arsie

When I was moving on from my S2000s ownership, I recall Roadkill on here had a friend and he arranged me a static test drive in an early GTR (no roads anywhere near suitable for a test drive on Arran it was mid 2009 I think.) I had a feeling the guy was a dealer. Might be worth a PM?

Nick Graves

That is a lot of the 'modding mentality'. I think people enjoy the picking & choosing bits and when the car is finally running half-reliably and is nearly driveable again, they lose interest and sell up. It's like S2000-ruining for the better-off.

Historically, it's down to the original being sold within the 280BHP Japanese 'gentleman's agreement'. It became clear that the factory car was seriously restricted and the pesky NSX was a lot livelier, having far lower inertia. It was however very easy to de-restrict the GTR to release its true potential. And then it gradually went a bit mad and race-replicas now abound...

Shiskine

It's the guy that runs the chocolate shop in Brodick and he also has an old Countach locked away somewhere. There's obviously loads of money in raspberry fondant creams ...

Pie_n_Chips

Same here, I would have thought a GTR would be a bit to "new build" for Gad

Nick Graves

Possibly his Jaaag got eaten by one!

More likely, one's tastes get more eclectic/ downright weirder as one gets older - I really like my Leg End, FFS! And a GTR does have TV...

Pie_n_Chips

Are they doing One foot in Graves reruns?

gaddafi

I know my place in the Jag!

I just fancy something new in the stable at the top of the food chain

I've got a lot of relatively cheap older cars and it would be nice to have something newer

When I move house and get storage sorted I might have a clear out and go a bit Mikey/Welshman mad but that's maybe 12 months away

In the meantime the sort of thing I'm thinking about will be a bit of fun and could cover a substantial portion of the cost of a silly machine

As you know, I'm still looking at DTPs but I'm inclined to wait for the correction or import a left hooker

If the right one comes up it'll trump this current flirtation but the market is small so I think the super coupe will arrive first

Is that what you call these two door bruisers?

gaddafi

And why are 99% of them black, grey or silver? I fancy a red, yellow or orange car and it really narrows the field and not just with GTRs.

MB

I think resale wise black and the grey are very much the choice option.

Orange / yellow wasn't an OEM option, and red was never popular unfortunately!

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Nottm_S2

Dealers like anonymity

Dont ask me how i know