Thanks for everyones comments, all very helpful!
Originally Posted by
Glenny Boy
Cossie every time.You know alot about them like you have just said so if it does go wrong you can sort it.
Yeh this is my biggest plus point on the cossie, there is litterally nothing i cant fix on the cossie, I know the cars almost inside out.
Where as the jap id be in at the deep end if anything went wrong.
Originally Posted by
Alan_D
Has to be the cossie, and I am into jap cars.
Skylines aren't actually that quick with circa 350bhp because they are so heavy, whereas a stage 3 cosworth is a quick road car.
I've been told that a 300bhp Impreza would be roughly the same performance wise as a 400bhp Syline.
Intresting, that. I mean the sapp is a bloody heavy car anyway so the skyline must be like an HGV in comparison
Originally Posted by
cossie@ste
Having owned both id say a Subaru Imperza WRX STI Type RA is what you need
the day i own a scoob i give you permission to shoot me!
Originally Posted by
Maria.
Having owned both... id definitely go for the cossie!
The skyline was just too predictable!
Really???
My biggest fear with a cossie is the love hate relationship.
My escort cossie was my dream car, but in some ways the day i sold it was also the happies day of my life
Originally Posted by
pete13
I had a cossie owned it 3 weeks and it blew up, it cost me nearly £2000 to put it right, swapped it now for an RS200
You swaped it for an RS200
thats quite a leap
Im not in the market right now, still restoring my rs1600i, but already on the lookout. as i cant see my self owning the 16i buy the end of the summer as i miss that turbo buzz
Originally Posted by
-beefy-
whats the budget lee ?
may help when deciding what to buy , after all they both can turn out to be pretty expesive buys if the worst happens
beef
Thats probably my second biggest hurdle.
Cossie wise anything from £2k up to £6k
Id be buying on bodywork, history/hpi, and over all condition.
Anything from a blown engine to a ready to play 350bhp
Skyline, well aint got a clue but no more the £6k really
I could easily spent 10k, but i dont want to. Had 13k in my escos, and i hated that thought, probably the main reason i sold it, not a lot of car for the money!!
Originally Posted by
e30cossie
I would not have a gts skyline like in the picture so I would have to say cossie. It has to be a gtr skyline if any.
My last car was a r33 gtr 420 bhp. I loved the car but was a nightmare to work on compared to a cossie.
Sorry the pics were just quick examples borrowed for pistonheads, as i know how you guys like pictures.
I know nothing about skylines, which is why this is a hard decision. I can just about tell you what a r32/r33/r34 look like. But as for the gt.gtr gts etc etc. Im not that up on them yet.
Originally Posted by
Bullett
the only skybus for me would be gtr for a start. but tbh the saff wins for me.i love them.a quality car that can take 5 in comfort and is a fairly quick car at 350bhp.
and lee,have you had your eyes closed round here? skylines are far more common than saffs.even rx7's and supras!! and all the skylines round here look battered now.too expensive for the chavs to run after buying. lol
im bias though as i fell in love with my saff and would have another tomorrow if i had too
Im a bit more in the sticks than you matey, I dont think ive even seen 1 skyline this year yet!
Seen a jewel voilet escos only yesterday, two S1's, about five S2's, about ten sapp's and two rs16i's this year, and its only just spring.
And we live in the more affulent part of Essex not basvagas