New 99 GTO Black

[Yaggus]

Evening all,

Just thought I would post and tell you about this. Unfortunately its not mine but a very good mate of mine has recently purchased a 1999 Black GTO. (no its not an MR before you ask)

He is a bit of an indecisive person. One of the ppl that changes his mind every 4 seconds about what car he wants. He started off leaning towards an EVO 8 MR due to the insane handling but was a bit worried about how the cars looks would age. Then he was thinking about a series 8 spirit-R edition RX-7 but was concerned about reliability. A supra fanatic mutal friend on our convinced him that a Supra was what he really wanted. Which it soooooo wasn't Completely different car to what he wanted. But he put down a search fee for them to look for a 2000 model RZ supra and was prepared to dump 45k on one when he got cold feet at the last second and cancelled his order because he wanted to buy a house and needed a deposit. Through this whole time I had been extolling the virtues of the GTO to him, which he really liked but didn't know anything about aside that they looked awesome. It didn't help that there were other people were going on about how unreliable they are despite them not having a f**cking clue about the first thing on a GTO other than "its a Mitsushiti" and other such informative comments.

Anyways, a few weeks later I notice a black 99 GTO pop up on an import website -very- cheap. I sent him a link to it making him aware of the price and comparing it to local prices. ie HALF F**CKING PRICE Needless to say he was interested... He gave them a call the next morning and put a deposit on it the next day. Enough crapping on. Time for the details.

1999
Black
6spd
93,00kms (highish kms but that explains part of the low price)
18" Red and black Advan 3 spokes
Kakimoto single exhaust (Is probably gonna be LOUD)
Pod Filter
Chrome Mirrors (bit iffy on how they look but meh)
Vented Carbon Fibre bonnet
HIDs

Most of the focus was apparently on exterior ricier mods on it that ruin the cleaness of it somewhat but its not too bad.

I think he only intends on going BPU+ with it. Nothing too serious. But that will net him mid-low 12s which is plenty fast enough really...

And here are the Pics


It comes in in about 3 months... Man I can't wait to see it....

[Dreamspawn]

Is it turbo? if so why no leather??? I thought all turbos weather here or there where leather save for the MR's. And i also thought the 99 bumper was US only thing?

[AutostradaVR4]

Originally Posted by Dreamspawn

And i also thought the 99 bumper was US only thing?

only place that didnt get the 99 facelift was europe.

i think im right in saying that australia never got the 3/s, they were all imported after the fact??? i seem to recall the one guy ralliart3000gt saying that...

[jason_bet]

I love that hood man! LOVE IT!

[TorchedStealth]

Nice car!

And Dreamspawn....i always thought the only TT's without leather were the MR's too, but then i went to a car lot that has cars you can buy and fix up and right in the back there is a green 95 stealth TT and i looked inside it and i was shocked....it had cloth seats and manual climate control. It was nice and im sure that is lighter, but i would rather have the leather seats and digital climate...it just kinda adds to the car and seems right....But i guess i do have that in my 91 N/A so it should feel right lol

[planet_keeper]

i dunno how he feels on those rims but in my humble opinion he should get far, far away from those, lol. except for that and a couple other bits of blatant rice, very nice car. the hood is uber sexy. those mirrors would look sexy painted.

[Dreamspawn]

Originally Posted by BlinkRA182

only place that didnt get the 99 facelift was europe.

i think im right in saying that australia never got the 3/s, they were all imported after the fact??? i seem to recall the one guy ralliart3000gt saying that...

oOo now i know lol and i would say they probably didnt' but imported some from japan which seems to be a common habbit there. Between them importing japanese cars and american cars i would say it would be a nice place to live except they get on alot of kewl games cases *banning some* and baning/baring some forms of metal. 2 things i love....

[Yaggus]

Originally Posted by Dreamspawn

Is it turbo? if so why no leather??? I thought all turbos weather here or there where leather save for the MR's. And i also thought the 99 bumper was US only thing?

Yes its TT. Leather was an option on all GTOs bar the MR. The MR could NOT be optioned with leather and for the rest is was an -expensive- option. Thats why there arent that many GTOs with leather.

And the whole 99 bumper thing, everywhere got that if the car was produced in 99.

Originally Posted by BlinkRA182

i think im right in saying that australia never got the 3/s, they were all imported after the fact??? i seem to recall the one guy ralliart3000gt saying that...

Wrong We got the 3000gt from 1990-late 1996. We can now only import GTOs from 97 onwards due to this fact. Previously we could import what ever we liked...

Originally Posted by planet_keeper

i dunno how he feels on those rims but in my humble opinion he should get far, far away from those, lol. except for that and a couple other bits of blatant rice, very nice car. the hood is uber sexy. those mirrors would look sexy painted.

