POLL: Which is the greatest Japanese sports car?

[mAdD INDIAN]

The best overall Japanese sports cars?? So we include fun-to-drive, power, reliablility, handling prowess, and ability to handle more power??


Simple. It ain't a Nissan nor a Toyota. Only one car is a true sports car out of those options, the Mazda Miata. It is the purest sports car available from Japan.

EDIT: I would add the original 240Z, but thats not in production anymore.

 

[billandopus]

IMO it's a toss up between the NSX and the Skyline. Both have their points. The Z has the best lineage probably though.

Anyone who's seen the new Rx-8 knows it such a sweet car for the price.

Oh ... wait for the next gen NSX.

 

[fitzhue]

definitely a toss up between the skyline gt-r and the toyota supra. i think the supra is the overall better car though.

 

[bolido2000]

Nissan Z or GT-R series

 

[newbiepcuser]

Toyota Supra

 

[Mrfrog840]

1993 rx7 TT with the veilside body kit=ownage

nissan skyline... please have to gut em out just to get them here. or you can pick up an rx7 thats really light and beat all these cars

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis

6) Best looking car on that list (S14 and S15 at least). Not ugly like Skyline!

whooooooooooa there buddy!


gtr > fd3s > supra > nsx > s2k > z > silvia!

Are you kidding me? The latest Skyline GTR is ugly as hell. Boxy like a Volvo. The one before was beautiful, but it looked like an S14 anyway. I don't know what an fd3s is. Supras look very nice though, NSX is not pretty by any stretch of the imagination, and neither is the S2k. Current Z doesn't look nice, previous Z looks good but not that good, and the older ones looked like crap.


http://velocity.isfaster.com/drift/cars/s15.gif

 

[BruinEd03]

Ford Pinto...of course it's neither Japanese, sporty, nor really much of a car for that matter.

-Ed

 

[kami333]

MR2

 

[Kelvrick]

Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

 

[UNCjigga]

NSX. The standard by which V6-powered sports cars were judged all throughout the 90s.

 

[LeeTJ]

240zx. there were same bad incarnations (280zx for example) but the original was SWEET>

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
you could add Mitsu Evo...

Do they have a 2 door version?
I would think of it as more of a rally bred car than pure sports.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

except on reliability.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

except on reliability.

🙂 You got me there. With the price difference though, you could easily afford a few engine rebuilds. They're both very find cars and I would personally choose the NSX if I could get either one for free, but I'd say that the RX-7 is the better sports car.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

except on reliability.

🙂 You got me there. With the price difference though, you could easily afford a few engine rebuilds. They're both very find cars and I would personally choose the NSX if I could get either one for free, but I'd say that the RX-7 is the better sports car.

Aren't used NSXs in the 20k range? How much are RX-7s? Either way, if it was my money, I'd prefer a Miata.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

except on reliability.

🙂 You got me there. With the price difference though, you could easily afford a few engine rebuilds. They're both very find cars and I would personally choose the NSX if I could get either one for free, but I'd say that the RX-7 is the better sports car.

Aren't used NSXs in the 20k range? How much are RX-7s? Either way, if it was my money, I'd prefer a Miata.

Yea, for like a 91 or so with a whole lot of miles, you could get it in the upper 20's.

 

[m2kewl]

my friend still has his early '80s Datsun 240z!!

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Skyline GTR or the RX-7. The RX-7 was engineered to beat the NSX in every way possible.

except on reliability.

🙂 You got me there. With the price difference though, you could easily afford a few engine rebuilds. They're both very find cars and I would personally choose the NSX if I could get either one for free, but I'd say that the RX-7 is the better sports car.

Aren't used NSXs in the 20k range? How much are RX-7s? Either way, if it was my money, I'd prefer a Miata.

Yea, for like a 91 or so with a whole lot of miles, you could get it in the upper 20's.

93's with like 70-80k miles are like 24-26k

 

[Miramonti]

240z's, end of story.

 

[Salvador]

The 240 and 260z's were nice. The rest was down hill after that IMO.

I had a friend with a modded 260Z that had a reworked head, cam and exhaust that was pretty nice. Nice lightweight, good handling, quick car with styling robbed from a Jag E Type or Ferrari GTO.

I also liked the early Z's that had the small block V8's transplanted in them. 😛

my friend still has his early '80s Datsun 240z!!

Huh? That would be the 280ZX, not the 240z. Those were early 70's.

Sal

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis

6) Best looking car on that list (S14 and S15 at least). Not ugly like Skyline!

whooooooooooa there buddy!


gtr > fd3s > supra > nsx > s2k > z > silvia!

Are you kidding me? The latest Skyline GTR is ugly as hell. Boxy like a Volvo. The one before was beautiful, but it looked like an S14 anyway. I don't know what an fd3s is. Supras look very nice though, NSX is not pretty by any stretch of the imagination, and neither is the S2k. Current Z doesn't look nice, previous Z looks good but not that good, and the older ones looked like crap.


http://velocity.isfaster.com/drift/cars/s15.gif

fd3s = rx7

mmmmmmmmm gtr
uNF uNF uNF
nice interior to boot


always nice 😉

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Are we basing this only on looks? If so, I vote the R33 GTR and the RX-7 as the best looking sport cars (or just cars in general) from Japan.

 

[magomago]

Always have loved the Supra - always will love it

I personally think the Supra looks the best out of all of them.

I LOVE the "ass" of the supra....its sooo awsome.

Though they are remaking it the ass of it doesn't look as appealing as before.


haha sorry for using 'ass" but I just can't think of the right word at this moment

 

[Corporate Thug]

skyline