Wish I had a few quid spare

Oh, what's the betting on it's final selling price?

I'll go £10k.

Fraser

Noooo!

There's just no comparison between some Jap techno-toy and the engineering purity of a proper Quattro.

And that's before you take into account the engine sound.

FSVO "Much better off". The quattro has a huge amount of street-cred, being the car which made 4wd big in rallying. It's a proper classic, unlike a skyline.

cheers, clive

If you are serious a mate of mine has a late 10v in need of some TLC in his garden, been there for a while but it's all galvanised so should be okay (no external signs of anything nasty), he also has a brand new 20v engine still on it's pallet and a RS4 turbo charger to go on it.

Good lord no, a quattro or a Integrale is what sir requires.

Not if you're European :P

=A37k, but it won't have met reserve.

--=20 Carl Robson Audio stream:

Ah, but the Skyline was banned for being too good (like the Cosworth Saph I think in britain) from Jap Touring Cars.

Sapphire was never banned for being 'too good'. The original be-winged Cosworth prompted a change in rules because Ford were the only manufacturer making a RWD 2lt Turbo at the time - and the equivalency factor for non-turbo cars was way out - it was competing against the E30 M3 with 2.5 litres. All other manufacturers stayed away from BTCC's flagship class at the time.

The rule change to 2lt non-turbo was to encourage more manufacturers to compete, as almost everyone had a 2lt non-turbo family sized saloon / hatch they could use.

damn that would look sweet parked next to my a4 :)

Ah right, I thought it was the Saph, not the Sierra.

Except the jap stuff is faster and I dare say more reliable. You can still get parts for it too. And I am guessing you have never heard an RB26DETT at full noise.

Fraser

Much easier to live with day to day. When I had my GTR a mate had a Quattro. Guess which one was much faster and spent less time in the garage and had repair bills that had to be sent off to NASA to calculate.

Fraser

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I'd much rather have

Skylines do go well, but they just lack that certain something that for some reason virtually all Jap cars lack, they just don't interest me much. I like the old Legacy Turbo estates, I'm quite fond of Imprezas and the NSX, and I love MX5s, but Skylines leave me wanting more.

I was driving a Skyline GT (the 2.5 single turbo thing) earlier this week and it was ok, sounded nice and drove well enough, but didn't feel magical the way a well sorted Integrale does.

Admittedly it was about 90% more likely to make it to my chosen destination than Integrales tend to be.

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f*ck it, the full link is

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Godamnit, another great car a few miles from me that I cant afford. Stop posting these links, your depressing me!!!!!!!!!!!

That one's not all that nice, IMHO. Not a great colour and scruffy.

Non-Evo spec. cars can be seriously cheap these days:

I probably wouldn't, 'cos they can be bloody expensive if things go pear-shaped.

I'm guessing you haven't heard an audi 5 pot turbo howling?