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Purple_Beasty Regular Location: New Zealand Registered: May 2002	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar Fri, 05 December 2003 11:19 I don't think anyone is saying Aussie race cars are crap, just with the old Group A regulations being a lot more restrictive the base Aussie production cars were crap. And if you have a crap (comparatively) base car to start with (VN Commodore vs GTR, no contest) it is very hard to be competitive. Group A died as the category pushed for faster and faster factory cars to base the race cars on, the rest of the world went to 2 litre touring cars (because that is what the rest of the world sells) and Ford/Holden catered to what the bogans wanted which was dinosaur V8's. The Aussie car market is quite distorted due to the import restrictions put in place to protect local industry, if Japanese car makers could bring in their domestic market models without facing huge tariffs Commodores/Falcons would not exist. Until this market changes the public demand for bogan cars won't change as they are cheap and very common. Learn from NZ, we get all sorts of Japanese import goodness (strangly, lots of BMW's). Although since the car makers banded together and got frontal impact standard restrictions put on imports (meaning anything pre 95 or 96 is out) we will have a few years of higher prices before it gets back to normal. Callum [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Thu, 04 December 2003 08:57
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	smt_007	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:10
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	SupraPete	Fri, 05 December 2003 02:32
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	draven	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:17
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	ae86drift	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:30
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Conquest	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:22
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:34
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Conquest	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:38
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Thu, 04 December 2003 09:40
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	DiZ_	Thu, 04 December 2003 10:15
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Thu, 04 December 2003 10:26
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Evil_Foetus	Thu, 04 December 2003 11:51
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Thu, 04 December 2003 11:55
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Norbie	Thu, 04 December 2003 12:04
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	gianttomato	Thu, 04 December 2003 12:09
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Clown	Thu, 04 December 2003 13:13
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	UUP-46X	Fri, 05 December 2003 00:28
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Norbie	Fri, 05 December 2003 00:36
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Sharpie	Fri, 05 December 2003 05:57
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	biased99	Fri, 05 December 2003 05:58
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	4DaDrift	Sun, 07 December 2003 13:08
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	UUP-46X	Fri, 05 December 2003 00:43
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	ae86drift	Fri, 05 December 2003 00:43
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Chris Davey	Fri, 05 December 2003 03:55
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Fri, 05 December 2003 04:52
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Fri, 05 December 2003 06:38
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	biased99	Fri, 05 December 2003 07:16
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Fri, 05 December 2003 08:44
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	justcallmefrank	Fri, 05 December 2003 10:05
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Fri, 05 December 2003 08:45
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Fri, 05 December 2003 10:17
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	justcallmefrank	Fri, 05 December 2003 10:26
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Fri, 05 December 2003 10:31
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	justcallmefrank	Fri, 05 December 2003 11:03
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	V8_MA61	Fri, 05 December 2003 11:07
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	justcallmefrank	Fri, 05 December 2003 11:09
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Purple_Beasty	Fri, 05 December 2003 11:19
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	sideshow	Fri, 05 December 2003 21:17
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	andrij	Sat, 06 December 2003 09:31
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	jase	Sat, 06 December 2003 15:15
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Julz	Sat, 06 December 2003 15:11
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Norbie	Sat, 06 December 2003 16:25
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Shraka	Sat, 06 December 2003 17:08
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	andrij	Sat, 06 December 2003 20:24
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Jag7799	Sun, 07 December 2003 01:33
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	wagonist	Sun, 07 December 2003 14:22
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Corvid	Sun, 07 December 2003 21:38
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Nark	Mon, 08 December 2003 00:25
	Re: Toyota V8 Supercar	Tranth17	Mon, 08 December 2003 00:59

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