why imports are better than muscle cars

[monkeyfresh187]

:smoka: look the way i figure it is when u can take a car that u drive to work every day and drive it to the strip and you ran a 9.72@et thats is bad because u cant do that to a big block chevy or any other muscle car but u can do it to a import in fact the muscle cars of the past ruined it for us. the whole reason we can't get the really bad ass imports from Japan like an R34 skyline GTR Vspec is due to the muscle cars of our past put out to mutch air pollution i mean think a bout it Japaneze regular cheap gas at the local gas station is the racing fuel u have to get from a special store in the u.s. i mean the Japanese know how to make a car if you have any info on any thing i am wrong about in this let ME know please :smoka:

[flylwsi]

what are you talking about?
most imports are honda/toyota, etc...
you cant drive a 9 sec honda to work.
you can drive alot of nice domestics to work that run 8s-10s...

and i own both, so im not biased, but lemme know when you have an import in the u.s. that is runnin nines that is COMFORTABLE to drive every day... and im not talkin supras...

[LjasonL]

Originally posted by flylwsi
and i own both, so im not biased, but lemme know when you have an import in the u.s. that is runnin nines that is COMFORTABLE to drive every day... and im not talkin supras...

lots of nitrous on a lamborghini diablo!!! oh u meant japanese import. an rx7 could do it. but no, a fwd car like most imports could not.

[Lotus]

look, most jap imports that run nines will not be driveable every day, and same with american iron, of course there are exceptions.

[Steel]

talk abbut complete bullshit excuses, monkey. Do some research before you make yourself look stupid......oops.....too late:finger4:

[flylwsi]

an rx7 is a good choice, but they are time bombs, susceptible to overheating...
having one with enough power to run 9s means it runs pretty hot, and i dont know that it would be a great general driver...

but it is still a good choice... i thought about it, but i figured you'd get my point...

[TheWask]

That is one of the most retarded postest I have every seen! You cant drive(daily/street) a muscle car that does 9 seconds but you can an import that does on the street!?!?!!? Acctualy its the other way around. And as for muscle cars ruining the fact that we dont get Skylines and Silvias and whatnot is complete BS. Its the fault of car company execs in both Japan and the US.

[CAptynCrunch]

Originally posted by TheWask
That is one of the most retarded postest I have every seen! You cant drive(daily/street) a muscle car that does 9 seconds but you can an import that does on the street!?!?!!? Acctualy its the other way around. And as for muscle cars ruining the fact that we dont get Skylines and Silvias and whatnot is complete BS. Its the fault of car company execs in both Japan and the US.

Wrong. it's not the companies faults. The reason we don't have Things like skylines over here is because of old men. The reason why they don't bring skylines over here is because there isn't a market for it. If they did they'd lose a lot of money and then our favourite companies would go out of business then we could kiss skylines and everything else goodbye from everywhere, and don't try saying "of course theres a market, me and everyone one of my friends would love to buy them because you wouldn't. You'd want to buy them but you wouldn't be able to. I mean how many of us have $100,000 or more american sitting around to blow on a brand new skyline?). And once again, the reason for there not being a market is old men. Why do you ask is it old men's faults? Because old men are the only ones that have to money to buy a brnad new skyline. How many people under 25 do you know with that kind of cash? They won't buy Skylines because they'd rather have corvette's, vipers and other domestic cars. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with this.

I mean just think about it, if you had a choice between an inredibly awesome car like a skyline and an incredibly awesome car like a corvette that you've grown up with, dreamed of owning when you were a kid and quite possibly owned as your first car, which one are you gonna buy? simple, the one you grew up with. So until more people with enough money to buy them start liking skylines they aren't going to be sold in North America. Which is why i believe that in about 20 years or so when all the people who are into imports now are older and have high paying jobs and nothing left to spend it on after having paid off they're houses and everything i think they mor then likely will bring the skylines and other such cars over here. I mean they've already got the I35(given that thing is a horrible disgrace to the name skyline, but it is a step in the right direction.)

So no, the companies are not doing anything wrong. In fact they're doing the right thing by not wasting money and not destroying the company.

[Sindie]

Also the other factor in it is regulations. North America has the highest requirements for crash impact and emissions. These cars were developed without those standards in mind and are very expensive to convert on a mass basis to meet those standards. And the rest is as CAptynCrunch said.

[RiceRocket]

This post just makes me

[SickLude]

seriously, what is this post about anyway..theres like 3 different topics...

[Nxtyoung]

corect me if i'm wrong but isnt thier another thread about this very thig called "Imports or Domestic". I mean whats the use in starting a new thread?

[LjasonL]

anyone heard of the 4 rotor engines some rotary tuning company makes? naturally aspirated and 850hp, redline at 18,000 rpm! im gonna have to find more details!

[96 LT1-Z]

Actually, the biggest reason there is no Skyline here is it's design. According to a Nissan exec interviewed by Road and Track, the cost of importing the Skyline and converting it to left side drive would make it too expensive to compete. A stock R34 Skyline accelrates no quicker than a stock LS1 F-body, and would cost more than a GTS Viper. The conversion problem is due to the fact that the turbo's are located exactly where the steering shaft would have to be run. The car was NEVER intended to be imported here. That's why the new GTR concept based on the 350Z will most likely be a V-6 or V-8, so that the American market can be tapped, and the fact that Nissan feels it desperately need s to fill the Performance gap left by the 300 ZX being discontinued over here.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

this never works a post like this comes along and then there's world war 3

each market has their strong points but at the moment Camaros and Firebirds are to be discontinued doesn't that suck? but the main buyers aren't buying them under 21's that is so they get imports instead.... the downfall of the Muscle Cars is due to over pricing them with too many luxuries

they priced out their main buyers so fuck em they can burn

FUCK YOU CHEVY AND PONTIAC

GO NISSAN HONDA etc


i'm getting a Silvia