The first car I want to buy is a Scion TC with a 5 speed manual! Modify a little so I can rip it on the tōge a little, then I want to get my absolute dream car, an FRS/BRZ!! Then later down the line I want to own a RHD JDM car, don’t know which one yet tho!
What about you guys?!
Also the picture is a display of 86s and BRZs in Maryland!
Loved my little Rover 25 with the 1.4 K series. Incredibly fun car and super underrated. Now I drive a high milage hero mk 1 Skoda Octavia with the venerable 1.8T remapped. It’s a barge and a little ropey, but it’s really funny how I can take even modern cars from light to light. I would like something with fewer doors though, maybe a Porsche boxter is up next. A step up from that would be a 993 or 996, but those are pretty pricey. With an unlimited budget I’d probably go for a GMA t.50 or t.33.
1976 Datsun 240z. I would want to give it all modern internals, but that body design is perfection in my eyes.
If I had unlimited money I would basically pull the engine and drivetrain out of a 5th Gen supra and cram it in there.
All I need is like 200k in cars, parts and labor then my dream can be a reality lol
Ya, I certainly have lusted for an old 240 tasteful modernized!
There’s a guy that has an LS swapped (shocker I know) 240z around here. He kills it in autocross competitions too. Usually first or second. And the madlad drives it to and from the events lol. He really hammers down.
That’s awesome, even though I think I’d stick to Nissan power :)
Yeah… My allegiance is only to JDM vehicles in general. I love Nissan but I have truthfully never been a huge RB guy. Like I have lots of respect for the GTR and the RB platform, but it just doesn’t tickle my nipples in any particular way.
Why from the zupra? Just grab the motor from a z4 it’s the same thing…
The one in the 5th Gen supra had Toyota engineers all up in it. So you get German engineering power with Toyota engineering reliability.
I know they are basically the same motor, but the supra one does have a bunch of little changes that the Toyota guys made.
And Frankly I trust the Japanese engineers with my cars far more than I trust the Germans. I like my cars reliable first and foremost. A broken car is slower than the slowest working car.
They unfortunately didn’t do shit to it. That’s all PR talk, the techs all had to be trained on the BMW motor. Don’t get me wrong its a performance motor and it’s an I6 but don’t feed into the “Toyota made it great” PR crap they pulled. It’s just a body kitted z4 at the end of the day.
Lotus Elise in attention whore yellow
except I can actually fit in it. total dream.
Have you tried the Corolla XRS?! It has the same 2ZZGE engine from the lotus! Specifically look for the 05 or 06 models.
a Lotus is pure sex appeal and a Carolla is … well … a Carolla
8200 rpm redline 👀
1930 Deusenberg Model J
'59 peugeot 403 convertible
Jaguar XJ220 in the OG silver or British Racing Green
If we’re dreaming, how about a TWR XJ220s ? Gorgeous.
Sheeesh 😮💨
There are so many cars I want.
- 1991 Honda CRX
- 1995 Honda Civic Hatchback
- 1988 Fiero GT
- 1999 Toyota MR2
- 1998 Honda Civic “Del Sol” - The JDM version with the trunk that lifts straight up
- 1980 Nissan 280SX
- 1996 Nissan 300Z
- Any year Mazda Miata
- 1982 C3 Corvette Stingray
- Any year Nissan Skyline (JDM)
- Honda S660
- The “Honda Attack” Kit-car. (https://www.k1-attack.com/)
- Daihatsu Copen Japanese Kei Car
- DMC Delorean
- Subaru WRX STI
- Subaru/Toyota BRZ/FRS
- 2007 Saturn Sky
- Late 90s Pontiac Trans-Am
- Nissan 370z
- 2001+ Audi TT
- Lotus Elise
There are sooooo many more…they are ALL my dream car. All of them, in some special way.
Holy that’s a lot! 1 day man, 1 day 🥺
Used to lust after the R34 Skyline as a kid. Interests have shifted a little, but still remains JDM at heart with a strong desire for a nice kei-car/van; something like an Autozam AZ-1 or something like a Suzuki Every.
Having driven a Geo Metro for a couple hundred thousand miles (350k on the odometer when I sold it for what I paid for it after having having driven it for 250k~ of those miles myself) I have a strong like for Suzuki products.
I swear this is the year I finally import a Honda Beat
I, too, used to lust for the gtr! The R32 to be specific. I loved that car when I was younger. I still love it, but I don’t see myself gravitating towards it as much as i did before.
Pretty stoked about Aptera.
As far as cars that are currently available go, maybe the Audi R8.
The R8 is so cool. Understated awesome.
Caterham 7 SV. Probably one of the lower trims
I had a bike engined (Honda fireblade) locost 7 that’s very similar. Trick with any 7 is to keep the weight as low as possible and the red line as high as you can. Still miss it now but the track days got expensive
Slow car fast rather than a fast car slow, its the way to have a good time
I have a few different categories of dream car:
Realistic daily: GR86/BRZ
Realistic sports/weekend car: C6 Corvette
Unrealistic: a brand new Porsche 911 GT3
Those corvettes are fast! The porshes look so nice!!
A car with open schematics, simple mechanic, no computerized bs other than basic engine control and good blind spot cameras. And good room inside. That’s all
check out the Brubaker Box
interesting concept
The right answer! Cars are filled so much computer bull shit it’s unbelievable. It is to feel “luxurious” but all people need is mechanical tuned cars that will just work. Not a disposable, which ironically isn’t good for the environment, which the entire point of electrifying is saving the environment. 🫠
1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, fully stock.
Slightly different drivetrain but I loved these cars until I got with my wife who had a '99 GS and quickly realized how shittily built they are. The motor blew up at 120k, got replaced, and then died again shortly after. We sold it for scrap price. I’m sure the 4G63 is more fun to drive but there’s a reason why you barely ever see these things on the road anymore.
Yeah - I’m prepared for that. I had a friend who had a GS back in the day, and it notoriously ran sometimes. Overall it spent more time running than it did broken down, but it was close.
But the other thing that struck me about it, and still does, is I think it’s one of the most distinctive and attractive auto designs ever. Just something about those curves and that stance appeals to me in a way that no other car ever has.
And while part of the reason I’d want a stock one is that people notoriously bolted crappy parts to them, most of it is that I’d actually want it mechanically rebuilt pretty much from bumper to bumper. If I could find one that’s had all of that done, and done well, that’d be fine too, but I’d rather have it done exactly the way I want it. And either way, I want the body to be completely stock.
Have you seen Jafromobile’s youtube channel? This guy is like the king of Mitsubishi and is doing multiple complete nut and bolt full on restorations of old Eclipse and Galants.
I agree they have some of the most beautiful body lines for tuner cars. My wife’s was the special 10th anniversary edition that came with the giant rounded spoiler and Enkei wheels for 1999. I think I’m just too much about practicality these days to appreciate owning something like that along with my automotive tastes being tailored more toward trucks (classic and/or modern RCSB).
I’ve always dug the Renault r5 turbo
Apparently they’re making a new one but electric (so not actually turbo but whatever) which looks pretty bonkers
I’m currently on the lookout for a 90’s Subaru Domingo with the right specs. I might need to bite the bullet and partner up with an importer, though.
Maybe one day an R32 skyline.
If money was no object, a Lancia Stratos would be it. It looks so sick.
