[madmaxx]

Having owned a Superformance and a Backdraft and driven many others. Not to sound hypocritical but you cant just go on price. The superformance is a much stouter car in my opinion. I compare a supeformance to a Ford F250 and a Backdraft to a F150. Both are great cars but Superformance are heavier duty and with the crappy pot hole laden roads in this country it doesnt hurt.

In addition every part on a superformance was designed for supeformance. The BDR uses a BMW suspension which beleive it or not was designed for a sedan.

The superformance is much closer to original on the interior design, smith gauges, etc.

Bottom line in my opinion if both cars are identicle equipped with the same powertrain the superformance is worth $10K more new than a bdr and $7500 more than a BDR used.

As far as warranties they are both (SPF and BDR) fking useless unless you dealer is two miles away. Anytime you have a problem it a shipping and waiting game.

As I have said in the past all cobras are junk, my new BDR had 18 problems I fixed, the new SPF had 15. Neither could compare to the reliabilty of a 1994 Mazda Miata with 120K miles, oh, the Miata has AC also.


As far as Kirkham, I will tell you after I own one but I tend to beleive the jump in quality i experined going to a SPF wont be as great as going from a spf to a Kirkham. In the end they can only get so good.

Both SPF and BDR had cheap flimsy headlight bezels, trim rings,etc. Those are easily replaced though.