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AKADriver · 11-13-2002, 12:22 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kreator @ Nov. 13 2002,12:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">For some reason i think i'll be really disappointed if they bring over the gtr.... <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> i'm not exactly sure why though.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Probably the same reason people are still crying for the S15.

We're fans of Nissan's old guard.  Our cars are steeped in Nissan tradition going back to the '60s, and for that matter traditions going back to the beginning of the Japanese automobile industry.  In a spiritual way we're all driving bastardized Austin Sevens and we like it that way <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

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Ghosn and the new Nissan are producing stunning, world-class cars.  Nissan is profitable again!  But it isn't our Nissan.  Nissan is being profitable with no dirt cheap RWD car, no lightweight FWD car, no crazy JDM performance models.  Just damn good bread and butter.

By the way, if the S15 had made it here, $27k would not have been the price.  All new cars are more expensive in the Australian market than in the US per exchange rates.  Conversely it of course wouldn't be $19k like it was in Japan.  Somewhere in the middle is more likely, around $23000, slightly more than we paid for S14s adjusted for inflation since '98.

11-13-2002, 12:22 PM	#19
AKADriver Post Whore! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Springfield, VA Age: 43 Posts: 3,517 Trader Rating: (1)	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kreator @ Nov. 13 2002,12:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">For some reason i think i'll be really disappointed if they bring over the gtr.... <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> i'm not exactly sure why though.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Probably the same reason people are still crying for the S15. We're fans of Nissan's old guard.  Our cars are steeped in Nissan tradition going back to the '60s, and for that matter traditions going back to the beginning of the Japanese automobile industry.  In a spiritual way we're all driving bastardized Austin Sevens and we like it that way <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> Ghosn and the new Nissan are producing stunning, world-class cars.  Nissan is profitable again!  But it isn't our Nissan.  Nissan is being profitable with no dirt cheap RWD car, no lightweight FWD car, no crazy JDM performance models.  Just damn good bread and butter. By the way, if the S15 had made it here, $27k would not have been the price.  All new cars are more expensive in the Australian market than in the US per exchange rates.  Conversely it of course wouldn't be $19k like it was in Japan.  Somewhere in the middle is more likely, around $23000, slightly more than we paid for S14s adjusted for inflation since '98.