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Old Oct 10, 2006
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high price tags create exclusivity. after all if everyone drove one of these cars then APC would start thowing euros out for them and they wouldnt be that special of a car.

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Originally Posted by drunkenmagnum
high price tags create exclusivity. after all if everyone drove one of these cars then APC would start thowing euros out for them and they wouldnt be that speacial of a car.

this is true. Take the enzo for example, the process it took for people to get theirs was out of control. I mean, sure they are very well crafted, but the people that bought them mostly bought them to say they have one. lol. All Im saying is that if youre spending 100k on a car, its just to flash your bank account around.

And john, im done bickering with you, but what I was trying to get through your head is that mugen and tenzo arent even on the same level of quality. All the Tenzo parts that say mugen on them are reproduction knockoffs, not NEARLY the same quality as Mugen. So no, your example was wrong. A more precise example would be like saying Rota GT3's are the same as the Gabs, because they are NOT. Rotas are merely knock offs, much like tenzo makes knock offs of mugen. Anyways, im done bickering with you now, just thought I would share that with you since you know everything.


And by the way, you guys were right about the Skyline being under the Nissan badge, I apologize for my outdated information. But its kinda like you said anyways, eclipse=talon....its the same deal nissan=infiniti. Anyways, its gonna be an awesome car no matter what the price tag is, none of us will be able to afford it.
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Old Oct 11, 2006
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Im sorry but the skyline=R34 forever!
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i'll have to agree with the doc on this one... oh... and spoonEM... i'm not even sure what to say, but please stop trying to make yourself out to be in the right when you started the argument by saying infiniti>chevy and thus generalized the corvette to have problems and be crappy in comparisson... and please just refrain from posting anymore on the subject seeing as the argument wasn't even really about mugen vs tenzo.
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...i never said infiniti > chevy.
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you get what you pay for?
if i was crapping money i'd get one.
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chump change. Add it to my "to-do" list. Hah.
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Originally Posted by spoonEM
and id rather buy a skyline over a chevy
thus implying that nissan/infiniti>chevy and since the corvette is a chevy, infiniti>corvette
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oh, and want to buy me one nookie? me luv you long time...
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i know they are....which is lame because theyre a waste of money....
Some have the money to waste.

Wouldn't mind if I did.........
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meh.... i hope you all realize how much you are paying for a name... neat, but i wouldn't spend the money on it if i had it to spend.
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meh.... i hope you all realize how much you are paying for a name... neat, but i wouldn't spend the money on it if i had it to spend.
amen to that.
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what do you pay for when you buy a lambo? ferrari? even a bmw or mercedes? hell, what do you pay for when you buy an infiniti over a nissan? or an acura over a honda?
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I'll take me one of every car mentioned in this thread
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other articles have mentioned a v8 instead of a TT v6
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what do you pay for when you buy a lambo? ferrari? even a bmw or mercedes? hell, what do you pay for when you buy an infiniti over a nissan? or an acura over a honda?
i know this was rhetorical, but... what you get when you buy a lambo is a big block of hype. ferrari, you get a purebred car from a company that has been making successful race cars for over half a century. bmw and mercedes as well, not to mention the build quality. infiniti over a nissan? name. as with acura. this car is just the same, but without any real credibility. i hold it in the same regard as if they sold evo's for 70K. waste of money. 70k = carrera s
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