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I Love My Mac

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sim667

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This is my car as of last night, 2000 Nissan micra celebration... Won't be celebrating anymore! It's unfortunately a write off so I'll have to find the money for a new one sharpish!

Incidentally if I'd have gone about 1-2 ft further I'd have been down a 15-20ft drop into a river! very lucky!

I thought it was impossible to write off micras :confused:
 

puma1552

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^^^I agree, I like the color, but I'm a sucker for bright blues.

The front end with those headlights connected to the grille is starting to slowly grow on me...though I still can't get over just how perfectly square the hood looks.
 

AnonMac50

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Lol, It's really a Holden. Or in the UK, it's a Vauxhall VXR8.

Although since moving here, where in the UK, the biggest car I'd driven was a Ford Mondeo... Dodge Chargers are much bigger, same with the Challenger, although I never got the feeling the Challenger gave of rear wheel oversteer before.

Muscle cars really only work well in the US and Australia though. Which is sad because 'normal' people in the US can drive V8s without them being too inaccessible, whereas in the UK, only rich people can really afford them.

You forgot Kuwait.:D
 

AnonMac50

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What country is that? As an American, I've always been fascinated by the Middle East's variants of cars that I see here; I prefer the grille and taillights on your Camry.

Saudi Arabia. Looks like a modified Camry.

Those are old Saudi plates though (I see many Saudi registered cars in here Kuwait).
 

AnonMac50

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Thanks for the compliment! I'm really happy with how my car came out, and that Infiniti made such a nicer wheel design for the newer cars, since my stock ones looked awful. Also, I didn't get to post a picture of how my interior is set up. A few months ago, a guy on a forum I am on for the car had dashboard pieces from Asia (the car was marketed as the Nissan Cefiro there). From the factory, the radio's faceplate was shaped for the dashboard, while the Asian market cars had a generic din-sized radio, with the dashboard piece having the wood-grain finish to match my interior, and supports pretty much any aftermarket radio much more nicely than a $20 dash kit, like I had in my car for almost a year. So I picked one up and have my center stack a much nicer look.

Before with flip-out nav and ugly aftermarket kit

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After with a much more recent double-din navigation unit, complete with a customized splash screen for when I start up my car/ the radio turns on :D

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A much smaller piece I also got was a cover to take out the interior third brake light since the spoiler has LEDs integrated into it. Called up my closest dealer, and they said only two dealers in the country had it, one of them being only an hour from me so I drove down and picked it up (parts guy said it had been sitting since the dealership opened in 2005). Now all I'm waiting to do to the car is for some new LEDs to come from eBay (didn't like the cool white light look with a tan interior so I have warm white bulbs coming), a transmission fluid change, and some rust to get taken care of, just on the leading edge of the wheel wells, so nothing horribly major or noticeable. Hopefully those last two will happen before I start commuting back to school every day in September. And maybe remote start, but without it this past winter wasn't awful (my previous car had it and I thought it was the best thing ever)


These cars were sold here as the Nissan Maxima :D
 

tn9design

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Finally transferred my custom plates over to the Passat...
 

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