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mines ate f all i keep track of it :( account nerd

only serious costs ive had with it are defect related and resulting engineers report. but then if anything does brake on them its usually a lil more pricey for the gtr parts. still theres no way i regret buying it.

also depends on how much u like to thrash it and how much its been thrashed prior to you owning it

Of course it doesnt eat much when it just sits in the garage gathering dust :)

well i treat my car like baby :)i dont drive it really hard, just love getting admired haha

definitely going for the gt-r upgrade in a couple of years then :)

sorry for jacking the post

What else could you do with an N/A lol

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Of course it doesnt eat much when it just sits in the garage gathering dust :(

actually from what i hear i rake up more k's than most these punks on sau, done about 40,000 roughly since i bought it.

need to buy another 1 for dust collecting to ensure i still have atleast 1 to drive when im 70 :) might be hard to get parts in the 22nd century.

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since 1989 well maybe not :(

thats 2.5 years of driving roughly. some weeks tis true hardly driven, but i always make sure i do 50k each week in it just to make sure i dont do any damage leaving it to rot.

getting slightly off topic but yeah :)

and i was thinking n/a's would usually get driven harder vu, all just depends. 1 way of looking at it is its a fast car so they thrash it but then you hardly have to rev a fast car to go a decent speed where as a slower car u might be more incline to thrash it just to get it to move.

think about keeping ya foot flast constantly in a r35 compared to a sbox econobox. 1 would result in death pretty soon

1 more note i just might add, the gtr is a damn strong car. if you fixed something on it and drove it reasonably dont expect it to break anytime soon

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yeah I'm starting to appreciate the EVO's more & more as I see them going around Malalla and the hill climbs.......definitely couldn't go wrong there for that sort of money.......a 32GTR would be my 1st choice naturally but at that price you'll be spending alot more on it me thinks, not to mention that EVO's tend to go under the radar literally.

Probably a question for Kristian though; in the same way the '99 & '00 WRX and the 32GTR are cult cars, was there a particular model EVO that has a similar tag......obviously Tommy Makinen 6.5 comes to mind.....any EVO experts out there?

The pics of the bunch are probably the 6.5 and the 8MR. The 5 RS is very highly regarded too, but because the RS models didn't have airbags, they can't be complied...

Here's my new daily driver (apologies for the hijack...)

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Well another way of looking at it, in an N/A, you dont need to drive it hard because there is no point :(

but u do have to keep up with traffic, as if that all pos u drove didnt cop a beaten when all the cars around you at the lights were going much faster. and trying to get out a slip lane or something i usually leave it in 5th from the torque or the gtr its plenty enough.

but maybe you single turbo ppl just dont understand that :)

nice evo chef, and nightcrawler take it to the forsale thread b4 i ban your ass

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but u do have to keep up with traffic, as if that all pos u drove didnt cop a beaten when all the cars around you at the lights were going much faster. and trying to get out a slip lane or something i usually leave it in 5th from the torque or the gtr its plenty enough.

Oh yeah that thing copped a beating just to get up to speed. It nearly overheats going uphill!

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I don't know about you guys with your R32 GTR's but everything on mine works perfectly, had it for 4 months now and it had weaping injectors when I bought it - replaced with R34 GTR ones and thats it. Everything else on the car is 100% totally A1?

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I find a few things on my car are a little aged, no its not a GTR but the same things could happen. like:

Dash lights like the rear demister switch, hazards etc dont work

Climate Control lights dont work except for screen

There is an issue with the climate control somewhere in that I cannot move where the air comes out - its always face level

Needs a new A/C comp

Rubber seal around back window sunburnt a bit

Steering wheel could use some new hide

nothing major, just what you would expect out of a 16y/o car I guess. All could be fixed, I will get around to it :)

mechanically, it purrs! *touchwood* haha

and something I am particulary fond of: NO bubbly dash :(

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1 or 2 of my climate control globes are blown but the climate control unit its self works fine.

Rubber seal on the back window could be better but its nothing I will ever worry bout unless someone smashes the rear window lol but everything electronic works 100% and I am also apart of the 'NO BUBBLY DASH CREW' ahaha

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show me a pic of a gtr with rust :P ive only ever seen 1, alot of them dont ever see rain. theres only 1 guy i know crazy enough to leave 1 out in the weather damn you grim.

newer cars are worth x amount, 2 years time they are worth x/2 :P depreciation vs fixing costs

some people buy brand new 4bangers every 3 years saying its so they dont lose all there cash when the car becomes unreliable, so you save about $1k on repairs and lose $10k every 3 years buying the next car.

old cars are always a gamble but if you find a good 1 they are a friggen bargin compared to new 1s, they best avoided if you getting some crazy loan and cant afford to repair them though.

5yrs time the GTR is gonna be worth lot more than a v35 remember.

when i got mine the 34gtr was more than double the price, which some may say yeah its more reliable but at that price i could buy 2 32 gtr's. 1 go's boom i still have a enough cash for a 2nd.

also the cars you are comparing seem a bit strange, you got 1 old very powerful, 1 newer prob more of a buisness man type look but not that quick, and i dont know what rx7 u gonna get for 20k fc's are like 7k and fd's were like 40k i thought

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5yrs time the GTR is gonna be worth lot more than a v35 remember.

Unless it gets raped with shit mods. See so many R32 GTRs on carsales been raped by some punk kid who thinks his the next Vin Diesel. Poor cars.

when i got mine the 34gtr was more than double the price, which some may say yeah its more reliable but at that price i could buy 2 32 gtr's. 1 go's boom i still have a enough cash for a 2nd.

You go for the second one and that'll probably go BOOM aswell! lol Theres over a decade of fine tuning and improving the reliability of the RB26DETT from the time the R32 GTR first rolled out of the factory to the time they completed the first R34 GTR...

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blue mesh is easily replaced :P

i think you exagerate a lil vu, its alot less than a 50% chance of something going seriously wrong. i reckon 90% of 32 gtr owners on here havnt had any serious troubles.

your 33 is like 3-4yrs newer its like only an extra 25% at most. you should have some idea, are you under the impression your car is gonna die in a few years? they not ticking time bomb that hits 20yrs old and just explodes. people do drive 30+ yr old cars on a regular basis.

everyone used to say my dato wouldnt last cause it was old, i got 8 years and 90k out of it and its 35 yrs old now. when it gets expensive is when you rake up serious k's and they hit around 30-40yrs where you have very little places you can get parts from. as it stands now there are fair few places to get parts aswell as large aftermarket collection.

buying the 32 gtr new 130k selling now for around 25k and buying the new gtr is not going to save you cash. buying new cars = paying the premium of being able to say hey i gota brand new car. some people like that but it dont mean much to me.

anyways :P just my opinion

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