got my new motor

Motorsport?

You mean it's a chavved-up shed, then, with a Ford sticker on it.

Rob, you are incredibly pikey. You know that, don't you? We call Mk 3 Cavaliers 'pikey Cavaliers'. Even if you do like them, for God's sake keep quiet about it ;)

Richard

Hello,

It's probably straight from barryboys.co.uk site with gigantic exhaust, airfix kit, ir>

ITYM 'pikey Chavaliers'.

In news:f0GPd.528$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe3-win.ntli.net, Rob decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Oh dear.

He's bought a Cavalier.

Now he's trying to tell us it's a "motorsport" one.

Strange that a "motorsport" Cavalier doesn't have the fabled "Red Top" already in, isn't it?

Oh, I get it, it's that goldie looking chain one!!!

'you knows it's true, clart'

I would have loved the GLC Chavalier, would have been 'wikkid, innit' around these parts.

LOL - we've all seen them. It's so amusing that these unfortunates think it makes the car look anything other than completely shit.

I had a tidy, standard M plate SRi (Ecotec), a couple of years ago... was actually quite a nice car, and very good on fuel considering the size etc - on a steady run, it would do getting on for 50mpg, yet was still quite quick when you wanted it to be.

there used to be a really nice GSi round my way and a nice black Turbo too, the GSI was owned by some chav that worked at PC world and he smashed into a volvo with it, drove it like a complete tosser as well! the turbo was driven by some guy a couple of roads away from me who looked in his 30's or so, was a damn nice looking cav turbo and you never saw him thrashing the s**te out of it, seen him in a dark red skyline about the place now :)

no the Motosport cavalier is a limited edition type run,

its a 1800 8v or a 2.5 V6 based on the cesaro spec,

has slightly more sri esque suspension than a stock cav, also has a rather natty interior too

so dont rip the pish when you dont know what your talking about :)

it clearly states on the log book Cavalier 1.8 motorsport :)

but motorsport it certainly aint :(

nothing that cant be fixed by a bit of cannibilisation of the nova :)

So it's a gutless 'special edition', then.

Hmmmm.

We'll believe that when we see it.

So did the Cavalier Antibes, but that still didn't stop it from being a nasty POS ;)

You know, I love special editions. Ford Escort Harrier (Mk V model) - actually, they were police fleet cars for CID, unwanted, so they stucka spoiler and sticker on 'em.

And who can forget the Vauxhall Victor ES.

Actually, most people did ;)

Richard

In news:g1MPd.672$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe3-win.ntli.net, Rob decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

so it's still not a Motorsport one.

which would make the SRi the nearest thing to a "motorsport" one due to having a different rear suspension layout from normal Cavaliers.

so, you can have normal s**te Cav suspension, or SRi s**te rear suspension. Which is yours?

this is the fundamental difference between you and I.

*I* know what I'm on about, whereas you're a chav with a poverty spec Cavalier.

HTH

Jpg please.

Pete, they do say 'motorsport' on the logbook, from the googling I've been doing.

However, it doesn't stop them being chavved up Merit spec. cars with a spoiler and alloys chucked at 'em.

Not very good my arse, they were fantastic in their day.

Not very good in what way? They're great engines, a little on the heavy side but very reliable and tuneable. Cosworth designed the cylinder head but they were fitted with a restrictive inlet manifold which limited the power. Change the fuel injection system for something less restrictive and you can get 200bhp+ from it without any other mods.

Well the red top aint goin in it

sold this morning to a man with a corsa from Newcastle:)

Now the plan is to just tidy it up a bit debadge and maybe fit a 2l 8v at some point. its clean anough with colour coded bumpers mirrors grill etc being a late model it has the new shape front end.

Basically a good scrub and drop it on the 15's it came with, should be a nice car

Now this, I don't understand... why not just go and buy a SRi or GSi, or even a V6, in the first place?

A lot less hassle, and easier to insure.

Hell, they're not even that dear these days...

So it's a cav with a few stickers the dealer chucked on then?

Well done you've got another shitbox :o)

Welcome to literally hours of trouble free motoring*

*motoring = driving in a line as we all know how good they are at going round corners.

Mason

Mason