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Aug 9, 2017 23:16
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You Am I posted:Australia got the sedan version of this, but that wagon is awesome. Love the tail gate and tail light design. A few were sold here in the US too but they are so rare that it was hard to even find out that they indeed were sold here. Also guys I decided to buy that 83 Acty Street after all. That makes three kei vans in a row for me.
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Aug 10, 2017 07:23
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Hmmmm. Wonder if I could get a hold on a 2 door WRX STI......
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Aug 10, 2017 11:32
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Hmmmm. Wonder if I could get a hold on a 2 door WRX STI...... If you are willing to wait, depends on which one you want really.
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Aug 10, 2017 13:10
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Hmmmm. Wonder if I could get a hold on a 2 door WRX STI...... They are cheap but 2023 would be the first year. Also remember that you cant even have it in the country until the 25 years has passed. So it would have to spend its life in a Canadian storage unit until then (I don't even know if a non Canadian citizen could import something into Canada). I am definitely going to be buying three or four around 2020 though and holding until '23. They would sell like crazy here in the PNW.
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Aug 10, 2017 16:16
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:They are cheap but 2023 would be the first year. Also remember that you cant even have it in the country until the 25 years has passed. So it would have to spend its life in a Canadian storage unit until then (I don't even know if a non Canadian citizen could import something into Canada). There are more than a few people storing R34 Skylines in Japan right now, and with where I am Japan might as well be as far away as Canada. I'd probably lean on leaving a car I bought in Japan as storage and then doing the import work all at once vs. doing whatever stuff is needed to import it into Canada to then turn around and import it in the US. I don't know how that would work, but it seems easier to just use the options that are already there in Japan. I've thought about doing this with an AZ-1 but that's a few months at most. What I am trying to say is Japan makes the best stuff including automobile storage.
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Aug 10, 2017 16:29
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:They are cheap but 2023 would be the first year. Also remember that you cant even have it in the country until the 25 years has passed. So it would have to spend its life in a Canadian storage unit until then (I don't even know if a non Canadian citizen could import something into Canada).
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Aug 10, 2017 17:08
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:They are cheap but 2023 would be the first year. Also remember that you cant even have it in the country until the 25 years has passed. So it would have to spend its life in a Canadian storage unit until then (I don't even know if a non Canadian citizen could import something into Canada). CT is in AUS so I doubt he has to wait for anything, kinda nice having the steering wheel on the proper side for your country as well. I would like to get a Honda City turbo for nostalgia reasons since it was the first car I ever owned:  It's so 
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Aug 10, 2017 17:49
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:They are cheap but 2023 would be the first year. Also remember that you cant even have it in the country until the 25 years has passed. So it would have to spend its life in a Canadian storage unit until then (I don't even know if a non Canadian citizen could import something into Canada). I think it's 2020/2021; the Impreza 2-door debuted in 1995 I think? The WRX came out in 1992, so we should start seeing those imported this/next year.
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Aug 10, 2017 17:56
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Applebees Appetizer posted:CT is in AUS so I doubt he has to wait for anything, kinda nice having the steering wheel on the proper side for your country as well.
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Aug 10, 2017 18:00
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Looks like the older Soarers are cheap, I had one of those too. Also had one of these which were actually pretty rare:  4AGE FWD. The interior was loving awesome. I actually took those wheels to the states with me and put them on a AW11 MR2 If I knew then what I know now, I should have got a AE86 and brought it with me.
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Aug 10, 2017 18:35
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My older cousin once told me that at the end of the 90s very early 00s AE86s could be had for basically nothing (because everybody wanted Integras and Civics) and he was kicking himself for not buying a very well kept '85 GT-S hatch for $1100 in 2002 or so. S13s were reasonably priced as well.
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Aug 10, 2017 19:20
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NitroSpazzz posted:Registration finally went through for Japan Car Direct, time to start searching. Where does it show what these sold for?
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Aug 10, 2017 19:33
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everdave posted:Where does it show what these sold for? Doesn't look like any of then sold. Usually a couple hours or so after the auction ends it will pop up with a 'sold for' with the price. All of these don't show anything so it means they didn't sell. I haven't been able to figure out why sometimes it shows a bid and that the car didn't sell and why sometimes it looks like nobody bid at all because clearly those cars should have had some bids. Can say for certain though that they didnt sell this time.
