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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Any time you get wistful for an old cool car you have, just go by the forums for them and look at how much money, time and frustration everyone is dumping into them 20 years later.
I wish I had a enough money that I could hold onto the old, cool cars and just have a "guy" that made the problems go away and put them back in the garage when he was done.
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I love the old cars, but now, with the obscene levels of power now available, they get really boring, really quick. Don't get me wrong an old MX-5 is a neat car to drive, but I drove basically a brand new 1993 last year (16,000 kms on it) and it felt sooooooooooooooooo slow. Slow car fast or whatever the saying was where a cars fun factor wasn't determined by speed, has not aged well.
I've said for years, the sweet spot is 350 HP. 300ish foot pounds. Anyone can have fun there. And there is so many cars you can buy there 30-40k and have years and years of reliability and fun.
Launching a 500 HP makes you queasy. 600 HP hurts your face, and 700+ your in diminishing return territory and one throttle blip away from cars and coffee'ing a bunch of bystanders.
The best bargains are 2015-2017 Mustang GTs. Easily found with a stick in the 30's and will outperform 90% of anything on the road... handling included. Absolutely bullet proof engine too that you can tune to the moon.
My Mustang is 750 something HP, and the car is terrifying to drive. It's actually too much. Don't get me wrong, it's a good terrifying but the ass end of the car will break free at 150+ KPH in 3rd and 4th gear if you get a little to heavy on the gas. And I'm running 315 Pilots on the back.
I don't know if I've ever posted that car on here before. But I supercharged a 2021 GT performance pack manual. It's a pretty wild ride. I'm $75k all in on the car which is ridiculously cheap for a car north of 700 HP.
