impreza vs camaro
TatII
08-17-2002, 01:17 AM
madz you are extremely right. it was Gran Turismo that introduced me to true JDM cars. there is nothing wrong with that. it just happen to take "discoverying them" to the next level. i actually studied these cars. usually when i have a favorite car. it always gets replaced by another one in a month or so. but thats not the case with the skyline. no matter how i look at it. i cna't seem to find a single weakness thats strong enough for me to de throne it. the nsx had been dethroned. the firebird had been dethroned, the VR4 had been dethroned, the 300ZX TT had been dethroned. and the supra mark IV TT had been dethroned. all of these cars took about a month of research for me to find a major flaw. but i've been drooling over the skyline since 98!!! and i still love it more and more. the more i find out about it. the more impressed i am with it. and that car continues to evolve every year. even if its in the same generation. they would always do stuff to it to make it even better.
street_racer_00
08-17-2002, 01:58 AM
I actually discovered the skyline while looking for a website with aftermarket parts for my car, that was about a couple of years ago. And I discovered the Lancer Evo through the move "who am I" with Jackie Chan!
-The Stig-
08-17-2002, 02:07 AM
Originally posted by TatII
madz you are extremely right. it was Gran Turismo that introduced me to true JDM cars. there is nothing wrong with that. it just happen to take "discoverying them" to the next level. i actually studied these cars. usually when i have a favorite car. it always gets replaced by another one in a month or so. but thats not the case with the skyline. no matter how i look at it. i cna't seem to find a single weakness thats strong enough for me to de throne it. the nsx had been dethroned. the firebird had been dethroned, the VR4 had been dethroned, the 300ZX TT had been dethroned. and the supra mark IV TT had been dethroned. all of these cars took about a month of research for me to find a major flaw. but i've been drooling over the skyline since 98!!! and i still love it more and more. the more i find out about it. the more impressed i am with it. and that car continues to evolve every year. even if its in the same generation. they would always do stuff to it to make it even better.
skylines... you're forgetting that instead of an airbag, they have a giant metal pike that shoots out and impales you? call it a mean joke by Nissan but its a flaw in my book.
madz you are extremely right. it was Gran Turismo that introduced me to true JDM cars. there is nothing wrong with that. it just happen to take "discoverying them" to the next level. i actually studied these cars. usually when i have a favorite car. it always gets replaced by another one in a month or so. but thats not the case with the skyline. no matter how i look at it. i cna't seem to find a single weakness thats strong enough for me to de throne it. the nsx had been dethroned. the firebird had been dethroned, the VR4 had been dethroned, the 300ZX TT had been dethroned. and the supra mark IV TT had been dethroned. all of these cars took about a month of research for me to find a major flaw. but i've been drooling over the skyline since 98!!! and i still love it more and more. the more i find out about it. the more impressed i am with it. and that car continues to evolve every year. even if its in the same generation. they would always do stuff to it to make it even better.
skylines... you're forgetting that instead of an airbag, they have a giant metal pike that shoots out and impales you? call it a mean joke by Nissan but its a flaw in my book.
street_racer_00
08-17-2002, 02:12 AM
I don't care if the brake pedal is attached to a crossbow aimed at my head, I'd still like to own one.
TatII
08-17-2002, 12:17 PM
eeerrr you didn'tk now that the skylines comes with airbags? as small as the steering wheel seems. there is still a air bag in there. if you look at all the wrecked skyline photos. you see the airbags. sooo nope. no flaw to me.
MadZ
08-17-2002, 07:41 PM
Originally posted by TatII
madz you are extremely right. it was Gran Turismo that introduced me to true JDM cars. there is nothing wrong with that. it just happen to take "discoverying them" to the next level. i actually studied these cars. usually when i have a favorite car. it always gets replaced by another one in a month or so. but thats not the case with the skyline. no matter how i look at it. i cna't seem to find a single weakness thats strong enough for me to de throne it. the nsx had been dethroned. the firebird had been dethroned, the VR4 had been dethroned, the 300ZX TT had been dethroned. and the supra mark IV TT had been dethroned. all of these cars took about a month of research for me to find a major flaw. but i've been drooling over the skyline since 98!!! and i still love it more and more. the more i find out about it. the more impressed i am with it. and that car continues to evolve every year. even if its in the same generation. they would always do stuff to it to make it even better.
