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Hi from Perth Australia

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G’day all

Happy Stinger GT owner after buying a couple of weeks ago.

Was originally going to buy black with red trim but came across this yellow one and love how the colour “pops”!

Had a Mazda 6 Turbo Diesel prior which was still a nice drive and super-economical. Bought that to offset the fuel hungry RX7 in the background which was my fun car. Now I have 2 fun cars!

Prior to that I’ve had a BMW, RX8, WRX, Holden Commodore, Ford Falcon and Mazda 929. Stinger definitely leads the pack.

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Welcome to the forum!

Does Australian GT have the twinturbo petrol V6 engine? Is the turbo diesel version marketed there?
 
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Welcome, is yellow a limited production color over there?
 
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Congrats and welcome [MENTION=2015]dazzabozza[/MENTION]. Y'all have any paint issues with the Yellow?
 

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Aloha [MENTION=2015]dazzabozza[/MENTION]
 

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Welcome aboard and congratulations.

That FD3 looks great!!...So does the Stinger, great colour choice.
 

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[MENTION=615]Chi-Guy[/MENTION] in the beginning Sunset yellow was a standard color in the Australian market, it was later pulled for the reasons we now know.
 
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Congratulations[lovekia]
 
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Nice choice in color, welcome aboard.


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G’day all

Happy Stinger GT owner after buying a couple of weeks ago.

Was originally going to buy black with red trim but came across this yellow one and love how the colour “pops”!

Had a Mazda 6 Turbo Diesel prior which was still a nice drive and super-economical. Bought that to offset the fuel hungry RX7 in the background which was my fun car. Now I have 2 fun cars!

Prior to that I’ve had a BMW, RX8, WRX, Holden Commodore, Ford Falcon and Mazda 929. Stinger definitely leads the pack.

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Beautiful cars. Any more pictures of the RX7? I had a second gen RX7 in the 90's.
 
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[MENTION=615]Chi-Guy[/MENTION] in the beginning Sunset yellow was a standard color in the Australian market, it was later pulled for the reasons we now know.
I didn't know they pulled the yellow. But at least we now know why haha
 
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Beautiful cars. Any more pictures of the RX7? I had a second gen RX7 in the 90's.
Here’s a couple. One with the pop up lights and one without.
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Stunning. Good job.
 
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That RX7 looks immaculate
 
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Best looking RX7 I've seen. Do you have a build thread somewhere?
I don’t have my own build thread as the car was a money pit for 2 different owners before me. I’ve done very little to it since. Here’s how she used to look originally - big difference!
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From what I know the 1st owner did all the cosmetics and suspension. 2nd owner did the mechanicals like full engine rebuild, bridgeporting, single turbo conversion, fuel system upgrade etc. Brakes upgrades alone $5k apparently.
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Similar plans for the Stinger?[deviltail]
Stinger I’ll prob start with upgrading the rear sway bar. Deeper exhaust note would be nice too. Something like the RX7 exhaust sound would be insane (but unlikely 😲) [video=youtube_share;wfirFPY3z0E]https://youtu.be/wfirFPY3z0E[/video]
 


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