"vdub_nut: scooter snob" (jollyroger1210)
12/11/2013 at 22:03 • Filed to: None
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"vdub_nut: scooter snob" (jollyroger1210)
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"I mean, the Skyline is basically a Porsche 911, but they cut a fuckload of corners in making it"
Which led to my response....
scoob
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 22:04 |
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Nibbles
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 22:05 |
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I'm sorry, but I've used my allocation of WATs for the day
Brian, The Life of
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 22:07 |
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I admit that I'm sorta "meh" on the GTR but that even filled MY head with fuck.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> Brian, The Life of
12/11/2013 at 22:09 |
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TO be fair, he has a sound reasoning behind it. I just don't think they're aimed at the same market. Also, we're talking r32-34 skylines vs the same years porsches, not modern stuff.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 22:40 |
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Actually, the R35 is a better argument, as it is basically Nissan's campaign to beat Porsche stats with sheer technical brute force, and no grace whatsoever.
R32-R34 are less like a Porsche 911 Turbo.
Porsche Turbos have been on the affordable side of 'super car' for most of their existence, and are closer to a true sports car than a 2+2 GT sport coupe... even after completely glossing over the aspect of one being front-engined, and the other being rear-engined.
Not all Skylines are GT-Rs... GT-R was the fastest, turbo AWD hotted up Skyline, which was a sedan and GT coupe lineup.
All 911s are premium performance cars, and even those without prodigious amounts of power, are still performance cars.
I would liken an earlier GT-R Skyline to an import alternative to the likes of Buick Grand National. Unfortunately, the US manufacturers stopped building tech-laden turbo cars like that, and reverted back to just putting big V8s in Mustangs and F-bodies, instead.
On paper, a Porsche Turbo and a Nissan Skyline GT-R power all four wheels with 6 turbocharged pistons, but there is so much more about them that is different, that it isn't really just shaved cost-cutting corners.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
12/11/2013 at 22:58 |
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You read way too far into this.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 23:11 |
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Perhaps...
However, I wouldn't be one to say that a GT-R was basically like a 911 with some corners cut off, either, as I have read into the cars far enough to know a bit about them.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
12/11/2013 at 23:11 |
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You'll note that I also didn't make that claim.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
12/11/2013 at 23:16 |
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Oh, I know it was your friend saying it... I am just saying I wouldn't be one to make that claim.
I'd rather be called 'too particular', or having 'read too much into it', than prompt some of the incredulous responses that other commenters have made here due to making a comment like your friend did, which is seemingly somewhat uninformed.
m2m, apex detective
> Nibbles
12/12/2013 at 13:13 |
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Have some more ... can't hold 'em anyway.