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uiuc240 · 10-01-2002, 04:34 PM

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Our community would be better off without the publicity. I've been trying to buy another s13, my wife and a friend of mine, as well as myself called over 80 used car lots within 200 miles of my house, and couldn't find a single 240 to even look at! The popularity of the car being bought up by kids who are trading in their 91 CRX or civic is a lot bigger that you might think! Props to SCC for doing the article right, but it's hurting the true enthusiasts.

It's true that some of the new people jumping on the bandwagon WILL NOT be ricers, destroying our rapidly dwindling number of cars, but they'll by far be the minority. As for more 3rd party manufacturers... wow, u mean I can finally get altezzas from APC for my 240? Weeeeeeee... all the crapass products from shite companies can continue to ignore nissan as a whole. In fact I hope and pray they do.

This rant is nothing new, and isn't going away, we can only do 1 of 3 things: ignore it, be part of it, or the path I'm taking... make the most badass sleeper I can and blow away the ricers with speed, tuning, power and knowledge.
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Yoshi,

I agree, but don't forget some of the good things to come with all this publicity.  I remember when I got my coupe 3 years ago...there was NOTHING out there.  Now there are tons of people selling exhausts, intakes, suspensions, performance parts, etc.  And you don't have to get raped paying for JDM pieces because a lot of the nice Japanese companies are opening up offices in the US.  I love that.

I agree that rice is lame.  But rice has been here forever.  Have you seen all the CRAP sold for hot-rodders?  They buy the lame stuff too.  Truckers are worse about it.  They all have the lame headlight covers and Chevy bowtie tailpipes, and whatnot.

Don't worry about what other people buy for their 240s.  Just be thankful that by having an industry, now we can actually get some parts for our cars.  It's nice being able to get coilovers for less than 3 grand.  Now if only I could convince Rays to sell wheels for cheap here.

Eric

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uiuc240 Nissanaholic! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Age: 46 Posts: 2,093 Trader Rating: (0)	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Yoshi @ Oct. 01 2002,11:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I don't mean to come off as elitist, but fuck SCC. The article was very good, and very thorough... the problem lies in the rice factor that follows the mag; a high level of rice <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> Our community would be better off without the publicity. I've been trying to buy another s13, my wife and a friend of mine, as well as myself called over 80 used car lots within 200 miles of my house, and couldn't find a single 240 to even look at! The popularity of the car being bought up by kids who are trading in their 91 CRX or civic is a lot bigger that you might think! Props to SCC for doing the article right, but it's hurting the true enthusiasts. It's true that some of the new people jumping on the bandwagon WILL NOT be ricers, destroying our rapidly dwindling number of cars, but they'll by far be the minority. As for more 3rd party manufacturers... wow, u mean I can finally get altezzas from APC for my 240? Weeeeeeee... all the crapass products from shite companies can continue to ignore nissan as a whole. In fact I hope and pray they do. This rant is nothing new, and isn't going away, we can only do 1 of 3 things: ignore it, be part of it, or the path I'm taking... make the most badass sleeper I can and blow away the ricers with speed, tuning, power and knowledge. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'> <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'> <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Yoshi, I agree, but don't forget some of the good things to come with all this publicity.  I remember when I got my coupe 3 years ago...there was NOTHING out there.  Now there are tons of people selling exhausts, intakes, suspensions, performance parts, etc.  And you don't have to get raped paying for JDM pieces because a lot of the nice Japanese companies are opening up offices in the US.  I love that. I agree that rice is lame.  But rice has been here forever.  Have you seen all the CRAP sold for hot-rodders?  They buy the lame stuff too.  Truckers are worse about it.  They all have the lame headlight covers and Chevy bowtie tailpipes, and whatnot. Don't worry about what other people buy for their 240s.  Just be thankful that by having an industry, now we can actually get some parts for our cars.  It's nice being able to get coilovers for less than 3 grand.  Now if only I could convince Rays to sell wheels for cheap here. Eric __________________ 2002 Mazda Protege5 1989 S13 w/SR20DET (sold)