The first car I want to buy is a Scion TC with a 5 speed manual! Modify a little so I can rip it on the tōge a little, then I want to get my absolute dream car, an FRS/BRZ!! Then later down the line I want to own a RHD JDM car, don’t know which one yet tho!

What about you guys?!

Also the picture is a display of 86s and BRZs in Maryland!

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    6 hours ago

    A Renault Master MWB van. Tall enough to stand up inside of, wide enough to fit a 3 seat sofa or 2 pallets, and short enough that it fits in any regular parking spot. Ultimate practicality. I’m lucky enough to already own and daily drive my dream car.

    Only thing that would make it better is if it was electric.

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    There are lots of cars here that I would love to own or at least have a good go in.

    As times gone by, I fell out of love with maintaining old ICE cars. There js always something that needs doing or something broken. Constant babying.

    I’d rather take a classic and convert it to electric now. More power and torque, less hassle as less to go wrong.

    With that in mind, I’d want either an E Type or that R32 Nissan are working on.

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    9 hours ago

    I’ve wanted a pickup truck since I was a little kid. Specifically all black murdered out one. Now I have it - 2007 Nissan Navara King Cab with a camper shell and I love everything about it (except that it’s rusting faster than I can keep up fixing it)

    What’s surprising to me is how much attention and compliments it gets from other people. I don’t live in the US but pickups aint that rare here either - granted most of them are more or less stock while mine is slighly modded. I have people coming up to me at parking lots asking about it, kids are giving me thumbs up when I drive by and my customers are constantly commenting on it. I didn’t want a big american truck as I prefer to keep low profile and not draw too much attention but apparently I just as well could have.

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    22 hours ago

    1976 Datsun 240z. I would want to give it all modern internals, but that body design is perfection in my eyes.

    If I had unlimited money I would basically pull the engine and drivetrain out of a 5th Gen supra and cram it in there.

    All I need is like 200k in cars, parts and labor then my dream can be a reality lol

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        21 hours ago

        There’s a guy that has an LS swapped (shocker I know) 240z around here. He kills it in autocross competitions too. Usually first or second. And the madlad drives it to and from the events lol. He really hammers down.

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            18 hours ago

            Yeah… My allegiance is only to JDM vehicles in general. I love Nissan but I have truthfully never been a huge RB guy. Like I have lots of respect for the GTR and the RB platform, but it just doesn’t tickle my nipples in any particular way.

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        20 hours ago

        The one in the 5th Gen supra had Toyota engineers all up in it. So you get German engineering power with Toyota engineering reliability.

        I know they are basically the same motor, but the supra one does have a bunch of little changes that the Toyota guys made.

        And Frankly I trust the Japanese engineers with my cars far more than I trust the Germans. I like my cars reliable first and foremost. A broken car is slower than the slowest working car.

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          19 hours ago

          They unfortunately didn’t do shit to it. That’s all PR talk, the techs all had to be trained on the BMW motor. Don’t get me wrong its a performance motor and it’s an I6 but don’t feed into the “Toyota made it great” PR crap they pulled. It’s just a body kitted z4 at the end of the day.

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    18 hours ago

    I have a few different categories of dream car:

    Realistic daily: GR86/BRZ

    Realistic sports/weekend car: C6 Corvette

    Unrealistic: a brand new Porsche 911 GT3

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    16 hours ago

    I’m currently on the lookout for a 90’s Subaru Domingo with the right specs. I might need to bite the bullet and partner up with an importer, though.

    Maybe one day an R32 skyline.

    If money was no object, a Lancia Stratos would be it. It looks so sick.

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      6 hours ago

      I had a bike engined (Honda fireblade) locost 7 that’s very similar. Trick with any 7 is to keep the weight as low as possible and the red line as high as you can. Still miss it now but the track days got expensive