Jesus, you are a clueless fool today.
Are you seriously claiming the Crapi will get anywhere *close* to a sub
3 second 0-60 run?'cos that's the ball-park you'd have to be in to get anywhere near the VFR.
I really don't give a flying f*ck what you claim to have done to the Crapi - I know that the 75 would run rings around it on a track. Mainly because I've run rings around stuff that I'd have not expected to get close to on the last 2 track days.
This is the one that only exists in your head, yes?
MkV GTIs are 197bhp.
But we're forgetting your Crapi gets close to a 3 second 0-60.
Snetterton I beleive that was.
Which is one of the least twisty tracks in the UK......
Do we know how close it was? - I can believe a Focus could get round Snetterton faster, but at somewhere like Castle Combe, Oulton or Brands, I'm pretty sure the Impreza would come out on top, as it probably would on 'real' roads with their variable, crappy surfaces and bumps.
Now go look at any classic ford mag and indeed, Ebay.
See above.
I was thinking, more famously, Top Gear track
Watch it on the TV, then. And it was a pretty decisive win. Couple of bhp down, "wrong wheel drive" and it won. Can't say fairer than that.
325's are dog slow so that should be a well easy win in the clio mate!
What has that got to do with a WRX vs SO Alfa depreciation race?
If you want a giggle, have a look at how much people ask for wop s**te in the Italian afficionado magazines.
Yup. Saw a few at Classic Ford show at Santa Pod.
Here's a MK3 Cortina that'd give the bikes a hard time and it's the same motor put in Capris and Essies.
That's like me saying I can wipe the floor of the local WRX Scooby owning clown in my artic because I have the ability to go round certain corners without lifting whereas he can't drive and feels the need to drop to 40.
A track day. A place where racing wannabees with f*ck all skill can take their performance car and dawdle round the track cos they're shit scared of it.
Now if you'd had said it was a proper race meet....
Who said it did?
I'm taking real-world values, not Anorak dreaming. And yes, I apply this to the 75, too - I'm looking at the real value of mine, not the fantasy values I often see in the specialist press.
Some sell for a lot, some sell for f*ck all. A large proportion don't sell at all.
Eh?
We all know MkI Escorts are horrendously over-priced - so it comes as no surprise a straight and tidy one would be worth more than a 75. Especially as even the oldest 75 will be more than a decade newer than the latest MkI.
Is the right answer.
I've seen tidy, but not immaculate, 75s advertised for £4k+.
There's one on ebay currently for £4995.... he's dropped the price from £6495, too.
You said 'it would give your bikes a run for their money'.
Now, the GY200, you'd wipe the floor with it. Mainly 'cos it has a whole
15bhp or so.The VFR has 100bhp and will have hit 60mph before you've reached 20mph.
Is that your definition of 'a run for it's money'?
Yes, but was it a DRY track??? The RS is also renouned for being a PIG to drive hard on normal (potholes, loose gravel etc.) roads...
No, I said there are Capris who would.
See above.
RS3100 £9500, 11 bids, still 2 days to go:
Talk about moving the goalposts again.
I could drag out a turbo / NOS VFR800, but it would be a stupid comparison.
Without resorting to turbos and NOS, a Pinto wouldn't get a sniff at a factory standard VFR.
And if you want to bring NOS and Turbos into it, adding those to a VFR would make it so quick you'd struggle to hold onto it.
Do you want to move the posts again?
*shakes head*
You're comparing a drag racer with a bog-standard vehicle.
Hardly a level playing field.
Rare as f*ck MkI. Not a common MkIII.
That's equivalent to comparing it to a Bertone GTA - which you might find for under £40k if you're lucky.
Oh, look - it's another special.
I would compare this with a pukka homologation 75 Turbo. But I won't, 'cos it would be unfair - and I probably couldn't find one for sale.
There's always one or two big value cars out there. But yours isn't a show standard 3.0S.
Another concours show-car.
Your point is? - a 75 has been through ebay at £2.5k recently.
All you've shown me is that there are a wild range of values, which is what I said.
I've also given values from the classic car press which show normal, usable car values.
Unless your Crapi has been transformed from something where the rust was coming back through after the restoration into a show-winner in recent months?
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