Supercars spotted, some rarities (vol 7)

[DannyScene]

Doofus said:

SydneyBridge said:

WTF is that PoS on the right?

Looks like a skoda fabia to me, hard to tell from that picture though! Or if you mean that awful Van I have no idea.

Edited by DannyScene on Saturday 10th October 07:48

[Name of user]

DannyScene said:

Doofus said:

SydneyBridge said:

WTF is that PoS on the right?

Looks like a skoda fabia to me, hard to tell from that picture though! Or if you mean that awful Van I have no idea.

Edited by DannyScene on Saturday 10th October 07:48

That'll probably be a Toyota chaser, very popular cars, i think they were known as the four door supra!
I do quite like it to be honest.

[DannyScene]

Name of user said:

DannyScene said:

Doofus said:

SydneyBridge said:

WTF is that PoS on the right?

Looks like a skoda fabia to me, hard to tell from that picture though! Or if you mean that awful Van I have no idea.

Edited by DannyScene on Saturday 10th October 07:48

That'll probably be a Toyota chaser, very popular cars, i think they were known as the four door supra!
I do quite like it to be honest.

Exactly that^ some have the 2JZ-GTE twin turbo lump, they can certainly surprise some pretty quick stuff with very little mods

[Doofus]

DannyScene said:

some have the 2JZ-GTE twin turbo lump

Is it a requirement of the scene that people have to talk like that?

[Lordbenny]

Doofus said:

DannyScene said:

some have the 2JZ-GTE twin turbo lump

Is it a requirement of the scene that people have to talk like that?

Like what? Are you referring yo the use if the word ‘lump’ if so....you get a

[Doofus]

Lordbenny said:

Doofus said:

DannyScene said:

some have the 2JZ-GTE twin turbo lump

Is it a requirement of the scene that people have to talk like that?

Like what? Are you referring yo the use if the word ‘lump’ if so....you get a

No, I'm referring to the jumble of letters that means nothing to anybody who isn't a member of the exclusive club.

It's almost unique to Japanese car fans, but people also seem to do it with Vauxhalls too.

[leglessAlex]

Doofus said:

No, I'm referring to the jumble of letters that means nothing to anybody who isn't a member of the exclusive club.

It's almost unique to Japanese car fans, but people also seem to do it with Vauxhalls too.

Eh? But it's a very famous engine for many people, how else is it supposed to be referred to?

Plus there are a number of engines with similar configurations in Japanese cars, and swaps are popular, so surely using the engine code is an easy and informative way of referring to which one you have?

Seems like an odd thing to be a bit sneery about, man.

[Doofus]

leglessAlex said:

Eh? But it's a very famous engine for many people, how else is it supposed to be referred to?

Plus there are a number of engines with similar configurations in Japanese cars, and swaps are popular, so surely using the engine code is an easy and informative way of referring to which one you have?

Seems like an odd thing to be a bit sneery about, man.

I'm not sneery. Man. I asked what the car was, and was told it's a Toyota. I then learned that some of them have a twin turbo engine of an unspecific confoguration or capacity. I know nothing about the engine because, guess what? It's not a 'very famous' engine for anyone who isn't a JDM spotter.

If the engine is of merit, then tell me what it is. If it's not important, then I don't need to know the secret numbers and letters. What you did was actually teach me almost nothing.

I don't care about the engine, BTW; but if I didn't know what the car was, why do you suppose I'd know what a 2JZ-GTE is?

[Leon R]

Doofus said:

I'm not sneery. Man. I asked what the car was, and was told it's a Toyota. I then learned that some of them have a twin turbo engine of an unspecific confoguration or capacity. I know nothing about the engine because, guess what? It's not a 'very famous' engine for anyone who isn't a JDM spotter.

If the engine is of merit, then tell me what it is. If it's not important, then I don't need to know the secret numbers and letters. What you did was actually teach me almost nothing.

I don't care about the engine, BTW; but if I didn't know what the car was, why do you suppose I'd know what a 2JZ-GTE is?

What an odd complaint. You asked a question and were told the make and model of the vehicle and also the engine it likely had.

If you want more information you can google either of those things and Wikipedia will help you learn all you want.

[anonymous-user]

Doofus said:

I'm not sneery. Man. I asked what the car was, and was told it's a Toyota. I then learned that some of them have a twin turbo engine of an unspecific confoguration or capacity. I know nothing about the engine because, guess what? It's not a 'very famous' engine for anyone who isn't a JDM spotter.

If the engine is of merit, then tell me what it is. If it's not important, then I don't need to know the secret numbers and letters. What you did was actually teach me almost nothing.

I don't care about the engine, BTW; but if I didn't know what the car was, why do you suppose I'd know what a 2JZ-GTE is?

I think on a website like this you are probably in the minority. I am not a JDM spotter, or indeed particularly interested in JDM cars but its such a famous engine one would assume that someone on a car enthusiasts website would know what it was. I tend to Google things if I don't know what they are, rather than blame someone else for talking about something I don't understand

[Doofus]

hucumber said:

I think on a website like this you are probably in the minority. I am not a JDM spotter, or indeed particularly interested in JDM cars but its such a famous engine one would assume that someone on a car enthusiasts website would know what it was. I tend to Google things if I don't know what they are, rather than blame someone else for talking about something I don't understand

Ok, I've Googled it now, and I can't see anything there that would have caused it to appear on my radar, or to make it famous; but that's not really the point, and I've dragged this thread far enough off topic now.

As you were, everybody.

[autofocus]

SydneyBridge said:

The Yellow 275 has some history if it is the original

https://magazine.ferrari.com/en/cars/2019/03/08/ne...

Hi,

It certainly is the original, I covered it in a recent article

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2020/10/06/sportscar...

Regards

Tim

[SydneyBridge]

autofocus said:

Hi,

It certainly is the original, I covered it in a recent article

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2020/10/06/sportscar...

Regards

Tim

Thank you very much
It looked a bit forlorn tucked away next to a megane and it was only when i looked it up when i got home that i realised how significant it is. Was also completely gobsmacked at seeing a 288 on track

[BoRED S2upid]

Not a supercars by any means but possibly rare. Toyota Sera.

[RoadRunner220]

BoRED S2upid said:

Not a supercars by any means but possibly rare. Toyota Sera.

Does it have a 2JZ-GTE by any chance ?

[Mezzanine]

RoadRunner220 said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Not a supercars by any means but possibly rare. Toyota Sera.

Does it have a 2JZ-GTE by any chance ?

[Esceptico]

Name of user said:

That'll probably be a Toyota chaser, very popular cars, i think they were known as the four door supra!
I do quite like it to be honest.

Ironic that this has cropped up as I saw one here in NZ the day before yesterday and wondered what it was. They seem to import quite a lot of JDM cars here (Japan isn’t any nearer to NZ than the UK- about equidistant in fact).

Having looked at wiki is seems that the engine referenced could be seen as a competitor to the 3 Litre engine in the Nissan Skyline GTR so presumably pretty decent.

The one I saw here had some Carlos Fandango wheels but despite that looked quite nice. Sounded fruity too.

[raceboy]

Spotted this 250GT outside a hotel in Rome last night.

[PushedDover]

reliability problems in these ^^^^ ....

[TopTrump]

Doofus said:

Is it a requirement of the scene that people have to talk like that?

I have to agree. This and model numbers lie FD, E38, W123