Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Haven't seen a blue RS.

There is another Axis. Silver.

One of the just jap guys has a silver arx with just jap decals.

Saw a red RS today and I've seen a white RS as well.

Getting to be quite the collection.

Haven't seen a blue RS.

There is another Axis. Silver.

One of the just jap guys has a silver arx with just jap decals.

Saw a red RS today and I've seen a white RS as well.

Getting to be quite the collection.

Picked up a new tyre from Tyrepower Frankston.

When I dropped off the punctured one the tyre guy said "is that for the Volvo?". "Nah, It's a Nissan" I said laughing.

I think he apologised 5 times in the space of 30 seconds!

Anyway, when I went to pick it up, the older guy there comes out, looks over my shoulder and says

"Oh, is this the one for the Stagea?"

"Yep" (somewhat astonished that he knew what my car was)

"Yeah, there are quite a few getting around here, well not your one, the older model... the one that looks like a Camry from the back"

"Yeah that's the one" (laughing)

"What are you laughing at? Yours looks like a Volvo from the back!"

"Yep" (laughing harder)

The laughing stopped when I got the invoice for the tyre though :(

Picked up a new tyre from Tyrepower Frankston.

When I dropped off the punctured one the tyre guy said "is that for the Volvo?". "Nah, It's a Nissan" I said laughing.

I think he apologised 5 times in the space of 30 seconds!

Anyway, when I went to pick it up, the older guy there comes out, looks over my shoulder and says

"Oh, is this the one for the Stagea?"

"Yep" (somewhat astonished that he knew what my car was)

"Yeah, there are quite a few getting around here, well not your one, the older model... the one that looks like a Camry from the back"

"Yeah that's the one" (laughing)

"What are you laughing at? Yours looks like a Volvo from the back!"

"Yep" (laughing harder)

The laughing stopped when I got the invoice for the tyre though :(

shouldve told me i woulda hooked it up if you came around here.

  • 2 weeks later...

Just moved into a new house and the neighbours thought I was driving a yellow volvo

Got some funny looks when driving down the newell highway to tas too, especially in the smaller towns

Had a door to door salesman came by our Warehouse this week selling a car / glass cleaning product. Went through the whole sales speal in our office and then offered to show how it works on the Volvo parked outside... grrrrrrr :O

Asked him what Volvo? ... the Silver Volvo parked outside .... no silver Volvo parked our side... yes definatley a Volvo... He lost the sale at this point.. lol

Ummm. has anyone whos got GT5 noticed the description for the '98 Nissan Stagea 260RS Autech?

"Although the exterior was linear in a volvo-like box style......"!!!

Was driving home from a mates other week an ha some sketchy looking fellow hang out his window to ask me if I was driving a r35 gtr. I looked at him laughed and said nah mate this is a stationwagon haha left him so puzzled

i had a guy in a XF falcon wagon. looked pretty nice too.

he was taking pictures of my car, and at the next set of light he goes. i wanna upgrade my wagon, and been looking at a few volvo's whered you get yours from?

I said, 'oh a place called SSV in huntingdale, they do alot of Japanese imports' he said, 'but volvo's arent Japanese' I said 'yeh i know, this is a nissan'

both had a laugh n he said "oh this the new stagea" ...

conversation continued after with me and my dad..

I said to him "see people like my car more than your so much that they even take pictures"

My dad turned around and said "yeh? police used to like taking photo's of your car, and then charge you the bill for it too"

ass hole lol

Oh yeah, went back to the carwash on Friday, the car was well overdue for a wash. Can't remember if it was the same guy I saw working there last time, but as he walked inside to call me, he just looked and smiled (he'd been announcing each car by colour and model as each was ready to be collected by it's owner).

Anyway, as I went to get in, he announces to all the other workers there: "hey boys, see this car? It's got all the good bits from a Skyline GT-R in it" or something along those lines.

Not quite a Volvo story, but I had a chuckle to myself as I left there...

I took my 1 week old Stagea drifting on Friday night at EC.

Rock up to the gates, 1st security guard asks if I was spectating, I said "nah, I'm drifting". Security guard 1 pauses and then says ok and lets me through.

drive down to the pitlane and security guard 2 asks if I was spectating, I gave him the same reply, Security guard 2 was stunned and asked "YOUR DRIFTING THAT THING?!" my reply was, "yep, just watch me" ;) And I did just that, drifted a stock, automatic Stagea ... it was good fun! :teehee:

I took my 1 week old Stagea drifting on Friday night at EC.

Rock up to the gates, 1st security guard asks if I was spectating, I said "nah, I'm drifting". Security guard 1 pauses and then says ok and lets me through.

drive down to the pitlane and security guard 2 asks if I was spectating, I gave him the same reply, Security guard 2 was stunned and asked "YOUR DRIFTING THAT THING?!" my reply was, "yep, just watch me" ;) And I did just that, drifted a stock, automatic Stagea ... it was good fun! :teehee:

pics or it didn't happen :nyaanyaa:

sounds like fun, throw up some pics or vids if ya got em

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Hi GTSBoy, Excuse my ignorance but what does a "Bad" Knee point mean ? 
    • HFM BM57 has a "bad" knee point, IIRC. It's not the same thing as the later R chassis MC.
    • The ATTESSA is functionally identical to R34; there were a bunch of JDM models that continued ATTESSA including Fuga/Q70, Skyline/Q50, Cima etc as an option. All with Auto only and I think mostly for snow regions. AFAIK there were no AWD VR30DDTT sold in Australia - it is on my to do list to check regs for racing a LHD car in Targa/ATR/AASA/CAMS events because if I can get the auto to work it would be interesting to run a 4wd car The Ecuteck TCM tuning is the same model as their ECU tuning, they already have it for R35 and Dose's favourite, BMW. You buy "points" to allow your computer to be tuned, buy either a bluetooth (phone app) or bluetooth+USB+Key (phone and PC) dongle, and pay for a tune that will be locked to your tuner ( ). You can also access the tuning software yourself but 1. it is mega expensive and 2. these computers have a billion parameters that intersect, so how could you ever spend enough time on it to get a decent result.
    • Or, is it a case of what it is like owning an R series Skyline? NFI what the previous owner has done or fiddled with... Ha ha ha After reading through this thread, I went on a bit of a research about the Q50/Q60. Now I'm quite intrigued by them! Is the AWD in them more like a WRX where it's always AWD, or is it more like the ATTESSA in the GTRs? By the sound of this TCU tuning, this sounds like a case of someone has made some real software for it, and you just need the right piece of hardware, and then you license that specific vehicle/TCU. Or is this a case of the software will be really expensive so only a few tuners have it, and you still have to pay a license per vehicle?
    • By popular demand.. it was a coil. Got my hands on 1 new OEM coil, replaced with the one that made the less noise difference when I unplugged it while the car was running and started the car up. No stutter and the engine light was gone. I guess I’ll buy the other 5 they have lol
×
×
  • Create New...