TVR to Skyline

[andysgriff]

Recently moved on from the Cerb, I loved it, extremely quick but you have to work fairly hard to hussle them along. I couldn't live with her mood swings and expensive ways. Anyone gone from a Cerb to a Skyline (or from any other TVR)? The late R34's look awesome...

[Chauch]

I went the other way round - I had a couple of Skylines before the TVR and loved them both. I found the cost of ownership on the TVR laughably low compared to the Skyline although more due to the lure of easy power wins and tunability.

R34GTRs seem to be dropping in price quickly at the moment, I guess due to the new one arriving shortly. A few are showing quite bad signs of rust but there are a huge number of pampered cars out there with all of the right bits on.

[shadowninja]

Which Skyline did you get?

I went from a Chimaera 4.0 to a R32 GTR that had around 600-650bhp, so a suitable upgrade. Also, handled better.

[Stu R]

I've considered going the other way (fnarrr) to a cerb or a chim, GTR's are fantastic fun, but even the mildly tuned ones only really come into their own over 100mph in my opinion, fantastic fun and scarily capable above that, brilliant below but keeping it at legal speeds dulls the character of the car in my opinion, and the handling is only really challenged on track, hustling them is all too easy really.
Trouble is, although I'd love a car with a bit more character and to move away from japanese cars generally after years with them, I think I'd really miss the power and handling of the GTR if I did move on to a TVR. Tuned rice it may be, but I still love it.
Always fancied a cerbie or (less so) a chim, and must admit temptation is still there to do so before they start to get a bit too long in the tooth. Can't resist that big V8 growl, or the looks of them. Trouble is I'd definately need a second car with one, whereas the GTR makes for a great all rounder.

34's are falling in price lately, with quite a few coming in at under 30k these days. I've always preferred 33's personally but if the 34 continues to steadily depreciate as I expect it will with the flood gates opening in the next couple of years for easier importing, I think more people will move onto the 34. If I was going to stick with skylines for the next couple of years I'd definately consider a 34, great cars.