The Buick GNX is quite rare.. ..so is the Nissan 'Hakosuka' GTR, there's apparently only a few left in the entire world
Owning a rare car sounds good until you actually do it. You are always afraid of breaking it. You look at other road users as enemies because if they rear end you, you go bankrupt. Parts are either expensive or unavailable. Having the car in a garage and not driving it defeats the purpose of owning it. That's my 2 cents.
I have 2 "rare" cars. One is a SAAB 92x (somewhere are 10,000 made) which I normally refer to it as an Impreza here because it is mechanicallly identical to it and well known. About maintaining it, it is very difficult to because it has so many problems and is very unreliable to the point where I am trying to sell it. The issue is that finding parts for it is hard but working on it is impossible due to the engine layout. My other rare car is a 1989 Buick Reatta (around 25,000 made) which is a project car. It is very easy to work on and find most parts for it. The mechanical parts are all sourced from other GM vehicles of the era, which means it uses a 3800. The only difficult to find parts are bodywork and the digital gauges+touchscreen systems, which were only made for 3 years or so and only in Buick models. But otherwise, its not that bad. Although it isn't running yet because it needs a fuel pump and lines.
No, neither are. And why not the hybrid? In most cases, buying a petrol Lexus is like going to Las Vegas and never setting foot inside a casino.
No offense, but Soarers and Supras outside of Japan scream "weeb Lexus SC" to me. It's probably due to buers of these paying extra for all the JDM stuff when they can just buy an SC.
this one isnt mine but it looks pretty similar. same color and all. and yes its the same as a lexus sc300 but the sc300 never came with a 1jz motor.
So now, I can say that I own a rare spec of a common car... It's a 1996 Renault Megane Coach (coupe) with kinda legendary 2.0L 16V Williams Engine (F7R). This car is basically a Williams Megane, unheard successor of Clio Williams, as it uses the same engine, as well as it has factory strut braces, stiffer suspension, Ventilated Discs in the Front and Solid discs in the rear. I've bought it for 1500 PLN (equivalent of about 375 euros). It needs a lot of love, mainly new paint job, new central locking system and most of the audio system has to be returned to factory spec... Going to get creative trying to find a Factory 6 slot CD changer for a 1st gen Megane, along with good condition holder/case thingy. A lot of time and some money and I'll have a full factory condition F7R Megane with no aftermarket junk on it. Pics in the current state: Spoiler
Not always... Some rare cars share most of the components with common cars like was the case with renault avantime, which was just a 3 door Espace, or with my megane which shares oretty much everything with other 1st gen meganes apart from the engine and suspension which can get a bit costly.
I guess. It is a limo spec of the 960. Idk how many of them survived to now. I certainly haven't seen one.
I regularly see one. It has pre-EU German license plates and is sitting in a mall parking lot on the outskirts of my home city. It has been there for several months and I wonder who left it there, and why, and when he or she will come back to take the car.
