Mk2 golf Gti's

Strange how fondly they're remembered even though being realistic, they were a bit s**te..

Drove a 1l Pug 206 once. Going up Staxton Hill in 1st was enough to put me off anything under 1600cc forever.

I always loved my ones. Ok, they're not the best thing on the planet, but they look great, sound great, and if you get a decent one will go sideways anywhere.

More the fool then. Learn to drive.

Heehee.

I kicked a BMW 3-series Coupe (newish '05 reg one) all the way down the A7 today. I wouldn't be surprised, except they did appear to be making an effort (a couple of ill=considered attempts at overtaking cars in front), yet they held me up on the bends.

Not in the lightweight, nippy Sera. Not, even, in the "I drive it everyday and know it actually handles" Beetle. Definitely not in the Supra (the front calipers are sticking due to lack of use).

No.

I was driving the A-class.

I so wanted to pass the silly bugger so he could see the "A140" badges.

Richard

Or accept there is so such thing as a 1.0 206. My mate had a 1.1 as a courtesy car, it was too slow i concur, but there is no way it woulld need

1st for Staxton Hill, unless you failed to anticipate the fact there was a huge great hill in front of you and attacked at low speed....

*ding*

So what did I do wrong then?

WRONG.

I've gone up and down Staxton Hill in all manner of small engined cars and never had to drop to first. You must either weigh six hundred pounds or are doing something technically incorrect.

I can't comment because I wasn't there.

But to change your opinion of small engined cars because of one incident is a very narrow minded, blinkered approach and quite frankly I'm disappointed that a professional driver would be this way.

I'm not professional or so uk.r.d members keep telling me.

Perhaps the balance is better in the Vento version?

Possibly - it's got an extra 50kg or so over the back end. Never driven one though, so I can't say for sure.