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did you actually notice that that thread is 10 years old?

EDIT: After reading the thread they are right. 33's can be bougt very cheap and there are alot of shitty examples out there.

The good thing is that they will again become rare as all the others will become thrashed and trashed

Edited by ML73ZR

wanna still be special, buy a HR31

not to long it will be , buy a nice bnr32

QFT.

CBF reposting my post from OCAU, y'all can read my thoughts there.

IMO the only visually distinctive imports these days are HR31s, CLEAN R32 GT-Rs and rare stuff like Cedrics etc. Peeps tend to overate non GT-R Skylines IMO.

Even a good mate's HR31 still gets mistaken for an Aussie R31 by the unwashed masses, and chicks HATE it lol.

Edited by bozodos

skylines are quickly becoming the hoons car of choice, since they are so cheap. we had a storm come through noosa this arvo. the first car i saw doing burnouts in the wet was a r32. imports in general are the new commodore these days (unless you are in a mining community)

i remember when my mate got his very clean and expensive 33 and it was still a special car, we started getting 32 gtrs and 31 coups and passages, 34s were still to hard or pricey to get....the good old days.

its a bit depressing when you can go and buy your old dream car for fark all.

even more depressing when i saw my old 31 which i spent allot of time sweat and money modding and i saw it (granted clean and in ok condition) driven by hat wearing 16yr olds with their seats slammed back scraping on its ass and playing some shite rap music. oh well

Yes I do remember the first wave of R33's in town about 2005-2006, unfortunately since most were aquired by posers they were turned around fairly quickly. Most of the neat ones barely leave the garage; there's been several attempts to start an import community / club in town but it's failed hard, every single time, which is weird given that this is a real community of petrolheads.

GH05T: the GT-Rs are still not exactly cheap, I have seen a few thrashed out R32s around, but usually the bearings go before they get ruined styling wise :P

Marc: It's great - not a single f**k is given by the law about modified V8s, as there are so many trashy, attention seeking run down imports getting around (not counting the P platers driving the turbo variants lulz). My current favourite is a run down NA CA18 S13 with bin lid chromies missing the centre caps and a straight pipe exhaust, with a huge f**k YEAH JDM sticker / stickerbomb on the rear quarter window. I blame NS for it.

Most of the WRXs getting around these days on the other hand, are boring and stock, or nicely modified. I seriously considered one, but found the styling on the later model ones (the mazda 3 lookalike) to be just too ugly, not to mention no mechanics want to touch them in town so cbf travelling for mechanical work / being ripped off @ the stealership.

i think the problem for all sport cars are when they become affordable, it's great for those who love them and can only afford them as a result, but the flipside is alot of muppets will be getting into them treating/ricing it like their parents daewoo - big generalisation i know but generally the higher up the socio-economic food chain the car is the safer it is from hectics - bar queen street

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