What a difference 10 years made. This is what had become of Sports Sedan racing in NZ by 1999. Gone were the traditional production based machines where people were stuffing V8s into Escorts, RX7s, and Capri's, replaced by Trans-Am style space-frame cars. These machines may have been extremely fast and efficient, but they didn't have the character of the cars seen from earlier in this thread from 1989: