<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by javadoc:<BR><B>I guess it must be light since (by this guy's ad) the car makes 276hp (280ps) and 266ft-lbs of torque (37.5kg*m), unless my calcs. are off. I figure Kai's gorgeous C70 is well past those numbers, albeit w/o some really swanky awd features.<BR>Can someone edu-micate me on why these are worth so much, so I can add these to my 'gotta have when I'm shopping for a toy' list?<BR></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Nah..it took me all that to pass a stock GTR while it takes about couple grand for that to spank me so hard that I will not remember what my name is.<P>If you look at the Skyline as if it's a Z06, then it will make more sense to you. The stock R34 VSpec fully equip'd is no more than $48K depending on the exchange rate. The reason the car is double the price here just becuase they don't sell it...and there are just those sick people (speaking of which) who would pay extra $$$ to be different.<P>A stock R34 will not spank a Z06 no matter what...even if the Z06 just wasted few 100th of second doing nothing but spinning tires like a tard. This turbocharged car just has so much potential to get some sick amount of power than we can ever imagine from a straight 6. Having said that...spend about as much money on that Z06 and get the twin turbo kit, it would be at least as fast or even faster. Both cars will have about the same interior quality you can expect from GM and Nissan.<P>It's just the simply rule of supply and demand. Just say...a Saleen Rustang is nothing but a car that you can probably put together in one weekend, but they are selling $50k for that thingy...and the company is still in business...you are always going to have those fans who would spend those extra $$$$$$$ for them.<P><BR>