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Offline howlingmoon

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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #50 on: 20 July 2009, 15:26 »
You are quite right, of course.  I'm suffering from not having looked at these things until I decided to change my car.  (Maybe if I'd been buying the mags regularly, I'd have traded in the Peugeot years ago....)

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Rolfe, interesting review of your Peugeot... not bad compared to the the GTI of the day. Jeremy Clarkson was funny then and still funny today...

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgJ5vQkWGc

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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #51 on: 20 July 2009, 18:53 »
Rolfe, interesting review of your Peugeot... not bad compared to the the GTI of the day. Jeremy Clarkson was funny then and still funny today...

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgJ5vQkWGc

Cheers, HM

Aw, my baby!!!  The car Clarkson's driving is even the same colour.

So, it wiped the floor with the Golf of the day (Mk III I would think) on just about everything, and yet he chose the Golf because the Peugeot didn't come in a 5-door version.  Oh, and he went on and on about the size of the Golf's luggage capacity, when I know for a fact the Peugeot is actually slightly bigger in that respect - sometimes I think it has a small dimensional warp inside it.  Well, I wanted a 3-door in the first place.  And the Peugeot takes my actual bicycle, and the tailgate shuts, or my mother's wheelchair with the back seat up.  The damn thing has taken half of Ikea in its day.

Thank you for reminding me why I bought that car, way back in '98.

It was a real cracker.

Rolfe.
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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #52 on: 20 July 2009, 19:03 »
Double post, sorry.

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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #53 on: 20 July 2009, 19:53 »
A mate of mine had a black GTI-6, cracking car. The Golf in question was a mk4 and very different to the Peugeot. I had a black one the same time as my mate had his 306. My GTI was re-mapped so obviously quicker than the 306 and yet the GTI-6 felt very lithe and the suspension and steering were much more GTI like than the (VW)GTI. When it came to the interior though, the Golf shone through despite the plastic wood.
The GTI-6 was the last of the decent Peugeot hot hatches and the mk4 was the last of the rubbish VW GTIs. Mind you sometimes I think the Golf wants to be a Peugeot when I look at the 307 foglights on the new GTI.
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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #54 on: 20 July 2009, 20:33 »
I never had cause to complain about the Peugeot's interior, and I don't remember the Golf being noticeably better at the time.  The utter disappearance of anything resembling a decent car in the Peugeot line was part of the reason I kept the 306 for so long.  The 307 was a disaster.

Of course the other reason was that I just loved the 306 for itself.  I should have changed it in 2003, just before we sold our business, but a cursory search of hot hatches at that time didn't reveal an obvious contender.  And if I'd changed it then, it might have been a lot harder to exit the business in 2006 with a newer car when I realised I despised the new owners, without any questions asked or money changing hands.  And a car bought in 2003 wouldn't have caught the scrappage deal, and at just the moment this little peach of a Golf became available.

Sometimes it all works out for the best.

But I really did enjoy watching that clip - I never saw it before.

Rolfe.

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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #55 on: 20 July 2009, 20:44 »
Actually I really like my 307 so before you start bad mouthing have you ever driven one? mine is a 2.0 litre diesel delivering 136bhp and it is fast, it flings me back in my seat when I hammer it up a hill near to me, it has top spec on an XSi and is a neat looking car, I am only getting rid cos I want a mark 6 GTi and my Peugeot is coming up for 4 years old and is starting to need attention at services etc. 

If the mark 6 hadn't appeared on the scene I wouldn't be getting rid of my 307 but as I've always yearned for a GTi now is as good a time as any, so unless you have driven or owned one please do not cast aspersions!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry:
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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #56 on: 20 July 2009, 20:57 »
Both, but only sort of!   :grin:  One of our employees chose a 307 as her company car (so technically, I owned it!), and I drove it a couple of times.  It felt like a shopping trolley with a lawnmower engine on it compared to my 306, but I'm prepared to believe that was an engine capacity problem.  I can't remember exactly what it was.

It was always in the bloody dealers for one fault after another though.  Some ghastly electrical fault, I'm not sure there wasn't an actual recall at one stage.  Horrible bloody car.

I'm perfectly prepared to believe that was an aberration, and no offence meant, but I didn't think the 307 had a model to touch the 306 GTi.

Rolfe.

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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #57 on: 20 July 2009, 21:26 »
Well ok i've calmed down somewhat now, yes I believe there were some problems with the earlier 307's but after 2005 when they did a face lift most seemed to be cured!! Touch wood mine has never given me any trouble and as I said before being the top speed diesel engine it really is like s--t off a shovel. :grin: :grin:

Needless to say this new gti is really going to be faster than anything i've had before and I can't wait to take delivery and start roving the roads of North Yorkshire  :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #58 on: 20 July 2009, 21:32 »
father in law had peugeots for years,His last was a 307,top of the range,had loads of problems with it, has totally put him off peugeots for life,before that he had nothing but praise for them.
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Re: What Car Hot Hatch test
« Reply #59 on: 20 July 2009, 21:45 »
Guess i've been lucky then. :grin:
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