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Originally Posted by minispeed
There was a company that was importing BNR33 skyline GTRs (approx. 1995) and I think a few BNR34s too, they claimed to do all the testing, invest money in getting DOT approved headlights and windshields. As it turns out they faked it all and were just re selling the cars as is for a huge profit. There was a whole bunch of seizures and legal action, I bet this story is something similar. If I recall correctly though the DOT decided not to go after the buyers who thought they had a DOT cert.
And people were willing to pay a huge mark up for those cars. Well they are certainly not fuel efficient they are amazing, I had a BNR32 which is legal to import as Canadas "classic" import rules are 15 years old vs the US 25. My best tank ever was 11L/100km, avg was 12.5. It makes me wonder now what I could do with that car.
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I have never driven one or even seen in person, but on a driving simulator I had some fun with it, and they seemed to be pretty sweet. Being an avid lover of not being usual, I'd rather pay 100,00 grand for a vehicle like that than some vehicles costing TWICE as much, and similar performance.
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Originally Posted by Vman455
There is. The Green Bay Press article linked to in the Jalopnik article fills in the back story.
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Thanks for bringing this up. It's cool to see more to the story, although surely this there is even more not being included.
I don't see how a 19 year old vehicle is even a classic. I had a 1989 S10 Blazer which was fantastic, and I love that to this day. But that Blazer is not a classic, even though it is now 23-24 years old. I see the reasoning, and I understand why, but if we are going to be forgiving older cars for having terrible mileage, I would think our production models would have higher standards, now.