you're right... simple, cheap, moderately powered RWD sportscar..it's hard to think of any. i wonder if japan still makes some funky kei cars?
you're right... simple, cheap, moderately powered RWD sportscar..it's hard to think of any. i wonder if japan still makes some funky kei cars?
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
MG TF? not available here. the solstice/sky, heavier but still sorta competitive. the MR-S is still around, right? i think the Z4 and SLK are way out of the price point.
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the MG TF isn't sold anymore for obvious reasons haha
the MR-S they stopped making, i don't know if you can still find them new.
never seen a solstice/sky. are they any good?
edit: how much is that little smart roadster? do they still make them?
edit2: nvm no manual option
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
handled with the V8 conversion, which at least for a while was a factory option, albeit with a large price tag attached to it
they are sold in Europe at Opel GTs, don't think as vauxhalls though.
and the TF is back in production again, limited right now, but will be back to full production next year.
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I linked to one on the tuner thread we were on yesterday.
EDIT: http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum...o-s2000-5.html
@ pokey: In the current economic clusterfu*ck, the Chinese might dump MG. Don't think it's been very profitable.
EDIT2:
@ Rocke: th Solstice didn't sell well because they didn't make enough of them initially, and who wants to be on a waiting list for a pontiac? After that peeps enthusiasm faded and they bought miatas.
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that sounds awesome! like a modern day cobra.
ah ok, i seem to remember not in RHD though thus no vauxhall? which was apparently ironic as it was a brit design?
any changes or a straight copy? it wasn't too good.
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
yeah... i guess it was taken from the vauxhall lightening concept or something. but no rhd. irony is never passed upon by GM.
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IIRC the pontiac solstice was something crazy like 2700lbs?
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Comparable performance:
350Z= 3339lbs
STI = 3300lbs
Mustag GT = 3483lbs
Challenger = 4140lbs ..... lol
Camaro = 3869lbs
RX8 = 2980lbs
S2000 = 2855lbs
Corvette = 3180lbs
EVO X = 3395lbs
So the 350Z is heavy compared to.... an S2000 if anything? an RX7? That's about it.
God forbid I bring in Supras and 3000GTs into the discussion.
Yeah the GTR is a pig.
They weighed (a little) less, but ended up costing about the same as a Vette, so most people would have preferred the Vette. Besides, the facory started offering the Solstice GXP making it semiredundant but then GM decided to stop making the Solstice soon after. Now there are a ton of the GXP models being raced and doing pretty well.
There was a Solstice (non gxp) for sale here in moscow that I test drove, and I actually liked it. Well, I didn't really like the looks, but it's base price was several grand less than a miata and even though it weighed more than I would have preferred it was a really fun car.
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