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Just thought I might buy another GT-R after a 10 year hiatus building career and not touching cars after I sold my GT-R in 2007 for 26K?.  These numbers are insane, while I now have financial security I doubt I can convince myself to part with double the money for something similar.  Perhaps a 33 or 34 GT-R is an option instead if they haven't gone bananas as well  :down:  

There used to be 40+ 32 GT-Rs for sale in QLD, now its about 5 on carsales.  Are we really exporting all these to the yanks similar to Japan once was to us back in my day? or are they being crashed or hoarded since I last looked?

 

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10 minutes ago, Minko said:

.  Perhaps a 33 or 34 GT-R is an option instead if they haven't gone bananas as well  :down: 

Bananas price:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/nissan/auction-1221671192.htm

 

 

 

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On 25/01/2017 at 5:39 PM, UWISSH! said:

A lot of the ones on car sales have been there for a fair while so either they r shit and over priced or people are not prepared to pay the prices

Edward Lees cars with dodgy history have to resurface somewhere sometime. 

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6 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

R34s are worse than R33s in terms of price jumps. R33s are climbing as well, but better to buy a 33 IMO.

Have never liked the 33's but the numbers are starting to win me over.  No R32's worth looking at under $35,000, but there seems to still be a few good deals for 20-30K for R33 GTR's.  Surely you cant go too wrong with a well picked 33 especially when they start being imported to the USA in a few years.  

7 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

R33 chassis is better than the R32. You can see the improved structural and aero bits. In hindsight, I should've waited a year and bought an R33 GT-R lol.

You would be in the minority to pick an R33 GTR over an R32 GTR..

7 hours ago, JH32 said:

You would be in the minority to pick an R33 GTR over an R32 GTR..

Re Chassis:- Kurosawa explained this quite clearly as he compared the R32 GT-R to the R33 GT-R prior to taking the latter around Nurburgring in 8'01". 

The R32 GT-R could never get close to that.

 

1 hour ago, GH05T said:

i love my R32 and wouldnt swap it for a 33.

however im seriously thinking about buying a good R33 GTR while their cheap.

I'd be lying if I said that thought hadn't crossed my mind too......I'm just in the same boat (excuse the pun ;) ) as most other 32/34 fans, the 33 has never done it for me, only the series 3 midnight purple gets the juices flowing somewhat...

16 hours ago, JH32 said:

You would be in the minority to pick an R33 GTR over an R32 GTR..

In terms of looks, nostalgia etc, R32 always. But the R33 is a better engineered car (since they had time to improve on things). If only it wasn't so bloated looking :(

Plus, the R32 electronics shit me lol damn HICAS.

4 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

In terms of looks, nostalgia etc, R32 always. But the R33 is a better engineered car (since they had time to improve on things). If only it wasn't so bloated looking :(

 

Ahem...
R33 GT-Rs are perfect looking in front of a convex mirror! :)

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On 01/02/2017 at 11:54 PM, Robzilla32 said:

$145k? I realise that it is worth whatever someone wants to pay but are prices really getting that high?

https://carsales.mobi/cars/details/Nissan-Skyline-1997/SSE-AD-4202131

I'm pretty sure a few months ago this car was forsale for $66k. not sure what happened.

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