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- Every once in a while, a car will rise to fame and gain
a reputation for being the greatest of all time
without actually earning it.
This is the frigging automotive equivalent
of the television series Friends.
It comes, it does okay enough to stick around
until it burns out.
And then when it goes away,
people remember it as something that's better
than it actually was. Slowly encapsulating itself
in a ball of falsified clout with a cult like following.
What's going on, everybody.
I'm Sean from Fitment Industries.
And today we're gonna talk about the five
most overrated enthusiast cars in the world.
And make sure to stick around till the end of the video.
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You know what?
I'm just going to say it.
The Mark IV Toyota Supra Turbo is overrated.
At a maximum of 320 horsepower at nearly 3,500 pounds,
it's slow and it's not the supercar Slayer
everybody thinks it is today.
It's too heavy, it's too soft,
And they really stretched their stats at launch.
Toyota claimed numbers that put them in front
of their competition at the time.
Like the FTRX7 and the 300 ZX Twin Turbo.
But when it came time to put the Super up to the task,
it fell to the bottom of the pack,
both on the track and in the quarter mile.
Combine that with the fact that these cars reached
an original MSRP of $50,000 in 1996,
which is over $80,000 in today's money with inflation.
These cars were far from competing
with anything in their price bracket.
And now that they've exploded in value
in the last couple of years,
the same thing could be said again.
Don't get me wrong, the Mark Iv Supra
is an absolutely gorgeous car that demands attention.
It defines the 1990s automotive era
and generates massive amounts of nostalgia
because of that.
And let's not forget the Supra's insane potential.
But I'm afraid it's potential only reflects
the price point and not the true nature
of the car itself.
And for that reason, a demon overhyped
and overrated.
Next.
Next up on the chopping block has to be
the modern iteration of the Nissan Z.
The Nissan 370Z is an absolute embarrassment
when you consider that they've been producing
this car with the same statistics and build quality
since 2009, with nearly zero changes.
Put yourself back in time for a minute
to an era where automotive manufacturers were building
trash interiors with terrible materials
and technology coming straight out of the late 2000
recession.
(breathing hard)
Is that a good puke face? I dunno now.
Now imagine if manufacturer decided to make
zero changes since then,
but the same trash production techniques,
confused technology in low 300 horsepower
naturally aspirated drive trains.
Well, that's exactly what Nissan did
to the 370Z.
When the 370Z launched, it was an amazing platform.
It was outperforming the Mustang at the time
with a lighter weight chassis and continued
to out power the 4.6 liter Ford modular motor,
just like the 350Z did.
But soon after the 370s launched,
the pony car war started happening.
The Camaro came along with 426 horsepower
Mopar released its 425 horsepower SRTA
and Mustang introduced a 412 horsepower,
five liter modular VA dubbed the Coyote.
So what did Nissan do to survive? Nothing.
They held their breath and tried to win the race
with the tortoise and the hare analogy
and kept producing nearly the same car through 2020.
Look at this fricking interior people
look at this information display on the gauge cluster.
It's straight out of the 2003 Nissan parts bin.
Why are you still using this on the 2020 model?
Who thought this was okay?
It literally has less pixels in my game board color.
Yeah, that's right, nerds.
Don't even get me started on the
three dash mountain engages featuring
a digital clock and a volt meter.
It's right next to the frigging infotainment system
that already has a digital clock display in it.
Now I know you see, people are screaming
at the screen about, well, what if the option,
of the car is up to navigation?
You don't get that screen.
Yeah, what if you mean you get a CD player
straight out of 2006, Pontiac G6,
that doesn't even display time? Come on Nissan.
Even with the $45,000 mismo package,
you're looking at competing with the rental car spec
V6 Mustangs and Camaro's.
The Nissan 370Z can be a fantastic use
to sports car offering plenty of value
in its early heavily depreciated model years.
But offering the people a two door sports car
that's 15% better than a
2003, 350Z starting at $30,000 for a base model
is absolutely offensive
making the 370Z one of the most overrated
modern cars on the market right now.
Did you smell that, that smell?
It's a kind of smelly smell that smells (sniffing)
like blue raspberry cotton candy.
You're dang straight.
I'm talking about the third generation
to present Subaru Impreza WRX STI.
First off, it's still an Impreza, okay.
