lmao

i remember my mom would let me take her old 92 Tercel to school every now and then or out for parties

ho's love em free rides. Met and partied with a lot of people i met from giving people rides. God bless that Tercel.

Best part was...i could give people who lived far as fuck at the time (lived in east van) rides and it would barely make a dent on my gas tank. :fuckyea:

And gas was $0.15-$0.20c/l FeelsBadMan

BOOM '97

BOOM '98

I remember when I was younger we had a red Jaguar XJ6 Sovereign :lol that thing caught a lot of attention.

People back then didn't cruise around in exotics, they drove around in modified Civics, Integras, and 240SX with their crew/shops back then. You'd see a group of cars with their Garage Five/Stage Five banners, or the AJ Racing stickers. Then there were the richer people with their 300ZX, RX7 and Supras.

You would also 'oooh/aahh' when any Porsche went by. NSX would break necks.

This might date me, but I remember going to Madison's in the late 90s and I remember waiting in line and an asian dude with a yellow Lotus esprit pulled up. viet dude if I remember correctly. That car was pimp.

I don't think it was Brian Jessel himself, but his dealership... Salesman... Always wondered what happened to him as a result lol... You should ask about it, I bet everyone still remembers, it was pretty spectacular

Seeing them all the time definitely has taken some of the "special" out of the sighting, especially since you know 99% of their owners can't give a fuck about the cars other than for vanity's sake. I don't even get excited when I see a 458, or a gallardo or anything like that.
I saw 3 fucking WHITE AVENTADORS today in 1 block. An SV and two others.
When you see someone in a 348, or an esprit, or an e30 m3.....Thats the exciting stuff at least for me.
It takes money to own a new supercar, but it takes passion to own a classic.

That guy was murdered in 1998, shot beside his Lotus actually

so you can park it so hard with the hood propped open showing off all 135 horsepower of that VVT-i motor and drive it like it's stolen in a 30kph zone SeemsGood

drawing a blank on that guy's name...got the ridiculously purple Nissan NX...he would do exactly that at my school...pretty sure he was already in his mid-late 20s then SeemsGood

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If anyone watched Barrett Jackson this year, the auction of Justin Biebers car pretty much sums up the exotic car scene in Vancouver.

I actually felt pretty bad for poor rich Justin. Clearly not into cars, so he just embarrassed himself. Ah well, he made money.

The station wagon with the roof rack will get more looks from me these days. Its a sad sense of reality. I think there is more exotics on the road then 90's civics in my area.

The time has changed.

With rich Chinese kids driving Maserati, Lamborghini, Lotus, Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, etc... the standard has been raised quite significantly.

Although these cars aren't that big deal today... back in the day, if you were driving any one of these, you were considered baller.

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The best one in my high school is only a E36. And we all thought NSX, supra, RX-7 are the super car. Anyone 80's, 90's remember BMW Michael Ho??

^ Michael Ho is the biggest clown ever!!! His dancing on BMW commercials always cracked me up! I saw him at Oakridge a few months ago, he literally thought he was a star walking around in the mall with his sunglasses on! clueless!

do you still have your FD?

Totally different scene back then. In early 90s the locals complain about HK immigrant buying their kid luxury cars like 3 series BMW and C-class Mercedes to school which have a bad influence for the atmosphere of education here. now these day the Chinese immigrant drives Aston Martin and up. Exotic are basically everywhere.

Here is something to think about a Lamborghini Diablo cost $239.000 US in 91. For the same price you could have bought a house. A new Aventador costs around 500K. So exotic cars have become cheaper compared to a house. So I think thats one of the reasons you see more exotic cars.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the minimum wage in BC in 1991 was $5.00/hr. Now it's $11.25/hr.

The increment ratio between BC minimum wage and Diablo & Aventador are very similar.

The price of real estate however, it outta control.

Hourly Minimum Wages in CANADA for Adult Workers

Back in the day it was actually rare to see an exotic. Can't forget that the car market has changed. Now there's a Porsche for every season, a Bentley for everyday of the week etc

They just aren't as niche as before and they never will be.

I remember way back when, looking at Dubai street photos to see all the exotics. Now I just get to look out my window at home and work. Meh.

Though growing up, all the Gurmandeeps rode around in G-Body GMs or these things

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Well that's signature material.

The only "exotic" stuff I remember from 90's high school was buddy that made his NSX a convertible and his bro had a Ferrari 355. Richmond residents would know who I'm talking about. Other than that, it was the popularity of street racing and suping up Camaro's, Mustang's, Civic's, BMW 3's, etc and hitting up the spots like Hammersmith, Deltaport, etc that dominated the "scene", so to speak.

I'd definitely say that the exotic boom has been caused by wealthy immigrants buying vanity rides from 2005 onward, with a big push in the last 5 years. Like Westopher, I dream of E30 M3's, 993 Turbo's and other analog offerings. Exotics are so watered down and unexciting nowadays it's almost sad.

Fixed for accuracy, them pre-current generation exotics cost half their MSRP bi-annually just to maintain

what did he mean by classic though? Because I thought he meant something like...

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It's been parked there for years now. The owner lives in the apartment next door. He even built a Plexiglass garage in the restaurant parking lot, but stopped using it.

Now this is a little bit later, but I remember back in 2006-2007 when Coquitlam College started to really gain the Asian majority. We would joke that we should skip the annual auto show and just check out its parking lot instead...

I think you have to really step it up nowadays to get noticed by your car. I graduated in 2002 from high school and back in those days if you had a BMW you were considered super hot shit. Nowadays, i see more BMW's and mercedes than corollas and camrys. Buying a 3 series is the equivalent of a honda civic in Richmond and yet the honda civic is still a honda civic. People would not think you are wealthy if you drive a civic nor a 3 series.

In order to be "somebody" (not that anyone really even gives a flying shit) you need to play with exotics. I always find it interesting to ask the guys with exotics the cost of maintenance. It'll surprise you more than their skid pad numbers or 0-60 times hahah.