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Title: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Martz on 08 August 2005, 12:43
I had the 16v out yesterday and was coming home. I was at the lights and had a Punto behind me. At the next set I was behind him. The Punto GT I thought was a pissy little wanna be hot hatch. How wrong I was. I was up him 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I then realised I was a tw@t for going waaaaay to fast and backed off.

Couldn't believe how quick the Punto was. I guess its one of those things with the Fiats. All well when running, but when the go pop its another story! :grin:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Judderi on 08 August 2005, 12:46
Plus there tin can rot boxes. But yes i agree and am very surprised at the speed of some small cars. Especialy the likes of suzuki swifts and metro gte's. There horrible but dam quick!
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: bretttuk on 08 August 2005, 13:51
its always useful to have good knowledge on other cars ... so you know what you're up against when you are playing around . plus you never know what they have done to their cars too...
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Logie on 09 August 2005, 09:19
Dont forget they are Turbos. I'm part of www.sw-cc.com and a member on there has a 200 BHP Punto GT. Its very nice actualy. Not chav or anything, smart :)
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Martz on 09 August 2005, 10:10
Is it a yellow one? A young Asian lad was driving it, he is based somewhere near Heathrow. It looked standard and looked tidy. I just thought the GT was a model different to the Turbo. I now know!
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Logie on 09 August 2005, 10:54
Not him. His car is Rosso Red

Heres a link to the Garage : http://web1.uh-hosting.co.uk/~swcc/forums/index.php?&act=garage&CODE=12&CID=15
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Mr Blue on 09 August 2005, 14:24
you lost  :tongue:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Deefadog on 09 August 2005, 18:44
Ahhh my beloved suzuki swift, it was a 1.3 single injection, but was fantastic in all ways, i would love to have a mint gti version! as a second car of course  :grin:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Martz on 09 August 2005, 20:49
My mate in Oz had a Swift when they were new on the scene. What a good little car they were too! :smiley:

Thats like those 1000cc Charades. Remember seeing a couple of them in MaxPower (yes I have read early editions when it first came out)  :embarassed:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Deefadog on 10 August 2005, 08:28
Yeah those 1000cc Charades gtti's i think, they were fast for what they were, not sure what setup they had!
Yes and i also used to read MAX power, the early years before it went crap! i always remember the golf gti with 2 engines, one in the engine bay and one in the boot  :laugh:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Martz on 10 August 2005, 10:34
That was the nuts that Golf. Twin engined! :evil:  I remember seeing that at Inters - Crowethorne.
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: spekky on 10 August 2005, 10:55
are you talking about BIG DUB??? dubsports twin Mk3 VR6???

(http://www.jon44w.com/images/events/odyssey02/dubsport.jpg)
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Martz on 10 August 2005, 12:26
That be the one.  :cool:
Title: Re: A little blast on a straight!
Post by: Deefadog on 10 August 2005, 19:45
The one i remember was a MK2, that's a MK3 aint't it? and it was dark blue :