Quote Originally Posted by simontibbett
The Ultima GTR in my eyes is NOT a replica, it is a kit car. There is a difference between a kit car and a replica. The GTM KIND OF looks like a GT40 at different angles, but nobody is gonna be like "omg look a GT40." to realize it isn't. A KIT car is a cool thing, to build your own reliable car, especially if it doesnt LOOK like something it's not. Building a replica to ME is just stupid. So are Fiero kit cars that have Ferrari kits cool? lol. I know the upkeep of exotics having worked on them for a summer, but if you bought it in the first place, you can easily keep it running. The guys who buy a real exotic and never drive it are in debt...

I see the point of having a reliable replica, but in the end, it's fake, does not have the exotic magic a real one does or the advanced engineering, it just kind of LOOKS like it, and if tricking people is all that matters, I can probably trick someone with this Aston Martin replica for my Miata:

Sorry man. You are quite wrong. Most guys that have the money to buy those cars, don't drive them because they are investments. Very few guys who own them take them out and work them the way they were designed to be driven. Most people get them, put them in their garages and show them off, then sell them when they can turn a profit and get something else. Or they are collectors that collect them, not drive them. The average exotic car buyer doesn't use them.

A Replica IS a kit car. Same exact thing. No difference. They are both vehicles assembled by the purchaser or a shop to which the purchaser takes the vehicle. They are both listed in the same publications. They may both use a chassis from another car, or they may use a full tube chassis. Correct stretch on a Fiero chassis is 97 inches. Some kits do that, some don't. But either way, a tube chassis car is a tube chassis car. You of all people should know the performance difference. Whether it looks like something else or looks like it's own.

So let's see.








All replica's. Does that somehow not make them desirable? Owned by a bunch of cheap bastards who dreamed of having the real thing but couldn't afford it?

Kit cars are all about what you make of them. If they are cheap to start with, they are cheap coming out. If you take your time, build the right chassis, map it out and sink some cash into it, they come out great.