well, now that I think about it, I guess there is nothing wrong with being introduced to it by a video game, I just get tired of some people pineing over a car that is half the world away and may never make it over to the states. everyone talks out there ass saying that they are going to buy one and do this and that, but the sad truth is that unless these cars come to the U.S., I'd say less than 1% of these people would actually buy one from overseas. There's just no market for them in the U.S. right now anyways. (maybe in about 10 to 15 years...maybe) But as of right now, anyone who actually has the money to afford one is probably at least in their mid-twenties and up and have no idea what a skyline is.
madz you are extremely right. it was Gran Turismo that introduced me to true JDM cars. there is nothing wrong with that. it just happen to take "discoverying them" to the next level. i actually studied these cars. usually when i have a favorite car. it always gets replaced by another one in a month or so. but thats not the case with the skyline. no matter how i look at it. i cna't seem to find a single weakness thats strong enough for me to de throne it. the nsx had been dethroned. the firebird had been dethroned, the VR4 had been dethroned, the 300ZX TT had been dethroned. and the supra mark IV TT had been dethroned. all of these cars took about a month of research for me to find a major flaw. but i've been drooling over the skyline since 98!!! and i still love it more and more. the more i find out about it. the more impressed i am with it. and that car continues to evolve every year. even if its in the same generation. they would always do stuff to it to make it even better.
well, now that I think about it, I guess there is nothing wrong with being introduced to it by a video game, I just get tired of some people pineing over a car that is half the world away and may never make it over to the states. everyone talks out there ass saying that they are going to buy one and do this and that, but the sad truth is that unless these cars come to the U.S., I'd say less than 1% of these people would actually buy one from overseas. There's just no market for them in the U.S. right now anyways. (maybe in about 10 to 15 years...maybe) But as of right now, anyone who actually has the money to afford one is probably at least in their mid-twenties and up and have no idea what a skyline is.
Mr Fudderman
04-01-2004, 03:57 AM
YOU CAN PUT THE BEST DRIVER THERE IS INA RUSTANG, AND A FRESH NEWBIE WHO JUST GOT HIS LICENSE IN A SCOOBY, AND THE GUY DRIVING THE RUSTANG WILL LOOSE.
IN THE CORNERS A RUSTANG HAS NO CHANCE IN HISTORY TO COM CLOSE TO A SCOOBY.
IF YOU UP THE POWER ON A SCOOBY TO THE SAME AS A RUSTANG, THE RUSTANG WILL LOOSE IN THE QUARTER.
:smoker2:
Okay slick you say that a "Scooby" will beat a Mustang in the quarter mile? are you talking about a V8 Mustang? Lets not get ahead of yourself, you realize that for a Scooby, as you call it, to make the same power as a Mustang it takes goobs of turbo boost on their a lack luster 4 bangers. Ooooooh yeah look at your Subaru its really a techno wonder you throw 15 pounds of boost at it and it makes at 250-300 hp oooh!! Well guess what, if you put that much boost into any 4 cylinder it will make that much power. What you fail to realize is that when a V8 Mustang owner decides to turbo charge or supercharge their V8 with a similar boost level they are going to get twice the power, simple laws of the internal combustion engine. Example the 4.6 cobra with 390 hp and barely 7 pounds of boost compared to the 2.5 Sti's whoping 14 psi and a measly 300 hp. This kind of V8 performance will blow the doors off your little glorified disposeable econo junk you call a performance car. You will never be able to ultimately make the kind of power that a V8 Mustang is capable of unless you plan on putting something different under the hood of your so called scooby. What does that all amount to? I'll tell you, your scooby eating dust. So dont even talk about the quarter mile cause you know you're talking trash. With all of this power abord the Mustang, even with slightly less cornering ability if any less, will make a Scoobie Snack out of the Scoobie in any kind of competition and you know it. In fact these two vehicles are not even in the same catagorey and really shouldnt be compared in the first place because on one hand you have a fine storied example of AMERICAN automotive performance(Mustang) and then there is hyped, underpowered, plastic winged junk from over seas that is here today and gone tomarrow(Subaru). You may think your hot stuff at your little corner contests but I go to drag races quite a bit and barely ever see a import, especially a subaru. You know why? They talk lots of trash but they are scared stupid and are ashamed of their huge wings, shift lights and gold wheels when they are running shameful 14's. Thats not performance, thats a joke and so is the import scene.
