What's happened to Japanese coupes/sports?

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My Ford Puma is at the body/spray shop. He's fixing up the sills and rear wheel arches to tidy it up, maybe for selling it on.

I bought it because it seemed ideal around town, which it is. Quite nippy up to 70, crap on the motorway, and made worse by fitting superflex all round. :D Tidy FWD handling and revvy yamaha-design engine.

But, all good (or even fairly good) things must come to an end. So I've been investigating coupes to consider.

Honda Prelude? Long gone.
Toyota Celica (I've had a few :D
Nissan 200SX - yes, but are there any that don't have re-mapped e.c.u. turbo? :o
MR2 or MX5 - nice, but a bit slow and...um...it's a convertible, which just seems too like a mid-life crises for me

It seems there's no middle-ground any more. Got to be a 350Z or S2000.

The rate I'm going, it'll have to be a Porsche Boxter or something preferably with a hard top.

All those great 80s-90s cars, gone forever.
Celica mk 4 and 5. Nissan 1.8 200SX. Izuzu Piazza. Honda Prelude/CRX. Corolla RWD coupe. Such a shame.

What to do?
 
Nissan gtr?

Oh, you want sensible.

None then. I think high insurance and stupid petrol prices killed them.

You want an Audi a5 really.
 
None then. I think high insurance and stupid petrol prices killed them.
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you could be right.

You want an Audi a5 really.
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you coul......

I seem to remember the 170 bhp mark 6 Celica (frog-eyed ugly bug) being in a higher group insurance than a 200 bhp turbo-charged Subaru Imprezza.

Apparently, insurance on an S2000 is outrageous.
Is it the same for the Civic Type R I wonder?
 
I know of a lovely 316bhp yellow hatchback for sale :D

The previous version is nippy-ish as well at 180bhp for the Cupra or 225bhp for the Cupra R.

I had a Vauxhall Calibra before that. Only 150bhp but nice to drive, although a bit old now I guess.
 
Latest type r is soft as.

And being a hatch is for kids and grannies.

S2k's are not my thing. Girls car, and no torque. Can't get a coffin in the back either.
 
I know of a lovely 316bhp yellow hatchback for sale :D

The previous version is nippy-ish as well at 180bhp for the Cupra or 225bhp for the Cupra R.

I had a Vauxhall Calibra before that. Only 150bhp but nice to drive, although a bit old now I guess.
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Still can't believe you've not sold that!
 
Get yourself an evo 7 and be done with it :D
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Is it 4 doors though?

No 4 doors, no hatch anything, no 1.8s with 250 horse power at
27,000 rpm. :D

Looking like an unmolested 200SX or 350Z.....except I fear 350Z is probably into Boxster money.
 
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My runaround...
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Parked in secret 007 bunker as well. :)

I got my Puma back today and it's looking great!
The sills are all anti-stone-chip-painted and sprayed. The rear wheel arches are done. Spoiler done.
Just need to T-cut the doors and wash and wax.

Might even keep it. :)
 
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