I wanna buy a gtr r33... help

[Guest skylinedude]

Sorry to sound so rude devilish but it's just a touch hard to believe,i know even if i had the money i wouldnt of got a GTR at your age cause i wouldnt in danger myself or anyone else on the road in a car that has to much power for me to control with such little experience,blitz said it perfectly if you MUST have a GTR go do some advance driving courses which willl make you a better driver and give you that little bit more experience.

[Guest skylinedude]

By the way how generous are your parents feeling? lol

[Ash]

DEVELISH: ignore most of their negative comments we are all jealous, i don't know anyone here who has had someone else buy them a GTR and on top of that i am sure no one here had one bought for them at the age of 17.

I think your lucky and if thats what you want then go for it, but u must understand that insurance is going to be impossible for a reason, not attacking your driving or anything but anyone with little experiance in a car like that is certain to have an accident or write it off. One of my mates parents bought him a Twin Turbo supra, well let me just say he only had it for a coupple of weeks....

Im not talking you out of it, but perhaps a GTS-T with a full GTR kit would be an option just for a coupple of years? it is kinda rediculas (sp) to pay that much a year on insurance. in 2 years you could have bought a GTS-T with the money you save on insurance. in 4 years you could buy your own GTR with the money you save on insurance.

Just a thought....

Good Luck....

ps. GET WHITE!!! and yes the back gets really really really really really dirty, like black dust from the exhaust, i wash my car every week and 3 days of driving and you can write in the dirt, but then again i ALWAYS run my turbo timer for 1 min. but the other colours get just as dirty, u can just see it more on a white one.

[Guest skylinedude]

Even a N/A with a GTR kit would be good not to mention save yourself a bundle of $$$ on insurance and other costs.And i'm sure your parents wouldnt mind saving a bit of cash and having there daughter a bit safer

[Shell]

Originally posted by skylinedude

I just did a quote on NRMA and it came up as $18,946 for insurance.

that is basically a "we don't want your business" quote...they know that no one in their right mind would actually pay it...

Devlish Angel, you're actually considering taking up insurance if it costs that much?? As someone said that's $1580 a month...that's just under $400 a WEEK!!! OMG!!!

Anyway, good luck with it all...and I'm extremely jealous of you...but I think i'm actually kinda glad too, that my parents didn't buy me something like a GTR when i was 17, cos I might not be here right now. I used to push my little Laser to it's limits, can't imagine if I'd had a GTR!

[Guest Devilish Angel]

Skylinedude---> i'm realli sorry for taking it out on you,... i just got a little annoyed...

and i realli do understand all that you all are saying about safety and all but i honestly don'ty plan to push the car...at all.... i'm not exactly a speed freak... just you know... i don't know this may sound spoilt but you know you alwayz want the "better" things... gts.. gtr.. gtr is better... no other real reason why i want it...

honestly i like the 34 better cause of the lights... but u kno it's the whole concept of a gtr...

and i guess all you are kind of convincin me to go for like a gtst34 or something like that....

[Guest skylinedude]

I had this friend his parents were pretty well off and they brought him a twin turbo supra for his 17th,2 weeks later he ended up wrapping it around a poll and killing himself as well as one of my other friends in the car with him at the time.That's why i'm stressing the safety factor,but it's up to you if you believe you can handle it and wont do anything stupid no matter how much your friends pressure you to, then go ahead and get a GTR.

[carlo]

Definatly go for the R34 GTT.. ITs a fantastic engine, its turbo, its fast, its got style..

Then go out to the track with mcgill and learn to drive it.. (as skylines are tricky cars) and you will have a fantastic car expirence.

(ps. Dont forget to join the club)

[choochoobaa]

i seriously doubt that your not gonna push the car when u get it. most ppl speed when they get their P's and add a turbo to that and u have a dangerous driver. i said the same thing when i got my car and i have 0 demerit points left after 2 months of owning my car. and i dont consider myself as a speed freak. skylines just give ya the feelin to speed.

just my 2cents

[Airzone]

Originally posted by Devilish Angel

Skylinedude---> i'm realli sorry for taking it out on you,... i just got a little annoyed...  

and i realli do understand all that you all are saying about safety and all but i honestly don'ty plan to push the car...at all.... i'm not exactly a speed freak... just you know...

