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Post #1
 25th September 2005 - 02:46 AM
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As a regular reader of readers digest,I came across this article on the rating of the best lemon cars ever made. This article is quoted below......I pissed myself laughing. The Nissan Exa Turbo......... Nissan was the first to capitalise on Turbo charging.....the automobile craze of the 1980's..by introducing the Pulsar EXA Turbo in 1983.The EXa's generous allocation of problems started on the outside..the person who styled the front appears to have never talked to the designer who did the rear,and the structural rigidity engineer was clealy stuck in the lift.The EXA introduced a novel feature..automatic lane changing.This was affected by pushing the accelerator.Nothing much happened until the rev counter hit 3000 revs,when suddenly the front end lit up and the steering wheel performed a waltz no matter how hard you held it..You also play the Lane Changing Game under braking,alternatively,you could throw the little EXA into a corner and take bets on wether you would experience gross understeer,surpreme understeer or terminal understeer. The Exa's price was just under $12,000,considered good value.Yet the car boasted only modest performance,try 0-100km/h in ten seconds and a standing 400m in 16.8seconds. How the Turbo has changed.........please do read,reply and have a great laugh. Cheers Benzed 
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sedate looking
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QUOTE(smiley @ Sep 26 2005, 11:50 PM) what whould they do about it??? thy know its true... its like telling a newborn that he shits himself... of course he knows he does it.. but he cant help it.. he's not smart enough yet. [right][snapback]5395315[/snapback][/right] Bullshit he's not smart enough!!! They only shit emselves cause they know they can do it and get away with it!!!! |
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Think I may have read it someplace else but nice find dude!
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psi999
Post #13
Understeer can be fixed with decent (koni) suspension & never really had any sort of torque steer from stockers.... that is unless the suspension is r00ted. The suspension design is quite good for its age, macpherson front & rear trailing arm rear. |
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Pie
Post #18
QUOTE Keep in mind for 1983 Turbocharged multipoint EFI & ECU controlled ignition was light-years ahead of anything else in its price range sold in Australia..... pity they were so ugly. anything else bar cordias  Nah all those old school fwds are great fun to drive in the wet, i love torquesteer and i also enjoy understeering into corner then getting traction and ending up on the other side of the road. |
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psi999
Post #19
QUOTE(Pie @ Sep 29 2005, 10:25 PM) anything else bar cordias Nah all those old school fwds are great fun to drive in the wet, i love torquesteer and i also enjoy understeering into corner then getting traction and ending up on the other side of the road. [right][snapback]5402978[/snapback][/right] I didn’t think Cordia's had ECU controlled ignition?..... and sequential multipoint EFI? |
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with all of your posts in this thread so far 
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taipan
Post #23
QUOTE(benzedone @ Sep 25 2005, 08:46 PM) As a regular reader of readers digest,I came across this article on the rating of the best lemon cars ever made. This article is quoted below......I pissed myself laughing. The Nissan Exa Turbo......... Nissan was the first to capitalise on Turbo charging.....the automobile craze of the 1980's..by introducing the Pulsar EXA Turbo in 1983.The EXa's generous allocation of problems started on the outside..the person who styled the front appears to have never talked to the designer who did the rear,and the structural rigidity engineer was clealy stuck in the lift.The EXA introduced a novel feature..automatic lane changing.This was affected by pushing the accelerator.Nothing much happened until the rev counter hit 3000 revs,when suddenly the front end lit up and the steering wheel performed a waltz no matter how hard you held it..You also play the Lane Changing Game under braking,alternatively,you could throw the little EXA into a corner and take bets on wether you would experience gross understeer,surpreme understeer or terminal understeer. The Exa's price was just under $12,000,considered good value.Yet the car boasted only modest performance,try 0-100km/h in ten seconds and a standing 400m in 16.8seconds. How the Turbo has changed.........please do read,reply and have a great laugh. Cheers Benzed  [right][snapback]5391949[/snapback][/right] I think readers digest could maybe get done for copyright cos i have a book here called Lemon! and all that stuff is the same as in this book. And the rear end is the same as the front end boxy and ugly. Although they are an ugly car I cannot see how they are lemons don't lemons always brake down my exa has never broken down the only thing that has gone wrong with it is I blew a head gasket. And modest performance 16.8sec for 12k isn't bad in those days and the next cheapest turbo car was 24k. P.s I have a EXA for sale $2500ono |
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GaryD
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QUOTE(DAL32 @ Sep 30 2005, 09:49 AM) But isn't that the same with practically every other FWD car on the market, bar the Integra Type R, etc? [right][snapback]5403533[/snapback][/right] rofl i was about to say the same thing myself. id say even the type r's are uneven lengths. its pretty much impossible to be any other way on an E-W engine |
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RetardedMonkey
Post #26
QUOTE(taipan @ Sep 30 2005, 01:41 PM) And modest performance 16.8sec for 12k isn't bad in those days and the next cheapest turbo car was 24k. I wouldn't consider that performance. But that's just my decision, thinking that the laser could nearly do a low 17. |
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