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Title: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: bobbarley on 28 January 2012, 23:03

Quite a lot of car for the money!

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/uvl/popup.jsp?currentaction=searchresults&e2w=20672&sort=5&did=213956&partner=TMG&postcode=BD59ET&dropdowntype=uvl&configfile=http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/dealers/213956/213956_config.xml&max_records=200&e2w=20672&miles=1500&csslocation=http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/dealers/213956/213956&id=201151436785961&distance=3

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: Wayne on 28 January 2012, 23:42

VXR = understeer and lots of it, they would be epic with a decent chassis

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: danny_p on 29 January 2012, 01:19

vectra = pants handeling

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: JC on 29 January 2012, 07:22

 :rolleyes: and standard skodas are great arent they

oh and nige

 more car for a LOT less money

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-vectra-police-spec-Vxr-estate-px-clearance-/160716335666?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item256b70aa32#ht_1153wt_1263

 :wink:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: Wayne on 29 January 2012, 10:34

Quote from: Chuff on 29 January 2012, 07:22

:rolleyes: and standard skodas are great arent they

I don't have a standard Skoda but a vRS  :rolleyes: which has an improved chassis to cope with the extra power unlike Vauxhall that stuck 280bhp in an SRI and wondered why it understeered so much.

Astra VXR is no better, 240bhp of which 100bhp is wasted with the wooden chassis.

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: shepgti on 29 January 2012, 12:22

Quote from: Chuff on 29 January 2012, 07:22

:rolleyes: and standard skodas are great arent they

oh and nige

 more car for a LOT less money

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-vectra-police-spec-Vxr-estate-px-clearance-/160716335666?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item256b70aa32#ht_1153wt_1263

 :wink:

hideous mpg figures! :laugh:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: ashw831 on 29 January 2012, 12:51

I know they where bad on track when Top Gear tested it, but would they be that bad on the road??  :undecided:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: JC on 29 January 2012, 13:10

for some of the driving gods on here, yes  :rolleyes:

real world driving in mine is fine, push the limits and it bites. but what car doesnt.

Quote from: shepgti on 29 January 2012, 12:22

hideous mpg figures! :laugh:

yeah, but life is for living  . . . . . .

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: dTEA on 30 January 2012, 20:38

Change ya sig then. It needs to read something other than mk II golf wanted :afro:

And GTFO with those!! :grin:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 30 January 2012, 20:42

Quote from: dTEA on 30 January 2012, 20:38

Change ya sig then. It needs to read something other than mk II golf wanted :afro:

+1

GTI Forum and you are proud to boast:

"47 MPG from a lardy old Vauxhall, gotta love the Dark Pump way of Life"

 :shocked:

Man up!  as he once said.

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: JC on 30 January 2012, 21:10

Quote from: dTEA on 30 January 2012, 20:38

Change ya sig then. It needs to read something other than mk II golf wanted :afro:

erm, why does it, as i am currently searching for one  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: dTEA on 30 January 2012, 21:11

You sure with some of the stuff you keeping posting you like :laugh:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: JC on 30 January 2012, 21:12

yep, and it wasnt me who started this thread,  :tongue:

or the other one about the recovery truck  :kiss:

Title: Re: Chuff's next purchase!
Post by: clancy on 30 January 2012, 22:02

Quote from: ashw831 on 29 January 2012, 12:51

I know they where bad on track when Top Gear tested it, but would they be that bad on the road??  :undecided:

thought it was really fun on the road tbh. not the most comfortable car in the world