You do not have to push this car. I've got 6 years of driving experience (hardly any compared to most people), and have a stock r33 gts-t. Once, the highway was a little wet, and I went around a slight bend a little too fast - 80kph. The rear flicked around. I'd had the car for about 2 months. I recovered from it after about 6 fishtails, but that's the closest I've ever been to killing myself. If a car were coming the other way, I would have collected them head on - no doubt killing myself, but probably some of the people in the other car. A GT-R is 4wd to a degree, but that will not save you at all. And because of the extra power in it, it's even more likely to come pear shaped. When learning to drive a car, you will lose control of it. And if you don't have the driver experience to get out of your mess, then quite frankly, you're f**ked. So is the car, and so is whoever you may hit.

I know this sounds gloomy and the sort of thing a parent would say, but if you get behind the wheel of a GT-R, then the odds are really stacked against you - and it's also been a pleasure knowing you. Bugger the cost of insurance and the cost of the car, but are you willing to place your life at such a high risk? Just for the sake of having the best?

To be honest with you, I wouldn't touch a turbo car until I had racked up a few years of driving experience. Advanced driver training won't help here (IMO). The N/A skylines can all be kitted up to look like a GT-R, if looks are really that important. The money you save can be put to things like chromies and a wicked stereo..

You need to learn to walk before you learn to run.

If you do ignore advice against buying the GT-R, then park it in a locked garage for a few years. Buy a cheap shitty pulsar or something to learn in, because if you can afford a GT-R, you can also afford to buy a shitty 80's car that you can crash around as a second car.

[Airzone]

By the way, that also goes for turbo R34's... And turbo R32's.

[Roy]

On the other side of the coin, i have friends who are not car people. (Yes i have friends, and there are those that dont live cars)

Over the years thay have often got behind the wheel of my cars, their parents 304/350 V8 Commodores, supercharged Jags, ones dad had a 928s. No accidents, no fatalities, no driving offences.

To many cars are at best a fashionable means of transport. Their owners/drivers wouldnt even think of giving a car some stick.

Plenty of 17year olds live to see 25 without having killed anyone or having been a menace to society.

GTRs do have plenty of poke, but they are a well balanced car with modern driving aids... id like to believe that a 'NORMAL' person could safely own such a vehicle.

... and NO, i dont consider myself normal, id probably have written myself off if i had an R32 GTR back in '93, but many of my friends wouldnt of had the same problem.

[Airzone]

"Plenty of 17year olds live to see 25 without having killed anyone or having been a menace to society."

How many of those had GT-R's? Lol!

I reckon that everyone should have a go at driving a performance car sometime, even if only for the sake of a broader driving experience. The more driving experience someone has, the better they'll likely be (discounting natural talent). It just seems wrong to me that someone would get into a weapon of a car before knowing how to use a more sedate one.

My sister is the same.. She's 18 and has her heart set on an S15. The only thing that's keeping me happy about the whole affair is that I know she can't afford it :-) One day, she'll be able to get one and by then she'll know how to drive reasonably well. Between myself and her mates, I'll expect she'll have had the opportunity to have driven fast cars. And when that day comes, I'll just have to take her aside and show that her oldest brother still has the fastest car

[Guest skylinedude]

my bro is 17 and can bairly handle my n/a skyline so there's no way id put him in a GTR and he's a pretty good driver sometimes his ego gets a hold ofhim though which i guarantee happens to everyone once in a while.

[Ash]

ill be honest i am 19 and have had my license for over 2 years now, and i drive more KM's than a lot of people especially my age (min 250 - 300 a week). My dad bought me (and my brothers and sisters) an old Mercedes Benz to learn on, i have now handed it on but i am glad i didn't get a GTR etc. because the skills i learnt in it are priceless. for sure if i was in a GTR i would have killed myself or seriously harmed someone, the first time i gave my skyline some stick i nealy left skidmarks in my pants and its only a GTS-T. Its a big jump from a little 4 cylinder, i couldn't immagine learning on one.

My 2c.

[Guest skylinedude]

I learnt in a 91 nissan pulsar lol

[Guest Devilish Angel]

you know... now because of every1's accident stories or comming close to thnd potential risks...

YOU'RE ALL MAKING ME RE THINK!!1 HOW COULD U???

well.... although i really want a gtr... i guess insurance etc... good points were made...

so what do you all think if i go for a 34 den??? not a gtr...

sound a little better???

[Ash]

34 GT-T

[Guest skylinedude]

It's up to you devilish were just saying what we think.The chances are pretty high of having a accident if you get a GTR for your first car,but in the end it's your decision.

[Guest Devilish Angel]

yea i realise...

and thanks for that...

well i guess now i'm back to square one..

i need to decide upon colour n everything...

argh!!

lol