The TPU UK Clubhouse

[kurosagi01]

But worth it!

We talking old or new gen? Both worth it regardless but any "supercar" is asking for robbery in UK lol.
Completely forgot to include the A90 Supra to my list, now I wouldn't mind one but again too expensive still.

Mitubishi 3000GT loved these, probably rare now

They were cheap few years ago, lot of old 80-early 2000s JDM cars have gone up in value by a lot now.

 

[lexluthermiester]

We talking old

Yup. I've not driven the new revision. Not a fan of the new look. I hear they're fun to drive though. Mine was a 1992 model with the 5speed. Miss that car.

but any "supercar" is asking for robbery in UK lol.

Fair enough.

 

[Space Lynx]

I wish I made as much money as y'all, but alas my job is stress free and easy so I can't complain. I actually have a meeting later this week to lease a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq, is the main reason I mentioned it earlier. $2000 down, and $189 a month for 36 months. Yeah you don't get to keep it at the end of it all, but with 58mpg city and 60 mpg highway, and how expensive things are getting (tires, general maintenance, replace the batteries in 8 years for another 5 grand) I won't have to worry about any of that with a brand new 3 year lease, and when the lease is up as long as the price is around the same, I will do another 3 year lease on the 2024/2025 Hyundai Ioniq.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I wish I made as much money as y'all

No, back then I didn't make that much money. My NSX was 4 years old, had been in a wreck(rear ended), needed some TLC but was dead cheap as a result. I bought it, did some of the fixing up myself and took the rest to a friend who worked at a body shop. For the grand total of 4 months of work and $5500(in 1996) had a restored NSX that looked brand new and drove like an Indy car. Little bit of BOOYAH!

 

[Space Lynx]

No, back then I didn't make that much money. My NSX was 4 years old, had been in a wreck(rear ended), needed some TLC but was dead cheap as a result. I bought it, did some of the fixing up myself and took the rest to a friend who worked at a body shop. For the grand total of 4 months of work and $5500(in 1996) had a restored NSX that looked brand new and drove like an Indy car. Little bit of BOOYAH!

The world has changed a lot sadly. I wish I didn't have to be ultra economical with every decision I make, but yeah... with skyrocketing food prices etc... I just feel... better safe than sorry. Keep stacking my money, and make best economical choices I can make. /shrug

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Old turbo Chu Chu noises will be missed

How about:

Plenty of room at the back for golf clubs, girlfriends and dogs.

 

[kurosagi01]

Yup. I've not driven the new revision. Not a fan of the new look. I hear they're fun to drive though. Mine was a 1992 model with the 5speed. Miss that car.


Fair enough.

Damn, do you have any regrets in selling it? I'm probably going to assume no as time has changed and priorities are different.
A lot of people have selling remorse in old cars but nobody would predict they would turn into a "collector" item of valuable, which the same can be said with old toys aswell that get bashed as a kid.

I wish I made as much money as y'all, but alas my job is stress free and easy so I can't complain. I actually have a meeting later this week to lease a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq, is the main reason I mentioned it earlier. $2000 down, and $189 a month for 36 months. Yeah you don't get to keep it at the end of it all, but with 58mpg city and 60 mpg highway, and how expensive things are getting (tires, general maintenance, replace the batteries in 8 years for another 5 grand) I won't have to worry about any of that with a brand new 3 year lease, and when the lease is up as long as the price is around the same, I will do another 3 year lease on the 2024/2025 Hyundai Ioniq.

No stress mate, do what you like and prioritise what you need and want accordingly. If you semi-enjoy your job and its stress free then you are winning regardless.
We appear to have chicken shortage because of a lot of delivery driver shortage, who would thought the gov want to cut down on lorries and go "EV" on them too but they are like one of the most needed transportation in the UK to transport goods and EVs just won't be able to cope the load.

How about:

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Plenty of room at the back for golf clubs, girlfriends and dogs.

I would consider it but as I said, I don't fancy another hatchback at the moment.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Damn, do you have any regrets in selling it?

Yes and no. I miss the fun I had driving it. But I wanted a vehicle my growing family could fit into. I made a profit from it. Sold it for $12,500, even with the branded title.

 

[kurosagi01]

Yes and no. I miss the fun I had driving it. But I wanted a vehicle my growing family could fit into. I made a profit from it. Sold it for $12,500, even with the branded title.

I would have thought a used Honda/Acura NSX would have sold for a lot more than 12.5k being a supercar back in them days still?
Nothing wrong selling it for other needs though.

 

[phill]

All I'd say is that if your going to buy something for a weekend fun car, make sure whatever you buy, its something you really do want. For myself, screw the outlay or the costs, if its something that you 'want' and its a 'dream car', don't go for second best because it's a cheaper option. I believe if you ever did you'd just hate what you had picked out ever more....

