Well , I am picking up my car today from the shop. Finally have a reliable transmission..stock blew - race built blew - lets see if this one treats me better. Anyways , Last night I was out and about after signing the final papers for my car and on my way home I spotted a red eclipse out of the corner of my eye in one of those hector's auto shop places for sale.
So being a turbo lover I popped in just for the hell of it and looked around seen like 2 1G's and 3 2g's in the mix as well covered by the street shown cars and I was like "What the fuck , why this guy have like 6 eclipse up in here.." so after talking to him a bit I guess he goes to police auctions and the state auctions and picks them up cheap.
The red eclipse I had noticed earlier was sparkling clean , leather in perfect condition , look under her dress and the engine was spotless but the car had 165,000 miles on it...so I was debating whether or not to give it a test drive and this dude just tossed me the keys , grabbed a dealer plate off the car next to it and jumped in the passanger seat ...I was like dope =)
It was cold around 40 degrees , rainy , the car was a gsx awd turbo ..little did I realize at first it was an auto =( however after letting it reach normal operating temperature , I decided to give it just a little more push and see what the gsx hype was all about as myself a FWD lover.
Well I was let down in an instant , it takes off extremely slow for a car with a turbo , it felt heavy as shit like the car didnt have the appropriate power to be moving it , the handling wasn't that mych better than my RS-T and I think Pedro noticed it and said if you want give it a good run and lets head back. So naturally I did , mashed the pedal to the floor , the car made horrible horrible sounds like something from the underworld was going to pop out through the floorboards , the transmission whined like a crack addict needing a fix , the turbo spooled but seemed like it was only 3 - 4 PSI , the RPM's stayed around 6 K for every gear before shitting very hard into the next after a few seconds of 6 K , I asked the guy if there was any work done to the car and he says no..So i'm like "Great , what a deal..."
So my over all experience with a AUTO GSX was horrible =( sounded like a change jar rattling the entire time and really knocked the car down a notch or two for me in my book.I think my 180 HP mazda 6 auto moves better and faster than that auto gsx
And the total price was : 5,000
Year : 1995
Miles : 165,000
What da fux...