what car would you get for under 130k?

[christophv]

like you just did it

I'd buy a Skyline GT-R and mod it massively
or a Porsche GT2 with 456 SAE-hp (more than a GT3)
or an NSX-R
or a little rally car, a little drift car and a little daily driver

damn where did you get 130k?

Seriously, the closest thing would be a Silvia S15 with lots of mods + a raliable, cheap, economic daily driver.

cu

[blindside.AMG]

The Noble M12 GTO would also be a fine choice.

[christophv]

jup, but the looks aren't the best-

but how about a TVR 440R?


440hp, 215mph and just about 100k I think. Doesn't get much more exotic, does it?

cu

[drunken monkey]

or the latest incarnation...
everyone's been going on about why don't they put in a turbo or supercharger...
well, they have!

confirmed specs for the supercharged straight 6 Typhon:
580bhp@7000rpm
476lb/ft @5000
around 1100kg.
£85,000 (but then most of the body is carbonfibre...)
and a true sequential gearbox!

[Joseph1082]

I assume it's pronounced as it spelled, Ling-en-felt-er... but I could be wrong.

[Jimster]

Originally Posted by Joseph1082

I would have to get a Lingenfelter, no other $130K could touch it.

Give me an R32 Skyline GTR (About $10k for car, $120k for mods) and I think I could change your mind

[nbw]

Ok then i will open my mouth again and say elise. build the engine up to 450hp. upgrade the suspenion, roll cage, slicks ect ect ect ect all that crap.
Or maybe an ultima GTR with a destroked/bored out twin seq. turbo LS1. Lets see if the skyline can even keep up with my smoke trail.

[kman10587]

If I had $130,000, I'd probably buy a really nice daily driver, and a really good sports car. $52,000 for a Corvette Z06, and $78,000 for a Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG (give or take a few thousand on each).

[acteg97]

for under 130k i think id get a new lotus elise or maybe an exige.
its to bad lotus went with the toyota motor though.
the honda spoon engine in the earlier model was better.

or maybe a rx7 with a three rotor swap

[aznxthuggie]

i would get a nsx and invest the rest into that car.. you guys all know how people say its underpowered.. it cost too much.. etc i would make it something to be remembered by everyone that it races

[nacho_nissan]

130k...
i would personally just get the car of my dreams. its not all that, i admit, but it is the car of my dreams! A R34 skyline GT-R V-SpecII. then ill get a 4-door Titan SE for my daily driver of course both of them with alot of goodies...
-EDIT-
almost forgot! a artic white G35 with brembo brakes

[Joseph1082]

I don't think a Skyline would be any better than a lingenfelter... I was assuming the $130K was to be spent on a street car, not a track-only car, and skyine GTR or Lingenfelter, both would be running side by side, both would pretty much be at the maximum level you can acheive street.

[drunken monkey]

hmm, been flicking through tha classics car magazines again.
$130,000 can get me a lamborghini lp400 AND a ferrari 365 boxer.

that's two dreams in one go!

...oops....
forgot about the lancia stratos.... and ferrari/dino 246 gt....
damn.....
can you make that $200,000 instead?

[dayna240sx]

Originally Posted by Joseph1082

I assume it's pronounced as it spelled, Ling-en-felt-er... but I could be wrong.

Yeah, thats how everyone around here pronounces it. The shop is about 30 min from where I live. And about 2 min from my boyfriend's parent's house. So I get to see the cars crusing around all the time.

[s14silvias14]

didn't he die (Lingenfelter)? I thought I read in Motor Trend or something that he died. Plus, wasn't the one TT vette that he made cost 160k? The one that they raced against an FA-18 on T.V.? anyone else see that?