# so a friend is trying to decide what car to buy .... low 13sec cars or faster

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [November 11, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-a-friend-is-trying-to-decide-what-car-to-buy-low-13sec-cars-or-faster/20072 "2006-11-11T22:26:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![psychopjv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psychopjv/32/7251_2.png) [@psychopjv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psychopjv)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-a-friend-is-trying-to-decide-what-car-to-buy-low-13sec-cars-or-faster/20072/18 "2006-11-12T07:51:35Z")

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> [@somedude](#):
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> wets give a little back storyon his personaity car wise. you know the 3 cylinder saturn I have not? well that was his first car he bought off his dad. I met him at goodyear and he liked my SHO quite a bit but didn’t want something that old (relibility aside aparently) so I literaly dragged him to go test drive a gen 3 SHO (the V8 one) and he instantly fell in love with the luxury, and power. he has been in a couple of F bodies and he really hates them (crappy interior lots of vibration ect…).
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> he absolutly fell in love with the ford lightning in 05 and infact he saw the episide of trucks where they said the new one was going to have 500hp to compete with everyone else + you can toe and haul with it. love at first site with a vehicle that looked something like this. [http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/142152/lightning.jpg](http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/142152/lightning.jpg) infact he liked it so much he went to the local SVT dealer to put a deposit down on one. that is when they broke the news to him ☹
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> we went car shopping at one point and he liked the mazdaspeed vehicles but he needs something a step up from those power wise. so I was thinking volvo S80 with a 4.4V8 🙂 but again modibility is not there.
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> we are still trying to get him to turbo his 99 SHO the tuning software and all the bits to make it happen are there but he doesn’t want to put 10K into a taurus (turbo, tranny, and it needs new struts all around at 225 a piece)
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> he seems to want some luxury as well as a lot of power and thats why I was prodding him in the ribs do drive a S4 (6 speed), **upgrade the turbos up the boost** and pound teh crap out of it in style! I think he might even settle with the 4.2 if he drove one because they arn’t exactly slow either. + AWD. and this would be his cheapiest option of the bunch.

not as easy as it sounds…in fact it sucks moose testicles covered in a light and fluffy, yet not filling, chocolate.

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