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Without biting on your obvious hook, why? It’s only a Zed, they’re cheap enough to fix if something goes wrong and this is exactly when you can enjoy rwd goodness without doing anything massively illegal.

Are you kidding?! This is the best time to be driving a rwd car! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the MX5 and the 5er estate of late

Yellow and red combo? Hello, Noddy!

That car in the original advert has had new clutch, lwf, aem intakes and a remap: that’s easy a couple of grand of extras there. I can’t see how that’s bad value compared with a standard one that might well need the clutch doing soon anyway. Haggle another couple of grand off and that would seem to be a bargain. Five owners isn’t unusual for a thirsty sports coupe these days at all. People buy them then realise it costs a bomb to actually drive one properly!

Attention-whoring existed long before social media I get he’s your brother, but surely from what you’ve said even you must have doubts? Hey if I’m wrong then charity wins, and if I’m right charity wins. Can’t be a bad result either way.

ZP still ain’t coming here so I’m okay with that Look, they guy doesn’t even have a 600bhp car running yet, and from what you’ve said it’s still stock so half that. He’s shooting for a figure that only a tiny fraction of pro level tuners ever reach, so you can understand why people don’t think it’s going to happen. I’ve put my money where my mouth is this time, so can’t say fairer than that. If he does do it then fair enough, but right now this is screaming attention-whoring at its finest. It’s like me saying I’m going to put an 800bhp TT LS3 in my little MX5: totally doable, but equally unlikely.

No one said it was impossible. I just said it’s never going to happen.

Dare I ask what tyres he bought? And on what size wheels? Cos I’m thinking that anything shy of 335 width semi-slicks might have been a waste of money when it comes to putting 1000bhp down at all

Oh I bet they’re not. If they were, they wouldn’t have released one or the other so as not to cannibalise sales.

£50 to a charity of your choice @GranTurismoEra if he gets this finished in the next five years. And £10 if he doesn’t.

In every logical way, it’s never going to be worth the leap: it doesn’t do anything substantially different. But these things are our passion, and logic doesn’t count. If you want one, buy one

Why the hell are we discussing a Yaris in the same thread as a Supra? Might was well compare one to a Fiesta ST if we’re playing ultimate silliness. No one who is looking at a Supra/Z4 is going to want a Yaris. No one.

@docwra has got it nailed though, I’ve driven some big power stuff and some of it has terrified me. Try 300+ in an Elise chassis and tell me you need anything else! Biggest usable power I’ve driven was an F12, but look at the cost that goes into one (and even then it was happy to spin the wheels in 4th in the dry).

So basically he’s in dreamland and this will never happen? Cool, I’m glad we got there in the end.

This gets worse has he ever driven something with that much power? And if so, consistently?

If it’s not a self build, then he’s in dreamland. He’ll never get the chance to use it, and labour costs alone will be the cost of another fun car he could actually use to 100%. What next after 1000bhp? 1200? 1500? At what point will he stop? Question, does he actually use the current 600bhp all the time?

An auto jdm convertible should be about £3.76 and a packet of skittles I would imagine nothing on eBay or FB?

And that’s in a modern car with PDK designed on a budget of millions, too. On a 90’s classic car with a slow old auto box, it’s hardly going to be cutting edge usable.

Utterly pointless. In most cases 200bhp is plenty for the road, hell even in a boggo 350 DE you’re still holding plenty back unless you’re a moron. And how many revs is 1000bhp gonna be usable over on a 3.something engine? Maybe you’ll hit max boost at 5k rpm and have it until 7k? Okay I’m guessing here, but it’ll need a big turbo and big boost which means a ton of lag: Where can you plant your foot for that long outside of a drag strip? Now if he’s building it all himself and the thrill is in the engineering side not the driving, 100% I can understand that and fully support it. But if it’s for the drive, it’s a huge waste of time and money.

I never said that!

I don’t dispute that manufacturing defects creep through, but cars as a whole are a billion times more reliable and better put together than cars of the golden age you mention. They would rust to dust just looking at them, and that’s before we start with much wider engineering tolerances on the power train side.

Couldn’t disagree with you more! It’s almost impossible to buy a proper shed of a new car these days, quality has increased massively compared with 20-30 years ago when there were some rift dogs available. Even the cheapest Dacia built to a price not a spec is a perfectly usable car that will go on and on for ages. We talk about poor plastics and funny placed switchgear as a reason not to buy a car, rather than constant failures or things breaking on a first test drive out the door on zero mileage simply because of these manufacturing improvements.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting a change btw. The 350 is hardly the world’s most perfect car, nothing wrong with experiencing as many different cars in your life as you can

Yup. But to the great unwashed, every car over 100k is about to fall apart and die. The public are indeed idiots.

In terms of saving money I think you’re being optimistic: v8s aren’t exactly known for being good on fuel! Unless the insurance is literally half as much and it’s already a grand, running costs will be broadly the same, plus I would imagine Lexus parts are more expensive than Nissan ones at a guess?