Result! Well almost.....

[Egbutt Wash]

My dogs loose on Twemlow somewhere.
If you spot the mutt tell her to get home.

It's all Audi A3s that look small, rounded and cute to me.

[gazbutmk5gti]

Whatever

[08micsta]

^^^

 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

At the risk of getting some serious flaming for my suggestion - what about the Corsa VXR? 

www.Vauxhall.co.uk/vxr

Not much smaller than a Golf or TT, but still roomy, and great as a 2nd car.  A mad 192PS from a 1.6 litre 4-pot turbo, 140mph, 0-60 in 6.8s, 308mm front anchors, tasty blue calipers, 17 or 18 inch alloys . . .

And before anyone slates me - Vauxhalls are identical to Opels, and Opels are German, and built by Adam Opel GmbH.  Vauxhall/Opels are on a par with other German cars with regard to structural strength (unlike Fords!), and usually get 5 stars in EuroNCAP crash tests.  I sence some "badge snobbery" may be an issue though.

If I were in the market for a small pocket rocket, then the Corsa VXR would be very high on my shopping list - afterall, what equivalents to VW have?  And no, I would never take a Seat.  The only comparable (decent) VAG car is the Å koda Fabia vRS - a real cracker, but they don't make em anymore!

[sixpot]

. . .

  Vauxhall/Opels are on a par with other German cars with regard to structural strength (unlike Fords!), and usually get 5 stars in EuroNCAP crash tests. 

Interesting to see you don't rate the body integrity of Henry's finest?
From someone that works in body Construction in a Ford derived plant that uses Ford designed Underbodies (and a multitude of other BIW parts) as bases for its product, I can tell you that this comment confuses me somewhat!
Are you talking about products of old?

[Top Cat]

At the risk of getting some serious flaming for my suggestion - what about the Corsa VXR? 

www.Vauxhall.co.uk/vxr

Not much smaller than a Golf or TT, but still roomy, and great as a 2nd car.  A mad 192PS from a 1.6 litre 4-pot turbo, 140mph, 0-60 in 6.8s, 308mm front anchors, tasty blue calipers, 17 or 18 inch alloys . . .

And before anyone slates me - Vauxhalls are identical to Opels, and Opels are German, and built by Adam Opel GmbH.  Vauxhall/Opels are on a par with other German cars with regard to structural strength (unlike Fords!), and usually get 5 stars in EuroNCAP crash tests.  I sence some "badge snobbery" may be an issue though.

If I were in the market for a small pocket rocket, then the Corsa VXR would be very high on my shopping list - afterall, what equivalents to VW have?  And no, I would never take a Seat.  The only comparable (decent) VAG car is the Å koda Fabia vRS - a real cracker, but they don't make em anymore!

TT either your on a wind up or you dont know Newgolf.
I guarantee he will spit his coffee all over puter when he sees that recommendation  

[R32UK]

T_T has finally gone nuts!! Must be a brain overload or he has simply plugged the wrong information/manufacturer file into his disk drive

[T88OMM]

I gotta agree with T_T. I dont mind Corsa VXR's. If I was in the market for that sort of car I would probably go for that over its competitors. If you can get over the 'chav' side of them they aint to bad and I bet they are a right hoot to drive!! 

[NewGolf]

At the risk of getting some serious flaming for my suggestion - what about the Corsa VXR? 

www.Vauxhall.co.uk/vxr

Not much smaller than a Golf or TT, but still roomy, and great as a 2nd car.  A mad 192PS from a 1.6 litre 4-pot turbo, 140mph, 0-60 in 6.8s, 308mm front anchors, tasty blue calipers, 17 or 18 inch alloys . . .

And before anyone slates me - Vauxhalls are identical to Opels, and Opels are German, and built by Adam Opel GmbH.  Vauxhall/Opels are on a par with other German cars with regard to structural strength (unlike Fords!), and usually get 5 stars in EuroNCAP crash tests.  I sence some "badge snobbery" may be an issue though.

If I were in the market for a small pocket rocket, then the Corsa VXR would be very high on my shopping list - afterall, what equivalents to VW have?  And no, I would never take a Seat.  The only comparable (decent) VAG car is the Å koda Fabia vRS - a real cracker, but they don't make em anymore!

TT either your on a wind up or you dont know Newgolf.
I guarantee he will spit his coffee all over puter when he sees that recommendation  

TC, you know me too well mate! I nearly dropped my glass of wine!

T_T , I enjoyed your threads and thought you were a man of great knowledge and I respected that   Now I'm not so sure. Recommending a poxhall on here, are you nuts?   I'd rather cut my knob off than drive a Vauxhall, call it badge snobbery or whatever you like, they just give me the creeps. I'm entitled to my opinion, and its that they are cr@p, I've test driven them so I can honestly say that. The wife wouldn't even test drive them, she would never live it down if she was seen in one!

Egbert, RS4 is too wide, too thirsty and too expensive to run and live with mate.

T88OMM and SteveP, her last car was a B7 S4, so the powers not an issue trust me! She used to regularly blast past me on the way to work in the mornings!

My cunning plan is to "borrow" it as often as I can, as I'd love the S3 as our second car, and would remap it as fast as possible....

Gaz any comments as you have come from the ED30 to the S3, I'd appreciate your thoughts bud  

[Teutonic_Tamer]

. . .

  Vauxhall/Opels are on a par with other German cars with regard to structural strength (unlike Fords!), and usually get 5 stars in EuroNCAP crash tests. 

Interesting to see you don't rate the body integrity of Henry's finest?
From someone that works in body Construction in a Ford derived plant that uses Ford designed Underbodies (and a multitude of other BIW parts) as bases for its product, I can tell you that this comment confuses me somewhat!
Are you talking about products of old?

Nope.  Even the latest Fords are no match for Vauxhall/Opel, Renault, VW, and the likes.  Ford never quite cut in EuroNCAP tests.  OK, they may sometimes hit 5 stars, but the devil is in the detail.

And how may Fords use continuous seam or butt laser welding - none.  They still use 1960s spot welding technology.

What about full three-section sills - the most crucial part of the structure.  For still don't use a full three section, yet Vauxhall, VW and Audi use four section, and some parts are 5-section sills.

Bottom line though is to ask any "established" Police accident investigator - and Fords will always be at the bottom of their own transport requirements. 

Even Volvos are not the "tanks" they once were, before Ford got their grubby mitts on ownership of that well-known "tough" brand.