S14 Eurospec / Eurocommunity

Hey, rear wipers shuld be cheap in Europe, because a lot of people clean the rear window.

But to get a good condotioned S14 kouki is much more difficult. I’ve spend 3 Months in 2006 looking every day in www.moblie.de and www.autoscout24.de for a Z-Edition with around 50.000km. The first one stood 15 minutes away, but was sold to Greece before weekend (I’ve called on Thrusday, this was a hard lesson). The prizes for a Racing or stock S14a were around 10.000 Euro. A Sportline was arount 11.000 and Z-Edition around 12.000. But, no chance. I didn’t found any other in that time, but I had luck and some guys from the community had found one. So we jumped in the car and “flyed” around 500km one way. Finally I’ve bought the car and it was a big fun to go back with 2 S14s (my dad has a Racing) on mountaious Autobahn with ups and downs and all the relative hard corners. Since then I know about 3 Z-Editions sold in the last 3 years fitting the specs I was looking for … with prizes around 13-15.000 Euro. Yes, the cars got more expensive in the last 5 years … crazy! A lot of cars went to Scandinava, for public roads or drifting, for the named expensive prized lying above a “healthy” German level. Meanwhile the prizes decrease slowly, because of a lot of Japan and GB imports. The cars in GB are much more cheaper (around 50%), but they are RHD. Usually the guys from Austria and Switzerland buy also cars in Germany, and also the east European guys (but the buy usually the cheaper ones to rebuild them). Finally it is still a kind of horror to buy an S14 here. After being exported and crashed through the years, now only 949 (1.1.2009) are left in Germany (1.1.2008 = 1092 and 1.1.2006 1874). Well a half in three years … And all the cars look great onm the pics, but in reality a lot are destroyed alot. Some (Honda ;-)) guys are the same time registered as I am and they search till now. So it is a kind of luck, but also a kind of beliving to become a S14 driver. I mean, for 15.000 you can get a really good Mk4 TT or a imported, really good conditionded JDM S15 R-Spec. So the situation is crazy … or ironic when thinking about the real sluggish selling of S14 in the 90s (sportscars for man in late 50s).