OT: WOOHOO

Hehe, thought you'd like that one.

Not much longer, looks quite a bit wider tho. It certainly *feels* big. I'm currently looking for a new car anyway, so I have actually been looking at them since I found out they were RWD. Always thought they were front drive for some reason.

Too little car for too much money.

I paid £4.5k for an R plate (3 year old at the time) 620ti 3 years ago, one of my bosses bought a *J* plate 3 series for the same amount a few months after. The Rover looks better, drives better, drives faster, is quieter, far better spec'ed and don't even get me started on how crap the Beemer's interior is...

Both my present cars are RWD.

Well, RWD have massive handling advantages, simply because you steer with one pair of tyres and accelerate with the other.

That's why all formula one cars are RWD.

It's like having a mid-engined car, you can say your front engined car is just fine too, but only because you haven't realised there is a difference. Still, no reason for you to be unhappy with FWD, and it is certainly true that they're

I don't greatly care - a car is a car. I've had several of both types. Thing is, if you have a choice between having a Ferrari for the day or a Peugeot, would you really prefer the Pug on account that it was front drive? I don't think so. HST, without having experience of RWD you would find the Ferrari a handful, especially if you were to encounter a greasy road surface - while the Pug would be reasonably easy to deal with over the same roads.

I've driven a P reg 2.5 V6 and its very nice and smooth, but it didnt feel particularly quick. I understand i only had the mediocre V6 though. Twas very comfortbale, and felt 'nice'. Handling i suppose to be top notch too, but i didnt really get chance to test that :(

far enough, dont think i go for any of the later beemers either. E30s are the way to go, but i guess you dont want something that old

controllable

I PROPER pissed myself :) Just LOOK at how clearly s**te it is :) It just made me a laugh a lot :)

Yep.

BUT, the point is that FWD cars handle just fine - even with the "one pair of tyres doing everything" defecit.

My *road* car copes just fine with it's 200bhp through the front wheels. It doesn't NEED to be RWD.

No, you're missing the point. I'm not saying FWD is better - I agree with you that from a driver's point of view, RWD is better. My point, is that I don't care :)

Anyhow, once you get over 200bhp, FWD stops being an option.

I've owned two "early 90s Pug with lots of electrical gubbins" - both 405s. I closely know of two more "early 90s Pug with lots of electrical gubbins" - one 405 and one 106.

All four had excellent electrics - I can't think of anything busting on any of them ! In my experience, Pug electrics are very good. Infact, the only things I can think of busting on them, are the usual little things like Starter Motors, Alternators, etc.

Rubbish :)

Rear windows heaters tend to go awry.....and the heater in general, and the dipped beam light on the dash started flickering, so i gave it a good belt, that cured it :)

omega's are lovely esp the last run, they are very comfortable and the big ones are pretty quick, good chassis can take a lot more power (think holden), they arent that big imo.