Although a lot were imported, when the Skyline R34 GT-R was sold in the UK back in around 2000 it cost £55,000. :peek:

Compared to that the 2009 GT-R at £53k and the 2010 model at £60 were bargains!

Just a shame they keep putting the price up when they tweak it, now £75k!

It's a good job hot hatchbacks have got more and more powerful, or fast cars for sensible money would be rare.

Focus RS, Astra VXR etc... all have more bhp than my Turbo 2000 (1998) Scooby used to have!

Never relised they were so expensive new.....explains why there still rather dear even now

Nearly bought one in the early OO's when they were selling them off when the new models were coming out, they were about £17k for a WRX in blue......and I always regretted not getting one and selling the bike. Though as others have commented they're not cheap to run compared to other similar performing cars- saw one being done up by brewer and China on the box at 70k needed a new clutch which was loads of wonga because of the amount of stuff they had to get off first to get at it.

It would have been nice though! Personally i think they've lost their way a bit since then so the cult status has gone... or is that just me being a numpty?

£450 tax a year makes most cars look pretty unappealing. Ok on a proper premium model.

The older Scoobies were iconic, proper schoolboy supercars. The hatch was plain ugly. The new one looks ok but most of the range was just too heavy on fuel to sell over here.