I am loking to buy a Galant VR-4, I have liked this car for a long time, well now I need a car that will fit a car seat and I wont sell my hatchback. I dont like virtually any 4 door cars, so this decision was not made lightly, I am ready for extreme maintenance, my car is only 10 years old and already requires it, so fixing cars is nothing new and nothing im afraid of, I am also a pretty good mechanic, its what I pretty much do, I repair cars motorcycles and oddly vintage home electronics. so I am at least mostly aware of what I am getting into.
I decided on the Galant VR-4 on numerous factors. mainly I used to drive an an Evolution VIII, wasnt mine, unfortunately, but I had the extended opportunity to drive one when they were first brought over here for several monthes. I loved that car, It was one of the best cars I have ever driven. I also have a good bit of experience with the eagle talon TSI/eclipse GSX, which from my reading are pretty similar, and both cars I love. long story short you may ask "well why dont I just buy an Evo"? the reason is that I do not finance cars. period, never have, never will, it just isnt going to happen, if i had the best credit ever, I still would never consider financing a car. my whole life I have been taught "if you dont hold the title, you dont have a car" and I do not have a $15,000 budget.
so I am planning to buy a Galant VR-4 in the next few monthes, My wife has also turned on to the idea, we both love Unique cars, neither of us ever talk about buying or owning your every day chevy cobalt, we are spo9rts car people, her last car was a 1978 datsun with a turbo L28ET. My current car is the Rare 2002 Honda Civic SI EP3, which might I add is a maintenance whore from hell.
another thing that has made me decide on a Galant VR-4 is their lack of air bags, which i have had very bad experience with in the past, I really dont like or trust air bags, and I have yet to see a single one personally go off in a reasonable set of circumstances, though I see them fail to activate ALL THE TIME in accidents that would have well needed it.
this is one of basically 4 cars that were under serious discussion between me and my wife, she direly wanted an Evo VIII, but we cant afford it for a few more years. the next two cars we considered for a while each and neither of them spiked our interest to the level of the Galant. the first is the Toyota Altezza, or Lexus IS-300 in the US, I decided againse it because I dont want basically everything it has, the 2JZ is too big and expensive, If i could get a real Altezza, that would have made my decision a bit harder, but we here in the US, can not. the other car which we considered more seriously was a 1990 Honda Civic Wagovan or Honda shuttle. Well after about a week of thinking about it I remembered, I remembered the Galant VR-4, after I brought this up to the wife, we were both in love with the car, she loves the way they look and the fact that they are the ultimate sleeper, I love that they are a piece of history, and a 4 door.
long story short I thought I would Introduce myself as I will hopefully be becoming a new Galant VR-4 owner, and a member of your elite group of owners of this really great rare car with so much potential.
Derek.
I decided on the Galant VR-4 on numerous factors. mainly I used to drive an an Evolution VIII, wasnt mine, unfortunately, but I had the extended opportunity to drive one when they were first brought over here for several monthes. I loved that car, It was one of the best cars I have ever driven. I also have a good bit of experience with the eagle talon TSI/eclipse GSX, which from my reading are pretty similar, and both cars I love. long story short you may ask "well why dont I just buy an Evo"? the reason is that I do not finance cars. period, never have, never will, it just isnt going to happen, if i had the best credit ever, I still would never consider financing a car. my whole life I have been taught "if you dont hold the title, you dont have a car" and I do not have a $15,000 budget.
so I am planning to buy a Galant VR-4 in the next few monthes, My wife has also turned on to the idea, we both love Unique cars, neither of us ever talk about buying or owning your every day chevy cobalt, we are spo9rts car people, her last car was a 1978 datsun with a turbo L28ET. My current car is the Rare 2002 Honda Civic SI EP3, which might I add is a maintenance whore from hell.
another thing that has made me decide on a Galant VR-4 is their lack of air bags, which i have had very bad experience with in the past, I really dont like or trust air bags, and I have yet to see a single one personally go off in a reasonable set of circumstances, though I see them fail to activate ALL THE TIME in accidents that would have well needed it.
this is one of basically 4 cars that were under serious discussion between me and my wife, she direly wanted an Evo VIII, but we cant afford it for a few more years. the next two cars we considered for a while each and neither of them spiked our interest to the level of the Galant. the first is the Toyota Altezza, or Lexus IS-300 in the US, I decided againse it because I dont want basically everything it has, the 2JZ is too big and expensive, If i could get a real Altezza, that would have made my decision a bit harder, but we here in the US, can not. the other car which we considered more seriously was a 1990 Honda Civic Wagovan or Honda shuttle. Well after about a week of thinking about it I remembered, I remembered the Galant VR-4, after I brought this up to the wife, we were both in love with the car, she loves the way they look and the fact that they are the ultimate sleeper, I love that they are a piece of history, and a 4 door.
long story short I thought I would Introduce myself as I will hopefully be becoming a new Galant VR-4 owner, and a member of your elite group of owners of this really great rare car with so much potential.
Derek.