'what a loser'.

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