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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 22 July 2003 12:13
 
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Those VRX magna's go pretty hard 
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I supported Toymods
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February 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 22 July 2003 22:46
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hmmmm... its one thing to do a cressida, but a completley seperate thing to do a magna??? lol..
each to their own...
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Melbourne
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March 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 23 July 2003 07:15
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Each to their own, i'd like to see one of the 4wd magnas grab a v8 and stick it to the holden and ford boys 
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 23 July 2003 13:14
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i'd just like to see a rwd magna.
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Location:
Launceston, Tasmania
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May 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 29 July 2003 01:56
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I found this magna on that page 
QUOTE: ""My altera is a part of Team Jetspeed Melbourne and is causing a lot of commotion as it is believed to be the fastest magna in australia, I have dragged many cars including supras,preludes,integra type r's skyline r32 gts, holden slr5000 v8 5.0litres, Lancer evo3 GSR and have never lost. The one and only car i have lost to however was a 4door r33 gts-t 10psi output of about 275kw.
I havent done a dyno tune on the car yet because of future plans to supercharge and torque chip it. After that is complete it will undergo 100hp of nitrous. However at the moment it is a stock engine but noone believes so . hahaha The car now has 18inch gold anz 6 spoke (similar to nissans r34 skyline) rims which have only just been released .It has a 3inch exhaust piping which splits into 2 and has two 5inch tips. Muffler is also has special insulation aswell the exhaust tips so it reduces the noise but not the performance . Having a EPA reading of 83db at 3200rpm. It is getting lowered about 3inchs lower for the car show leaving it about 6cm off the ground but atm it is 12cm off the ground. Car has been canaried though however and isnt allowed on the road.
Stock, except for the exhaust system - and beating all those hot cars? I'll let you make your own mind up."
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Location:
c'town, NSW
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May 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 29 July 2003 02:07
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| cam_RA40 wrote on Tue, 29 July 2003 11:56 |
QUOTE: ""My altera is a part of Team Jetspeed Melbourne and is causing a lot of commotion as it is believed to be the fastest magna in australia, I have dragged many cars including supras,preludes,integra type r's skyline r32 gts, holden slr5000 v8 5.0litres, Lancer evo3 GSR and have never lost.
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Perth
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May 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 29 July 2003 02:15
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I think he's lying!
A stock magna aint going to beat half of them cars.
it would prolly have trouble beating my missus in her 3cyl sirion.
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Brisbane
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October 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 29 July 2003 11:33
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magnas can go surprisingly hard, not that hard tho, my mate has a TJ wagon 3.5l auto that has 185 FWHP
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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May 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Tue, 29 July 2003 13:50
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Now sing along:
A magna is a slug of course of course,
That guy that reckons it beat those cars is rooting a horse a horse.
Heh, these magna guys are really funny. They sound like 14 Y.O's going on about how fast their dad's cars are and they can beat any "insert any real car here".
After modifying, I'd give that POS about 1 hour of hard driving before the engine blows up.
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Central Coast
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July 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 02:24
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I drive a 3.5L TJ Magna, and its actually mine, not my dads and it has acceptable performance considering its stock. Lets just say some of my 'Toyota loyal' friends had your attitude until they found out how hard they go!
Im guessing from your name you drive a Holden Apollo aka Camry right?
Um i wouldnt be bagging other peoples car if the above is true.
Appears to be just another case of people bagging out other brands they know nothing about.
Im not trying to start shit but um NEWS FLASH there are more cars in the world that arent Toyotas and some are just as good if not better!
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Central Coast
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July 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 02:30
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Oh yeah and I love Toyotas and especially Lexus' so dont think Im a biased b*****d
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Perth
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May 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:11
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Well i have drove the 4cyl magnas which is what you would compare a camry to, and the camry would hurt the magna.
My borther has a V6 magna (company car) they go all right but there is no way it would beat a half decent car (supras,skylines)
he's been smoking the cheba!
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Perth
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May 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:13
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I drove the 2000 camry and the 98 as well as the magna before the v6 and one that was a 97 or something as well as commodores, falcons, rodeos, vientas - which would be a good comparison to the v6 magna.
you've got to love company cars!
