New car thread.

its a 306 GTI-6 with a different (gold ? :D) dress on.

the 306 GTI-6 was hailed as one of the best handling hot hatches of the 90s. The xsara was almost identical and was the insiders choice as not many know they are the same as the GTI.

Its a 2.0 Four with 165bhp iirc. same as found in the GTI-6, albeit with a 5 speed box, the 306 had a 6 speed box.
 
I remember there was a thread a while back about clio 182 v Xsara VTS - the idea being the Xsara was super cheap. A quick look around shows plenty of tidy 2002 cars with low mileage for circa 2k - so I'm just wondering if there's something special going on here

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif.../page/1/radius/1501/postcode/ub67ed?logcode=p

Seems you're right.

That one is an 04, from a trader with 40,000 miles with 1 owner from new.

For £4k, those better be genuine OZ Superleggeras'(?) and have a turbo underneath the bonnet.

EDIT: wait, don't think they are OZ's. What are the alloys?
 
That actually looks really tidy, what is the interior trim like?

The interior is like this, minus the WRC badge on the glovebox, looks a bit odd in the photograph. The seats are nice and comfy infact! White dials will be going.

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They are almost the same as the 306 GTI-6 yes. Same engine (167bhp) but come with a 5 speed gearbox which is better than the 6 speed imo its still a short gearbox, and 21mm rear torsion bars which are stiffer, the GTI-6 has 20's.

They are Speedline Turini's as Mr LOL said, missing one centre cap, so took the other side off to match, will get some off ebay cheap enough.
 
Come on, tell us what's so special that it's like the MOST EXPENSIVE XSARA IN TEH WORLD!?

Does it come with a free Sébastien Loeb?
 
The wheels are Speedline Turinis. And the car features a rotrex supercharger :)

Nice, lets just hope it doesn't get chronic electric failure like my VTS and be rendered useless on your drive :(
 
The wheels are Speedline Turinis. And the car features a rotrex supercharger :)

Nice, lets just hope it doesn't get chronic electric failure like my VTS and be rendered useless on your drive :(

It came with a free S.Loeb. :D

Boooo! Spoilsport!

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Should be 260bhp and 220lb/ft.

Plans are to fit an additional oil cooler, renaultsport brembos (already have the calipers), change the IC piping for some mandrel bent stuff.

Hoon the cack out of it at Anglesey in August. :D
 
Immense!

All that work but a standard exhaust?

No LSD yet.

My wallet needs time to recover from being royally raped. I had planned to spend around £2000-2500, so doubling my original budget leaves not much in the pot!

Its only a standard backbox, decat and miltek centre. Not sure how much power if any is being sapped by having the standard backbox on, but its nice and quiet keeping it subtle and saving my hearing on the motorway!

No bad points to speak of, you can pootle around easily enough, its not like an old school turbo where you have nothing, nothing, boost. More like a larger capacity n/a, lovely and smooth with a bit of a kick when it comes on cam at 4.5k rpm ish.

Oh and its fast, but you dont notice it so much due to the power delivery.

Brakes need some working on, have air in the system I think as they are not as sharp as my 306 GTI-6's were.

Will try to get it out and then work on getting the Renaultsport calipers to fit. People have already fitted them to the 306, but I dont want to pay £300 for a fitting kit of an adaptor and bells and then £250 for some rotors. Ill use a 1 piece off the shelf disc and some adaptors that will cost me <£200 but will weigh a couple of KG more.

There are a lot of things I want to do to the car, but im not exactly flush with cash, and the majority of the things left to do involve lots of it! Will just take my time and develop the car over a period of years rather than months.
 
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