Show Us Your Motors!

[danza]

It's unfortunately the Vector 1.8t (2.0l low pressure turbo with 147BHP), so is a bit slow, but it's not a bad car TBH. All of the 2.0t (175BHP) cars I viewed were sheds.

Loving having the top down at every sensible opportunity, and the heaters are epic when in roof-down mode and it's fine down to 12°C and below with a jumper and no bobble hat with them on full blast. Does get a bit chilly over 60 though...

 

[Maccapacca]

They did make the best looking convertible.

 

[geekman]

I'd be perfectly happy with 147BHP in a car like that tbh. Would be a great car if you wanted something to take on your summer holidays that didn't cost a fortune.

 

[danza]

Cheers guys. My thinking was what it lacks in performance, it makes up by being a convertible and about 7mpg better than my Peugeot in day-to-day use.

I test drove a C70 T5 which felt sluggish for 250BHP and had even worse scuttle shake than the mk1 9-3 convertible. All Volvos I saw had terribly cracked leather upholstery, too. The mk2 9-3 has very little scuttle shake, and is so much better to drive as a result. Couldn't get past the dash of the Astra so didn't bother looking at them with any intent.

 

[Westyfield2]

We had a couple of Saabs as pool cars at work. They were great. Best seats ever!

I quite fancy getting one of the 'new' 9-5 2.8Ts they made just before winding up.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I quite fancy getting one of the 'new' 9-5 2.8Ts they made just before winding up.

Worst downgrade ever. Stick with what you've got, they went under for a reason!

 

[Stormster]

New tyres and (I'm prepared for the epic hate) my black wheels back on for summer.

 

[Duke]

Black wheels look fine imo, never been a fan of the Barryboy wind deflectors or magic trees though (on any car)

 

[Jumper118]

Black wheels look fine imo, never been a fan of the Barryboy wind deflectors or magic trees though (on any car)

+1 i like black or grey wheels but not wind defectors, they remind me of those awful japanese tall thin things that look like a people carrier thats been cut in half.

 

[Stormster]

Cheers guys They do actually work as intended on the Fiesta, someone nicked just ONE of them not long ago so I replaced them with a new pair, being boring silver I decided to keep them to try and break up the colour a bit. Black wheels wouldn't have been my first choice but the last owner had them powdercoated and they're mint condition so I put some cheap wheels on over winter after sticking my Type R in a kerb last winter. Shame we only had half an hour of snow this year!

Just need to sort the nasty grey bumper plastics next, Ford manage to use black plastics from the window line and above and grey below, awesome lol.

I've got a Jelly Belly to replace the Magic Tree

 

[Rybo89]

Looks good!

Get rid of the chavvy deflectors and get the plastics painted and it'll look sorted!

Mind you i can't really say anything with the things i did with my old fiesta.

edit: this was meant to be in the fiesta thread... Doh....

 

[Stormster]

I posted the pics in both to confuse you I like how the deflectors actually work, not just looks, but we'll see

Plastics are pretty much a definite though, gonna go satin black I think rather than gloss

 

[Maccapacca]

 

[Aeleys]

Black wheels look fine imo, never been a fan of the Barryboy wind deflectors or magic trees though (on any car)

This!

and LOL @ ^

 

[kieranv]

 

[dacads]

Almera GTI, don't see many of those about

 

[kieranv]

That's because they're all rusted back into the earth

 

[Jumper118]

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I tried that in my alto once. It didn't go very well and i had to get towed out. :(

 

[Hellcat]

In the olden days I would say 56k'ers - don't even bother clicking!

 

[geekman]

Is that the 2.4 JTDM?