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ballarat
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April 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:13
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my friend has put a his own brand efi computer, a td04, saab intercooler, and 400cc(? i think) injectors on his tp magna, and although i admit asthetically it looks pretty ordinary, man does it go like a shower of shit! (running ~10psi)
ps. also has awesome stock brakes, like braking in a go-kart
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Perth
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May 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:20
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if you did one up fair enough (???why???) but in stock form they aint no v8 killer.
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Central Coast
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July 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:25
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i agree a magna would have no chance against a skyline or supra (depending on the model) because its not a sports car, but a family car.
i was going to buy a 98 onwards camry (cos my mumma has one and they a really good) but settled on the magna cos they look better inside and out and have more low end grunt.
yes i know its a shallow reason.... 
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:36
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| Billy-Mason PI wrote on Wed, 30 July 2003 12:30 |
Oh yeah and I love Toyotas and especially Lexus' so dont think Im a biased b*****d
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Wouldn't dream of it...There's only one biased b*****d on these forums...Guess who?
(Very biased toward the 1UZ, BTW!)
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Perth
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May 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 03:42
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I dunno the camry's have some grunt at bottom end if you manual shift them and rev the absoulte sht out of them, from driving both of them id have to say the camry went harder (this is the 98 - 2000 models).
but enough about them pos.
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Central Coast
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July 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 04:08
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what i mean by low end grunt, is that you dont have the rev the s**t out of it. the camry v6 loves to rev, whereas the magna will but makes it power lower in the rev range. like a bomodore, only smoother
oh yeah and without pushrods
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Perth
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November 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 08:38
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| coronamark2 wrote on Wed, 30 July 2003 11:20 |
if you did one up fair enough (???why???)
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I like the look of the Magna's, pre the last two models, and think they look pretty cool done up. I reckon the model that I like, not sure of the years, but this one
reminds me of a stretched Evo4 style Lancer, which is never a bad thing as the Evo Lancers (pre evo7) own all.
I have to agree that if you wanted to do some serious work on it you would have to be thinking about a RWD or 4WD conversion tho, just can't imagine insane amounts of horsepower running through the front wheels of a big car like that being as fun as running through the rears
I would definately take a fully done up RWD or 4WD magna tho, imo they are sweet cars
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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May 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 10:33
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| Billy-Mason PI wrote on Wed, 30 July 2003 12:24 |
I drive a 3.5L TJ Magna, and its actually mine, not my dads and it has acceptable performance considering its stock. Lets just say some of my 'Toyota loyal' friends had your attitude until they found out how hard they go!
Im guessing from your name you drive a Holden Apollo aka Camry right?
Um i wouldnt be bagging other peoples car if the above is true.
Appears to be just another case of people bagging out other brands they know nothing about.
Im not trying to start shit but um NEWS FLASH there are more cars in the world that arent Toyotas and some are just as good if not better!
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I've been in plenty of those magnas and know that they are not all that. Those were rentals, and you know how you should drive a rental. So why must I know nothing about them if I bag them? Quite the opposite.
I know what my car can do, I don't go off saying I can beat $60,000 cars because I know I can't. That's the difference between me and those "my magna can beat an xr6" crowd. Get it? I'm not making up wild stories about a go hard slugna.
And yep, I can easily say back to you that you can't go bagging other people's cars because you drive a magna.  I really don't like them, (obviously), but I hate it even more when people make them out to be some hot street dragging machine because they arn't.
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what i mean by low end grunt, is that you dont have the rev the s**t out of it. the camry v6 loves to rev, whereas the magna will but makes it power lower in the rev range. like a bomodore, only smoother
oh yeah and without pushrods
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That's the difference between your SOHC engine and our DOHC engines. We can have smaller capacties and not loose power through excessive frictional losses.
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Central Coast
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March 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 10:52
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Can any1 tell me where to get bodykits like these for the Magna??? No I dont drive 1, I own a toyota but a friends dad owns a magna and I wanna try and convince him to dress it up a little. They actually look suprisingly good.
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July 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 21:49
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I prefer low end power as I find it easier to drive day to day, and if the case was my SOHC loses power, its still got more than enough torque to compensate and at least i dont have to redline my car in every gear to access the power ie. like a smaller capacity DOHC engine (sportivo corolla???).
Suppose it comes down to your driving style...
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Wollongong
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July 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Wed, 30 July 2003 22:09
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I had a bit of a run with a ralliart magna in the supra..don't underestimate them, you'll regret it.
