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cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

cort16

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Yeah, but the way I understand it, he wants to offset all the power by wasting time with shifting himself.

I find your motor quite interesting, but how good/bad is it really?

 

There's a few bits of bubbling here and there but it's solid underneath. Good history and looks to have been well looked after. It also has a really nice stainless exhaust on it.

When I got it the replacement panels had different coloured coach lines (painted on), which made the panels really stand out in a bad way. I covered it with a silver coach line, which helps.

It runs really well and is really exceptionally fast and is a general pleasure to drive. It's not a sports car though.

 

You can tune up a small capacity motor and put all the turbos and intercoolers on it you like but you can't beat the wooomph of a v8 with a bit of power behind it.

For about £150 you can switch the supercharger pulley for a smaller one, which gives you about 15% extra POWA but tbh it's pretty unnecessery.

 

The only thing i'd say and it's one of the reasons I'm keeping the SD1 and getting rid of this is they're mind bogglingly complex. This runs sweet with no warnings or anything but if they do start to play up they can be hard work and needs some expertise to fix them.

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scooters Rank: Renault 16

scooters

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the fact that it's being bought for 2 old push bikes doubly so!

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RobT Rank: Lancia Gamma

RobT

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Not much use to Phil, but I sold my 800 Vitesse recently for £160 and it works fine, just a bit shabby. It went to an enthusiast which is the main thing as it was far from scrap material.

cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Alfa 166 3.0 with manual gearboxes feel faster than the 0-60 figures show up. I had one and it was torque steer terrifying. They're a bit over complex but the interiors are loverly and they've got a great spec in Lusso trim (although have of it will be broken).

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From experience, a Jag XJ can be picked up cheap and they can hit a governed 150 no problem. Y'see it's a classy posh car with a supercar underneath.

 

I drove to Austria from Germany in one and it just eats the road and handles like a fine filly.

 

 

Yeah, and I am sure you are right, but that might be a drive of twenty metres, chap!

 

PS: last time I drove to Austria from Germany I immediately got pulled over by some dudes in elegant grey cloaks with fuggoff guns and asked to pay 60 of the finest Euros for hooning through the picturesque scenery with gay abandon.  

Station Rank: Isuzu Florian

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You can't get faster than that white Supra for the money. It would handle better than the Jag as well.

 

 

surely my 300 quid T5 must win?

 

Also this! I was interested, but getting any photos of it didn't look like it was going to happen. :(

phil_lihp Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I am getting the car boredom itch. This has caused me to spend some time on eBay, Gumtree and auto-trader looking at the available dross and I have decided I need something speedy, let me know if you have any better suggestions than I can come up with.

 

I have only two stipulations, firstly no Heather Mills specials and must be within the shiter budget, although I'm not going to impose a specific limit.

 

Right, so what other cars may you suggest? The more obscure or humdrum looking the better.

 

*cough* Rover SD1 V8 *cough*

wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Kia Magentis 2.5 V6 manual.

 

Seriously.

 

You won't find owt more unassuming than that.  They are surprisingly quick and handle amazingly well for a barge.  I gave a couple of Imprezas a hard time along my favourite B-road in mine, and that was a Badermatic.

Ratdat Rank: Renault 16

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Alfa 166 3.0 with manual gearboxes feel faster than the 0-60 figures show up. I had one and it was torque steer terrifying. They're a bit over complex but the interiors are loverly and they've got a great spec in Lusso trim (although have of it will be broken).

 

Mine was a 3.0 sportronic and it was still impressively quick. I paid £750 for mine with 85k on the clock and a FSH. It's a pretty cheap way to 150mph and in 10k of use it never missed a beat. And they look great!

 

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Hertz Rank: Lancia Gamma

Hertz

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Renault 21 Turbo for me. Not just the bear stats (top speed 0-60) as they are not overly impressive, it's the mid range torque that's unbelieveable. I think it was quicker than a Lambo Diablo 50-70 in fifth for example.

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DVee8 Rank: Talbot Tagora

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You are all wrong wrong wrong

What you need is some screaming J tin

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Almera-GTI-/251429187770?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a8a58f0ba

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Pulsar-Gtir-300-330bhp-turbo-4wd-/321319457516?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ad021d2ec

 

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No photo

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/toyota-corolla-gti-AE92-/171239424503?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27deaa41f7

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-SUZUKI-IGNIS-SPORT-VVTS-not-red-top-gti-hot-hatch-track-day-car-/111276053787?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19e891d51b

 

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If all else fails slide this on the bar and sit back and wait

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GTI-keyring-for-Peugeot-106-205-Suzuki-Swift-Seat-Ibiza-/270642309227?pt=UK_Car_Parts_Vehicles_Automobila_ET&hash=item3f0389e86b

 

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anonymous user Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Not really in the spirit of this thread I know, but, I would suggest rather than buy some big engined, end of life, dinosaur, which will frustrate/bankrupt you without ever actually running for long enough to experience its fastness, just pop down your local hire place and hire something for the day to thrash the nuts off.

 

Everybody knows that the fastest thing on the road is a hire car.

 

And from experience I can say do not buy a cheap 928, there is no such thing.

 

 

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I was interested, but getting any photos of it didn't look like it was going to happen. :(

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eddyramrod Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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+ another one!  Meanwhile...

Gerroff! :-D   These are both on my Watch list!

Actually the Camaro will only be adequately swift.  It's a 3.8 V6, which is not the highest-powered option GM could have given it.  The same body is available with the legendary SBC 350, which is 5.7 litres of extremely tunable V8.

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Not really in the spirit of this thread I know, but, I would suggest rather than buy some big engined, end of life, dinosaur, which will frustrate/bankrupt you without ever actually running for long enough to experience its fastness, just pop down your local hire place...

That's actually in no spirit whatsoever.

In spirit would be to buy a V12 Jag sight unseen, pick it up 500 miles from home after dark and in the rain, then set off to experience the inevitable grenading of something made from a laminate of unobtainium and £bumrape.

Bren Rank: Talbot Tagora

Bren

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Fox bodied mustang?

 

The 5.0 has about 220 bhp - enough for 140 mph and sub seven second to sixty times

 

You can pick one up for less than 3k.

 

Audi A8 is another.

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"There's something about this that's so black.  It's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

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I know it's already been suggested, but the above cost me £1200, although values for them are all over the place (and the V6s are a lot quicker than the T-sparks). As ever, they HAVE to have been maintained or they WILL be a money pit. The boot is a joke, they're a bit nose heavy, the brembo brakes are now a PITA but come on....£1200! I was also looking at Fiat Coupe Turbos but struggled to find one that hadnt had the boost turned up yo! for sensible money.

 

An Impreza WRX or MR2 Turbo will be probably be the outright quickest things you could buy for the money, but most have had a very hard life by now!

 

BMW 540i/535i, Volvo T5 etc if private owned more often seem to kept for a long time and maintained properly by those who can afford to run them, which Imprezas, FTOs etc do not!

garethj Rank: Isuzu Florian

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The old Toyota Supra will be tricky to find in non-thrashed condition, and I think their handling is from the late '70s. Maybe not a problem, but don't think it will be effortless to thrash hard.

 

Mitsubishi 3000 GTO worth a look?

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