Garythesnail

I don't usually wander over here and don't know if this has been posted before but think it suits the thread.

Wise words

Would it be wrong to put a more modern engine in that? An 8 valve K series would suit that type of car if a bell housing / gearbox arrangement could be made to work.

For context, we've run three WRXs over the years with a measly 150bhp / tonne which would do 0-60 in 5.2s to 6.1s (they got heavier as the years went by...... as did I). I know the modern batch of fast cars hit 60 in 4 odd seconds but 150/T gives a properly fast car. Also used to enjoy the ability to do this about the imprezas. The 306 non turbo diesel I had in 1994 was perfectly safe then, as it would be now. But to answer the question posed.... Whatever a Citröen C15D has - as quick as an Aston Martin on a French back road.

Took a tiptronic 911 for a test drive about 2007and felt the same way. It wasn't as quick, comfortable or responsive as the 2002 Impreza WRX we drove down there. Unlike the Impreza, I'm reasonably sure that 911 still exists.😁

Obviously on the subject of Citroën.

A fettled Rover 400 will 'handle' very nearly as well as a Honda Integra Type R. ...and an Integra Type R can be improved with MGRover parts.

How do you block a member so that their posts can't be seen?

Oof!

Photoshopped by Kate

Bloody youngsters. I am old enough to both know who he is .... and take a lifetime to remember his name🤣

I think that's Robert Mitchum... the other bum-chin of a golden era .

He's not wrong....

Off topic but..... Being a child of the seventies I remember, after a cracking day out on the beach in Pembrey being sat in the family wagon, (a burgundy Morris Marina) little brother alongside in the back, Mum in the driver's seat when she asked "where did you two get this fluffy dice from .......... oh fuckin'ell get out of the back, we're in the wrong car!" Out we went, Mum locked the car with her car key and off we went to find our own burgundy Marina🤣.

Having direct experience of how an older L320 behaves when trying to go around a corner a little* bit too quickly, this struck a chord with me.

Now - I'd just get something quirky I liked the look of - something that made me smile - and look after it. If it broke - fix it and keep it going. Waxoyl every year.... even wash the bloody thing. No hybrid, no diesel. Estate body. Metallic goldy-beige Outback with lineartronic? Really like this 'Rebel Green' on Minis. Shame it looks bloody black most of the time. I reckon a Focus ST in this colour would make me smile every time I looked back at it. 1995...... did Rover ever make a 420 GSi Turbo in estate tourer flavour? I'd go for BRG, Tahiti blue or Nightfire red. Such a good looking car.

I know that Jag - used to look like this

See also Otyo the power-mad steering wheel from Wall-E

Good to learn that you're at least getting some kind of pleasure from it, Eddy. If I knew then what I (think I) know now, I wouldn't have had any Subarus, but any money saved by buying older, 6 or 8 cylinder saloons and FFRRs, would have been spent on fuel, maintenance and repairs instead.🙃 Keep on enjoying Handsome👍

This works well in a 1600kg Freelander and makes for relaxed wafting without feeling underpowered or slow. Can't imagine it's a simple transplant with all the electronic gubbins.

Colleagues at work in the late 80s and early nineties found Ford's audio system (Escort, Orion and Sierra) a pain as the rotary knob for the volume could be turned up to max vol when the vehicle was off without the keys in, giving a surprise when they jumped in at the end of the shift. I, however, found it to be highly amusing when the old codgers jumped out of their skin before effing and blinding. Shouldn't have let their windows wound down.

Repost in the 'Low cost, big liability' thread.

Son in law , who works for one of the national recovery services, when allocated a job to assist a Mercedes Vito van with DPD stickers was politley told to FRO by plod who were already on-scene. No tax, MOT, insurance and dodgy tyres. Prick was already in cuffs in the back of the plodmobile. Good.

I thought this was a good, rally-based Colin McRae / Richard Burns / Peter Solberg / Impreza comment until........ 🙈

My dumb brain didn't immediately think 'sliding door', just went straight for 'variable wheelbase'