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Re: What Do you guys rekon...
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Sun, 14 November 2004 07:30
 
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What do you want? The Supra is a bit of a tank (although that can be a good thing, you'll drive away unscathed from incidents that would demolish most cars) and is best suited to cruising. It's big, fat, and comfy, although if you get a turbo one it can get up and gallop. Make sure you get manual since auto sucks, and get a compression test done - head gasket is a universal weakness on 7M-GTEs.
Alternatively spend $6k-$8k on an AW11 MR2 and spend the rest on mods and/or a fat sound system. That will have better fuel economy and be an absolute friggin' hoot to drive, only downside is that it's a two-seater, and that the MR2 is slightly more fragile than the Supra.
A soarer is like a supra only more fat and luxobarge and less sporty looking. The newer ones look pretty slick but they're probably out of your price range.
The Celica will be OK but mate, it's not a Supra.
--- personal experience ends here, everything below this line is hearsay ---
The S13 is good for a drift car but unless you do work on the suspension it will suck ass in teh corners. This is mainly because there's something weird going on with the rear suspension, and/or the stock suspension bushings suck ass. Or so I've heard. It'll go alright though. 
They don't weigh *that* much less than the Supra, 1200kg vs 1500kg, 130kW vs 180kW, the Supra's got a better power/weight ratio as well as handling better especially at high speed. I may be biased though.
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