A £40000 V6 Metro?

divine` said:
I dunno, if I was buying one, i'd be fully intending to take it rallying somewhere, not just stick it in a garage to waste away the rest of it's days.
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Ok, buy to drive on the road then.

For £40k though there are more competitive rally cars now.
 
I didn't mean competitive rallying, but it would be a crime to buy that car and not use it for what it was made for... but yes, not exactly a road car for your daily work trips.
 
Looks poor imo, for 40k I'd definatly get something else.
Never seen why you guy's like metro's, I consider it ( a normall metro) the same class of car as a (fiat) panda and stuff.
Even if it's a rare rally car with history, it still looks awfull.
I'd spend no more than 1500 € for it.
 
I remember the top gear special with the Ford Escort rally car against a new car (I believe under £10K) and the new one trumped it..the Ford was rolling all over the shop.
 
snowdog said:
Looks poor imo, for 40k I'd definatly get something else.
Never seen why you guy's like metro's, I consider it ( a normall metro) the same class of car as a (fiat) panda and stuff.
Even if it's a rare rally car with history, it still looks awfull.
I'd spend no more than 1500 € for it.
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"The competition car bore only a superficial resemblance to the production Metro"
 
badbob said:
I remember the top gear special with the Ford Escort rally car against a new car (I believe under £10K) and the new one trumped it..the Ford was rolling all over the shop.
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That was a pathetic comparism, the rally Escort clearly wasn't set up for that kind of track. If they had got an old circuit racing Mk1 Escort it would have killed the Focus it was up against (it was not under 10k at all).

I'm not sure if you're just trolling though.
 
snowdog said:
I consider it ( a normall metro) the same class of car as a (fiat) panda and stuff.
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Ummmmmmmmmm................. but it's not a normal metro.

At all.

It's like saying this is a normal Chevrolet Lumina :D

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Wicksta said:
I'm not sure if you're just trolling though.
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fanboy alert! So because we find it a ugly old clapped out rally car makes us "trolls" fact of the matter is £40,000 would get you a car that'll handle better than a previous world class rally car. And be more reliable, with warranty and available parts. A scooby or lancer for example.

Of course the Metro is unique and part of racing history....but I'd rather have a original 1960's Ford GT40.
 
badbob said:
A scooby or lancer for example.
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I'm a well known scooby "fanboy" and to be fair, those of us who love rallying and bought Imprezas and Lancers off the back of WRC success will no full well what heritage a 6R4 truly has. Minging or otherwise.
 
So many people are missing the point I think. Looks are subjective so there is simply no point trying to convince someone it looks nice. There is also little point debating the FACT that a modern rally derived Scooby or Evo would be a quicker rally car either, as there is no question they would.

But then Group B is from an era that many of the contributors to this forum wont know much about, and many of the contributors of this thread will have not seen in the flesh in their prime or even been born when they competed I would suggest. Most of the Group B cars were based around a production basis, or parts bin specials, it looks like a Metro because that is the brand Austin Rover wanted to associate with its rally program in the same way that Peugeot wanted to use the 205, Lancia the Delta and Audi the Quattro.

But they only made 200 of these things, they were designed for one thing and were never road cars for the masses, which Evo's and Scoobies are, as Group A is all about production with limited modifications. Back in the day Group B was immense and even though today the cars may look dated, may not appeal to people who have an 'image' of the Metro and may simply fail to capture the current generation, to call them chavved up or to compare them to what £40K would buy you today is to miss the point of the thing. Sure it looks odd, sure it has a crap interior but back in the day these things were worshiped to a level the Scooby and Evo could only dream of I promise you.

Most of you wont understand why I get all excited when I see a Mk2 Escort with Rally Arches and a BDA soundtrack, its simply a time and place thing and if you were not either in that place or at the right time you will miss the point of the thing completely. I remember seeing Ari Vaternan (spelling?) in a Mk2 Escort as a young lad at full chat in the forrests and imagine what an impression that leaves you with, just like Colin McRae in a Scooby.....or his dad in a 6R4!
 
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Stonedofmoo said:
Regarding the Metro housemaster, have you ever heard the phrase 'You should never meet your heroes'? ;)
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I'm also a lover of Group B and - at the risk or repeating a previous post - have been driven around a track in anger in a real ex group B works car. Of course it's rough around the edges, all competition cars are - but it's a snarling beast that got my adrenaline pumping like no other car I've been in.
So in this case meeting a hero turned out to be far more exhilarating than I could have hoped for.
 
Oh aye, theres no way any true petrol head wouldn't enjoy having a ride or drive in one! :)

..it's just simply thats a bit different from spending £40k to own one.
 
I did the Phil Price Rally School with a bunch of mates and we got to drive a Scooby and Mk2 Escorts all day, and the Escort was much more fun. Sideways all day, bloody wonderful stuff!
 
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