Fastest you can go for 8k?
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*** - if acceleration is the only good thing about a particular car you will tire of it quickly. There comes a point when the acceleration of ANY car you own becomes simply normal rather than amazing - you get used to it and your standard for acceptable acceleration aligns itself with the performance your car offers. Then you get bored if the only thing the car did well was accelerate quickly.
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What Car do you have at the moment? I think it should give a good insight of what's a good upgrade on the performance front.
I'd go for fun over speed, there's only so much speed that you can use on the road without seriously compromising your licence.
How about an Integra or an MX5, both fun cars that will entertain you every time you drive them
How about an Integra or an MX5, both fun cars that will entertain you every time you drive them
Get something cheap with a big turbo then. You can pootle around off boost when you can't be bothered but still hoon around in the power band when you want to put a smile on your face.
If you can find a good example, Fiat 20VT's are still huge fun, and stupidly cheap.
What on earth is on the door in pic No. 6
What on earth is on the door in pic No. 6
One of those if your a speeder your a child killer adverts
What on earth is on the door in pic No. 6
Hehe you have sharp eyes
Dont know looks like some sort of speeding advert to me.
Why don't you hold on and wait till you can afford the insurance costs of a scoob or Evo? Or get an everyday car to pile on the miles and a scoob for weekend fun, which is what i'll do once the insurance is more reasonable for me.
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A '93 onwards Corvette C4 will do nigh on 180MPH for well under 8k and can be used daily, return up to 30 to the gallon, is cheap to insure and cheap to service.
Easy to modify too and the potential is pretty unlimited - everything's off the shelf for these - twin turbos, superchargers, you name it.....
Won't fall apart like TVRs and the like, either.
Next question.....
Everything else is just a toy
Easy to modify too and the potential is pretty unlimited - everything's off the shelf for these - twin turbos, superchargers, you name it.....
Won't fall apart like TVRs and the like, either.
Next question.....
Everything else is just a toy
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[TW]Fox;11992060 said:
To be honest, servicing prices aren't that bad. Its just how often they are.
These are the prices from one of the better Mitsu tuners out there.
Service /A /B /A /C /D /B /A /C /A /E
Miles 4500 9000 13,500 18,000 22,500 27,000 31,500 36,000 40,500 45,000
or Months /6 /12 /18 /24 /30 /36 /42 /48 /54 /60
Labour(hrs) 1.5hrs 2hrs 1.5 hrs 3 hrs 3.5 hrs 2 hrs 1.5 hrs 3 hours 1.5 hrs 7 hrs
Price £103.30 £147.20 £103.30 £256.25 £186.34 £147.20 £103.30 £256.25 £103.30 £417.74
The Mitsu main dealers aren't that bad either.
Lovely but not fast - Fiat Stilo 1.6
Aren't the panels on these stupidly weak/soft. My dad works in a bodyshop and he said you can more or less write one of these off with your thumb.