Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Maybe it’s my age but I’d have the Murray car (subtle, elegant) instantly, but something with big arches, splitters and spoilers? That’s a road car that looks like a competition car- and is therefore compromised in both roles.

Would love to been the buyer of this!

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F113893710018

Also floating my boat

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F223662759061

Any explanation for the mad price?

What on the CRX? Incredibly low mileage UK car?

Imports with greater miles go for around £10k

Thought the Golf was pretty reasonable

Yeah - totally subjective but I think I'd want my fast mk 1 to look closer to an rs than a 1.1.

It's obviously a fantastic thing though either way - it's made me plan out my lottery winning trip to retropower :)

Thanks. Seemed expensive to me but I know little about older Hondas

Crx is a bit of a cult classic too, like the ae86 etc

I saw the cleanest CRX ever in Mallorca the other week

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Clean and unmodified crx's are rare indeed. Basically all older cars are going bananas. It's because nearly all new cars are soulless and generic computerised boxes. Even if the new cars performance is better, we all want the real analogue feelings. It's the reason I spent this arvo browsing old E30's and old 205 GTi's

That looks perfect

I expect I’m too old to appreciate it. Older Golfs, XR 2 etc, Mantas would be my era. Thanks for the info

I completely agree.

I've had my fair share of nice cars over the years, most recently a clio 220 trophy. Super capable little car. We had no real need for a car so sold it back in February but the urge to buy something came back so I thought I'd buy myself a nice raw jdm dc2 type r or ek9. I had sold a nice jdm dc2 about 10 years ago for 3.5k euro (in Ireland) and was preparing myself to spend about 8k on one now.

Most of the ones here are dogs now so I got in touch with a well known importer, and they confirmed prices have gone crazy for old hondas. They said you would pay 15 to 20k for a nice dc2 or ek9.

In the end I bought a totally stock blue forester sti from them instead.

I have a constant hankering for an old ek or even eg civic... But I'd do the same as all honda fanboys and modify. Back in the day I had a mate with a prelude and some minor intake and exhaust mods. Best sounding engine (for a 4 pot) I've ever driven.

Clean and unmodified crx's are rare indeed.

TBH there didn't seem to be all that many in the late '90s when me and my mates started driving.

Definitely never saw one irl that hadn't been lowered, tinted sporting a phat 6" 'zorst.

As if by magic..
https://carbuzz.com/news/1997-acura-integra-type-r-sold-for-porsche-911-money

Yep, my bro-in-law had a slammed, neon lit, iced CRX. So era-specific.

Saw a very nice crx here in Berlin last week, and thought that they are quite nice.

Golf GTD/GTE? Or seat version.

keep wanting to like a 1 series coupe/2dr job, but friends ones that I've driven (130 and a 135) whilst they move alright, just feel like a barge, and what I wanted was light ish weight, simple, moderate power and responsive. Found them comfy and barge'like, which is what I already have in a 20yr volvo estate lol. Do the 1 series have concrete blocks hiding inside them to dampen road noise or something? as thats what they feel like to drive.

Ha! Era-specific is defo the way to describe it.

One of the fit girls in my school BF had a red one with a sick sound system (x2 infinity subs iirc).

Do kids today still fill their boots with subs?

Also thinking about it he was in his 20s and I'm pretty sure she was 15, do 20-somethings still go out with underaged girls? Or in a post-Savile world do they understand how creepy that is?

You'll have to ask around at the school gates.

Just had a call from Driftworks, my new rims have an ETA of "Spring".

Did they say which year?

I think they wanted to leave a little wiggle room.

Isn't that roughly when you expected tho?