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I went this arvie. 1st Autosalon that I've been. IMO it was not too crash hot, the expo was better and cheaper. I saw the last couple of Familia GTRs go through the dyno. The highest pulled was around 150kw with a screwed clutch. Viva Garage had their Drift R32, it pulled 205 kw, R33 Angry 1 pulled 170 kw or something and a Hummer which pulled under 100kw but plenty of torque. I left before the big guns came out, so hopefully it got better!

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I went today and was fairly disappointed. There were a few good cars (big dollar no expence spared, never meant to go on the road) but most cars were honest street driven cars little better than those we drive every day.

I thought the Horsepower expo was better value and had a much wider range of vehicles (I dont mind the old hotrods and some of the better V8 brigade)

Saw an R31 get a massive 79rwkw on the dyno and the commentator trying to talk it up as a good effort. I would have thought if you don’t have 200+ you shouldn’t enter.

MADGT4 Mentor

MADGT4

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That GOZILLA Pulsar pulled out 260awkw on Saturday....

Jason's PIMP as E55 pulled 240rwkw roughly......

Over all i was a lil unimpressed with this year!

One thing that has picked up in quality tho was the ladies! OH THE LADIES!

And one last thing..... Did anyone notice the amount of stock, or minimally modified cars there? I counted like 3-4 at least! Whats with that?

mr_rbman Grand Master

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i went this arvo and was reasonably impressed compared to the last couple of years, but it did make me think that i could actually enter my car which just has some rims and an exhaust.

if we were to do an sau stand next year i'd definitiely wanna be in it just for the fun and pride of it!

pkblade Experienced

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There definitely was a lack of performance & over the top show cars this year :D & only a few were in real contention for King of Autosalon.

It was a bit of a let down with the dyno runs & no GTRs from what I could see :(). One of the highest power figures for the wkend was a GTiR with 305odd awkw & top Skyline run was by Phuman's R34 with 280rwkw (runnin a Trust T67 now). If only GTAutosound brought a pair of street tyres & ran their S15 drag car.

One of my fav & the more unique cars there was the purple/lavender Toyota Celsior with Merc front.

I got to agree with MADGT4 though, the ladies & promo models were fine, so much so I had a few of them workin overtime for me :).

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