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So tell me guys, are Skylines more plentiful in Australia, or New Zealand?

Some guy on Skylines Down Under says that Skylines are more common in New Zealand than Australia.

Now, last I heard, there were more people in either the Sydney or Melbourne metro areas than all of New Zealand, so therefore there must be more Skylines in Australia???

Oh, and another thing, why do New Zealanders always refer to Australia as "Aussie"? Thats like us referring to New Zealand as "Kiwi"... which we don't...do we?

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i reckon aus to be honest, however the R34 skyline (full range) was locally sold in NZ nissan dealers whereas the r32,r33,r34 was never sold in aus except for like 500 32 gtr's before they got banned

When you go to New Zealand you see why it seems like there are more "Skylines" there. There probably are. The thing is most of them are NA 4 door R32's used as family cars and very much not looked after. I saw very very few turbos when I was there.

Its a bit sad to see them all driving around filthy as with unappreciative drivers.

whats also funny is you notice a particular model is that you see more of the non turbo vs the turbo model, look at the silva or 180sx, have ever seen the turbo version of it, more often that not you see the turbo charge model. where as with the r33 you more than likely see a gtst all the time

wierd

No statistics, but I'm an ex-pat kiwi (ex-nz, now ex-nz ex-oz - it's getting confusing!), and have family in nz. As such, I've travelled back and forth from oz to nz (and now japan to nz/oz) over the years, that I've been able to watch the import market expand there.

Personal observations:

* there are more skylines in australia

* there are more skylines per capita in NZ

I have very fond memories of being in NZ in the early 90s and seeing my first GTiRs, GTRs, etc - it had a great affect on a teenage mind.

Ok bein' a kiwi and all, thought I'd do a traffic count on the way home from work tonight.

I work in the CBD of Auckland which has just on 1 million people (about the same population as Hawthorne?) :D

On the 35km drive home from the CBD to my rural home, I saw 12 Skylines and 1 Stagea. 3 were R33, the rest R32.

On my last business trip to Melbourne (March 2003) I saw 3 or 4 Skylines during the whole 3 days (I was in the CBD only...) I'm sure there are heaps more than that around.

The other thing to take into consideration is that we have had high volumes of imports for quite a few years so there is many different flavours of Japanese performance cars around. Once upon a time every second car was a Legacy with a BOV, then it was WRXs, GSRs etc.

Cheers,

G

that's right, the other thing you'll find in NZ, as graeme mentions, is a host of very boring japanese cars that people (usually) don't bother to import to australia - sunnys, bottom-spec skylines, currens, cavaliers, laurels, carinas etc etc etc. A lot of these cars, versions mostly from the 80s and early 90s, are becoming very uncommon in japan - because most have already been 'cubed' or dumped on other countries.

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