Just because they took Impreza out of the name,
doesn't change the fact that you're driving
around in a performance trimmed economy car.
Get over yourselves in the economy car interior
quality that you rode in on.
All right, now that I got that off my chest,
the cult following behind the WRX and STI
is absolutely mind blowing.
Subaru People are extremely passionate
for many different reasons.
And once you're bitten by the bug,
it seems like people can't have just one.
On one hand, you have a turbocharged manual car
with a world renowned all we go drive system
inspired by decades of legitimate rally heritage.
They have tons of tuning potential
and huge aftermarket availability.
But on the other hand, you have
a terribly inefficient unreliable flat forth
that sounds like yeti dudu being violently forced
through a hand me down trumpet with compressed air.
And I literally do not know a single person
that has owned a Subaru for more than a year
that hasn't experienced catastrophic engine
or transmission failure.
Naturally aspirated, turbocharged stock,
and modified all of them, Kaboom.
Combine that with not being that fun to drive
outside of off-road and snow applications,
I don't fully understand the hype or the price point.
You're looking at $20,000 for a third gen STI
that's heavier and more numb than the previous generation.
Now you're looking at a $40,000 price tag for a 2020 STI.
The smaller engine and it's 300 pounds heavier,
it has only 10 more horsepower
than the blob I have after 16 years.
It's laughable.
How are people not angry about this?
How does this nameplate still have a cult following?
The modern Subaru WRX STI
is underdeveloped and overrated.
Let's move on.
Next off, another turbocharged
all wheel drive four cylinder
with its name cemented in world rally cross history.
I'm of course talking about the
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X.
Mitsubishi's evolution name has long been known
for being a staple in rally inspired
performance cars.
Competing with sports cars on the street
with more than double its engine displacement.
This put the evolution name high on the totem pole
of quick and capable cars.
But what happens when the manufacturer sales
start to decline?
They start to focus on market trends
and spend more time on things like SUVs, crossovers
and alternative fuel technology.
Resulting in less focus on sport oriented vehicles.
Unfortunately for the Evolution nameplate,
Mitsubishi decided to ride on the coattails
of the Evos previous performance
and racing success and make it a softer,
more comfortable oriented quieter car based
around the evolution named for its 10th rendition.
The Evo X was nearly 300 fricking pounds
heavier than the outgoing Evo IX,
and it only got a five horsepower bump.
The new Evo was laughably more than half a second
slower in the quarter mile than the previous generation.
So you can imagine just how much it lacked on the track.
If the power to weight slowed it down
that much in a straight line.
Most people see the Evo name
and think about its rally success
and movie famous Evo VIII
without the tax and jump on it
thinking that they have a fast car,
but not this time. Evo X is like the great value
version of Doritos. On paper it looks similar,
but its very, very, very different.
And that's why the Evo X is overhyped and overrated.
Now, if you haven't been triggered by any of these
cars yet, this one may very well get you.
So pull up a couple of paper towels and get ready
to wipe some tears because I'm talking aobut
non other than R322 Skyline GT-R.
Now don't get it twisted, I love the R322 GT-R.
It's one of the most beautiful vehicles
I've ever seen in my life and RB 26 will go down
as one of my favorite sounding cars of all time.
But the way the market is sky rocketing on these cars
is straight out of control.
When the R32 GT-R first started wiggly coming into the U.S,
they were a very reasonable 15 to $20,000
all said and done. Sometimes even cheaper than that.
Now that deal presented a ton of value.
A twin turbocharged, in line 6 cylinders that delivers
incredible aggressive yet smooth power down to all
four wheels through a manual transmission
With a proclaimed 276 horsepower,
which was rather insane for 1989.
Even more insane than that
is that the number better represented its power
at the wheels, but the fun and game stop there.
Somehow the more of these cars got imported,
the more they go up in value. These days
you'll be hard pressed to find a rough example for $20,000.
And good examples are up past $30,000 and beyond
for bell specked cars with a mile just absolutely bonkers.
When cars start rising and value for no reason like this,
it's a real turn off for me
because while the car is nearly perfect,
it's not $30,000 worth of cars.
There are tons of cars out there that will out power,
outperform, out handle and outclass the 90s interior
of the R23 GT-R for the same and less money.
Dubbing it overrated. Yeah, I said it.
Well that about wraps it up for the top five
most overrated vehicles. Be sure to leave a comment
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