ggace
Member
Hey all,
Few months back I traded in my 2018 Polar Ice G80 Sport with a few mods (Custom exhaust, JB4, intakes, etc.). I was originally going to be doing some travel so I picked up an affordable hybrid (I mean 40mpg on cheap gas vs 17mpg on premium was an immediate cost savings.... please don't laugh at me! haha).
Since then, we all know the story but my employer has realized travel is no longer necessary & working from home is our new norm. With that, I missed my G80 every day BUT, with all the hype around the stinger & a REALLY good deal on 2018 GT1 (half the price of a used g80 sport), I was a fool not to at least test drive a stinger... right?
Few test drives later, I found the winner about 2.5 hours from home. I am probably not the first to say this but I was very proud of the G80. I would see stingers often & would get a few to bite. The modded G80 was a monster so the stock stingers didn't have much on it. Now thinking back to the stock G80 vs my new stock stinger, it's almost laughable how much faster the stinger really is. A good chunk of weight difference, launch control, & a few other features quickly made me forget about the G80 & has me looking to the future.
I have on the wish list now a paint correction (previous owner clearly used sand paper or a wire brush to dry the car), ceramic coating, Borla catback, Injen intakes, JB4, & a few carbon parts to bring the weight down below the 4k mark. I think just those alone will give me enough fun.
My "moment" with the car was when I did 2 hours on the interstate (fairly comfortably for a sports car), had a few good pulls, pulled off the on ramp to a thumbs up from a genesis 5.0, looked at the MPGs & read 26.2mpgs. I smiled & realized, I made the right decision.
Happy to be apart of the community & looking forward to catching up to 3 years of knowledge from you all!
Few months back I traded in my 2018 Polar Ice G80 Sport with a few mods (Custom exhaust, JB4, intakes, etc.). I was originally going to be doing some travel so I picked up an affordable hybrid (I mean 40mpg on cheap gas vs 17mpg on premium was an immediate cost savings.... please don't laugh at me! haha).
Since then, we all know the story but my employer has realized travel is no longer necessary & working from home is our new norm. With that, I missed my G80 every day BUT, with all the hype around the stinger & a REALLY good deal on 2018 GT1 (half the price of a used g80 sport), I was a fool not to at least test drive a stinger... right?
Few test drives later, I found the winner about 2.5 hours from home. I am probably not the first to say this but I was very proud of the G80. I would see stingers often & would get a few to bite. The modded G80 was a monster so the stock stingers didn't have much on it. Now thinking back to the stock G80 vs my new stock stinger, it's almost laughable how much faster the stinger really is. A good chunk of weight difference, launch control, & a few other features quickly made me forget about the G80 & has me looking to the future.
I have on the wish list now a paint correction (previous owner clearly used sand paper or a wire brush to dry the car), ceramic coating, Borla catback, Injen intakes, JB4, & a few carbon parts to bring the weight down below the 4k mark. I think just those alone will give me enough fun.
My "moment" with the car was when I did 2 hours on the interstate (fairly comfortably for a sports car), had a few good pulls, pulled off the on ramp to a thumbs up from a genesis 5.0, looked at the MPGs & read 26.2mpgs. I smiled & realized, I made the right decision.
Happy to be apart of the community & looking forward to catching up to 3 years of knowledge from you all!
). What color of "sandpapered" did you get?
