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Originally Posted by entheosfog
Yeah I heard something about the crash factor but I also had people try and tell me the Neon was a lemon, don't buy it. Sure, it's not the best built car (the frameless windows for starters) but compared to my parent's early '90s GM car....yeah. I also had a Plymouth Acclaim that I bought off my parents and that was over 220,000 when I sold it (I still regret it) and it was super-low maintenance even though my mom never bothered much with routine maintenance.
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K-cars didn't exactly have a great reputation for durability either, although that may be more of an Ontario thing (they had a tendency to rust). I always wonder why everyone badmouths GM so much, because honestly compared to the other Big 3 they have given my family and friends the least amount of problems. Simpleton engineering (who still uses pushrods for mass-produced engines?) but they always struck me as fairly durable and simple to work on. You will also never find a company that makes a better mass-market automatic transmission (BMW was actually using GM automatics for a while).
Everyone keeps posting skyline pictures, now I feel obligated to go out and get one myself.
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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR
Here's my baby as we crossed into the bug infested NWT on a road trip four years ago. It as about to come out of a two year hibernation with a 3.0L bored out to 3.2L with a turbo and a ton of drivetrain motor work.
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That car has a bit of a Mad Max look about it. First-gen SHO, right? Those things are getting rarer than hen's teeth. Have you run it on a dyno yet? I wonder how much power you can get out of the Yamaha block with those modifications.
I'd like to retract my previous statement regarding Ford, because somehow I forgot about these. Although that being said, the later jellybean SHO (which I'm pretty sure had a V8 and transmission made of glass) was truly awful.