MGFs...

The calculations for working out top speed are affected by it, so he'd be well within his right to 'suggest' it.

Fair enough it does only make a gnats todger of a difference tho :)

Overpriced because of what it is - it appeals to the style freaks, it appeals to the handling freaks. I notice the cooper S is now available with a proper 6 spd torque converter auto - probably the same as the auto in some bigger BMWs and therefore capable of serious power / torque upgrades...

I would happily own a mini

Given that the tyres will be slippy-sliding around due to their teflon tread, he's hardly likely to notice the handling.

Besides, we know from his economy figures that he drives like a nun, so what he'd know about throwing a warm hatch down a twisty road I don't know.

Was this /his/ car we're talking about tho, and actually had hard tyres, or just one he happened to have access to ?

He's got them fitted to the heap of chavved up s**te Ka, ISTR.

So just a completely irrelevant piece of gossip then, as I suspected.

OK, they're not on there now, but he had Firestone 'Fuel Savers' on it at one point.

Says it all, really.

It's better than anything *anybody* else has offered in that segment in living memory though.

Far, far better than the equivalent Golfs.

I just found the Focus nasty. Poor driving position, crap interior design and trim. Couldn't get comfortable in it at all, and the 1.6 engine sucked.

Guilty as charged.

The 1.8 sucks donkey dick as well.

Fuck me..... we agree on something ;-)

Lets be brutally honest, the 2.0 isn't exactly stonking either...

1.6 is OK, but the 1.8 or 2.0 are vastly more flexible. Trim is cheap but then what isn't now that comes from a mainstream brand?

New one gets the 2.5T from Volvo - you gonna say that sucks too?

in news: snipped-for-privacy@karoo.co.uk, "Tim S Kemp" slurred :

No, he's right. The 1.6 Sucks. It's the weediest thing I've driven in years, and gets coarse when revved.

in news: snipped-for-privacy@karoo.co.uk, "Tim S Kemp" slurred :

Really? I assume it'll be the LPT one? That should be pretty sweet.

in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, "DanTXD" slurred :

Bah. I'm a mere amateur geek - for Dervy it's a life's work :)

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No, it blows. ;p

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I might - does it suck? And are you sure? That seems a bit of a good move, not something Ford should have thought of...