Lucifer has entered the building!!!!

[Gibbo]

So will an S2000 with 'no torque'

Yup true!

I've owned one, the gearing and lightish weight of the car means it does not need vast amounts of torque to get moving. As the gearing gets plenty down to the tarmec or whatever the technical term is.

Though the Mustang is in a different league again plant your foot down in any gear 1st-4th from as little as 1000rpm and it just gets up and go.
Though 5th is pretty useless but its geared for 240mph (The car cannot do 240mph, aero-dynamics and engine power mean top-end is more like 170ish) and is merely an overdrive to get reasonable MPG on the motorway.

 

[JRS]

Removing the small issue of finance from the equation I think it would take a very strange person to both claim to be really into cars *and* say they would take a 1.4 litre Civic over a Mk5 Golf GTI.

And who says that they have to be 'into cars'?

I really don't get how it can be so hard to understand how some people, even those that are into cars, have different priorities when choosing one. And my priorities involve having a car that I can actually work on myself without needing a laptop and several gigabytes of software....

 

[Scrutinize]

Removing the small issue of finance from the equation I think it would take a very strange person to both claim to be really into cars *and* say they would take a 1.4 litre Civic over a Mk5 Golf GTI.

If they were both the same price then its a bit more of a no brainer but some people want low running costs, cheap insurance and quite simply would see no benefit to the Golf.

But mainly people choose their cars for the same reason as when I bought my 172. I could have had a Subaru STI, RX8, BMW 330 etc, but I chose the 172 because I liked it. Everyones tastes and requirements are different otherwise we would all buy the same clothes, cars, houses, food etc.

Its all about individuality.