Caldina or Altezza

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Which would you choose?

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Caldina or Altezza

Postby bigfut » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:00 pm

Just after some thoughts on which car to buy. I was all go for the caldina, but then saw an altezza that was in my price bracket too.
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Postby RomanV » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:05 pm

Well, IMO the altezza is the better looking car.

But disturbingly enough, I would pick the wagon for performance.

Although the beams motor is quite grunty for a 2 litre NA, its not enough to motivate the heavy(ish) Altezza IMO.

Whereas the 3sgte powered GTT. :twisted:

Just dont go crazy with the boost though! 8O
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Postby Adamal » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:06 pm

Hmm... I think I'd pick the Altezza.

Sure, the Caldina WILL have more power, but they weren't built to be in the same performance handling bracket that the Altezza is in.
I think an Altezza would be much more fun to drive.
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Postby mr pad » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:50 pm

tezza = rwd, nuf5ad
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Postby Al » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:12 pm

RWD is clearly where its at. After a while you could slot in some 3sgte internals, source a turbo and intercooler,st165 injectors, power fc, get some manifolds and piping made up and have a turbo altezza 8)
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Postby DRFTIN » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:14 pm

my mums old car was a GT-T and the new one is an altezza wagon 3.0 (both triptronic :( )
the caldina is way faster and i'd say better handling
the altezza is just a crusier really, not bad for an n/a but i need boost
i'd have the altezza for looks, but its also worth quite a bit more mainly because its newer
oh the the altezza triptronic is terrible, can only change between 3rd and 4th... useless as a regular auto. caldina triptronic is pretty good
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Postby CozmoNz » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:35 pm

The altezza is ment to be one of the best balanced cars you can purchase at the moment...

id go altezza myself...

depends on what you want though, want a fast car? or a great handeling car?
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Postby gurutasker » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:02 am

The Altezza does it for me.. never been a too big a fan of wagons, unless you actually needed one for a sepcific purpose.
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Postby rollas22 » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:22 pm

Go the ALTEZZA! way nicer looking cars :D
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Postby bigfut » Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:03 pm

thanks for the opinions, i've gone for the altezza over the caldina, thought about it, and i didnt need a wagon, and the tezza is still quick enough. Also insurance wise I am not being slaughtered....... as much 8O
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Postby cheese » Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:00 pm

get an aristo :D they own are fairly rare
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Postby Gadget » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:30 am

cheese wrote:get an aristo :D they own are fairly rare

Agreed.

Although the GTT owns for practicality...
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Postby Adamal » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:33 am

Who cares about practiciality anyway?


says the SW20 driver hehee
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Postby Rob » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:53 am

I go for the wagon. Ca chuck more booze in the boot, and also the mongrels and dogs too
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Postby GGnz » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:11 pm

Tezza fo' sure. Rather go for the RWD car. Get a turboed one i reckon :D
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Postby Alex B » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:18 pm

you mean build, they never came factory turbo. Except for the toms edition i think..
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Postby GGnz » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:23 pm

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:you mean build, they never came factory turbo. Except for the toms edition i think..


Did I mention the word factory anywhere?
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Postby Alex B » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:29 pm

Fair enough, spose if ya got a spare 30k+ in the bank. Or a spare 10k+ to build one reliably :lol:
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Postby GGnz » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:34 pm

Yeah true lol. I tend to forgot about money which opening my mouth :?
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Postby blackie » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:07 pm

Id probably take the GTT, unless you planned on working the altezza. i do think the tezz is more sexy however..

and that bonnet scoop on the gtt is soooo bad.. !
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