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[merlin]

Fashion eh - turns water to wine.

Funny how fashion extends to cars - it's playing havok with the Subaru Impreza - they're just out of fashion atm and not selling, despite being simply brilliant cars. Yet at the same time it's making us beleive that Lada's, Skodas and basically any old tat were actually the business back in the day.

No, no - they weren't, they were sick sick jokes back then and just downright worthless now.

Still, without car fashion - how else could someone with a £200 budget pick up a trendy car.

 

[geiger]

Why did you remove the instantaneous fuel consumption read out from the trip computer... the Mk2 had one, were the accountants really that pushy for you to save so much money you had to remove a couple of lines of code in an IC?!

Ive heard of that being removed on other models for safety reasons, people trying to drive at 50mpg all the time and pulling onto the motorway doing 30


The 280bhp limit was down to Japanese gentlemens agreement I think, now abolished

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen's_agreement

 

[Adam_151]

blimey is there asbestos in them or something

It's mercury that sends you mad, asbestos just gives you cancer (and makes you flameproof )

 

[Berger]

Obviously this doesn't apply to proper RWD Sport Saloons like the Vauxhall Chevette.

Becuase we know from OcUK that any RWD car is automatically super cool, uber, and amazing to drive. It's quite a miracle really that some cars which were apparently really poor when brand new are suddenly awesome 20 years later, simply becuase of the drivetrain layout

The women just swoon over the sierra estate, they hear me coming from a mile off and gather in wait for me thanks to its awesome tractor engine.

 

[Moeks]

'Why didn't you put the V5 with automatic gearbox option in the Leon like you did the Toledo?' and 'Why did you put such utterly crap windscreen wipers on an otherwise good car?' oh and finally 'Why have you allowed a protozoan with an aesthetics disorder to design the new range of Seats in your stead ?'

 

[burns]

Do you genuinelly beleive that they 'decided' to go with RWD in the Chevvette?

Surely you don't think they sat down, designed the car and said Yup, we'll make it RWD, people like that?

It's RWD purely becuase around the time it was designed, everything was RWD. It's just the way it was. FWD was only starting to take off, and most manufacturers expertise and experience was in RWD.

What about the mini, and it's relations like the Austin A40? The Triumph 1500 or whatever it was called was FWD. To say everything was RWD is a bit over the top.

I know the chevette is not an amazing sports car. But if you don't think it involves the driver then it is quite clear you have never driven any car other than luxo-barges and derivative modern cars.

It IS involving to drive, it is also a very good starting point to turn into a better car with the aid of a new engine and some new dampers. It would also most likely be another boring shopping car were it not for the fact it was RWD which at least gives it interesting handling, near 50/50 weight distribution and means it is quite handy as a road rally car.

I was just trying to highlight some over the better points of my car having done the complaining about it's less good features, and yes it probably is RWD because that's what vauxhall/opel were used to doing at the time, but it happens to have suited me quite well.

It doesn't sound like a V8 though, more like a bag of nails atm.

 

[geiger]

Theres definetly something to be said for cutting out all the modern power assist on everything, its a lot cheaper to maintain also.
I think the Ford Mk1 Escort looks a lot better but anything that weighs so little with RWD has a lot better chance of being fun then most modern cars with all the regulations they have to suffer now.

 

[burns]

Yeah, depends what you want from a car really. Horses for courses really. I'm sure I'd hate the chevette if all I used it for was motorway cruising. But I don't.

 

[spaz]

Why did you decide to fit a coin holder to a British-bound car that can you can only fit euros in it.

Where's my 6th gear?!!?!

 

[Dandle]

Little pet-peeve here! The Lancer is a car in it's own right, after mid 90's they stopped bringing them into this country, but continued in other countries, and that is what the Evo is based on.

The Japanese Lancer is the same as the European Carisma(both very boring cars), they share the same Engines, chassis, suspension and interior. The Evo is a much modified Lancer(as its built in Japan) but Evo parts inc suspension can be fitted to any Carisma/S40 as some of the yanks already do to their Volvos and it all bolts straight on.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Unfortunately our car was crippled with the gearbox of satan because Honda didn't want it to wipe the floor with the B16 vti's (which it does completely wiith the teg box) due to the fact that the MB6 was a europe only model and furthermore they wanted to widen the gap between the integra and the MB6. Straight line wise there isn't a great performance difference between the MB6 (with a teg box) and the ITR DC2, in fact a few people have said they've been ahead of an ITR (with a teg box) for the first half of a 1/4 mile before the ITR came through and beat them top end.

I can only assume you havent raced a ITR then and just basing that on a post on Honda R when everyone knows the driver makes ahuge difference to how well a car gets off the line.

 

[The_Dark_Side]

The Japanese Lancer is the same as the European Carisma(both very boring cars), they share the same Engines, chassis, suspension and interior. The Evo is a much modified Lancer(as its built in Japan) but Evo parts inc suspension can be fitted to any Carisma/S40 as some of the yanks already do to their Volvos and it all bolts straight on.

are you being serious?
the entire drivetrain bolts straight into an S40/Charisma?
noooo.

 

[Dandle]

are you being serious?
the entire drivetrain bolts straight into an S40/Charisma?
noooo.

I didnt say the entire drive train did I. The front struts fit straight in and the rears do as well bar the hubs.

 

[The_Dark_Side]

I didnt say the entire drive train did I. The front struts fit straight in and the rears do as well bar the hubs.

i got the impression you meant the entire drivetrain...my mistake.
apart from the suspension components, what other Evo parts can be ported over?

 

[bmh.01]

Clio 1.6 16v:

What in the world possesed you to wedge the oil filter between the front of the block and the slam panel ? And why put it on the horizontal so it ****** oil everywhere when you undo it ?

 

[Firestar_3x]

1.6 16v, thought you had a 1.2 like in your sig!

 

[bmh.01]

Just picked it up yesterday, did oil change today and boy was it fun.
Only just updated my sig.

Other than that love the car to pieces, shifts well and makes a nice noise so i'm all for it.

 

[Dandle]

i got the impression you meant the entire drivetrain...my mistake.
apart from the suspension components, what other Evo parts can be ported over?

Turbo chargers from Evos are used by some guys on their 1.9Ts in the states as well as braking componants. I dont know how much is an exact swap on top of those but the Evo I to III is the same basic platform as the lancer/carisma and S40.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Just picked it up yesterday, did oil change today and boy was it fun.
Only just updated my sig.

Other than that love the car to pieces, shifts well and makes a nice noise so i'm all for it.

Cool, should be a huge upgrade over the 1.2 which is dog slow compaired to my other car, least its easy to drive.

 

[Kitchster_uk]

MX-5 1.8i:

Why did you sneak the power steering into my car? There was no need for this and it takes a little bit of learning you goit!!!

Why did it take you 15 years - F-I-F-T-E-E-N Y-E-A-R-S to work out it needed a 2 litre??? Wasn't it obvious???

Other than that, thank you for an incredibly good fun weekend car.