Someone stop me doing something _really_ stupid......

They're *the* ugliest car ever made.

HTH.

Not good enough.

They're no beauty, granted, but they do what they need to do.

Give me a decent reason why in the name of christ you'd even consider it!

-- Chet

HF Integrale 16v - Gettin there!1993 Renault 19 16v - Subtle extras like a T3 - But soon a fancy T28!1998 Audi A4 - I don't know why, but i did.

Steve, do us all a favour and get someone nearby to kick you in the nuts. (c:

Or, we'll just take it that this, in spite of what sometimes seems to be 90% of what you spout on uk.rec.cars.* means you are in fact a Fordophile and your particularly nasty personal little fetish is the CVH. The pinnacle of non-wop engineering.

I found this scrawled on the wall in the gents toilets at my local scandinavian frozen food shop:

"SteveH Ford"

Eh? You like it like that?

Douglas

ROFL

-- Chet

HF Integrale 16v - Gettin there!1993 Renault 19 16v - Subtle extras like a T3 - But soon a fancy T28!1998 Audi A4 - I don't know why, but i did.

Cos they're bloody horrific and rank alongside the MG with the rubber bumper in the lower levels of 80's crassness.

If you're going to get a Scim, get a proper one but make sure that there aren't cracks on the wheelarches or that the wheelarches flex as its a sign that the strengthening plates in the body have corroded.

people will think you are weird though ;)

Bigus

No, buy it.

They already do - he drives an Alfa Romeo...

Driving one isn't too bad.

Sticking up for the brand through thick and thin is borderline admirable.

Hating Fords, especially CVHs, denying all positive evidence, hmm.

Picking a Nissan Primera, well...

Then wanting to buy something with a Ford CVH donk...?

Bwahaha.

Which is the best handling car of it's size and era.

Yes, the CVH is shit. It's also cheap, available, easy to fix and easy to mod.

It also happens to work very well in something as small and light as a Scimitar SS1.

When you've owned a few decent cars then I might listen to your opinion, but, until that day, I'll take it with a pinch of salt. Remember, the best car you've ever owned was an oil burning Mondeo. If that's the best you can do.....

It is a very good reason when the good ones have a Nissan turbo. Never buy the low end poverty model.

-- Peter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!

Sure - go ahead, buy one. But not that one. Get a facelift model - it's much less ugly.

Okay so you've said that you hated every moment behind the Primera and how you longed to get behind a better handling Alfa, recently you've said that the Primera wasn't that bad, now you're saying it was the best handling car of the size and era?

Owning or driving? Does it matter that I've personally owned a huge collection of vehicles or not? Or that I've helped assemble and run a fleet with all sorts of car in there?

As we've long discussed, what I (now we) decide to own and run isn't necessarily the best car in the world because we have to touch base with the real world and compromise what two people want.

You own three cars, proudly displayed in a signature, but the Golf doesn't work, heh. Sorry, still doesn't work.

Cheap to buy and run, cheap to tune and tweak, reasonably quick, rear wheel drive with reasonably good handling - great buy for a cheap, fun runabout/track toy. Never going to be truly fast but well fast enough to have some proper fun and if you stuff it, will you care *that* much ? I believe the owners club is also pretty well organised and a lot of them are into sprinting and racing of some form or another.

The only thing that worries me is that fact that there's no roll over cage, or even a bar, at the rear. I'd get one made for it pretty quick if I bought it.