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Seriously dude.... I own a done up civic..up till now, i let my girlfriend drive it around..i have spent alot of time and money on this civic to the point that it matched up the price of my Skyline...bought my skyline 4 months after i got the civic...not really planning on getting another car...but i saw this silver one on the street and i was like.." mamamia" and it's for sale...just thought maybe i take it for a test drive..so i did...and after that...i took her home 5 days later.

here's what you can do ---> take a skyline for a spin and you'd know what i mean.

if you're thinking of buying a civic and do things up yourself...i suggest get a skyline..you can do alot with a Skyline without being rice.

Skyline eat rice.

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leech_: yer i'll go ask on a ford or holden website see what they say LOL

nismo33: i doubt i'd be able to do it up straight away apart from a sound system and be having it stock for awhile til i get some more $$$ and your skyline is an R33 course i take that over a civic anyday! hahaha

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Not really man, im 22 with 0% no claim bonus and Famous Classic Car Insurance quoted me $2200 for my r32 gtst, which i think is dirt cheap for this vehicle...

If you do end up getting a civic *shakes head* then it better be a vtec model...they sound sweeeeet with a rampod when the vtec kicks in about 5tho rpm

and if you dont get that then your just silly haha

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if your insurance be $2200 mine be like through the roof! haha i'm more into a car with looks for now then when i get my full license i'd get a car for speed. if i don't get a civic now i'll get the R32 in december for sure, just in time for summer holiday too! be like cruising everyday! ahahaha

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I pay $960 p.a full comp rating 1, market value $15,500.

There's two types of people.

Rev heads and non-rev heads. :)

The rev heads when on a budget will buy a car that has potential to be its quickest.

The non rev heads are the pretty boys who like to make an impression.

As you get more money these merge. :D

i.e... I bought an ugly TE cortina back when I was 16.5, slapped on a holly mild cam and 2.5" exhaust. Thing went like the clappers.

5 gearbox's and 1 diff later. :D

It went hard and used to have no problems pulling away from what then was a sicko VN V8 commodore as did it have no problems leaving my mates RX7 Series III 13B N/A.

Good fun car that was. Loads of low down torque. Peak power was made at just before 5000rpm. Slightly loopy idle. :D

Its your first car.. Get some thing that hauls arse.

These days you should be able to pick up a cheapish V8 of some sort. Drop a cam in to it and get it going hard.

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I gotta disagree, Rev-heads and non rev-heads both equally want to make an impression, just in different ways, every person has a desire to be noticed and appreciated by others, so if you're a rev-head you just want it in a different way, but it's all the same thing, doesn't make you any better.

Personally out of the two options, well I think r32's are a little long in the tooth and don't exactly look too modern nowdays. I mean they looks late 80's.

On the other hand, a civic is a shitty little hatchback that does at least look relatively current model-ish but on the other hand looks stoopid all done up with some giant exhaust on the back. I mean it's not a sportscar, it's not a Type-r hot hatch so why bother making it something it's not.

I'd save up for an r33 a bit more probably.

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