Oh my god... the ultimate MG ZT!

Dogbreath said:
Someone I know quite well bought a brand new WRX and traded it in after 6 months for a brand new ZT 260 after taking a test drive in it. His opinion is that it is more of the drivers car than the Impreza ever could be. It certainly appears to handle exceptionaly well, and the sound of the V8 through the Xpower exhausts certainly shames the Impreza's "I'm an inline 4 running on 3 cylinders" exhaust note.
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Flat four (boxer).....its not a Nova! lol
 
Dr Who said:
An expert opinion on cars from a 16 year old...

Don't mean to sound cynical, but please, go get a licence and drive some cars daily on the road before your opinion is worthy of note...

:rolleyes:
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Mate, my opinion is more than worthey, and i can tell if a car is fast by sitting in it. Also i would consider myself a knowledgible person about cars, being brought up around building them and stuff. However, you are right in saying that i need to drive 1, but when dad floored it, it didnt go aswell as i expected at all.
 
Oracle said:
Flat four (boxer).....its not a Nova! lol
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I'm quite well aware it's a flat four. If you read my post I said the exhaust note sounds like an inline four running on three. To some it's the scooby "warble", to me it sounds like a misfiring old banger.
 
[huzeeee] said:
Mate, my opinion is more than worthey, and i can tell if a car is fast by sitting in it. Also i would consider myself a knowledgible person about cars, being brought up around building them and stuff. However, you are right in saying that i need to drive 1, but when dad floored it, it didnt go aswell as i expected at all.
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Well if your knowledge of cars is as good as your native tongue......

;)
 
Well yeah I suppose there is that one as well ;)

I can just imagine the face of a flash businessman in his brand spanking new M6... pushing it hard on the motorway when a Rover comes screaming past him :D :cool:
 
JRS said:
Uh....couple of things:
2) Having been to Longbridge, and seeing just how bad things were there (cars left in a car park with deep scratches that were just painted over without re-applying primer layers, wheels and panels left here and there, workers standing around on their mobiles not doing their job all day being some examples), I can see why they gained a reputation for quality control problems. My father did some risk-assessment work there - before he went, he'd considered a Rover 75. After the job, he wouldn't touch a Rover with a 40ft pole.
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Who's got a 40 ft pole:P
 
I was looking at these the other day.. got to be honest and say that its probably quite a good buy in Rover 75 guise, get some decent suspension that retains comfort as well as control, uprated brakes to cope with a supercharger conversion and you have one mental car thats actually bloody easy to use as a daily driver...

sorted.
 
geiger said:
If I had the money I might buy the BMW diesel engine one, chipped it might make some power
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Shame its a 4 cylinder though.

Imagine a Rover 75 with the 6 cylinder 3 litre BMW diesel.

What a Motorway machine THAT would be!
 
[TW]Fox said:
Actually it's a bit like putting Audi TT badges all over your Skoda Octavia 1.8T Elegance simply becuase both cars share the same engine.
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or like putting RSAP on a Mondy to make it look better than it is. :p

oh and thats a joke, before anyone takes it too serious. Tarted up ford looks better than tarted up 75 if you ask me. Still, not bad engine wise, for an old mans car that ZT.
 
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My friends dad was considering trading his ZT-260 in against a brand new Discovery, but sense has prevailed! He had a Disco to test drive for a day, and although he liked it, he couldn't bear to change his ZT for a lumbering barge so is spending his money on a supercharger conversion :D 50% more power should make it more interesting...
 
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[huzeeee] said:
Mate, my opinion is more than worthey, and i can tell if a car is fast by sitting in it. Also i would consider myself a knowledgible person about cars, being brought up around building them and stuff. However, you are right in saying that i need to drive 1, but when dad floored it, it didnt go aswell as i expected at all.
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yeah but also some larger cars do feel like that. hence a mini feels fast but really they are fkn slow, and bentlys are ubah fast but as james may said they just dont feel it.
 
Malachy said:
yeah but also some larger cars do feel like that. hence a mini feels fast but really they are fkn slow, and bentlys are ubah fast but as james may said they just dont feel it.
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Agreed! When I had a ride in a mates Rover 800 Vitesse, it didn't feel fast when he booted it, but when you looked at the speedo, you could see just how fast it was picking up!
 
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