Please stop doing it guys


Although i think its a noble idea to save ek9's from being broken i dont really agree with it as its only the owner thats at a serious financial disadvantage here when you think about it. Unfortunately the ek9 has a small niche market and even more so with a heavily modified one and so the only option that makes sense is breaking it for parts. Using myself as an example i could have probably got around £7-7.5k for my ek9 if i was lucky and it would have probably taken me a few months and countless tyre kickers/test pilots to get it shifted, however with breaking it, it took me about a month to break the whole car, sell 95% of the parts and clear £11k in my bank. I think when you look at it that way and from the owners prospective you can begin to understand why it gets done as much as it pains us.

I feel as long as the shell is rescued and returned back on the road then its not so bad. its only when a good shell gets scrapped that i feel we are truly killing off a rare breed of cars thats we will never see again on the production lines. Thats my opinion anyway.
 
If my bottom end goes again i will break it with out hesitation, and get a Dc5 / clio 200 cup.

To me the ek9 is just a great tool for the track, couldnt care less about the JDM thing or kudos.


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Well mines up too now, except mines only a lowly EK4 so it shouldn't upset anyone! :p
 
i Might sound silly here, but. In a way i think its pretty cool all these cars are being broke. It's going to make our own cars even rarer ? Fair enough there are some unreal examples of cars being broke but i'm still happy to be driving around in my y-56 bus :nice: Rant over
 
Got to totally agree with Gav, always felt sad when seeing an ek9 being broken!! excellent points and ideas by Type-R dunc! :)

At then end of the day though if people keep breaking them, they will become ever rarer over here and my ek9 will go up in value in the future! :)
 
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