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  2. Chris Harris and the FRS86GTBRZthing

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    Also, many know this car is a ode to the Toyota 800 and the AE86, what most don't know is that the 800 was actually the first front-mounted, boxer engined rear-wheel drive automobile. Anyway, of course, they're going to use a company that is current with boxer tech and that they own a sizable portion of to develop a current boxer motor for the new 86. This obviously saves a ton of money and is almost 'in-house'. This isn't exactly unheard of between the two given that Toyota already provides FHI's minicars, for example.

     

    As for the new FR-S/BR-Z, given where I currently live, I'd be tempted in to selling the Supra for one. Maybe, not the 1st year model, though. New car reliability and warranty on top of it.

     

    Littleguy and I talked about owning an "underpowered" car like this one. I agreed with him that if I still lived in Houston or somewhere similar where you weren't able to really utilize the corner carving ability. In Houston especially, it's a land of power and straights.

     

    However, here in Ohio, I know countless roads to lose an entire day on where the curves, banks, blind corners, decreasing radius turns, etc are nonstop and I still haven't run out of new ones, yet. (Seriously, compeletely shocking how few of you really know how many great roads you guys have out here.) Not only would this car be better at tackling these roads than my Supra, especially after a little suspension upgrade, but I'd save more gas getting there and back. There will always be upgrades for more power. Besides, the amount of power you'll need in a nice light car liek that will be alot less than you needed in your T/A, Evo, etc.

     

    I'm excited.

     

     

    it's good to see that the concept of the car is not lost on you :)

     

    but i wouldn't be worried about 1st model year problems.......given the fierce reliability competitions between OEMs these days, you'd be hard-pressed to see dealbreaker reliability problems on new cars these days....there's certainly nothing to stop one from buying a new car 1st model year as compared to 10+years ago

  11. Chris Harris and the FRS86GTBRZthing

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    This video is phenomenal and Chris sums up exactly what this car is, which is exactly what I was hoping it would be. "It takes the philosophy of going faster and faster... and throws it out the window and says, 'Let's get back to fun!'... Let's focus everything around the driver and not the machine. ...Go and buy one!"

     

    basically, screw you, the guy clamoring for more power

  12. 1999 Porsche

    in Passing Lane

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    WTF, lol. What did he use for the transmission?

     

    I can't remember..... it was like over 3 years ago he told me the details. It's hanging out in our race shop now taking up dust

     

     

    He drives it rarely now....now he's more into rallying....he did Pike's Peak last year in a Honda Fit and just did Sno-Drift last week in it too

  13. 1999 Porsche

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    They've been cheap for awhile though, My old '99 was about as expensvie as you could option one when purchased new ($89k in 1999), had all the right options and when I sold it 3 years ago with only 50k miles on it I only got $26,5 for it. Market's even softer now.

     

    Andy

     

    that's kinda surprising considering it had the GT3 appearance pack (Aero option it was called, no?)

     

     

    a coworker just bought a 996 as a winter car............he's kinda kooky this guy, considering he built a Drift Element with a turbo Honda V6 turned RWD (yes, it's THE Drift Element)

  20. A 74-year-old and his 175-mph, 610,524-mile, one-owner 1976 Porsche930.

    in Passing Lane

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    http://www.excellence-mag.com/issues/199/articles/second-bill?page=1

     

     

    NEARING 171 MPH IN A CROSSWIND AT THE TEXAS MILE set Bill MacEachern to reflecting. Not at that very moment, busy as he was behind the wheel, but later, on the way back to the hotel. He’d driven his 1976 911 Turbo some 600,000 miles up to this point — closing in on one million kilometers in international measure. Fair to say his feel for what was happening in this most recent mile exceeded the norm for seat-of-the-pants feedback.

     

    http://www.excellence-mag.com/images/0000/1191/second_bill_5_big.jpg

     

    dem flares :o

    http://www.excellence-mag.com/images/0000/1189/second_bill_3_medium.jpg?1326838245

     

    http://www.excellence-mag.com/images/0000/1194/second_bill_8_big.jpg

     

    nearly a million miles in a P-car?

    I salute this man

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  22. ****A LOL Thread?****

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    http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17cpw4d3bcpa7gif/original.gif

     

    http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17cpv2tj3amxejpg/original.jpg

     

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