 

[kurosagi01]

All I'd say is that if your going to buy something for a weekend fun car, make sure whatever you buy, its something you really do want. For myself, screw the outlay or the costs, if its something that you 'want' and its a 'dream car', don't go for second best because it's a cheaper option. I believe if you ever did you'd just hate what you had picked out ever more....

That I can agree on, just difficult to justify wanting a old 90s JDM car though when their value are going up still lol but...a 370z nismo is like the middle ground and the GT86 is my other option as I really like them still.

 

[AusWolf]

Imo good. There are lots of nutters driving who are imo fuckwits. I really don't see the need to buy a car that does 160+ when the speed limit on a motorway is 70.

I disagree. You don't need to drive fast to be a fuckwit, but with a little skill and attention (and road quality), driving fast isn't necessarily dangerous - proved by Germany's Autobahn. Nannying people into obeying every small rule every single time does not create a safer environment - only a more restricted one with more frustrated people.

I do believe they are a fad to be doing good but for everything else that's needed, I think they are a worse polluter than normal cars. I'd love to see proper 100% legit facts, but I'm sure there's no such thing and one will always look worse than the other... I can understand though from a servicing point of view, electric cars are somewhat cheaper by far in that regard.

Based on what I've seen and read, I totally agree. Getting electricity from the network isn't a lot greener than internal combustion (at least petrol, which burns rather cleanly compared to diesel). I'd rather not get started on the "renewable electricity" fad with windmill farms occupying huge chunks of land which could be natural habitat for plants and animals, or solar panels with a limited life expectancy. Not to mention the dirty lithium batteries in cars that can't really be recycled at this point in time.

I disagree entirely. We don't need more recharge stations. Battery formulations need improvement to increase energy densities and recharge times. Ideally, super capacitors are a better solution as they can recharge very quickly, but the problem is keeping that charge stored long enough for it to be useful.

Exactly that. Lithium battery technology isn't good enough for mainstream use in cars. Period.

I'll be gad to see the back of dirty IC cars. Can't wait for all electric, i'm sure the infrastructure will be there to support it as they become more prevalent.

I guess at some point there will be electric muscle cars, as electric motors produce 100% torque from 0 rpm which is pretty good.

Do you have the infrastructure to charge an electric car at home? I don't.

Sad to say it that even when the speed limit is at 20 and someone's limited to 70/80, you'd get someone trying to do that speed through a 20. I believe that the only time you won't have speeding is when the car knows the speed and just limits the car accordingly... By then, it'll be like iRobot......

That's exactly what the EU government is planning with sign detection cameras and GPS assistance.

 

[phill]

That I can agree on, just difficult to justify wanting a old 90s JDM car though when their value are going up still lol but...a 370z nismo is like the middle ground and the GT86 is my other option as I really like them still.

Never difficult if you are going to enjoy it more and look and think, "Hell yeah!" and the same when you drive it rather than "Meh" when you see it and drive it... I'm after another car, family estate.... But with a twist.....

I disagree. You don't need to drive fast to be a fuckwit, but with a little skill and attention (and road quality), driving fast isn't necessarily dangerous - proved by Germany's Autobahn. Nannying people into obeying every small rule every single time does not create a safer environment - only a more restricted one with more frustrated people.


Based on what I've seen and read, I totally agree. Getting electricity from the network isn't a lot greener than internal combustion (at least petrol, which burns rather cleanly compared to diesel). I'd rather not get started on the "renewable electricity" fad with windmill farms occupying huge chunks of land which could be natural habitat for plants and animals, or solar panels with a limited life expectancy. Not to mention the dirty lithium batteries in cars that can't really be recycled at this point in time.


Exactly that. Lithium battery technology isn't good enough for mainstream use in cars. Period.


Do you have the infrastructure to charge an electric car at home? I don't.


That's exactly what the EU government is planning with sign detection cameras and GPS assistance.

I really do wonder what will happen with the batteries afterwards... I mean, if they can only recycle so many or so much of them, what's going to happen to the waste left over? I'd guess most of a petrol/diesel car can be recycled or re-purposed?

Nanny state then I guess, here we come... although what will they do without all the funds rolling in from the fines etc. to keep the speed cameras going and what will happen to them? Left to rot by the side of the road or over head on the motorways??

 

[kurosagi01]

Ha it is when they are more than the budget you set yourself lol,we will see. I won't be making a decision until I've finalised how much I have to work with after buying house.

They can easily cut down pollution from amount of vehicles on road if they actually commit to promoting WFH but they want them companies to rent out offices and buy coffees too.
Just flashback to last year when we was in "lockdown" and the sky actually looks clear and nice, it made a significant difference.

