Sooty
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with who?
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NovaGTE
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Zeneth or something. Mother rang um lastweek, she's got the details
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Sooty
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Zeneth... neva heard... must be good if they gave you cover, most places would turn you down because of your age
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Colin
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http://www.japanimportcar.co.uk/118mr2gt94black.asp
U got me looking at the autotrader now
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NovaGTE
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Yeah im on there aswell
This one looks good, only 3.5K with 49K on the clock.
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Sooty
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be warey of imports.... might say 50k... but no way to check if been clocked or not prior to coming into this country... watch for leaks in the seals on the tbar's too, quite a common problem
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Colin
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Yeah, does look very nice, what reg???
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Phil321
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Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
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NovaGTE
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Yeah been doin some research myself, gonna have it inspected and all that before i buy one. They only do the turbo in imports tho
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Phil321
Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
True - The Jap's are maybe too scared to drive em
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Sooty
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not true Mat... you can get N/A imports
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Sooty
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin J
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Originally posted by Phil321
Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
True - The Jap's are maybe too scared to drive em
most been clocked before they come over here
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NovaGTE
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin J
Yeah, does look very nice, what reg???
Its a 1990 on a G plate, was hopin for a K+ but its got all the bits on i want. New style back lights, twin 4inch zausts, 17's, dump valve and leather
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Marc
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Yeah they usually are low mileage
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Sooty
not true Mat... you can get N/A imports
Think he means you dont get uk turbo's
Yes - Glimited, which is shite
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Phil321
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin J
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Originally posted by Phil321
Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
True - The Jap's are maybe too scared to drive em
Or maybe they clock em when they've had enough and ship em over here 
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NovaGTE
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Originally posted by Sooty
not true Mat... you can get N/A imports
Yeah, sorry i ment you can't get a Uk turbo
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Sooty
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ahh LOL ok... uk turbo would be crap anyways... probably something like 180bhp if one was made
I like MR2's .. shame my brothers turbo blew up... he got into the 12's qmile
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NovaGTE
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quote:
Originally posted by Sooty
quote:
Originally posted by Colin J
quote:
Originally posted by Phil321
Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
True - The Jap's are maybe too scared to drive em
most been clocked before they come over here
You can generally tell if this is the case, look at the seat, gaiter and gearknob wear are generally tell tell signs. But this can be the case on any car uk or not
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Sooty
ahh LOL ok... uk turbo would be crap anyways... probably something like 180bhp if one was made
I like MR2's .. shame my brothers turbo blew up... he got into the 12's qmile
Yes, pisses me off how they dont just supply the powerfull model's in UK in the first place
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Sooty
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true... but any car can be clocked without knowing... my gti has 62k on it... interior is immaculate though, as if new
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by NovaGTE
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Originally posted by Sooty
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Originally posted by Colin J
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Originally posted by Phil321
Is it just me or do most Jap performance imports (older Scoobs, MR2s, Supras etc) seem to have VERY low mileage?
True - The Jap's are maybe too scared to drive em
most been clocked before they come over here
You can generally tell if this is the case, look at the seat, gaiter and gearknob wear are generally tell tell signs. But this can be the case on any car uk or not
True, by doing simple checks you will be able to tell if its a genuine low milage or not
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Sooty
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im not naive enough to look at the interior and let it reflect on the cars true mileage... there 2 dont really havea constant corolation
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Nismo
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top choice , mates just got MR2 Turbo tis rather nice and has cream leather interior , Jap is the way forward.
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MarkM
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quote:
Originally posted by NovaGTE
Yeah im gonna go for the T-Bar; want either full leather or leather/alcantara aswell.
Yeah, ive already got a back up quote that i can use if it does fall through which ive had confurmed on the phone.
All Turbo T-Bar's come with full leather as std....
[Edited on 16-11-2003 by sport16v]
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