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Yeah, engine of the year iirc? Wish I'd gone for that tatty old Bimmer instead, just so I could say I owned one
.Yet another fail thread... replacement cheapskate car!
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Yeah, engine of the year iirc? Wish I'd gone for that tatty old Bimmer instead, just so I could say I owned one
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Yeah, engine of the year iirc? Wish I'd gone for that tatty old Bimmer instead, just so I could say I owned one
Yea, in the 1-litre to 1.4-litre category. What a category!
Amusingly, 4 of the next 5 categories in the Engine of the Year contest have been won this time by.... your favourite brand. BMW.
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Yeah, engine of the year iirc? Wish I'd gone for that tatty old Bimmer instead, just so I could say I owned one
Some of us would rather spend under £1k on a car that works just as well as one that costs well over that. No point trying to dig at my car, it's a piece of crap, I know that, in fact today I just hit mileage yours will probably never see as it'll fall apart/get scrapped before then....
And yes, I realise that is not very many miles to be honest.
Point is though, your dig at what Howard drives (mostly a Ford actually) was completely pointless (especially as an MX-5 is seen to be one of the best cheap little roadsters available), some of us are actually interested in cars, others, like yourself, just buy them as a mode of transport. Both are totally fine, I'd not have a 1.4 Golf personally as it's a boring little hatchback, but then I'm more interested in larger, more powerful and more interesting cars.
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As far as i can see there are several categories.
The Capacity Classes, and some others:
Green Engine of the Year
Performance Engine of the Year
Best New Engine of the Year
and:
International Engine of the year
Which was won by ...
http://www.ukipme.com/engineoftheyear/winners_10/winner.html
The Volkswagen 1.4 TSI
for the 2nd year running.
So as far as i can see, he's right ?
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My car is interesting! It's a 40mpg petrol that develops 160PS with only 1400ccs.
Janesy B's 1.4 is outgunned by my bicycle to put it in perspective.
Janesy B's 1.4 is outgunned by my bicycle to put it in perspective.
That's only interesting if you are called Geoffrey, drink stout and own a beard.
My car is faster than a 1.6 Audi A3 S-Line to 60, so nerrrr.
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No, it's a generic hatch with a 1.4L engine, it's not a brilliant motorway cruiser like a 5 series, or a backlane chuckable toy like a Clio 192 or whatever the latest one is.
The 1.4 TSI is a technical delight for beardy boffins
The rest of us would far rather have a car with the BMW 4.0 V8 or the AMG 6.2 V8 that also featured in this years awards.
My mate has the 1.4 TSI in his New Fabia VRS, despite the fact its not that fast, he still thinks it a veritable rocket ship ?
The rest of us would far rather have a car with the BMW 4.0 V8 or the AMG 6.2 V8 that also featured in this years awards.
My mate has the 1.4 TSI in his New Fabia VRS, despite the fact its not that fast, he still thinks it a veritable rocket ship ?
Interesting to members of the local bowls club and automotive engineers. It's the kind of car bought by people who are hung up on those figures which what makes it so yawntastic.
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Ok so I'm a boring old fart! But my Golf does a job.
Even with petrol at 130ppl all you capacity whores are still calling my frugal hatchback crap. I think it gives me the best of both worlds...fast enough, efficient enough, comfy enough, loads of grip, fine the steering is dead...but 90% of my time is spent at 50mph plodding, to work or going to Tesco.
Given that neither of us either commute on motorways or are 17 year old boys, what should I have bought?!
Fact is Howard rips into my 1.4, when he has a massive 200ccs more capacity than me and one less turbocharger. Not only that, he has
A MAZDA
So nerr.
I don't think his cost about £17,000 though
Check out Autotrader, I could practically still sell it for that.
I think I'll do a 10k mile review actually and bump my original thread, should be fun
.The 1.4 TSI is a technical delight for beardy boffins
The rest of us would far rather have a car with the BMW 4.0 V8 or the AMG 6.2 V8 that also featured in this years awards.
My mate has the 1.4 TSI in his New Fabia VRS, despite the fact its not that fast, he still thinks it a veritable rocket ship ?
Not a rocketship but sub 8s 0-60 is hardly terrible. Just how fast do you need to go? As interesting as the V8s etc. might be, over the life of this car it'll cost relatively little to run compared to those. Those large engines will be old news and old tech soon, like it or not. The day of electric is upon us
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I don't care what fuel costs me and 30mpg on my 12mile commute to and from work in my poxy 1.9 is totally fine for me.
Given that neither of us either commute on motorways or are 17 year old boys, what should I have bought?!
Fact is Howard rips into my 1.4, when he has a massive 200ccs more capacity than me and one less turbocharger. Not only that, he has
A MAZDA
So nerr.
I think I'll do a 10k mile review actually and bump my original thread, should be fun
WHAT is wrong with a reliable decent make of car? Really? Also as I previously stated, he commutes in a Mondeo, not a 1.6 SUPERcharged roadster. So how does your argument there work?
I also have a Mondeo with no turbochargers, that would tear your Golf a new one, in most respects. But oh no, it doesn't get 40MPG. Boo hoo, it costed about ten grand less.
You don't half bring this stuff on yourself
Don't think Ford had much to do with the early MX-5's which is a good thing imo, Mazdas were made to be bullet proof back then, which isn't quite the case now. And any MX-5 > Golf all day long.
What a crappy environment obsessed world we live in when an engine like that can 'beat' a V8 or a twin turbo inline six to an award
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What?
Howard owns an MX-5 that is supercharged, this is his fun car. He also owns a Mondeo ST220, this is his every day car. Not sure how you worked that out to be Ford working on the 90's MX-5.
What?
Howard owns an MX-5 that is supercharged, this is his fun car. He also owns a Mondeo ST220, this is his every day car. Not sure how you worked that out to be Ford working on the 90's MX-5.
Ah didn't realise Howard has an ST220 now.
Saw RobbieG slagging off the 5 and thought you were referring to that when you said 'mostly Ford'. My mistake.