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andalusian said:
My first car was a '69 Citroen Ami 6 - which was the ugliest car ever made - I bought it at $30 - and probably overpaid... - at the time the styling of the Pacer was an inspiration for me.

I do not have a picture of my own car - but here is one of a nicer example from the web:

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You have to admit, you'd kill to have that in your driveway right now. That car is so ugly it's awesome.

That reminds me of one of my favorite car stories ever. Citroen used to have an auto factory on an island on the Seine near Paris. The last guy on the assembly line was someone with a pillow tied to his leg. Why? To force closed the hood of the car. He had to put his knee on it to get it to latch.

Ah, fine French engineering.
 
maxiep said:
You have to admit, you'd kill to have that in your driveway right now. That car is so ugly it's awesome.
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You bet. Or, at least, one that I would not have to crawl under every 10 miles to fix something that broke.

4 or 5 years ago there was a wagon version for sale by a guy that worked in the international market on 99W near Tigard - I went to look at it - and despite the asking price of $1200 which was his starting offer and I suspected he would have gone down in a hurry - I could not bring myself to offer anything because that car was worse than the one I had. I thought the guy had testicles the size of basketballs to be brave enough to drive it.

Here are some pictures:
 

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That looks nice and fresh.

What are people's thoughts on this:

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2009 Dodge Challenger
 
I wish it was 2/3 the size - because the actual shape is very pleasing - it looks good, it sounds good - but it is so freaking huge.
 
I like the Challenger but, like the Charger, they are everywhere.

I prefer the WCC 2-door Charger:

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Yeah, my step-dad has the Daytona Charger with Hemi. It's a nice car ride and speed-wise but I'm not that fond of the look.

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Mazda RX7

Yes!!!
 
I want to get a project car and I'm trying to decide between a 1997 RX7 or 2006 STi.

The RX7 is a legend.

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The only thing is, rotor engines overheat often.
 
Is this a Japanese market version? The ones sold in the US had the pop-up headlights.

Beautiful, beautiful cars. I used to see them at the track all the time when I had the time to really be serious about it. Deceptively quick cars these 3rd generation RX7s. Most however, I understand, eat their engine every 80K miles or so because the oil filter is located in a place that is so hard to reach - that most people do not change it as they should.
 
Ronan said:
Yeah, my step-dad has the Daytona Charger with Hemi. It's a nice car ride and speed-wise but I'm not that fond of the look.

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Mazda RX7

Yes!!!
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This RX7 looks nice, just needs and LS1 style engine in it....if it doesn't already. :devilwink:

That always gets the wankel wankers in a tizzy.
 
Fez said:
I want to get a project car and I'm trying to decide between a 1997 RX7 or 2006 STi.
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Did you ever do any rallycrossing? The Oregon Rally Group puts on really nice events, usually at a big field across from the Hillsboro county fairgrounds - and the STIs are thick on the ground there. I used to take my wife's entry-level grocery getter Subaru there and race it. Tons of fun. She bought a newer one last year which is all nice and shiny - so she does not allow me to do that anymore - so I had to take my old daily-driver BMW to do that. Not the right car for the venue, being RWD and with an open-diff - but it was still fun. I even won the class one of the times... (which never happened in the Subaru - because there are so many of them there usually much more powerful than the one I was driving).

http://www.oregonrally.com/
 
I haven't but that's something I'd like to get into one day!

Btw, one of my friends has a modified RX8. These cars accelerate so fast off the line!

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It's not an RX7 but still a beast of a car.
 
I am not an RX8 fan. They feel very surgical when you drive them. Not a lot of sense of drama. I like cars that make more noise and keep you more involved. They have fantastic chassis feel - but the engine is too subdued to me.

The best Mazda, overall, imho - is an early Miata with manual steering. Not the fastest cars around - but so much fun to flick around.
 
Actually, I think the new Mazdaspeed3 is a great car. I've driven one and the way it accelerates it reminds of of the RX7.

It's a shame Lotus didn't stick with this concept design:

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Holden Commodore

This is a really nice Australian car that has a bit of speed behind it (V8). I think it's marketed as a Pontiac G-something (in America) but it looks a bit different and doesn't have the V8 (I believe).
 
Fez said:
Actually, I think the new Mazdaspeed3 is a great car. I've driven one and the way it accelerates it reminds of of the RX7.

It's a shame Lotus didn't stick with this concept design:

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Looks awesome.
 
The Esprit was built for very small people, the ergonomics inside are just atrocious. Some of these cars look great but make very little sense when you try driving them hard - because they never thought about "normal sized" people building them. I am 6'1'' and I have had no problems getting into many small cars and driving them hard - including my own Birkin which was was much smaller, physically, than the Esprit and so narrow that I could never drive it with anything more than a t-shirt - but the interior of the Esprit was designed by a sado-masochist - it is just bad. I believe that the good people at Car & Driver once described it as "the gearshift falls naturally to elbow"...
 
That's the pontiac G8. Just different badging.

I'm not really a big fan of hatchbacks but this Rieger edition R32 is sick:

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R32: King of all hatchbacks
 
andalusian said:
The Esprit was built for very small people, the ergonomics inside are just atrocious. Some of these cars look great but make very little sense when you try driving them hard - because they never thought about "normal sized" people building them. I am 6'1'' and I have had no problems getting into many small cars and driving them hard - including my own Birkin which was was much smaller, physically, than the Esprit and so narrow that I could never drive it with anything more than a t-shirt - but the interior of the Esprit was designed by a sado-masochist - it is just bad. I believe that the good people at Car & Driver once described it as "the gearshift falls naturally to elbow"...
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Haha, I knew a guy who owned an Esprit and he was 6'5".
 
Fez said:
That's the pontiac G8. Just different badging.

I'm not really a big fan of hatchbacks but this Rieger edition R32 is sick:

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R32: King of all hatchbacks
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Hatchbacks are really popular in England right now and you'll see this car quite a lot. Ford Focus is another one.
 
The R32 is huge in Europe.

Rieger is a German company that makes custom body kits for VW's (as well as Porsche)

This VW Sciorocco is only available in Europe.

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My old BMW getting very muddy. Tons and tons of fun the rally-x events.
 

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Thanks. (If it's aimed at my old car instead of the VW). I like it. Cheap, reliable, good steering feel, can take the kids in the back-seat and I like the way they look as well. I love driving RWD cars. Other than my wife's cars (AWD) and that Citroen I owned - I never owned anything that was not RWD.
 
Speaking of BMW's..

For some reason, my favorite year is the 2002.

I think it's the roofline

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