Managed to sell the XS for £200, and this new car will cost me £185 (possibly less if i can haggle it down a bit).
Can you guess what it is though? Clue: I'm venturing in to the whacky world of RWD
Managed to sell the XS for £200, and this new car will cost me £185 (possibly less if i can haggle it down a bit).
Can you guess what it is though? Clue: I'm venturing in to the whacky world of RWD
Shite old Volvo/Sierra? We need something in the way of a clue :)
its a manta.
How'd you know?
logic tells me,
but the logical answer isnt always the correct one.
Actually I bought a £50 quid 360 GLT - total total but a surprsingly OK RWD experience...(and quite fast..)
Most sierra's are a fairly uninspired drive, the fact it's RWD is pretty irrelevant... I can report a 2.0S will do reasonable doughnuts.....:-)
no it isnt, although i wish it was.
Dan was right though - it is s**te, its is old, and its a 1.4 giving out about 70bhp (wow)
ITS A 340 DL!
LORD! Took one of them rallying round Dalby Forest once :)
Mate had one for the 2 years we were at college, it had under 20k miles on, yet, after those 2 years of solid ABUSE everyday, we killed it and it was scrapped :) They will do 60 in 2nd...
Thats the one, although it could be a GL
Tee he he, undecided whether to event it or not
Thats what i like to hear!!!
Sierra shit??????
Sierra's rule M8
even i'd have a sierra but only the 4x4 or cossie ones
Cross the manta off your list - I put my fist through the boot floor of mine tonight while trying to get the towbar off, I had to jack it up via the suspension mounting as I had a "feeling" the jack would go through the jacking points if I'd tried them.
I'm horrified at the amount of rot in what I consider a "newish" car (1985). Not decided if I'm keeping it yet but suspect a mig will be top of my Christmas list if i do...
I must be spoilt with all the VW's I've had, my current 1986 Scirocco has no rust apart from a tiny chip under one of the side windows yet a manta no more than 12 months old is looking more like a basket case everytime I look at it. ;-)
Mark S.
my finger went through my front wing on my MR2 also '85 :(
You can hit stuff in them as much as you like, from that respect they're invincible. A mechanic once told us the clutch was a weakpoint, but easy to change. They're do ROCK for rallying :) Round the gravel, the 4 of us honed our drifting skills (well, what skills we had at the age of 17 with a combined driving experience time of about 3 months).
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Pity you couldn't have held out for a 360 GLT. A totally different experience. Handling just a chaotic, but with so much grunt to get you into trouble earlier.
Tell me you at least got the 3 door hatch at least, not the 5 door hatch, or 4 door saloon.
Ours was 3 Door hatch, in base model DL spec.
In brown.
Ah Volvo brown, such a forgettable colour :)
Ditto, but in red. All last night in the pub i got the piss taken out of me, and all day my boss has been doing it. And i havent even picked it up yet!!!
Got it for £170 in the end, with regular Volvo servicing, 6 months MoT, 5 weeks tax and a few new parts (water pump - which i'm told is a weak point, rad and a rebuilt carb). And my insurance as gone down by almost £20 a month - Result!
I'm going to wear a tweed flat cap and beat you all tomorrow :P.
Hes right, they ROCK.
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