Soldato
It absolutely isn't. Other than the Civic Type R EK9 the 172 Cup was the best of the proper hot hatches.
Purchased a small French lightweight hot hatch - Renault Clio 172 Cup & NOW 182 Trophy
It absolutely isn't. Other than the Civic Type R EK9 the 172 Cup was the best of the proper hot hatches.
Soldato
What car would that be? Interested as i'm looking to change my heavy 1500+kg Accord for something that weighs less than a ton for both good fuel economy and good performance and i'm struggling to find good contenders that hits that criteria.
Same, sold mine for £1k, can't find any for that price. Was a bit dumb, but I needed it gone and it saved me money at the time. I would've needed a hire car etc, the guy buying agreed to buy it the hour I left the country. But yeah I should've garaged it.
I sold mind for 2k.
Unfortunately for the new owner its engine went pop a few months later
I've checked the MOTs on mine, past 5 years it's had minors only. Now on 140k+ too!
Typical French, not broken down once
Or if you want the rarity and the majority of the 'purity' but with AC you could find one of the few 172 Cups with the climate option, believe it came in briefly when they started offering them in silver as well as the blue.
Can't be many of those about.
Can't be many of those about.
Caporegime
Suzuki Ignis Sport but the later Swift Sports are pretty much in the same vein. We have had it for 6 years now and has never let us down. Drives like an old 205 GTi (I once had a brown trouser moment with snap oversteer many years ago) but has ice cool aircon and will do 40MPG no matter how much I thrash it. Even stuck a decent headunit in it so does all the mod cons one needs.
Soldato
Funny you mention Suzuki, I was looking at the new Swift Sport this morning, figures sound promising, 1.4 turbo, weigh less than a ton (975kg), 140 bhp 170 ft-lb, 0-60 less than 8 seconds, sounds like a promising combonation of performance and mpg.....But i'm looking at around the £4k mark haha, Best i've found so far is a Twingo 1.2Tce with a remap at around 130bhp, again weigh less than a ton so a promising car for not a lot of money but i'm still researching lightweight cars that fit my criteria but i'm struggling to find better haha.
Get a mk2 swift sport, 136bhp and well in your price range
Soldato
Don't sell it
Caporegime
For 4K you can buy a proper hot hatch, not a luke warm econobox.
Tidy FN2 Type R easy. EP3 Premier Edition and a grands change easy. Etc.
Caporegime
It really depends if you want that in a daily. An EP3 will not do 40MPG. There is more to a fun daily than simply acceleration.
Yeah I know, but if you read the quote I was replying to you will see OP was discussing a new swift sport specs but £4k budget.
Soldato
You can just about get into a third-gen Swift Sport for £4k, although perhaps more like £4.5k – and one of those is far better than an EP3 and more entertaining than an FN2. Substantially lighter than either, too.
A much newer option in many cases as well, and far less expensive to run. Easy to nudge 45mpg out of one.
Not driven a second-gen Swift Sport, which are the far cheaper ones, but I imagine it's a similar story.
Have you got a buyer for that? If not what are you after for it?
Caporegime
He sold it to a friend I believe
That's a shame, would have had that off him if the price was right. Cheers!
So its time to now try what people argue as potentially the best hot hatch of all time - the 182 Trophy
Will either get it transported to me or aim to go collect it in coming days.
So will now own what is regarded as two of the best hot hatches of all time.
Will either get it transported to me or aim to go collect it in coming days.
So will now own what is regarded as two of the best hot hatches of all time.
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