The Grand Tour

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Diddums said:
Pure filth, I'd love one :cool:

It's one of those rare cars that could turn up to a show full of lambos and ferraris and still own the place.
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Yeah, love the old big Citroëns too. We used to have a CX when I was a kid, that thing was immense and looked like a spaceship when parked in the street next to the Austin 1100s and Maxis.
 
The 306 GTi-6/Rallye was superb. Much more civilised than the 205, bigger, so not as skittish, the 2.0i 16V even on a stock exhaust was epic sounding and went well, not to mention the work of art that was the 6 speed box and passive rear steer. So understated and could punch above its weight in terms of embarrassing more expensive machinery.

Mine was a 1999 Phase 3, China blue with working aircon! (I wrote an aircon guide on the owners forum back in the day as it was a known weak point)

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My dad used a GTi-6 as his run about. Great fun and great balance. My wife at the time had the 106 GTi and that was ace too, but very snappy when you lifted off. I nearly put it into a field heading cross county once and she lost it twice.
 
Housey said:
As do I. The 306 GTi doesn't get the praise it deserves these days, back when it was epic.
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I had a 1.6XS as a first car followed by an 8V 2.0XSI. I have always lusted after the GTI-6 or Rallye.

This was at a time when the French just made the best Hot Hatches. Pretty much everyone at sixth form and college lusted after a hot Citroen/Peugeot at the time and you were a nobody if you didn't have one.

I think at one time my batch of friends had the whole lot. AX GT, Renault 5 Turbo, Saxo VTS, 106 Gti, Xsara VTS and 306 Gti-6.

I still remember when my friends brother got a 1.9 205 Gti with less than 50k for £1500. We were all in awe when he opened the garage and showed us for the first time.
 
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