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  1. BASE spec. That is brilliant. I love the fact Ford even took the black plastic inserts out of the bumpers 😄, the shame of it. The blue Polo C is spectacularly grim, this is some proper poverty spec action going on here!
  2. I’m still getting my head around the seat needing an ECU! I guess this is due to memory settings etc. I would be planning a trip to Northern France to obtain a manual seat from a breakers at this point. Obviously don’t know where you are, but if you’re in Southern England it’s worth a thought.
  3. Christ, now that is grim. Alloy wheels though - is ‘Life’ higher than ‘Club’? My friend has a proper basic 2010 Corsa D, I think that is an ‘S’, which I had thought was just a VW thing.
  4. It’s sad that £40k gets you so little these days. I would have plumped for the Alfa Romeo Stelvio but these are way over £50k, and I’m not sure you can get a nice Guilia for under £40k either. Obviously I am ignoring the 250k mileage thing as well! In the real world I will play it safe and go for a Lexus ES. I assume you could buy a BMW 325 Coupe in 1995 for £25k? If not then maybe a Jap luxury coupe like a Honda Prelude or Mazda Mx6.
  5. The Gamma Coupe is a beautiful car but I think the Berlina has more character. Imagine one in black on its home turf circa 1980 - you wouldn’t know whether it would be transporting an aristocrat, cardinal or Mafia don!
  6. The colour is Maritime Blue, should be an easy match for any half decent paint place to make up. You might even find NOS cans in an old school motor factors. I wouldn’t bother with Hammerite, it’s not that much cheaper than a matched can.
  7. It’s on a private plate, @LightBulbFun tracked it down. R3 DGL.
  8. Check out the C4 wiki page, there were at three different designs of first gen C4 saloons, including two China only models, one of which looks very different from the original car:
  9. My Bumper Book of BMC says 86mph, for the A60 based one with the wider track. Twin carbs and 1622cc POWER. If he meant the 1300, then a MkII with 70bhp - a claimed 97mph - so I suppose with speedo error…. I’d have more confidence in the directional stability of an ADO16, still wouldn’t take my hands off the wheel at top speed, even when new…
  10. This is definitely fact for @beko1987! Don’t get him on his Dysons’ personalities…..
  11. I call bullshit on that. I would have replied stating both his beloved ‘MG’s were ponced-up Austins and one was designed by a Greek at that.
  12. Always astounds me, the way the gearlever connects to the box over the top of the engine! Interesting stuff about all the different vehicles available to the disabled - and all the ones they tested and discounted.
  13. The 1100 is absolutely lovely. I have a factory manual for one of these kicking about somewhere,I will dig it out for you. You should do a back to back comparison test with the Toledo!
  14. In a way this cheers me, he may have massively overpaid for it new but at least he’s had coming up to 13 years value out of it. Better that than buying a new Astra or Megane on PCP every three years and spending a total of 45k by now.
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