First crash : /

Conanius · 2 Apr 2006 at 15:09

great advice said:
I can agree with you there, ive driven a Racing Puma and a Cooper S and have to say the Cooper S is in a different league. Although id look gayer than a meatball driving a Cooper i have to say its an excellent car for the cash.

Not driven the 182 myself but i know everyone rates it, you dont get many folk raving about Puma's in the same way Got a neighbour with a Clio Williams and id say thats a lot more fun handling wise than a Puma too, id also say its safe to assume the 182 handles a lot better than the williams.

got to be honest, the 182 was fantastic.. but imo it might be just too good, It never challenged me.. if you know what I mean? it was 'so' perfect, that corners just didnt exist !!!

Scottland · 2 Apr 2006 at 15:37

How do you rate the handling, amongst other things compared to the Celica 140, and Fabia vRS - out of interest?

great advice · 2 Apr 2006 at 15:45

Conanius said:
got to be honest, the 182 was fantastic.. but imo it might be just too good, It never challenged me.. if you know what I mean? it was 'so' perfect, that corners just didnt exist !!!

You obviously wasnt hitting the corners fast enough

its a FWD hot hatch, no matter how well it handles its not a 4WD/RWD jobbie with lots of power and posh traction control. No matter how good the handling is your gunna get a limit when it comes to corners - on any car. You just have to find the limit in order for it to challange you.

Having a racing background you should be able to make most cars a challange tbh all you gotta do is find its limit - thats when it starts to be fun

Conanius · 2 Apr 2006 at 17:56

great advice said:
You obviously wasnt hitting the corners fast enough its a FWD hot hatch, no matter how well it handles its not a 4WD/RWD jobbie with lots of power and posh traction control. No matter how good the handling is your gunna get a limit when it comes to corners - on any car. You just have to find the limit in order for it to challange you.

Having a racing background you should be able to make most cars a challange tbh all you gotta do is find its limit - thats when it starts to be fun

my point is, on public roads... its not a place to find it.. esp with the dealer in the passenger seat

twas bad enough bombing down the backroads at 100

Conanius · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:24

Scottland said:
How do you rate the handling, amongst other things compared to the Celica 140, and Fabia vRS - out of interest?

the fabia vrs test drive in honesty isnt a fair one, dealer kept commenting about my speed every time I pushed it as it was a brand new 5 miles on the clock car... seemed to handle ok though.. just seemed very stiff... but still with lots of roll

the celica 140 was good fun, but a bit.. lardy? the t sport sorted that out tho

Scottland · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:29

Cheers for that, I've test driven the Celica and Fabia, and much prefered the Celica. Hadn't considered the Puma before, and given what you've test driven in the past maybe I should take a peek at one.

Have fun when you get yours, dont forget to lavish us with lots of pics

clv101 · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:53

Scottland said:
Cheers for that, I've test driven the Celica and Fabia, and much prefered the Celica. Hadn't considered the Puma before, and given what you've test driven in the past maybe I should take a peek at one.

Have fun when you get yours, dont forget to lavish us with lots of pics

I really like the idea of the Celica TSport 190 as a replacement for my Faiba... the only problem is the economy, the Celica is officially 33mpg. A 100 mile cross country trip through Wales this morning in the Fabia with a passenger and weekend luggage returned 56mpg. No matter what car I eventually replace the Fabia with I'm not getting something that doubles my fuel bill.

Conanius · 2 Apr 2006 at 20:22

Scottland said:
Cheers for that, I've test driven the Celica and Fabia, and much prefered the Celica. Hadn't considered the Puma before, and given what you've test driven in the past maybe I should take a peek at one.

Have fun when you get yours, dont forget to lavish us with lots of pics

hehe will do, looking at your name I guess you arent local to chelt, else id take you for a spin round the local lanes

Try and get one of the 1.7 ones tho, 1.4's and 1.6's arent as good