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In what regards mrk? Fuel type doesn't affect performance if the power figures.match up :p

Agw: rolling start takes away the astra's main advantage, as you go faster weight matters less! From looking on vxr forums they need 340+ bhp to get into low 13s quarter miles, guys with identical tuning to mine have managed a 12.9 and many 13.0s
 
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Clio 182 with both cup packs and 42k on the clock. It's good fun :)
 
[TW]Fox;22462043 said:
Just.... Lol. Seriously? And you are happy with that?
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No, I wanted two people to fall in love with it and bid it up to £10k.

I was all set for changing car back in November I was offered £1300 for it. I held off due to a possible change in circumstances. £12k miles later I get £1250 so I see that as acceptable.

I sold a car privately once, I can't say I'm in a huge rush to do so again... And that one was perfect, this one wasn't. Friends of mine have sold cars only to have them come back with a group of mates because x,y and z is wrong with it and I want £500 back.

I'm not buying another car so trading it in wasn't an option. We buy any car quoted £900 some time ago and that is before they start their squeeze.

So there you have it. I've nothing more to add and don't want to spam up a photo thread with anymore comments. You'll just have to wait until I buy another car and post it in here before your next snide comment like you made when I posted up our Grande Punto.

What did you walk away with, after auction fees etc?
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£1160
 
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You need to come out in it again since I've got some new tyres for it agw, it grips HARD now even in first :D :D knocked .3 seconds off the 0-60 with new rubber and there's more in it I reckon.

5.6 prior to tuning with good tyres, 5.3 after with worn tyres, 5.0 with new rubber after tuning :) 30-70 in 3.87 seconds
 
rG-tom said:
You need to come out in it again since I've got some new tyres for it agw, it grips HARD now even in first :D :D knocked .3 seconds off the 0-60 with new rubber and there's more in it I reckon.

5.6 prior to tuning with good tyres, 5.3 after with worn tyres, 5.0 with new rubber after tuning :)
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If going 0.3 fast is that important then maybe you should have bought a and mapped a 335i?
 
Spamalot said:
If going 0.3 fast is that important then maybe you should have bought a and mapped a 335i?
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Surely if pace is all that is important i should have bought an m3 and supercharged that then?

I do 25k miles a year, 335D makes far more sense given it can return mid to high 40s on a run and struggle to get <30mpg from it, where as the 335i is more like low 30s on a run and average more like 20mpg from it. (personal experience of having done 3k miles in a 335i)
 
Also a mapped 335i with no supporting mods is absolutely minutely faster than a mapped 335d with no supporting mods, 335s only really open up when you start adding FMICs and Meth injection. Yes the 60 sprint is faster as it does it in 2nd vs the 335D needing first, but the quarter mile and track times as proven by I think it was evo are dead even.
 
rG-tom said:
Also a mapped 335i with no supporting mods is absolutely minutely faster than a mapped 335d with no supporting mods, 335s only really open up when you start adding FMICs and Meth injection. Yes the 60 sprint is faster as it does it in 2nd vs the 335D needing first, but the quarter mile and track times as proven by I think it was evo are dead even.
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But the 335i sounds awesome. The 335d does not.
 
rG-tom said:
Surely if pace is all that is important i should have bought an m3 and supercharged that then?

I do 25k miles a year, 335D makes far more sense given it can return mid to high 40s on a run and struggle to get <30mpg from it, where as the 335i is more like low 30s on a run and average more like 20mpg from it. (personal experience of having done 3k miles in a 335i)
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Is the 335i really that bad? I do about 30k a year in a z4 sDrive 35i and get on average about 35-38mpg. I can only manage to get <30 when properly going for it and even then it normally comes out at about 28.

Surprised the 3 series is so much worse on economy.
 
Basher said:
Is the 335i really that bad? I do about 30k a year in a z4 sDrive 35i and get on average about 35-38mpg. I can only manage to get <30 when properly going for it and even then it normally comes out at about 28.

Surprised the 3 series is so much worse on economy.
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It's not - only when a 335d owner is trying to justify his purchase does the 335i become some sort of 20mpg car against the 60mpg wonder that is the 335d ;)

The 335i is as near as makes no difference as economical as your Z4 SDrive35i, given they are mechanically very similar cars.

Rg's personal experience is unique as he drove that 335i so hard for those 3000 miles it's a miracle he didn't set new landspeed records. It was somebody elses hire car so he mercilessly thrashed the living death out of it every single day :p
 
it is, the pre-ED 335i auto averaged 20mpg being driven how i drive the 335d, which returns 31-32mpg on average.

I managed 13mpg from the 335i over a tank at an ocuk meet, and the lowest ive managed over the 335d driving similar is about 24mpg also at an ocuk meet. As fox says i did thrash the 335i, which is why the average over my 3k miles was more like 16-17mpg, but driving typically in stop start traffic and the odd booting was ~20-21mpg.

For comparison my lifetime e46 330i average was 24mpg.

Yes the newer ones are a lot more economical, but then again so are the newer 335ds.

I do prefer the 335i, dont get me wrong, but the real world 50% increase is worth it on my mileage when the only HUGE downside being the noise. I will probably swap for a 335i or z4 s35i when I stop doing stupid miles.

EDIT your z4 is the single twinscroll turbo (n55) vs the older TT engine (n54) too basher, and i presume yours is a manual? So not quite as mechanically identical to a torque converter auto n54 twin turbo 335i as fox would have you believe in his post above :p
 
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