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Aug 10, 2017 19:42
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KakerMix posted:Doesn't look like any of then sold. Usually a couple hours or so after the auction ends it will pop up with a 'sold for' with the price. All of these don't show anything so it means they didn't sell. I found the way to search past listings, and looking at past Porsche listings like almost none of them sold, except I see this one that apparently sold for only $7k? That can't be right can it? https://auc.japancardirect.com/st-54JqfXFCbn8MK.htm Edit: D'oh totally blanked out on the whole 25 year thing. everdave fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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Aug 10, 2017 19:46
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Here's an import legal one that sold for ~30k which given current prices isn't bad at all - https://auc.japancardirect.com/st-sn3iDnKAqKMlp.htm I need to spend more time on the site and figure out past auctions.
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Aug 10, 2017 20:58
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KakerMix posted:There are more than a few people storing R34 Skylines in Japan right now, and with where I am Japan might as well be as far away as Canada. Vancouver BC is only about 2 hours drive away though, which I don't know why but it makes me feel more secure.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:56
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Human Grand Prix posted:My older cousin once told me that at the end of the 90s very early 00s AE86s could be had for basically nothing (because everybody wanted Integras and Civics) and he was kicking himself for not buying a very well kept '85 GT-S hatch for $1100 in 2002 or so. S13s were reasonably priced as well. Not in Japan around the early 90's. If they were cheaper I would have had a 86 instead of that FWD Sprinter, I got that car so I could at least have the motor. Also the DOHC Civics and CRXs were crazy popular and expensive at the time, couldn't afford any of those either. But yeah in the states before Initial-D happened you could get an 86 cheap if you could find one, there just weren't many GTSs around. That's why I focused on an MR2 when I got back to the states, easy to find, AE86, mid engine. It never occurred to me to look harder for a GTS Corolla because I never even saw them around, I'm a dumbass.
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Aug 10, 2017 22:56
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Wow I wasted too much time on JCD today. Saw an Acty that sold for $140. Some Beats that sold for $1400.
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Aug 11, 2017 01:52
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Holy poo poo. I don't think any of that stuff is legal in Australia or I'd be all over it
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Aug 11, 2017 07:41
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This is probably the first time this week I've had something come up on Jalopnik's Facebook page that I hadn't seen already elsewhere: Apparently, Honda will be making Beat spare parts still, which I guess makes owning one easier long term. Not sure how much they're planning, but I assume it'll be primarily stuff that's common failures which they've had the most enquiries about : http://jalopnik.com/honda-to-produce-new-parts-for-the-beat-so-it-can-be-wi-1797733968/amp
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Aug 11, 2017 07:55
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InitialDave posted:This is probably the first time this week I've had something come up on Jalopnik's Facebook page that I hadn't seen already elsewhere: Apparently, Honda will be making Beat spare parts still, which I guess makes owning one easier long term. I saw that while I was browsing at work but couldn't get the link to properly share here on my phone. Very cool of them.
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Aug 11, 2017 07:59
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Toyota posted up about their GT86 wearing Initial D decals and a fair few comments were from people trying to convince them to just make the loving AE86 again.
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Aug 11, 2017 09:14
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That's a perfectly reasonable argument! I'd buy one. Thousands of other potential GT86 buyers wouldn't, and it'd be a disaster in business terms, but still.
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Aug 11, 2017 09:30
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The comments from Toyota when someone mentioned all the cool looking poo poo they used to make were "well we make the GT86 aaaaaaaaaaaaand the limited edition GRMN Yaris..." The Yaris is cool in that it's got more hp than the GT86 but it's FWD and a Yaris and this loving launch video is just.............. ugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CkrVLhmJ0
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Aug 11, 2017 11:50
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Just give the GT86 a little more grunt and it would be fine. Yes yes I get it, it is about the feel now just powering through but this is not the mid 80s and I want more power than a Camry.
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Aug 11, 2017 12:38
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I just want a car that looks awesome and as this thread has shown, they're all old...
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Aug 11, 2017 12:39
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ENOUGH! WE NEED FACTORY 80s RESTOMODS.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:11
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Didn't Toyota built a few AE86s for that live-action Initial D movie like 15 years ago?
