Crazy JDM spec Micra (supercharged and turbo charged)

[rallycross]

Spotted this on ebay.

Very different from your normal Micra this one (Nissan March) is super charged and turbo charged!


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-Nissan-Micra-March-...

Never seen one in the UK before but do remember the original Stig - Stig Blomqvist running one of these on the RAC rally many years ago and getting close to the top ten in it.

[Mr2Mike]

Interesting cars and fairly rare in the UK, though you do see them at the larger car events quite often.

It was pretty quick at the time (0-60 in 7.5ish seconds I think) but 108bhp from a compound charged 1.0L engine seems fairly mediocre these days (though granted that was for the road going homologation cars). Fords little 3 cylinder 1.0L Ecoboost makes 123bhp with only a turbo.

[vixen1700]

I like that.

[Chrisw666]

I really like that, I wouldn't pay £5k for it but it is cool.

[Krikkit]

That looks fantastic, that front bumper mod especially. Much want.

[SirSamuelBuca]

thats awesome!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

five grand?!

[Face for Radio]

Genuine Mine's ECU (rare as rocking horse poo, and a custom map for the little car to boot), plus Advan AD05/AD06s, definitely somebody that has given it much love.

[Noesph]

Brilliant little car.

[LouD86]

Thats good money for what it is!!

I always wanted these, but cant justify spending the money on the K10. There was a guy on the owners club a few years back who had one running near 200hp! Crazy!

[Baryonyx]

Awesome little car. I had a feeling this would be either a modded K11 or the March Super Turbo. I love the March Super Turbo, but I've yet to see one in the flesh. Even for £5000, that seems very cheap. Apparently, very few ever leave Japan because they command a considerable price even there.

[Emubiker]

Would you pay £3500 for it though? I made a bit of a crazy, almost insulting offer and the owner has counter offered with a figure close to £3500. Now, I wasn't actually planning on buying it unless I could get it for a very good price, and now I really am quite tempted. Wanted one since I first knew of them in the late 90's, to other halfs dismay.
Anyway, whats your thoughts?

[Riknos]

Emubiker said:

Would you pay £3500 for it though? I made a bit of a crazy, almost insulting offer and the owner has counter offered with a figure close to £3500. Now, I wasn't actually planning on buying it unless I could get it for a very good price, and now I really am quite tempted. Wanted one since I first knew of them in the late 90's, to other halfs dismay.
Anyway, whats your thoughts?

I think it's awesome! So quirky - and will be fun to drive! Plus, rare as fook! Do it

[M159V8]

Mental. Was talking to a friend about these a few months back, apparently it saw off an Evo 6 when they lined it up. They used to import cars. Heck of a sleeper

[anonymous-user]

Emubiker said:

Would you pay £3500 for it though? I made a bit of a crazy, almost insulting offer and the owner has counter offered with a figure close to £3500. Now, I wasn't actually planning on buying it unless I could get it for a very good price, and now I really am quite tempted. Wanted one since I first knew of them in the late 90's, to other halfs dismay.
Anyway, whats your thoughts?

buy it it is a classic and future one 2.

[rallycross]

It's one of these rare cars that's hard to value, if you got it for that price and its as good as it looks in the photos would think it would only go up in value, but will always take ages to sell as hardly anyone knows what it is.

should be a hoot to drive!

[Emubiker]

rallycross said:

It's one of these rare cars that's hard to value, if you got it for that price and its as good as it looks in the photos would think it would only go up in value, but will always take ages to sell as hardly anyone knows what it is.

should be a hoot to drive!

See thats pretty much my thoughts too, but I am a serial car buyer and don't like selling them. I've got a 205 which has been nicely breathed on, an xr2 race car, the xkr and the bike, and to be honest I don't use any but the xkr enough. Though I took the 205 out of hibernation last week and instantly fell back in love with it again after contemplating selling it after walking past it out the back every day for the last 5 months, I would need to sell something, but don't know what. I also don't think it would be that fast, though should feel it.
But, if I were to get into a little play with someone and got left for dead i think the bubble would burst pretty quickly.

Even still though, I'm going to check my funds when I get home tonight...so watch this space

[GC8]

I think that he was lucky to find one. I imported cars from Japan for three years and looked regularly (i.e. every evening through thousands of listings) for either a Super Turbo or a Turbo and I only ever found poor grade Turbos, and not many of those!

[rallycross]

I think its time we had some new mini hot hatches like this, sadly long gone are these, Uno Turbo, Polo G40 etc these little things always felt far faster than they really were, loads of fun.

[soad]

Krikkit said:

That looks fantastic, that front bumper mod especially. Much want.