![]() You'd be lucky to outrun someone with a B48 or 2GR.Īnd onto the Mark II. Let's not compare the engine to a B58 (or even the 2JZ, 2JZ rules!). It's not like the 2JZ with strong mid-range torque. You really want to keep it above 5000rpm to get any meaningful power. The tachometer goes to 10k rpm with red line at 7500. It feels lean and athletic and has that brutally simple late-80s aesthetic. The R32 is the best looking GT-R among all generations. You have to be very skilled to make an old performance car work and not hurt yourself. Modern technology is so good that even common cars perform much better in the hands of common driver. In fact, you would be better off with a V6 Camry: it has more responsive steering, much stronger braking, and much better overtaking power. In conclusion: if you want to buy a 90s GT-R expecting it to be a good performance car, you would be very disappointed. Without those they all sound like vacuum cleaner. Many of us forget turbocharged engines are supposed to be quiet, and almost all modern performance cars require fake engine noise generators to make mildly pleasing sounds. And it has two large turbos harvesting all the exhaust gas to drive the compressor. Remember Japan has one of the most stringent noise regulations so all JDM cars have very muted exhaust. It's the exact opposite of a modern turbocharged engine with easily accessible torque like B58. And the engine, that legendary RB26DETT with 4-digit horsepower potential: it is very laggy, has no torque, and requires constant attention to not drop out of the power band. Driving it smoothly is almost impossible. The clutch is very heavy and gear engagement requires a lot of skill to do properly. 90s brakes without ABS have very little stopping power, so I think driving it in rain and winter is out of the question. ![]() The steering is very heavy, because almost the entire engine (almost 270kg/600lbs too) hangs in front of the front axle (later generations solved this issue with much better weight balance). When we say some car is "raw" today (like the IS500), we underestimate what a true "raw" car is. We car lovers all have a tendency to view those legacy performance cars with rose-tinted glass, thinking they are driving machines with monstrous performance. So for me it's both familiar and exotic at the same time. This was before China banned RHD "foreign garbage" cars. In fact the first car I ever drove was a R32 Skyline sedan with the base RB20E engine. Let me start with what most of you might be interested in: the GT-R. Over two months I was able to get my hands on three of my favourite cars of that era: the R32 Skyline GT-R, the Mark II Tourer V JZX90 and the Century V12. There aren't many good JDM importers in the Northeast area and I got the best one near me in NH. That's what voice GPS navigation looked like to a Chinese who could barely afford a color TV and cassette player. Just imagine the shock to see someone talk to a magical TV, and the TV announcer tells them which way to go and shows the directions on that TV. Ever since my first visit to Japan in 1999, I've always wanted to own the best cars of the Bubble and post-Bubble era from Japan because back then they were just so much ahead of their times. Ever since I moved to US I've been looking to buy a 90s JDM car.
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