Mate what's awful about a Skyline GTR?

Yes the running costs are horrendous but as a driving experience they are absolutely top notch. Power, handling, sound - they have it all

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^ But when anything goes wrong on a 306, £12 should cover it. When something goes wrong on a GTR, the bill is likely to be higher than the purchase price of a 306.

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As an ex-R32 GTR owner I can agree on the running costs. I had to get new AFMs (one for each turbo) and they were £300 each!

However I certainly wouldn't call them an awful car. There's a very good reason why they dominated the JGTC and Australian Touring Car championships for so many years, and consider that the car in Time Attack Pro Class last year that came second place was a 20 year old R32 GTR... the winning car was an 800bhp Impreza with a chassis design 10 years younger.

Awesome cars, and I'd love to have another



Back on topic though - how about a decent 350z? It'll have a lot more torque than the S2000 and even without the drop top it'll feel good on a summer day.

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911's are pretty much bomb proof though. My old boss did 125k in his and only ever paid for consumables. It was on an M plate.

Plus a 911 is actually a nice car too. I can appreciate a R32 GTR is probably a rocket but its pretty nasty inside/outside. My GF's dad's old 997 Turbo was by far the the best car I have ever been in.

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He wants a soft top,which one of the 3 cars fit into that bracket?

Nor do you

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He computes for a living IIRC. I lolled when i saw you'd linked a boxter. I remember reading in one of Clarkson’s books about how he was driving the 2.7 boxter and got overtaken by a 1.3 nova SR.

Not worthy of a Porsche badge IMO.

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I will be getting one, but only once I can afford to buy a Toyota engined one and they're still around 16k. Good suggestion though

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VX220T?

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I'm sure it would get through them no problem, just might not be the most comfortable place to be in this weather!

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If you look at the torque levels you probably won't be impressed, and explains that view ^ that many share. The figure isn't far off the Rallye actually .

Indeed you do have to drive them hard to get the best out of them. Which is perfect, for me at least, it can be a lazy cruiser when you want it to be, but it can also shift when you want it to . You have the advantage of a big rev range to play with. On that note, its quite an involving car to drive, critics would argue it requires 'too much effort' to 'wind the car up' and hit the higher revs all the time but for me that's part of the fun of driving a NA car .



Big time! I've had the back end out on a few occasions when I did not expect it. Have to be real careful in greasy conditions, and just remember not to drive it like a FWD! The fact that torque levels weren't massive didn't bother me because the S2000 served as a great, gradual introduction to the world of RWD for me - power available when I open the taps an hit VTEC, reserved behaviour otherwise.



Yup, bushes is one of the biggest common problems. Not cheap to address if they're all seized up.



You can, I went to BlackBoots aka Wheels In Motion to get mine checked. I informed the garage I purchased the car from that for any adjustments required on the bushes/geo, they'd be getting the bill. In the end, all bushes were fine, geo was within factory margins and the bill came to less than £120. But I was lucky enough to have picked up a one-owner car which had been serviced all its life at Chiswick Honda with no expense spared. There are some real dogs out there too, typically anything under £7k and it'd need work to get into good shape.



Honda cheated a bit with earlier model years, i.e. pre-04, by leaning out the mixture just before VTEC; this made it seem like the car made noticeably more power over 6k RPM. Not sure I'd like a 'jerk' on cutover anyway... mines on a 04 plate .

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Cant see the s2000 being much better than a vtech prelude to honest they are cool if your a Yo Sushi kinda guy.

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