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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Hurdy on 05 September 2010, 10:51
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Well, I've spend a marvellous three and a half years on here and with my MKV Edition 30 and it has been great. Everyone (maybe with one or two exceptions!) has been brilliant and the new friends and guys I've met throughout my internship as a moderator on here have been worth every minute.
Some say ban me for my new car decision :wink:, but after excellent customer service and a good test drive I've gone all Japanese on myself. I needed a more sedate car for the road to appease my better half , so I can go out and get a nutjob track car at some point and so I have one of these coming in the next two weeks.
Lexus IS F Sport
Brand spanking new
Every single option ticked.
Good cruiser in metallic Cadoxton slate grey
Not quite as fast as the Golf, but that is the idea.
Current car is still for sale for £13995 OVNO. Details below.
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,18609.msg262440.html#msg262440
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Wouldn't be my choice but I'm sure it's a good car.
I think you should buy a MKII GTI and join us trackday lot and keep it dub. Might feel a bit slow after the monster though :grin:
Nick
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Possibly Nick, I'm looking at Caterhams and Lotus's at the moment. £20k ish budget, so what do you recommend?
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If I had 20K? Blimey. I'm a bit of a tin top fan so I'd probably be looking at something like an M3 or RS4. Lotus's handle well but they never seem to be that quick on the trackdays I've been on.
I don't suppose Ariel Atoms come in at that price bracket.
nick
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How about this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Focus-RS-V8-RWD-302-race-track-cosworth-hotrod-/260649269632?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3cafe83980
Nick
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Oooh or this!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1970-PORSCHE-911-T-CLASSIC-SPORTS-TRACK-RALLY-/390185430339?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item5ad8dd2d43
nick
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One of these:
http://www.paulmattysportscars.co.uk/showroom/stock-detail.aspx?id=2026
Friend has one and loves it to bits....
Sorry to see you go John, who is going to be the new forum moderator?
Keep poping in.
Cheers Tagnut/ :smiley:
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I'll probably get shot down for saying this.. but a race prepped spec C S202 impreza will p!ss all over anything mentioned so far. (just ask the caterham/exige/ultima drivers who got left for dust a couple of weeks ago... at cadwell of all places :grin: )
After the ED30 i'm sure you'll want a race car rather than a track day car and it can be done within your budget quite easily.
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Good point Toph.
Now how about Rouse's old touring car?
http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/31116/Ford_Mondeo_Rouse_Btcc_car.html
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nahhh
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Subaru-Impreza-Spec-C-Type-RA-Genuine-S202-edition-FSH-/180527300095?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a0843fdff
if i had a spare 7k i'd snap that up in an instant, that is stupidly cheap for an S202. Pretty much a rally car in road trim.
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You've been spending too much time surrounded by scoobs :grin:
Nick
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around them, in them, building them.. and extinguishing the fires on them :grin: I'd never have one as a daily, i'm VW till i die.. but as a track weapon there isn't much that comes close unless you have 100k to spend.
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I just wanted to say thanks for your support when I had my Ed30 , you will be missed !! The car looks very nice enjoy it Steve :wink:
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Hurdy, have you bought an IS F Sport or the mental M3 slaying IS F?
Can't believe you got that one past the wife as a cruiser, unless she likes cruising sideways at 170mph :evil:
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Hurdy, have you bought an IS F Sport or the mental M3 slaying IS F?
Can't believe you got that one past the wife as a cruiser, unless she likes cruising sideways at 170mph :evil:
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around them, in them, building them.. and extinguishing the fires on them :grin: I'd never have one as a daily, i'm VW till i die.. but as a track weapon there isn't much that comes close unless you have 100k to spend.
you've changed :tongue: this Mk I will never get done - ben will be gutted :grin: :laugh: :wink:
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Good luck with the new car Hurdy :smiley: Are you going to keep posting on here occasionally?
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Hurdy's going to keep on here....... I know these things :wink:
Hurdy I think i confused your misses with my in-depth questions today? :huh:
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Hurdy's going to keep on here....... I know these things :wink:
Hurdy I think i confused your misses with my in-depth questions today? :huh:
Hahaa, How much of a coincidence was that :laugh:
Oh, and yes, it doesn't take too much to confuse her :wink:
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Good luck with the new car Hurdy :smiley: Are you going to keep posting on here occasionally?
Yes, I'll still be around. You never know, I may just get myself a VW track car. :smiley:
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Hahaa, How much of a coincidence was that :laugh:
Oh, and yes, it doesn't take too much to confuse her :wink:
I saw the name and area and your misses said about you buying a car..so I had to ask what type and then had to ask what were you selling to buy it, when she replied golf gti I guessed it was you. I bet she was thinking who's this nosey b! :grin:
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Yeah it was funny :grin:
One of my workmates went to his local Balti restaurant recently and the guy who owned it was an avid forum member and ended up talking to my mate and giving him a free £20 meal. Small world syndrome again FTW :laugh:
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Get this one.....
The new bone stock standard 2.5 Lexus actually costs £53 more in insurance over the next 9 months than my Uber modified, nitroused Edition 30 did with all it's mods - how's that work out right?
All the other insurance companies I've gone to have the Lexus at up to £190 a year cheaper :laugh:
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I take it you will be sticking around here :)
We all have to move on though. Id have never in a million years guessed IS-F. Didn't fancy an M3 or RS4?
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I'll still be around :cool:
The Lexus IS F-Sport isn't the V8 5.0ltr, it is the V6 2.5ltr. It's a cruiser not a bruiser. If I'd been spending £50k upwards for a road car it would have been a new Jaguar XJ.