Acura coming to Australia...

[Terreto]

Well, according to drive.com.au, looks like Acura is headed to Australia... eventually. Don't know if that's a good thing or not, perhaps like the Americans we can be duped into thinking an Acura ain't a Honda and a Lexus ain't a Toyota, but anyway all you people who stuck those Acura badges on your Integras (and some on their Civics:P), you're dream may just come true;)

[Steffo]

Great. Another silly pointless American thing is going to invade and influence Australia. Last thing we need.

[funkymonkey]

now we can bag Honda owners AND Acura owners lol 2 for the price of 1

[redline2003]

if that means we will finally be getting some un-de-tuned civic and integra type Rs then it will be a good thing, we always get stooged on our aus delivered cars.......

[funkymonkey]

we'll get detuned shit anyways, we got worse fuels than japanese customers.

[dojobi]

I wonder how FWD cars will sell in this bracket. BMW, Mercedes and Lexus - the 3 main ones afaik - are all RWD (except for the ES300, but that's their entry level one based on the Camry). I know if I was after a luxury car, there's no way in hell it'd be a Honda or an Acura.

[mcnamg]

the latest version of wheels magazine had an article about the possibility of nissan bringing infiniti to the asia pacific region including the JDM and austrralia. I know that its wrong to call a skyline anything but a skyline but i wouldnt be too upset to see infiniti g35's driving around in aus. If thats what it takes to get the skyline into aus as a new car again then i say bring it on!

[pentae]

I think every move nissan australia make is a retarded one, lets not go there.

Though I think we should all be greatful nissan australia did NOT deliver the skyline locally or we couldnt afford to be driving around in them

[dojobi]

I'd also love to see Infinti G35s here. They look better than the V35 Skyline in Japan. The rims are bigger and nicer, the kit looks better and the badge is a really nice looking badge. I'd buy one in a second. I think they also get a bit more in the way of luxury items.

[mcnamg]

they are based on the skyline 350 gtp i think the pop up lcd sat nav screen looks pretty cool

the only drawback of course is that as pentae said they will probably be way too expensive compared to an import skyline. either way i would much rather see some more quality rwd autos on the road rather than more falcodoores. im sure the infiniti g35 would give the monaro a run for his money.

[dojobi]

One other thing, I think the Skyline doesn't come in an AWD configuration with the VQ35DE (only the VQ35DD). In the US, the G35 is available this way. It's almost a V35 GTR.

[mcnamg]

AWD sounds good all you need then is the hks twin turbo kit its not a gtr without twin turbo.

[mcnamg]

sorry about the thread hijack teretto

[funkymonkey]

actually the first Skyline GTR (KPGC10) didn't come with AWD or any turbo's so does that make it a non GTR?

[dojobi]

Very true. I think the current GTR image really does require some sort of turbo and AWD though. I'd probably even settle for a really high powered AWD NA car actually.

[mcnamg]

sorry funky no disrespect.

i guess i was referring to the modern gtr ie r32 onwards.

but old skool is still cool

[mcnamg]

awd is great and i suppose that i could live without the turbo's and i am escpecially sure that my insurance company would love it if i lived without them too

[Rezz]

I'd also love to see Infinti G35s here. They look better than the V35 Skyline in Japan. The rims are bigger and nicer, the kit looks better and the badge is a really nice looking badge...

Whats thet you say? Rims are bigger, the kit is better, the G35 looks better than the V35???

Look again, they're almost identicle bar the badge:

V35

[dojobi]

Maybe I saw a lower spec one when they first came out (remember the 3.5Ls weren't out at first). I'm pretty certain that the ones I saw did not look as good as that top one - which does look damn nice btw.

[mcnamg]

rezz when are you getting your skyline? what model are you getting?

rezz is there a series one and a series two model? i have seen two different sedans in pictures one with a small logo in the middle of the boot in what looks like a plastic sqaure on the bootlid with maybe a handle below it and then the cars with skyline in large letters across the boot.