I saw an article a while ago about someone turboing the 3.5l v6 and putting in an off road buggy.
Can't remember the boost but it wasn't real high and i think it made about 500hp, that in an awd magna would be a load of fun!
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Bris-vague-us
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October 2002
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Wed, 30 July 2003 23:40
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Saw one like the pic at the top just the other day. Massive kit, redicolous wing, and best of all...
BRIGHT FREAKIN YELLOW 
Same shade asa the integra typeR or an American school bus.
It was so damn funny i stood on the side of the road and pointed, laughing histerically as it drove past. Made eye contact with the driver, he didn't seem impressed 
(P.S. I prob. wouldn't have laughed so hard if this thing hade the go to match its looks, needless to say, it didn't!)
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Central Coast
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March 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Thu, 31 July 2003 03:13
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You will actually find that the Magna that you seen with the kit was all factory. I think they are a special edition Magna but the kit was from the dealer and comes witht he car. Its totally a factory car. I dont like them in yellow either but I guess at least Mitshbushi is doing something unlike most other companies who dont do cars with bodykits or anything.
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Re: hard core magna's
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Thu, 31 July 2003 04:13
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| swankiedude wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 13:13 |
You will actually find that the Magna that you seen with the kit was all factory. I think they are a special edition Magna but the kit was from the dealer and comes witht he car. Its totally a factory car. I dont like them in yellow either but I guess at least Mitshbushi is doing something unlike most other companies who dont do cars with bodykits or anything.
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I think the point of the previous post was to high-light the fact that for an increasing number of people nowadays, performance means (relatively inexpensive) body add-ons, at the expense of any real-world performance...The fact that this car was "factory" only serves to illustrate the point that the factories are now promoting this "style before substance" approach.
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Melbourne
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March 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Thu, 31 July 2003 06:41
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| biased99 wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 14:13 |
| swankiedude wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 13:13 |
You will actually find that the Magna that you seen with the kit was all factory. I think they are a special edition Magna but the kit was from the dealer and comes witht he car. Its totally a factory car. I dont like them in yellow either but I guess at least Mitshbushi is doing something unlike most other companies who dont do cars with bodykits or anything.
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I think the point of the previous post was to high-light the fact that for an increasing number of people nowadays, performance means (relatively inexpensive) body add-ons, at the expense of any real-world performance...The fact that this car was "factory" only serves to illustrate the point that the factories are now promoting this "style before substance" approach.
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Hasn't the camry sportivo taken this route then? Style before performance?
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October 2002
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Re: hard core magna's
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Thu, 31 July 2003 23:19
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| Intensevil wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 16:41 |
| biased99 wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 14:13 |
| swankiedude wrote on Thu, 31 July 2003 13:13 |
You will actually find that the Magna that you seen with the kit was all factory. I think they are a special edition Magna but the kit was from the dealer and comes witht he car. Its totally a factory car. I dont like them in yellow either but I guess at least Mitshbushi is doing something unlike most other companies who dont do cars with bodykits or anything.
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I think the point of the previous post was to high-light the fact that for an increasing number of people nowadays, performance means (relatively inexpensive) body add-ons, at the expense of any real-world performance...The fact that this car was "factory" only serves to illustrate the point that the factories are now promoting this "style before substance" approach.
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Hasn't the camry sportivo taken this route then? Style before performance?
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Yes!
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Adelaide
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June 2003
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Re: hard core magna's
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Sat, 30 August 2003 02:33
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magna's have always been ok cars........even the astron 2.6 has a reputation with ppl that actully know stuff about engines, not biassed owners of other cars as a tough motor.....the reason that ppl think that all mitsu's are heaps of shit is because back in the day when there was a jump in new car prices....mitsu mass produced the magna and offered it at not much more then the price of a used car.....in result the car market dropped and even ppl selling used cars lowered their prices....
im not a fan of the magna's but i hate ppl that diss cars just because they have heard some immature DH with a V8 saying how much they hate them and then they go......yea ill go with that...
if you have actually compared power, efficiency, cost etc etc and still dont like the car over your beloved valiant then congrats go out to you.....
btw what im tryin to say here is i would drive a magna and i know 99% of the ppl here on toymods would take one over a crappodore (no comparison).....magna just need to develop a desirable drivetrain is all
soz about the lengthy post,
chris
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