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RE: Nissan Silvia S15 Photoshoot by Aaron Jarnigan
I have to ask (hope this doesn't sound really dumb) - don't the tyres wear out on the inside edge?
I think all the Silvias in Japan end up in New Zealand, so they are pretty common and cheap here!
Yeah, people that stance their car go into it knowing tirewear is an issue and have something else they drive daily of course. New Zealand seems like a cool place if its full of Silvias :)!
NZ gets most of Japans cars when they are five years old, so "Jap imports" are standard. It's a combination of having no import restrictions on cars and being right hand drive, along with Japan making it very expensive to register cars older than five years.
BUT - Silvias are wanted by boy racers so they are stolen all the time, and because they are "project cars" they are way more expensive than most other jap imports. For example this old 1990 one is NZ$5000 - if it was anything else it would have been dumped years ago. American muscle cars on the other hand are serious wedge - say NZ$100 000 for a Corvette Stingray
Its amazing how the pricing goes. Corvettes are a dime a dozen here but they still look good when they roll by. There are companies here importing but nothing newer then 1991 and the prices are insane on some.