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bristol_bb4 · Post by **bristol_bb4** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:12 pm

oh my goodness that kit looks like its been fabbed out of cardboard! totally ruins the car

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:46 pm

rob quilter wrote: You know you can get the gallant/ legnum in a 2.5 AND 2.5 twin turbo (280bhp!) So its probably just the n/a 2.5 your mate has, as for the stagea....it has an 2.5 neo turbo engine from the skyline r34 gtt, easily one of my favourite engines.

The n/a 2.5V6 isn't especially quick in autobox form. We had one. The box suffers from a design fault and many of them fail to get to 50,000 miles.
The Legnum is a different matter. Nice car! Even Clarkson liked it:- http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarks ... nt-06-1999

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:55 pm

Ammo wrote:Nissan Stagea? 5 seats plus massive boot 4wd and a skyline engine in the front

Rare too, down side is almost all of them are auto's

Agreed - Fantastic car. I *really* want one of these...

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:45 pm

Supermarine Blues wrote:
SpecV in midnight purple

That is all.

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:44 pm

I know it is German, but not the normal VW/Audi fanboy wagon, how about a Merc CL500?

nellers2001 · Post by **nellers2001** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:32 pm

Hhmmm....fancy a LWB 4x4 Shogun?

Well looked after and maintained.
7 seats (rear two are folding or can be taken out for more space in the boot)
Can fit loads in the boot and can take a lot of weight in the back
You won't ever have to stop working as it will get you anywhere in snow/mud/floods
Stupidly safe for little'uns (look for mk2 shogun crash test on youtube

)
Comfortable with leather, heated front seats/cruise control/air con
3.0 v6 Petrol engine so nice and smooth and sounds lovely
Fast...hhmmm ok doesn't cover that one, well it's fast compared to diesel 4x4's!!

Covers most bases and it's not that expensive for a good one!

http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/post85112.html#p85112

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:59 pm

Sailor wrote:
rob quilter wrote: You know you can get the gallant/ legnum in a 2.5 AND 2.5 twin turbo (280bhp!) So its probably just the n/a 2.5 your mate has, as for the stagea....it has an 2.5 neo turbo engine from the skyline r34 gtt, easily one of my favourite engines.
The n/a 2.5V6 isn't especially quick in autobox form. We had one. The box suffers from a design fault and many of them fail to get to 50,000 miles.
The Legnum is a different matter. Nice car! Even Clarkson liked it:- http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarks ... nt-06-1999

Yeah my mate's got the NA 2.5. It's no slouch but it's certainly not mind bendingly fast like an evo...

I just don't like the look of the Stagea at all, but then again I don't like Skyline's either (except the GTR). I know they're amazing cars but for looks I'd have a prelude over one either of them anyday.

It would be nice to be able to live with a car for a day or so to see if it works for us. But it doesn't look like I can hire an evo x anywhere. Maybe I could get a lancer x? Seems a bit weird because I could get a ferarri or lambo which is probably a lot more likely to end up in a hedge!

As for the Merc CL500, Merc's really are 10 to the dozen around here, as are Astons and Bentley's. The only one I would have that kind of goes with the herd is the new-ish Jaguar XKR but that's probably another 10K and the rest.

And as for the 4X4, around here stuck in traffic, that would be as silly as... Well probably as silly as owning an evo to be honest!

Bri · Post by **Bri** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:13 pm

Big 4x4s get boring, trust me, I got 2.8 frontera LWB its a beast becuase its turned up to the max appart from the boost and Im bored. Great tool, under rated off road machine, I was expecting a harsh winter and was going to use it as a work horse but none of that happened

I was thinking of getting rid of my lude and my fronty and trying to buy a VR4 but its not just the way a car drives, or goes for me, its about the way it looks too, and I cant find anything as pretty as a 4th gen that I could live with, S14 is the closest, but then its not as reliable as the good old N/A lude so its back to the ludes, I may even go the 5th gen route, I dunno, Im still trying to make my bloody mind up.

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:39 pm

Shiny wrote:I know it is German, but not the normal VW/Audi fanboy wagon, how about a Merc CL500?

A client has one. Well, a CL600.

Half the (millions of) FREDs don't work (properly) and if anything significant goes wrong, it will get scrapped.

But it's one helluva car and like you say, not the normal middle-of-the-road dross. There are very few, which means obtaining spares from a scrapper is high-on impossible.

vtectom · Post by **vtectom** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:56 pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES ... 4d084dc043

Lude Generation

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