Car photos/discussion thread

[SPS]

Sure do! Not so much as with certain model Subarus though. The insurers seem to think that if you own a skyline like that (high value etc) you'll treat it very well and take many precautions to keep it safe. Still costs stupid amounts though.


The insurance over here is dreadful. My crusty Corsa costs me ~£1000 a year to insure. Pretty poor considering its valued at £480 . For a laugh I once looked into how much it'd cost me to insure a £1k Merc E-class (circa 1999, AMG body kit.) that looked like this:

Car price? £1100. Insurance ~£12k.

Pubic transport in cambridge is crap. So is the traffic. Hence why everyone cycles everywhere.

If a car is valued too low it actually increases the insurance.

Went from a '99 Astra valued at £600 paying over £1k for insurance, to a '10 BMW 380i valued much higher now paying well under £1k insurance.

 

[SavageCupcake]

I'm on my second year of insurance now with a w reg 206 1.4. First year was £2400 and this year was £710. It's ridiculous :/. If insurance was cheaper then i'm sure there would be far less un-insured drivers on the roads, especially younger people.

 

[RamboOC]

Which one would you pick? It's a hard choice for me, but in the end i would go with the R34

 

[barnsley]

12k?! lol What age are you?

19 years old. Normally it'd be quite a bit lower but due to my previous car dying...

I'm on my second year of insurance now with a w reg 206 1.4. First year was £2400 and this year was £710. It's ridiculous :/. If insurance was cheaper then i'm sure there would be far less un-insured drivers on the roads, especially younger people.

it seems anything with an engine bigger than 1.3 is heaps more :/. I looked at a 1.4 MK2 Golf and it was £4k to insure .

Which one would you pick? It's a hard choice for me, but in the end i would go with the R34

I'd agree with you on that even though I'm much more of an R32 guy.

If a car is valued too low it actually increases the insurance.

Went from a '99 Astra valued at £600 paying over £1k for insurance, to a '10 BMW 380i valued much higher now paying well under £1k insurance.

At the moment I don't really earn enough money to get a car that'd be that much newer/worth more. I saved for ages to get me a newer car to replace my corsa and when I looked at getting something newer it wasn't any change/more expensive. I only use my car for social stuff nowadays anyway. I cycle everywhere else.

 

[SPS]

At the moment I don't really earn enough money to get a car that'd be that much newer/worth more. I saved for ages to get me a newer car to replace my corsa and when I looked at getting something newer it wasn't any change/more expensive. I only use my car for social stuff nowadays anyway. I cycle everywhere else.

Yeah I appreciate that, just thought it was worth mentioning as it surprised me when I first found out.

 

[barnsley]

Yeah I appreciate that, just thought it was worth mentioning as it surprised me when I first found out.

It surprised me as well but I guess it makes sense.

 

[dalewakelin]

I would pick the evo, im not really a fan of r34 skylines, then again i haven't been in either so i wouldn't know for sure but from an aesthetic stand point.

 

[shadow]

Which one would you pick? It's a hard choice for me, but in the end i would go with the R34

Id go R34.

 

[dalewakelin]

Oooooooooh if this has a diesel option i have found my 2nd car, or a project car.

 

[barnsley]

Oooooooooh if this has a diesel option i have found my 2nd car, or a project car.

>that
>diesel
what a giggle

Nope, although a few people have converted them in the past. I believe you can put 5 series diesels into Z3s.

 

[dalewakelin]

>that
>diesel
what a giggle

Nope, although a few people have converted them in the past. I believe you can put 5 series diesels into Z3s.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-BMW-...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2591116d17

Now to find a Z3 and a drivers license... :lol:

 

[Schern]

Oooooooooh if this has a diesel option i have found my 2nd car, or a project car.

You can't ruin an M Coupe by putting a diesel engine in it... a normal Z3 fine, but not a M Coupe!

 

[JR23]

it seems anything with an engine bigger than 1.3 is heaps more :/. I looked at a 1.4 MK2 Golf and it was £4k to insure

Kinda but not strictly true, out of my friends back in sixth form they had a 1.0 Micra, 1.2 Corsa C and 1.0 Corsa B. Everyones insurance was more or less the same and I had a 1.5 DCi Clio which would easily dick over the 1.0's, now we are all 22 though it's less of a problem, my friends got a 2.0 Golf diesel and a Clio 172, i'm still driving mums 1.6 Polo diesel while i'm at Uni but hopefully one day next year when i have a job a 1 series diesel will be mine, 123D M if i'm extremely fortunate although they still make £9k

JR

 

[Pugsport]

this is my sort of thing


clean and simple but


im not a great merc fan but i have to say id have to an 190E Cosworth

 

[barnsley]

Oh mah lawd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5P2hAU1PY

this is my sort of thing

Big fan of those as well . More of an older golf then newer golf man though.

 

[Wraith]

I'd love one of these. They're like a smaller MX5, aka they handle and tune very well.

Looks like a Supra had angry sex with a Smart Coupe.

 

[shadow]

I like that, think they will become a collectors car in the future.

 

[shadow]

Oh mah lawd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5P2hAU1PY

I like the genesis he has done.
Just a shame they don't bring that car here, 2.0 turbo, rear drive, mass of tuning choice.

 

[dalewakelin]

I want a van now

 

[barnsley]

I want a van now

awww man thats neat :O




hnnng, this is my kind of retromod. Full article here. Its running a 2007 Dodge challenger engine in it.