Celerity
Well-Known Member
If I do, yeah. If not it's no big deal. This NX is going to be sweet when I'm done with it - but it's going to be financially difficult (I knew that from the beginning).
The Mustang is really the only new car that I'm interested in, so I'm not looking for a new car. My Civic lately has been getting 30 ish mpg, the Mustang is rated at 21/29 (I drive a mix, and always get more mileage out of a car than normal) So it's a premium of about $500-$800 a year for gas. The Mustang V6 harkens me back to the Supra NA - They are both very similar (Mustang being faster and actually... better balanced god what am I saying !?) And it's more my style of car. With the NX built as a daily driver (I'm now thinking of just SR20DE power.. Not like I turbo a lot on my way to and from work) I was going to build up a 1984 Supra as a drifter / autocrosser.
The Mustang didn't make a lick of sense, until I started thinking about how I can make a lease work for me. With nothing down on it ($900 out the door) and the lease covering my taxes, it's a $320 monthly bill with a (now) $8000 buyout at the end. That's less my monthly modding budget.
Modding a car and building one also tends to take away time better spent actually driving a car - taking road trips and the like. Going somewhere like Pennsylvania or New Hampshire on the weekends is simply something that I don't do anymore and I want to do.
The NX will be mint, but the slightest hit to it's chassis spells the end. With it's numerous hits, the body is on and aligned by magic alone, and I can't fix it now well enough (Because then nothing will line up!) so it's a do-or-die scenario.
If Toyota still made a Supra, in 3rd gen style with some goodies tacked on, and then sold it for $17,500, would you buy it ? Well this is basically that car. That, and I really like the 4.0 liter Ford motor. The new Mustang also introduces all sorts of possibilities of later transplanting the V8 into the body, and the LSD rear (9" still!) and making the car a lower-insurance screamer. I think that the combination that I've found also will work out in the future for resale. I've given the market some time, and while Mustangs aren't rare - they aren't all over the place. Used 05s still go for their retail - or with the proper trim - MORE.
As far as modding it and driving it - I'm blowing away the Lease contract and you know you'll see the car with wheels, suspension, and engine bolt-ons in no time. Basically, a US made Supra in my book.
Oh, and the NX is going to cost me about $4000 before it even hits the pavement which is a difficult pill to swallow.
The Mustang is really the only new car that I'm interested in, so I'm not looking for a new car. My Civic lately has been getting 30 ish mpg, the Mustang is rated at 21/29 (I drive a mix, and always get more mileage out of a car than normal) So it's a premium of about $500-$800 a year for gas. The Mustang V6 harkens me back to the Supra NA - They are both very similar (Mustang being faster and actually... better balanced god what am I saying !?) And it's more my style of car. With the NX built as a daily driver (I'm now thinking of just SR20DE power.. Not like I turbo a lot on my way to and from work) I was going to build up a 1984 Supra as a drifter / autocrosser.
The Mustang didn't make a lick of sense, until I started thinking about how I can make a lease work for me. With nothing down on it ($900 out the door) and the lease covering my taxes, it's a $320 monthly bill with a (now) $8000 buyout at the end. That's less my monthly modding budget.
Modding a car and building one also tends to take away time better spent actually driving a car - taking road trips and the like. Going somewhere like Pennsylvania or New Hampshire on the weekends is simply something that I don't do anymore and I want to do.
The NX will be mint, but the slightest hit to it's chassis spells the end. With it's numerous hits, the body is on and aligned by magic alone, and I can't fix it now well enough (Because then nothing will line up!) so it's a do-or-die scenario.
If Toyota still made a Supra, in 3rd gen style with some goodies tacked on, and then sold it for $17,500, would you buy it ? Well this is basically that car. That, and I really like the 4.0 liter Ford motor. The new Mustang also introduces all sorts of possibilities of later transplanting the V8 into the body, and the LSD rear (9" still!) and making the car a lower-insurance screamer. I think that the combination that I've found also will work out in the future for resale. I've given the market some time, and while Mustangs aren't rare - they aren't all over the place. Used 05s still go for their retail - or with the proper trim - MORE.
As far as modding it and driving it - I'm blowing away the Lease contract and you know you'll see the car with wheels, suspension, and engine bolt-ons in no time. Basically, a US made Supra in my book.
Oh, and the NX is going to cost me about $4000 before it even hits the pavement which is a difficult pill to swallow.
