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Originally Posted by UltArc
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.
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.
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In Canada they don't actually use the term Classic, they pretty much looked at the numbers and said at that age the only people trying to import cars are doing it because they are, Classic cars, collector cars, special interest cars. They are not daily transport and the numbers are so small that they pose little risk to the public. The people who want those cars will drive them differently than the general public. However they have recently been talking about changing it. With the Yen the way it was and the Asian import/export market so closely connected to BC there has been a flood of Japanese exports. The maintenance safety standards in Japan are amazingly strict, compare that to Canada that has almost none. With no road salt the cars are in great condition. I would put the majority of Japanese 15 year old export cars as a better used car gamble than any 8 year old Canadian car. In ON you get a vehicle certified only to transfer ownership, you get a "drive clean" every 2 years for vehicles after 87 and you only have to pass the standard for the year. And that's only for the most populous part of the province. They have also talked about cancelling it. You can pretty much modify anything and if you never sell the car or you don't cause sparks going down the road no one will do anything about it. You could buy a car, never put a cent into it and drive it into the ground, until you crash no one will know. The only thing that has a chance of being spotted is anything a cop would notice walking up to give you a speeding ticket.
If I hadn't bought a brand new car I would have been looking at getting a BMW 1 series 2.0 diesel 5 door stick from Europe in the next few years. It's got everything I love, RWD, Hatch, Power and Fuel Economy!!!!
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...1501?logcode=p
I LOVED my skyline, and I want another one. I paid $15,000 for mine with 60,000miles, it was in mint condition. You can get them as low as $10,000 now. Considering the size, the aero, awd, the power (mine was approx. 350hp) and the way I drove it (86mph avg hwy), I am pretty surprised they got 20mpg.
Now for the US you're only 2 years away from the 89 GTRs!!!! There are a ton of them up here in Canada already, save the freight!