[Shotimes] (OT) SHO replacement

[Ian Fisher]

I guess it depends on if you are comparing automatics
to 5 speeds. The new Maxima's will blow away the
SHO's. The SHO's are quicker than the Mazda 6's. As
far as utility, the SHO may as well be a Camaro with a
large trunk as the back seat is useless unless the
front passengers are dwarfs with the seats all the way
up. Even so, there isn't much headroom for the tall
folk in the back. The SHO trunk is better than nothing
but it is not great. I also hate the large rear
valance on the SHO that prevents one from pushing or
pulling items in and out of the trunk. This was common
on cars of this generation so I can't fault the SHO
for being a product of its times. I do think that the
4-6th gen Maxima's make much better use of interior
space in a slightly smaller car (5th and 6th gen
excluded-they only got bigger with age).

I don't know too much about the Mazda 6 except that
they are quick but not as fast as an SHO. My old
roomate has one and he upgraded the projector
headlights to xenon with great results. That is a plus
IMHO. The Mazdaspeed 6 does sound interesting though.
By the way, I am judging all of these cars as if they
had manual transmissions. I personally would not buy
another automatic so that's what's important to me...

my 2 cents
Ian


--- bjshov8 <bjshov8@comcast.net> wrote:
> > As for SHO replacments I can think of a few in the
> same catagory. I can
> think of dozens of fast fun cars to drive.
> 
> To me the SHO is a combination of performance, cost,
> efficiency and utility.
> With this in mind it is somewhat harder to replace. 
> I used to think the
> Maxima was the closest replacement, with the Acura
> 3.2TL-S next in line.
> I've noticed that the Mazda 6 may be the closest
> replacement yet- it is at a
> good price point, has a similar size engine with
> similar horsepower, and has
> performance to match the gen1/2 SHO.
> 
> I sense that a lot of the list members are now able
> to move up the price
> ladder and replace their SHO's with something that
> stickers one or 2 classes
> above the SHO.  This opens the possibilities a lot
> but then these cars are
> less equal as SHO replacements.
> 
> As for me I'm inclined to consider a G35 as a
> possible replacement.
> Unfortunately the cheapest one that I could get
> would be twice what I paid
> for my gen1 SHO new, and 4 times what I paid for my
> gen3 used.
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