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Yeti

Monkey
May 17, 2005
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the elise is light...that car doesnt look light. and the numbers are lame...225bhp?....the wrx sti gets u 280 with 2.5l. the front end is gross....as allready said, this car looks like the product of a bad orgy between ferrari corvette and maseratti...all of them on crack.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,165
10,105
Japanese car styling died a long time ago....





From a Classic Japanese car show in California over the weekend.
 

vitox

Turbo Monkey
Sep 23, 2001
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Santiago du Chili
looks a lot better in white but the mouth is sort of from a whale, maybe if they decide to sell it they will extract some more power from the engine, 70 hp/liter isnt that hot.
 

Bicyclist

Turbo Monkey
Apr 4, 2004
10,152
2
SB
Lame, it weighs almost 3k pounds and it's got no power. Plus it probably drives like a Japanese car, all vague.
 

syadasti

i heart mac
Apr 15, 2002
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290
VT
Bicyclist said:
No, as opposed to the nice weighted, responsive feel of a German car...
If you don't count numerous well handling models from almost every Japanese brand? Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Honda, and Toyota?

You can play the same tunnel vision to German cars: "Have you seen how overweight German cars have gotten lately - GTI is a pig and now includes electro assisted steering for less feel." But that isn't the only German car out there now, is it?

You probably base your view of Japanese cars after driving your parent's Camry :brows:
 

chuffer

Turbo Monkey
Sep 2, 2004
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1,142
McMinnville, OR
No, as opposed to the nice weighted, respnsive feel of a German car...
yeah, how about those OPELS? woowooo!

what german cars in particular are you referring to? the germans are responsible for awful awful awful automobiles. (that said, I do like some german cars -enough in fact to own two of them at the moment, but i also like some rice burners too.)
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,165
10,105
Shame is Steve, you almost never see those beaut cars on the road here because of the licensing laws.
They kind of make it difficult/impossible to drive anything old over there, right?

Oddly enough, some of my favorite harleys are built in Japan.