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Aug 11, 2017 16:12
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BigPaddy posted:Just give the GT86 a little more grunt and it would be fine. Yes yes I get it, it is about the feel now just powering through but this is not the mid 80s and I want more power than a Camry. The BRZ/FRS is newer and better in probably every way except it isn't a hatch. I don't get why people are clamoring for some old shitbox when they aren't even buying the spiritual successor.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:37
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Larrymer posted:The BRZ/FRS is newer and better in probably every way except it isn't a hatch. I don't get why people are clamoring for some old shitbox when they aren't even buying the spiritual successor. That people are tells you exactly what you already know, that emotion is the thing not raw numbers. There are far better vehicles than stupid tiny trucks and vans yet that's what I like, that's what I like to sit inside and make race car noises and what I like people to see me driving. The BRZ/FRS isn't the AE86. There is no #rememberthe80s to it, there is no hatch, there is no black and white version, there is no wedge proportions and it just isn't the AE86. No pop-up headlights and doesn't have the same presence to it. It's like if people drove the best car for them then we might all be in champagne Rav4s.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:05
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If we all drove the "best car for our needs" every single person would drive a Prius. Just typing that sentence gave me the pee shivers and I would long for the icy grip of death to take me. After thinking this stuff over I think I will wait until either the second gen cars are available (LSD, ABS etc) or until I can import a Mazdaspeed AZ-1 (because holy crap they have a Mazdaspeed version). So I am probably out on this for a couple more years. How long until Kaker looks like this IRL? http://www.duncanimports.com/
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Aug 11, 2017 17:22
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KakerMix posted:That people are tells you exactly what you already know, that emotion is the thing not raw numbers. The AE86 also came as a coupe though.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:17
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DJ Commie posted:Didn't Toyota built a few AE86s for that live-action Initial D movie like 15 years ago? Cool if true. Well not the live action movies, which are pure AIDS. Big Anime Fan here.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:18
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Somewhat Heroic posted:If we all drove the "best car for our needs" every single person would drive a Prius. Just typing that sentence gave me the pee shivers and I would long for the icy grip of death to take me. After thinking this stuff over I think I will wait until either the second gen cars are available (LSD, ABS etc) or until I can import a Mazdaspeed AZ-1 (because holy crap they have a Mazdaspeed version). So I am probably out on this for a couple more years. Human Grand Prix posted:The AE86 also came as a coupe though. Yeah and it's still an AE86 and not a BRZ. People want and like and covet AE86s. Maybe in 15-25 years people will pine after BRZs.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:22
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Human Grand Prix posted:ENOUGH! WE NEED FACTORY 80s RESTOMODS. Pretty much. I always thought that Toyota and Nissan would take cues from the success of the retro Camaros and Mustangs, but noooo they make a new ugly 86 that has no resemblance whatsoever to the first 86, and put a loving Subaru engine in it. Opportunity squandered imo. Larrymer posted:The BRZ/FRS is newer and better in probably every way except it isn't a hatch. I don't get why people are clamoring for some old shitbox when they aren't even buying the spiritual successor. Because it's not the spiritual successor? A Subaru boxer engine? Please.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:25
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Mazda also announced they would restore NA Miatas (in Japan anyway) Old cars are better. It's hard to explain, really. Yeah its cool that the FRS exists and I appreciate it but I'd rather have a 15-20 year old car. My life exists to own late 80s to early 00's Japanese cars e: want to talk about missed opportunities, look at what the new Supra is supposed to be
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Aug 12, 2017 00:13
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Applebees Appetizer posted:CT is in AUS so I doubt he has to wait for anything, kinda nice having the steering wheel on the proper side for your country as well. Honda City Turbos go for choice $$ these days, 11k USD and up. However this one is on a lot in Japan for just under $8000. It's a standard Honda City convertible but it comes with a Motocompo fold-able scooter  EDIT If you'd like another place to look at cool as heck cars I'm finding these on http://www.carsensor.net/, Chrome does an alright job of translating.
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Aug 12, 2017 00:58
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That's a Turbo II, pretty sure those are more desirable than a normal City Turbo. I remember wanting to upgrade to a Turbo II but not being able to afford one. Plus that's a cabrio, and those are pretty rare. Regular City Turbo:  Turbo II:  I could be wrong, it would be interesting to see a completed sale comparison between the two.
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Aug 12, 2017 16:56
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So can anything be done with these cars wrt the headlights having the incorrect cutoff for LHD countries?
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Aug 12, 2017 18:11
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