Turbo car reccomendation

Pulsar GTiRs are pretty awful really. Nice idea but badly implemented. Bloody quick in a straight line until the gearbox explodes if you modify it, and even in 100% standard form they look like a barried shopping trolley.

Mk1 Imprezas are great cars, the problem is they are the default choice of every knuckle dragging inbred who wants a fast Japanese car, and thus at the prices you are looking, many of them will have been abused.

Unfortunately this is true for a lot of the Japanese turbo cars now. Personally I'd be looking for an R32 Skyline GTSt or GTS4 (or, Cef but you're not going to get a 4WD one for 3 grand). Wouldn't touch a GTR that was that cheap.
 
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Scubascorpion said:
You really do spout some crap on here.

If you modify it badly then yes, of course it's likely to **** itself sooner or later. Generally speaking though they are damn reliable cars, very little goes wrong with them.

Unrelated to you...
The last thing I'd be buying is a sodding Pulsar / GtiR
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Its hard to find one that hasn't been screwed hard. If you can find a proper one they are great little cars.
 
Skylines are so underpowered though, bloody great car with less power than an Impreza, you certainly don't feel connected to the road in one, more like driving a barge (GTS, GTS-T)
You may think I'm biased but Impreza - (fresh import to avoid the knuckle dragging owners mentioned above) would be your best bet, or if you fancy RWD a 200sx is pretty good bang for buck. Unlike it's bigger cousin the 300zx Blurgh, horrid thing.
 
Toyota Soarer. Although the majority are Automatics, and I doubt your budget will get you one of the very, very rare manual ones.
 
Scubascorpion said:
Skylines are so underpowered though, bloody great car with less power than an Impreza, you certainly don't feel connected to the road in one, more like driving a barge (GTS, GTS-T)
You may think I'm biased but Impreza - (fresh import to avoid the knuckle dragging owners mentioned above) would be your best bet, or if you fancy RWD a 200sx is pretty good bang for buck. Unlike it's bigger cousin the 300zx Blurgh, horrid thing.
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Why do they make you feel disconnected? Because you drive so far from the front? The size difference between a skyline and a scoob isnt going to much. How does a skyline handle compared to an impreza? I would imagine it wouldnt be as good, but by much? Im partial to doing a few mods to improve handling... poly bushes, new sus, it transforms a car totally. What if this were done to aid the skyline / scooby, what happens then?
 
Getting a 4wd for my 10 months in Norway wasn't completely unnecessary, but getting one for when it snows in Reading is just silly :p
Golf/Bora V6 4Motions are worth investigating even if they don't have a turbo..
 
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mjt said:
Getting a 4wd for my 10 months in Norway wasn't completely unnecessary, but getting one for when it snows in Reading is just silly :p
Golf/Bora V6 4Motions are worth investigating even if they don't have a turbo..
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The turbo is required for the noise, yes, i'm still young :)
 
Me too, but that's the only reason I can see for the noise of a turbo car...as other than that there isn't really any difference to an NA car.
 
paradigm said:
Large N/A noise > Turbo.

If all you want is noise, get a V6, V8, V10, V12.
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Although I agree that NAs engine (particularly on an Independent throttle body upset) sound "better", there is something undeniably childishly awesome about the pops, bangs and whooshes you can only get from a turbocharged car :)
 
[TW]Fox;16297123 said:
You are missing out on loads of great cars by insisting on 4WD when it isn't really neccesary.
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I have to agree with this, however 4WD is a lot safer in the fact that it's harder to stack it :p

I don't mean to generalise, but it's something to consider.
 
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