I’m currently thinking about sticking a 2zz with a 6 speed and lsd in one of these:
I’m currently thinking about sticking a 2zz with a 6 speed and lsd in one of these:
The best way to fit in is with a very well maintained classic car. I had a 94 Subaru SVX worth maybe $4k, but I kept it in beautiful condition and it fit in with cars costing 25x as much money because it was unusual and immaculate.
Jesus Christ, people. There are so many better answers to this question I don’t know where to begin:
Porsche is lucky because their visual language does not need a grille :P
All these ‘Looking for car suggestion articles have become troll pieces as of late.
The right answer is unquestionably a used Lexus LS or GS. A few year old GS 350 AWD F Sport is pretty nice looking.
I am interested in doing this to my 54 hp mk2 Golf as well. My first car, which is stowed away in a shed, waiting for a restomod. I already own the better gti from the 80s (Peugeot 205), so the Golf should be the perfect retro yet actually usable e-commuter.
Supercars have been running a retro round on and off since 2012 (and yearly since 2016). They run at Sandown each year at the moment:
The story behind the Avantime is quite interesting, it involves treason and brutal business practices.
To put it into perspective, this is like a 17 year old today going to auction and buying a 1997 Toyota Camry or Honda Accord (the Model T of the era) for $512 ($47.50 in 2019 USD, I’m not going to bother to figure out Canadian dollars) and continuing to drive it through 2089. That just blows my mind.
But we’re still claiming the C8 won’t get the Blackwing.
This makes me NOT want an Audi. Like, really bad.
That said, I had a 1996 A4 Quattro with a 5 speed, and I absolutely loved it.
Because you have to essentially baby these cars to keep them in good health I never touched it. You have to properly warm, drive, and cool down the cars in a strategic manner to keep them running long term. When I was looking for a project a few years ago I was considering it. I had a shitty boss that saw I was…
Dude! He said
I used them as an engine donor, but after killing 3 engines, it eventually got swapped out for an F20C.
It was a beautiful, smooth, torquey engine when it ran though:
Name one car that looks pretty next to an FD.
The door is at the top right of your screen.....looks like an X
Oh yeah... They were simultaneously a fantastic 15 months and an awful 15 months.
We can both sit and stare enviously across the Atlantic :-)
Actually, I’m gonna go ahead and blame audiences for this. I could see how it would potentially hurt somebody’s career in the future.