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Originally posted by legion
A lot of these tuner kids gets buy a $3000 Honda and spend over $10,000 making it fast.
Just imagine if they bought a $3000 944 and put $10,000 into it? They'd have one hell of a sweet track car.
Or how about a $10,000 951 with $3000 in mods or a $13,000 911?
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I think part of the probelm with this theory is that all the tuner cars are the driver's only form of transport so it has to be a turn key car everyday. I am not too far removed from the tuners b/c from high to college I had 3 RX-7s and one Miata. All four of these cars had to be turn key cars to get me short trips for beer runs and to class and long trips of 4+ hour drives home. I treated those cars similar to the tuner scene now in that I added mods that I could afford and that could be done over a weekend and ready to drice again on Monday. It wasn't until the 3rd gen. twin turbo RX-7 that any of these Mazdas let me down in this role and I then had to sell it since I could not pay for parts or repairs and I could not depend on it as my turn key car. Part of what gets a lot of guys when it comes to the tuners is the gaudy not-so-functional mods like huge wings and stupid graphics. Granted almost every mod I did to my Mazdas was funciton and not able to be seen in most cases. I love my SC but I sure do have a fond spot in my heart for those Mazdas so I don't really dislike tuner kids.