IN THE CORNERS A RUSTANG HAS NO CHANCE IN HISTORY TO COM CLOSE TO A SCOOBY.
IF YOU UP THE POWER ON A SCOOBY TO THE SAME AS A RUSTANG, THE RUSTANG WILL LOOSE IN THE QUARTER.
:smoker2:
Okay slick you say that a "Scooby" will beat a Mustang in the quarter mile? are you talking about a V8 Mustang? Lets not get ahead of yourself, you realize that for a Scooby, as you call it, to make the same power as a Mustang it takes goobs of turbo boost on their a lack luster 4 bangers. Ooooooh yeah look at your Subaru its really a techno wonder you throw 15 pounds of boost at it and it makes at 250-300 hp oooh!! Well guess what, if you put that much boost into any 4 cylinder it will make that much power. What you fail to realize is that when a V8 Mustang owner decides to turbo charge or supercharge their V8 with a similar boost level they are going to get twice the power, simple laws of the internal combustion engine. Example the 4.6 cobra with 390 hp and barely 7 pounds of boost compared to the 2.5 Sti's whoping 14 psi and a measly 300 hp. This kind of V8 performance will blow the doors off your little glorified disposeable econo junk you call a performance car. You will never be able to ultimately make the kind of power that a V8 Mustang is capable of unless you plan on putting something different under the hood of your so called scooby. What does that all amount to? I'll tell you, your scooby eating dust. So dont even talk about the quarter mile cause you know you're talking trash. With all of this power abord the Mustang, even with slightly less cornering ability if any less, will make a Scoobie Snack out of the Scoobie in any kind of competition and you know it. In fact these two vehicles are not even in the same catagorey and really shouldnt be compared in the first place because on one hand you have a fine storied example of AMERICAN automotive performance(Mustang) and then there is hyped, underpowered, plastic winged junk from over seas that is here today and gone tomarrow(Subaru). You may think your hot stuff at your little corner contests but I go to drag races quite a bit and barely ever see a import, especially a subaru. You know why? They talk lots of trash but they are scared stupid and are ashamed of their huge wings, shift lights and gold wheels when they are running shameful 14's. Thats not performance, thats a joke and so is the import scene.
DeViL
04-01-2004, 08:37 AM
Yeah well the Cobra engine is quite a bit bigger then the STi's so that's to be expected. It doesn't impress me how either of them get the hp that they do. I doubt it can beat the Mach I but that Subaru can definately beat a GT Mustang. Which is one of those V8 Mustangs you seem to think can't lose.
LjasonL
04-01-2004, 08:53 AM
Bunch of BS
You talk big but you don't seem to realize that STi can turn a 12 second 1/4 bone stock. That's just as fast as your Cobra.
The import scene is a joke? Any car can be fast, no matter where it's made, and if you're a car enthusiast you should be able to respect that. For you to be going off about imports like this for no reason shows you must be insecure about something, especially since you revived such an old thread. All you have done is show your ignorance and close mindedness.
Leave.
You talk big but you don't seem to realize that STi can turn a 12 second 1/4 bone stock. That's just as fast as your Cobra.
The import scene is a joke? Any car can be fast, no matter where it's made, and if you're a car enthusiast you should be able to respect that. For you to be going off about imports like this for no reason shows you must be insecure about something, especially since you revived such an old thread. All you have done is show your ignorance and close mindedness.
Leave.
Gtr2.7L
04-01-2004, 10:10 AM
The STI has less power, but it also weighs some 500 lbs less WITH AWD. They have very similar quarter-mile times.
You sound just like a Supra fan-boy screaming about stock bottom end. It's pretty telling a car you call an "econobox" will outrun your "performance" car out of the box.
The Cobra is also no match for an STI on the track. All it takes is a quick look at the brakes (Cobras have floating calipers for god sakes) to figure that out. A couple of stops in a 3700lb Cobra at high speeds and you would be praying for that STI.
You sound just like a Supra fan-boy screaming about stock bottom end. It's pretty telling a car you call an "econobox" will outrun your "performance" car out of the box.
The Cobra is also no match for an STI on the track. All it takes is a quick look at the brakes (Cobras have floating calipers for god sakes) to figure that out. A couple of stops in a 3700lb Cobra at high speeds and you would be praying for that STI.
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