[sivispacem]

QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 19:46)

I'd have bought a Stagea. You can fit a double bed in one of those...

Try finding me a Stagea for £1500 in the UK. Cheapest one on Pistonheads is four grand and that's a 2.5 non-turbo automatic.

[epoxi]

Do you think the Impreza's suspension failure was due to the abuse or was the track rod worn before the car even got to Africa? (though I doubt it would be because that's an MOT failure right?)

Also, do you think the suspension arm that got taken out was defective or would have never survived the collapse anyway?

It just strikes me as strange as such a deliberately rally-oriented car would buckle under the pressure (no pun intended).

[LeVelocar]

It failed because they made it fail, because that would supposedly be entertaining.

[visionist]

QUOTE (sivispacem @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 20:26)

QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 19:46) I'd have bought a Stagea. You can fit a double bed in one of those... Try finding me a Stagea for £1500 in the UK. Cheapest one on Pistonheads is four grand and that's a 2.5 non-turbo automatic.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i.htm...R40&_nkw=stagea

[sivispacem]

QUOTE (visionist @ Thursday, Mar 14 2013, 17:19)

QUOTE (sivispacem @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 20:26) QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 19:46) I'd have bought a Stagea. You can fit a double bed in one of those... Try finding me a Stagea for £1500 in the UK. Cheapest one on Pistonheads is four grand and that's a 2.5 non-turbo automatic. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i.htm...R40&_nkw=stagea

So one dog-rough automatic 2WD one going dirt cheap, one Turbo at £500 about 12 hours into a 7-day auction, and the rest £3k upwards.

I stand by my statement.

[visionist]

QUOTE (sivispacem @ Thursday, Mar 14 2013, 19:40)

QUOTE (visionist @ Thursday, Mar 14 2013, 17:19) QUOTE (sivispacem @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 20:26) QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 19:46) I'd have bought a Stagea. You can fit a double bed in one of those... Try finding me a Stagea for £1500 in the UK. Cheapest one on Pistonheads is four grand and that's a 2.5 non-turbo automatic. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i.htm...R40&_nkw=stagea So one dog-rough automatic 2WD one going dirt cheap.

It's a Stagea. It's under 1500 quid.

Here's another:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Stagea-RS...=item35c55e8b3c

[JayC]

That auction isn't finished.


Its total bullsh*t they are doing 2 "best of"s as part of this season. 4 or 5 actual episodes then repeating the same content? Lame.

[Lurch]

QUOTE (visionist @ Tuesday, Mar 19 2013, 17:13)

QUOTE (sivispacem @ Thursday, Mar 14 2013, 19:40) QUOTE (visionist @ Thursday, Mar 14 2013, 17:19) QUOTE (sivispacem @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 20:26) QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 13 2013, 19:46) I'd have bought a Stagea. You can fit a double bed in one of those... Try finding me a Stagea for £1500 in the UK. Cheapest one on Pistonheads is four grand and that's a 2.5 non-turbo automatic. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i.htm...R40&_nkw=stagea So one dog-rough automatic 2WD one going dirt cheap. It's a Stagea. It's under 1500 quid. Here's another: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Stagea-RS...=item35c55e8b3c

If you retards are just going to post automatic Stageas, than what's the point? Sounds like they had better vehicles on Top Gear to begin with. Why would anyone want an automatic in an Africa special where you're constantly going offroad and on sh*t roads. You're almost guaranteed to bust a hole in that paper thin trans pan. It's not that hard. Me and a friend were riding around on a normal gravel road that knocked a hole in one on his taurus. That road wasn't near as sh*tty as what they were driving on. I guess they could rig up yet another skidplate out of a door or hood or something because that sounds so f*cking fun.

[visionist]

Factory manual Stageas are a prize unavailable in this price point. A stick E38's an easier hunt.

[Lurch]

Then why put it up for discussion if a good one isn't in the price range for the comparison's budget? If one of them bought an Auto Stagea for this safari, it would have died in the first episode on a muddy road in f*cking Uganda with a rock slung through its pan.

[visionist]

Who cares? It's just a TV show.

A Stagea would catch most viewers unawares. How much is a manny conversion anyway?

[sivispacem]

QUOTE (visionist @ Wednesday, Mar 20 2013, 02:20)

A Stagea would catch most viewers unawares. How much is a manny conversion anyway?

Probably a lot more than the ~£500 of remaining budget from buying the sh*ttest 2WD one on the market would permit you.

[epoxi]

Why is the Stagea so expensive? Is it purely import inflation (a la Toyota Starlet Glanza), or is the car genuinely rare/special?

[visionist]

I only know of one around my area, driven by an East European house wife who likely has no idea what it is.

Then again the Starlet isn't very common either.

[sivispacem]

QUOTE (epoxi @ Wednesday, Mar 20 2013, 14:13)

Why is the Stagea so expensive? Is it purely import inflation (a la Toyota Starlet Glanza), or is the car genuinely rare/special?

Because of the associating with the Skyline, and the fact that very few were ever imported in to the UK. The proper GT-R engined ones are impressive things but the rest- even the AWD single turbo 2.5 tend to be pretty mediocre in terms of standard, real-world performance. Hampered by an archaic and fragile automatic gearbox most of the time. Plus they're huge, pretty hideous, brutally thirsty, extremely heavy, expensive to insure, expensive to maintain and pretty obscure. I can't personally think of any reason why most people would have one over a hot German or Swedish load-lugger, or even a Subaru.

[visionist]

So what's the name of the tension-building music from 2004's DB9 vs TGV race? I believe it comes from a TV show.

The one with the beeping.