All of the times I have seen those rims on cars I have hated them. But for some reason there are growing on me on this car... Proabaly cuz its on a GTO :P I hadn't though of painting those mirrors... good idea. The bonnet I dont like. It doesnt suit the car imo. 99s need the clean look to them. A CF stock hood would look good possibly one of the viper ones too.

Originally Posted by Dreamspawn

Between them importing japanese cars and american cars i would say it would be a nice place to live except they get on alot of kewl games cases *banning some* and baning/baring some forms of metal. 2 things i love....

Yes, I have to say after travelling the world, I do think Australia is the greatest place to live, with Canada and NZ tieing for second. But whats this your talking about games and metal being banned???? First I have heard of it... I can only recall 1 game being banned and I thing that was Manhunt? (where your a psycopath killing everyone as brutally as possible) And I can't think of any music being banned...

[vectorspecialist]

nice car
but i was wondering is that silvia for sale?(sitting infront of the gto from the rear veiw)

[Dreamspawn]

Manhunt is great game though *yeah its morbid but hey* as far as metal i rember on google news or another site they raided a concert and arrested a metal band a few years ago. Somthing bout told not to perform a song and they did. I've herd a few bands had the cds denied b/c of themes etc.. Idk that and didn't they do a BIG crack down on Mod chips?

[AutostradaVR4]

Originally Posted by Yaggus

...with Canada and NZ tieing for second...

ROFL. to steal a joke from robbin williams..."Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."

i have seen different parts of the world and i gotta say i'd never wanna live anywhere but here...just not in the northeast

australia would be 2nd though

on those wheels...i gotta think whoever picked them out chose specifically on weight. I dont like them at all, even if the red was painted. just not a fan of 3-spokes i guess. But to each his own

[Dreamspawn]

Originally Posted by BlinkRA182

...with Canada and NZ tieing for second...

ROFL. to steal a joke from robbin williams..."Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."

i have seen different parts of the world and i gotta say i'd never wanna live anywhere but here...just not in the northeast

australia would be 2nd though

on those wheels...i gotta think whoever picked them out chose specifically on weight. I dont like them at all, even if the red was painted. just not a fan of 3-spokes i guess. But to each his own [/quote]

Canadain money is also called the looney how could you take a economic crisis serisouly the looney is down ooo how sad.. sorry i have that live thing downloaded.

[vectorspecialist]

robin williams live on broadway, greatest ever
next to richard jeni, r.i.p

[Yaggus]

Originally Posted by vectorspecialist

nice car
but i was wondering is that silvia for sale?(sitting infront of the gto from the rear veiw)

I am assuming your talking about the 180sx in front of the GTO. Yeah its probably for sale, but the next question is, why would you want it?? The only reason I could see for buying one would be as a cheap drifter.

Originally Posted by Dreamspawn

Manhunt is great game though *yeah its morbid but hey* as far as metal i rember on google news or another site they raided a concert and arrested a metal band a few years ago. Somthing bout told not to perform a song and they did. I've herd a few bands had the cds denied b/c of themes etc.. Idk that and didn't they do a BIG crack down on Mod chips?

They possibly did raid a concert. I dont recall anything about it but the song must have had racist lines or something equally offensive for them to ban them. I have seen Marilyn Manson and Slayer and such in concert before and they were fine with them. We're a pretty easy going country so it would have to be pretty nasty for them to raid a concert... Probably Rev Fred Niles's doing. He is a conservative dick of a priest that has been trying to get numerous things banned in Australia for years. The dickhead got the annual nude surfing competition banned....

As for the mod chips, I still have my PS2 modded... so do all my mates and the shop we got them from is still open... *shugs*

ROFL. to steal a joke from robbin williams..."Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."

i have seen different parts of the world and i gotta say i'd never wanna live anywhere but here...just not in the northeast

australia would be 2nd though

What I found is that Canada is sort of like "Diet America" It's similar in setup but just not so full on. Similar foods sold in the supermarkets, similar accent, similar cars being driven similar culture but everything just slightly less... in your face with everything. A bit more relaxed about it all. America got a bit on the wearing side after a while. Fun for a while but I was glad for break once we left.

[olkevinlo]

is this in the us? i've heard that gto's and just the 3000gts in general were pretty hard to import. i can't really tell from the background if it's in the states or not. i wanted to know because, as i was buying my car [i wasn't too interested in 3000s until now] i started looking online for fun. i found a fckin CLEAN vr4, but it was in china. the guy had it shipped from japan to china when he first bought it. it's a 98. but then i heard it's hard to ship or something like that, and gave up on it. i cant say i really did my research though lol