Calif seizes Nissan GTR's - Page 3

iwantacobra427 · #41 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:44 PM

I'd rather see ICE rounding up illegals!

KM480 · #42 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 11:11 PM

Well whatever you do with the illegals and the Nissan GTR's don't ever let the SB100 go away. It is about the only thing that California DMV does that is fair and makes sense. In fact, it should be bumped up to 1000 numbers per year. Do something smart for the economy, for once!

*13* · #43 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 07:26 AM

& That is it's biggest problem. If there are restrictions as to what can be licensed under SB100, why are there only so many per year? Why should we have to hope for a # when we obviously aren't going to drive these cars every day & have almost zero% extra impact on the environment.

Instead of wasting resources on tracking down the GTR's why not Refuse to allow Nissan or any retailer to import or sell the cars into the US & make the fees to register them here extremely high, for those individuals who do? We have so many bigger issues as a country.

Ron61 · #44 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 08:22 AM

Because the state is ran by politicians and tree huggers who want to blame these cars for everything. They can't figure out that they would take in a lot more money if they let more of them get that SB-100 number, and it isn't cheap by the time you go through the process. When I was talking to one of our anti car Senators a year or so ago I asked him about the number and he said they should all be done away with because of the smog they create. I asked him just how many he had seen in the big traffic jams that create most of the crap and he had to admit he had never seen a single one.

Ron

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Originally Posted by *13*

& That is it's biggest problem. If there are restrictions as to what can be licensed under SB100, why are there only so many per year? Why should we have to hope for a # when we obviously aren't going to drive these cars every day & have almost zero% extra impact on the environment.

Instead of wasting resources on tracking down the GTR's why not Refuse to allow Nissan or any retailer to import or sell the cars into the US & make the fees to register them here extremely high, for those individuals who do? We have so many bigger issues as a country.

fastraxsg · #45 (**permalink**) 10-05-2009, 01:53 AM

A lot of automotive mags have done articles, comparisons and test of the GTR including the August 2008 issue of Car and Driver....against the Z06, 911GT2, and the Viper ACR....

Maurice Butler · #46 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Excaliber

If I recall correctly someone in Australia was using a Skyline for drag racing, an early version, 6 cylinder. They were making something like 800 horse with the motor!

My son is working on a nissan RB30 doing a twin cam conversion & twin tubo aiming for 1000 horse, the drag racers are aiming for 1200 horses

Excaliber · #47 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 01:17 AM

Dam! Thats gotta be one STRONG block!

fastraxsg · #48 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 01:51 AM

And those are inline 6's, not V-8's....

PANAVIA · #49 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 01:57 AM

It frosts me that these guys burned up scarce SB100 numbers on this S*@* there were people who didnt get their numbers do to these DB's .

Whilst I do think the Feds HAVE better things to do, like Meth-lab detonations, these cars were against the spirit of any possible flex of the laws interpretation.

However deporting the cars should be enough , not crushing them, that is just wasteful.

Seized under the clean air act !?!?!?!? == really ?!??!?! , why not say they were seized under the "Any-Japanese-car-thats-not-a-prius-is-now-illegal-act" of 2009

Sheesh. -- .