Skylines

[Neutrino]

Why are people so hyped up about skylines? True they have more than excellent specs:

R34
Horsepower 277 bhp @ 6800 rpm
Torque 293 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm
Weight 3306 lbs

Acceleration

0-40 mph 2.7
0-60 mph 5.2
0-80 mph 8.7
0-100 mph 13.0

but they are by no mean fenomenal. Plus they look kind of sedan-ish.
Is it because they can be moded to heck or is just a fad?

[fastrThanU]

i think they are a cool car themselves, but i have to agree that they are waaay overhyped.

[Psman32@af]

I feel they are cool cars but are overhyped. Another thing about them though is they have serious grip. If I remember right, they pull over a g on the skidpad stock, better than alot of other cars. The engine can also stand alot of power, around 800 if I remember right but im not sure.

[TatII]

well i love the aggressive in your face look of the front of hte R34. it looks like a bulldog with its angry eyes. its truely a monster lookin car. thats is why i love it. i honestly can't find any flaw in this car. it may not be the best. but most cars has major flaws. well i honestly can't find any major flaws with this one. that is why it remained my all time favorite car for 3 years without any change of mind like i do with every other car that i loved. plus those times are pretty wrong. most people i see from NZ on the skyline board and videos that i see of people runnin stock R34's. they can do 0-60 on a average of 4.7 seconds. and does quarter miles at 13 flat with a trap speed of 113mph. adn thats the slower times. they do 0-100 in just a tick above 10 seconds. around 10.5 that pretty much brings them in the 10 second car club. plus with its superior braking and handling. with its carbon fiber under tray that channels air from the hugh front dam to the rear. along iwth its rear under body carbon fiber spoiler with 4 wings. it keeps the car very stable at over 120mph. plus how it has a 6 traction sensors. 4 on each wheel and 2 at the diff's that monitors traction 10 times a second. plus its the first mass production car that broke the 8 minute barrier at the nurumburge. with the R33. it did it as 7.59 seconds. that record has been shattered by the R34 which did it in 7.47 seconds if i remembered right. plus how it was soooo much of a car when it first debuted in 89 that it was actually banned from racin becusae it just won every single race straight in the JTTC. it would win 11 out of 11 races. they won a total of 56 races. that is why they had to disable alot of its feature such as the attessa to make the game more fair. even with that taken out. it still won 8 out of 11 races with the R33 calsonic.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

hahaha way over hyped???

Nah man you can modify the living piss out of those things 1600hp+ no methanol no nitrous just turbos and 108 octane gas


erm yea

http://www.exvitermini.com


check the skylines in the vids section

[ImportFreak]

its also a gorgeous car.. but do u kno a car that has a back seat and can fit 5 ppl that will blow the doors off most cars especially if it was modded???????

[Polygon]

There is no question they are over hyped. 1600 HP!!! Get real. Sure thats nice and all but I want to see this 1600HP Skyline and all what has been done to it because I am far too fed up with the hype behind this car. Granted it is quick, and it has good grip, but I know a few cars that have over 1G on the skidpad, the Viper being one of them. And this car is no where near woth $90,000. Give me a break. I can buy a much better car that I could get 7000HP if I wanted to.

[Firebird]

I agree they are very nice to look at but really like polygon said I can't see spending that much on a car. if I was gonna spend $90k on a car it would be 10,000 on the car and 80,000 in engine, suspension, and everything else. after all of that I'd have a car that was streetable and insanely fast that would eat that Skyline for lunch. way to much hype.

[Jay!]

It's hyped up in the U.S. because they're not readily available in the U.S. $90K is the MotoRex price because they had to foot the R&D bill for the conversion procedures. If Nissan had sold in the U.S. market, the price for a GT-R would have been way lower, because Nissan could have spread the costs across the entire sales batch. Surely it would have been enough to push the price of a new GT-R in the U.S. under $60K, perhaps under $50K, making it much more reasonable.

Personally, I think Nissan could have sold quite a few in the U.S. over the last 13 years, but apparently, they didn't think so...

[TatII]

i dunno. i think the nsx is not worth the money if your goin to complain about price. 90g's for a car thats less practical and has less parts and less electronics and less go fast goodies. plus it can beat a m3. soooo i dunno.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

NSX is completely different it is a VTEC V6 that can do 175mph on 280hp i think thats pretty resonable but for the price NO i would prefer a V8 thankfully Honda is making one


And the Skyline isn't really overhyped i personnally think that the dodge Viper is waaayyyy over hyped that thing can't do diddly squat and if you care to sheck taht vid link you will see what a 1300hp Skyline can do 0-200 in 13.75 seconds and it can still corner and doesn't have LWB and isn't running nitrous or running on methanol

WANKIE

[Jay!]

Originally posted by TatII
i dunno. i think the nsx is not worth the money if your goin to complain about price. 90g's for a car thats less practical and has less parts and less electronics and less go fast goodies. plus it can beat a m3. soooo i dunno.

The NSX is a completely different story. A good chunk of the reason why the NSX is so expensive is because they're hand-made and all-aluminum. They're a bit more exotic that the average sports car, and as such, they command a more exotic price.

I don't understand what you mean by "less practical and has less parts and less electronics and less go fast goodies." 11 years ago, the NSX was at the top of the technological line. Now, it just happens to be an 11 year old model with a face lift. Being that it's 11 years old, it still works pretty well...

For the record, I'd rather have an NSX than a Skyline GT-R.

Originally posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K
And the Skyline isn't really overhyped i personnally think that the dodge Viper is waaayyyy over hyped that thing can't do diddly squat and if you care to sheck taht vid link you will see what a 1300hp Skyline can do 0-200 in 13.75 seconds and it can still corner and doesn't have LWB and isn't running nitrous or running on methanol

I think a Viper could own a Skyline, all things being equal...

Also for the record, I'd rather have an Viper than a Skyline GT-R, too. double

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

yea it would but it has a V10 and produces 400 hp out of a lousey 8 litres now erm 50hp per liter is pathetic

[Jay!]

Originally posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K
yea it would but it has a V10 and produces 400 hp out of a lousey 8 litres now erm 50hp per liter is pathetic

450hp and 490 lb*ft in a 3420 lb factory-stock car is impressive; full stop.

Back to Skylines. Make a new thread for other cars...

[SickLude]

Originally posted by jay@af
Also for the record, I'd rather have an Viper than a Skyline GT-R, too. double

LOL...good times.

But Skylines are a bit overhyped. I mean, there are others that do the same thing and put out nearly the same numbers. its all relative i guess. Honestly, i would save up a bit more and get an ultimite porsche. But thats only if im extremely rich, which i dont care to be in the first place. I would put it all into a 20,000 dollar car and mod the living monkey balls out of it...