My wife has a 94 SL. So far its gone through a rebuilt engine, rebuilt tranny, new brakes, numerous starters, new alternator, but she loves it. It actually isn't a bad car. Its very roomy and comfortable to take on long drives to Vegas, etc. It's a nice change of pace to drive a bigger GT car.

 

Base model.

It has a very solid feel to it (it does weigh 3700 lbs so this makes sense)
I've driven my new to me 94 Miata over 500 miles this week and every minute of it was a blast.
The 3000gt, I drove for 5 minutes but I couldn't get over how solid the car feels (I don't like the heavy feel of a car). To each his own.

Ofcourse, that heavy feel is also amazing when my friend took his car upto like 90/100. Felt like 50 mph lol.

I like the way it looks, and its comfortable.
Just not a sports car. Definitely a sporty GT though.

Anyway, would love to test drive a VR4!

 

Also, before anyone flames me for trying to compare a Miata and 3000gt, I've only done so because I was considering a whole host of cars because I was just tired of auto family sedans/econoboxes. This is a good option!

 

Oh BTW, whats the 0 to 60 on the base 3000gt?
It felt a lot faster than my Miata which again is no benchmark cuz thats like 8 seconds? I never timed it.

 

hondafrvr- the base 3000GT doesn't weigh 3700, it's around 3500 or so. The 5 speed is high 6's and the auto is mid 7's. The VR-4 will do high 4's.

 

[QUOTE=Steponme,May 7 2010, 02:17 PM]Is that the base model, not even the SL?

 

We're talking stock, not modded. I'd expect pigs to fly before a stock VR4 would do sub-5 sec. 0-60 times.

320 hp doesn't propel 4000+ lbs. (w/ driver/fuel) that fast.

 

Wrong.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/112_97...urbo/index.html
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/112_97...art3/index.html

I've also attended 3Si events where stock cars did 4's to 60 stock via radar/laser.

 

[QUOTE=Chris S,May 9 2010, 05:23 AM] We're talking stock, not modded.

 

The first source I found had much slower times.