Anyone list me these for a street race?

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Might be a bit pricey on insurance, and the handling is probabley buggered by the lowering, but it really needs some kind of service history.

Good car, engines last well, shame about some taste issues, GTi might make insurance higher.

Tasty underloved retro coupe. tidy, should have a little poke and different from the usual Max brigade.

Does he really want to be called grandad.

Economical, parts should be plentiful, if a little slow and dull.

Will be more fun to drive than he thinks, what are the back arches and sills like?

Trendy but can be a little gutless. Can suffer from various sensor (temp sender/TPS etc) failures that can get expensive to diagnose (missuses problems with hers).

Oh they sound much more like it. Would have to say, Manta, Scirroco, Mini, then any of the others.

Slow but not dull. Bollocks all idea what's going on at the front wheels, an engine that makes quite good noises towards the limiter and you feel like you're going to die at 70mph. They do go sideways well with left foot braking, which is fun, and plenty of engine noise makes it easy to get your blipped downchanges spot on without a rev counter. Get a coupe and they even look relatively nice. And they refuse to rust...

Think I must have give the wrong idea - they are the car's everyone at work has already but there's arguments as to who's is fastest. ;-)

The 17 year old has the Toyota (led's give it away). :-) £1700.00 cheapest quote when he's off his dad's policy. Teehee.

Pug is a girl's (20).

Mine's the Scirocco and the Manta and I'll wear down the guy with thr Rover when he gets his people carrier into letting me have the mini (been in his garage 15 years).

Mark S.

Ah righty.

In which case, the Pug will easily be the quickest, assuming the lowering hasn't totally fecked it :)

Corollo, Scirocco and 214 probably all offer pretty similar "performance".

Polo, Metro and Corsa are all dog slow.

Hope that helps :)

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::: Oh and just for variety two garage projects, 2.0 GTE Manta and a ::: 1275GT with twin webbers.

OP: You running a single twin Webers, or a pair of twin Webbers as splits?

This si probably the faastest car in the list but a 17 year old will be uninsurable in it, 205's are death traps too, they have no strength at all

Nice looking car not too sure about insurance though

Probably 2nd fastest. Very fast car for the insurance (100bhp i think)

Nice cars cheap insurance but the 1l ones are very slow

Not very safe in a crash

Apparently they handle like shit but i have never driven one

Tim

That said, they're horribly cramped and they're noisy.

A 205 saved my life. Beats the hell out of crashing a metro/fiesta or many other of its contemporaries IMHO. Prone to a 17-year-old mashing tail happyness on the edge, good fun though.

Douglas

I'll ask him for some more details I think if I could get myself a garage I'd be able to buy it off him. :-))

Know it was mod'd somewhat but never seen more than the outline under a tarp in his garage. He towed it there from his parents and it's sat there ever since, about 11years plus however long it was off the road before. Know it needed some welding back then so god knows what it's like now...

Mark S.

No such car as a Corolla 1.3 GTi. The GTi has a 1.6 16 valve twin cam motor. The 1.3 GL 3d hatchback has a 12 valve single cam motor.

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Ha, ha . . . don't bet your shirt on it.

Toyota 1.6 GTi wins 0-60mph 8.30s 1/4 16.80s and top speed 121.8 miles/h (assuming it is a 1.6 Gti and not a 1.3 GL with a GTi badge on the hatch)

Pug 1.6 GTi loses on drag strip 0-60mph 8.90s 1/4 17.40s but is very close on top speed 121.2 miles/h when it gets there. The Scirocco GT 1.6/1.7/1.8 unless it's a Scala i or GTXi has a sad

90bhp but uses it quite well on 0-50mph 6.60s and just shades the Rover 111.2 miles/h Rover 214Si (same power as SLi) 0-50mph 7.30s 0-60mph 10.00s 1/4 17.80s 110.6 miles/h If the 1.3 Corolla is a GL then 95 miles/h Zzzzz

Can't be arsed

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Hello Doki.

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D> I can never understand that. Bollocks all power, Pirelli P3000s D> and wheelspin changing into second. WHY?

Because Pirellis are crap?

Sergey

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My 1.3 56BHP Skoda Fav would do that too. New shocks and springs, but the tyres were s**te but legal, so that may have influenced things a little.

"performance".

But if there are any corners around, the Pug will leave the rest. (assuming the lowering hasn't totally fecked it :)

You may well be right about the P3000s. You wouldn't believe how far the wheel alignment was out (driving in a straight line meant having the steering wheel at about 30 degrees from straight ahead, and it locked up the left front wheel under moderate braking), and the tyres showed absolutely no sign of wear on the shoulders. A set would last even me 30k :P.

Helps a lot many thanks.

The Corolla is a 1.3 with a 1.6 rear screen. ;-) Haha. £1700.00 to insure it, what a robbery. Glad I'm not 17 anymore.

My Scirocco is the poor man's 1.6 GT. :-)

I'm buying the Rover for £100.00 taxed and tested when he goes for his newish Picasso (not mentioned the fires to him...) Repair the rusted arch and replace the missing trim bits, give it a good thrashing with the hoover and onto Ebay as they'll buy anything on there and then put the money towards his 1275GT, twin webbers and all.

Mark S.