Faults:

Nothing to date.

General Comments:

Great car for the money. if you can get one with low kilometers on it and in reasonable condition then you can't go wrong. with some simple modifcations to the car it can be a potential traffic light eater.

Faults:

Needed to replace the diff - slid into gutter. Lots of dents, all my fault. Starting to rust, but has been re-sprayed. Sticks in lower gear, before jumping to higher gear. Poor power. Air conditioner broken.

General Comments:

If driven manually using L, 2, and D, the car has decent power.

However, if using fully-automatic transmission, power is very low.

Good fuel consumption if driven normally, without hard acceleration.

Original Seats very comfortable.

Not much room in back seats, therefore is hard to access (2-Door).

Interior color a little "old-school"

Faults:

When I bought the car, about three months ago, it had a fair amount of rust, but a bit of work later (including a new hatch) and it was looking like new.

I also fitted the AC tail-lights and grille (off my 1986 GSL) as they give the car a better appearance (tail-lights are darker).

General Comments:

I must admit that the handling is very good, but nothing compared to the GSL. It could have something to do with the power steering in the GSR.

I haven't actually driven the GSR too hard yet, but, it does hammer.I'm a bit worried about damaging the turbo.

Very quick off the mark and on the highway, the Cordia turbo is fuel efficient and an all round good performance vehicle.

If you're looking at buying one... go for it. You won't regret it.

I only paid $600- for mine and it was worth every cent... and a bit more.

Faults:

My car is a bit smokey under acceleration and this is the second engine in the car, it's about 120000kms.

Other than that I haven't had any problems.

General Comments:

My cordia goes extremely well it is fitted with a Japanese import motor 4G63 motor and are good upgrade if your old motor is on its way out.

The power increase over standard is surprising although I have bumped the boost up a bit which helped.

It is faiely comfortable and even feels sporty for an older car and is topped off well with turbo imprinted in the seats.

Faults:

Clutch died due to previous owner doing burn-outs.

Carb needed replacing due to blocked jet.

General Comments:

Handles brilliantly.

Very economical.

No road noise from inside the cabin.

Smooth power delivery and easy starting when cold is excellent.

Seats are kind of ugly, but you can live with that. Motor was only 50,000kms old when purchased.

Still not bad for $100 (old owner thought it was seized due to having an oil leak and wouldn't drive it).

Needs a re-spray (which is coming up soon), but has no rust in the entire car.

Faults:

Sometimes the exhaust gets smoky.

General Comments:

Who would think a 1984 car can kick the crap out of V8?

Have never been left behind in a dare.

The torque is felt greatly at mid-gears.

Top speed is great and is achieved very quickly.

The interior is beautiful.

The semi bucket racing seats are great.

Faults:

Wiring shorted out on first night. No indicators ahoy. Cost $70 to fix.

Flat tyre next morning.

Oil leak from the lower engine.

Fluid leak from the power steering.

Driver's seat is a little worn.

Injector timing things loose, needed new brackets.

Fuel pump died within 200 km of purchase. Cost at least $300 to replace, about $800 for a genuine part.

Alternator died when left with the mechanic to fix the fuel pump (suss?). Turns out the alternator is a very specific model, have been quoted between $50 and $930 to replace. Only found one alternator which is exactly the same as the original, quoted $110, but haven't purchased yet.

Seems a bit smoky at around 4 grand on the tacho, haven't had enough use of it to find out why.

General Comments:

I have only driven this car for about 400 km's since buying it a few months ago. It looks really good, has great power and handling, it's just a shame that I picked it up at the wrong time.

However, I bought it for only $500 so it was a major bargain. Should be able to resell it for close to 10 times that after I've finished working on it.

Not much torque down low, however once the revs hit 3 grand you find yourself being kicked in the back when the turbo ignites.

Keeping it in the rev range shows some serious performance potential, with straight-line wheel spin possible through third gear.

Powering through corners can be dangerous as it likes to rip around quicker than you can turn your head, however generating wheelspin on a bend will induce some frightening moments of understeer, keep the handbrake handy in the wet.

Faults:

Rust is starting to bite in on the passenger side door, besides that though, nothing

General Comments:

If you get one of these little babies stock, first thing you should do is take the straw they call an exhuast and replace it with a 3" one Mmmmm....