 

[phill]

Ha it is when they are more than the budget you set yourself lol,we will see. I won't be making a decision until I've finalised how much I have to work with after buying house.

They can easily cut down pollution from amount of vehicles on road if they actually commit to promoting WFH but they want them companies to rent out offices and buy coffees too.
Just flashback to last year when we was in "lockdown" and the sky actually looks clear and nice, it made a significant difference.

That's the issue I think you setting a limit for something, take the limit away, get what you really want I don't do limits for buying anything as I just end up buying things twice and it costing me twice as much as it should have done or been.. I'm all for spending right the first time. If I don't do that, then I'll just end up wasting more cash than I'm saving..

All they need to do is stop advertising all these idiots on Youtube with 3000BHP shopping trolleys that do 8.6 to the quarter mile and things would be a hell of a lot better. There's so many of the channels doing it I just don't get it. Or how about getting shot of crap on Youtube/Facebook etc. might save some space on servers and such like... Hell even bring back Blockbuster and the like instead of all the damn streaming...

So many different ways to deal with things but as always, its the cash flow that they like and they don't really care I don't believe about the environment as they like to say they do. If so, rather than wait 10 20 years to get something stopped or changed, just say, this is the end date, get it sorted.
I mean, how hard can it be??

 

[lexluthermiester]

I would have thought a used Honda/Acura NSX would have sold for a lot more than 12.5k being a supercar back in them days still?

Branded title.

Exactly that. Lithium battery technology isn't good enough for mainstream use in cars. Period.

Right, Lithium is dangerous, expensive, energy desity is not good enough by far, and durability is iffy at best. We need a better energy storage solution.

 

[the54thvoid]

What happens to EV batteries after they can't be used in cars? | Autocar

Before EV batteries are finally recycled, they can often lead long lives in other applications

www.autocar.co.uk

UK consortium enters race to build solid-state batteries for electric cars

Some prototypes exist, but firms have struggled to commercialise a durable solid-state battery

www.google.co.uk

The future will come soon enough.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

We need shoebox reactors

 

[kurosagi01]

That's the issue I think you setting a limit for something, take the limit away, get what you really want I don't do limits for buying anything as I just end up buying things twice and it costing me twice as much as it should have done or been.. I'm all for spending right the first time. If I don't do that, then I'll just end up wasting more cash than I'm saving..

All they need to do is stop advertising all these idiots on Youtube with 3000BHP shopping trolleys that do 8.6 to the quarter mile and things would be a hell of a lot better. There's so many of the channels doing it I just don't get it. Or how about getting shot of crap on Youtube/Facebook etc. might save some space on servers and such like... Hell even bring back Blockbuster and the like instead of all the damn streaming...

So many different ways to deal with things but as always, its the cash flow that they like and they don't really care I don't believe about the environment as they like to say they do. If so, rather than wait 10 20 years to get something stopped or changed, just say, this is the end date, get it sorted.
I mean, how hard can it be??

Well who knows,maybe the market will crash and the value will drop again, I remember seeing a white imported RX-7 for £25k 2 years back, now they are going for £35k+.

 

[phill]

Well who knows,maybe the market will crash and the value will drop again, I remember seeing a white imported RX-7 for £25k 2 years back, now they are going for £35k+.

Don't look at a R34 GTR V-Spec ......

 

[kurosagi01]

Don't look at a R34 GTR V-Spec ......

No interest in R34 GTR but I have seen the price of them now,complete bonkers lol.
The R32 are at the price similar to what the r34s were few years back and r33s are slowly creeping up too.
Toyota Supra have gone up to crazy value too.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So I did something else with oats

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Ah man... Rebuilding my fishing kit - budgeted myself about £400 and spent almost a quarter of it. This shit is expensive.

 

[AusWolf]

Day 5 of self-isolation. 5 more to go. So far, it's not as bad as people think (touch wood). The only thing that really annoys me is how disgusting it feels to eat something without being able to taste it. Even the most delicious dishes feel like eating paper. At least I've finally got around to doing the Metro marathon (2033, LL, E) that I've been planning on doing for a long time.

 

[lexluthermiester]

The only thing that really annoys me is how disgusting it feels to eat something without being able to taste it. Even the most delicious dishes feel like eating paper.

I feel lucky. That didn't happen to me. It was more the sense of smell that diminished somewhat. It came back after a week or so. The taste of some things changed a bit. Citrus for example. Lemon & Limes are a bit more tangy than bitter like they once were, grapefruit has a slight meaty flavor(put me right off) and oranges have a slight berry flavor to them. Onions(any type) are now just foul. I wasn't a fan to begin with, but now they're just repulsive, even the smell makes me want to spew. As a result of these experiences I become fashinated with the chemistry science of taste & smell. Utterly intriguing.