Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 09:41 pm, by: Matthew Jones(Uz_crown)
Fantastic car. Overall I would say 8/10. Style lets it down a little bit. but thats a matter of taste.
Handling is superb and is just a pleasure to drive. It must have a crazy power steering setup because the steering is so light for such a massive car.
Fuel economy is amazing, I am getting about 11 or 12 per 100km's. The different TEMS settings makes the ride really smooth or, as I prefer, "sporty", which allows you to feel the road a bit more.
In terms of power, its fast enough for me, and havent done anything stupid in it yet. But I did get it sideways into a few corners..... It torque steers through the corner, before it hooked up.
The car is standard except for rims and mufflers. The exhaust is standard, but is rusted away in a few spots and has 5 mufflers and 2 cats, so i will be getting rid of a few of them.
The only problems I have found with mine is one of the front shocks is rooted and can only be replaced as one unit. Same as the Soarers. And i will have to keep a watchfull eye on all my cv boots because doing a CV will not be cheap.
I will also put a chart of when they were made.
Mine is number 18xx, I cant remember.
but according to that, mine was no. 8xx of the production line and they only made 3500 of these.
Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 09:15 am, by: Matthew Jones(Uz_crown)
If the price is right, I can sell you mine.
The problem with importers is that you cant see the car until its in Aus and then it might have plenty of problems and your stuck with a huge repair bill. ie 89 gtrs
Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 09:38 pm, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
George Lu wrote on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 02:34 pm:
never seen a aristo v8 before.. with 4WD!!!!
They aren't especially common, as Matthew mentioned they weren't made in big numbers. I read about them ages ago and would have dearly liked one, but the good wife was insistent on 2 doors (at least I talked her out of a Celica!).
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Matthew, that looks to be a very nice car. Done the exhaust or is it in stealth mode?
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Nice ride, and one to which I have aspired (V8-4WD).
