mgmrw
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Mar 14, 2016 21:23:22 GMT
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3 for me would be:
MG ZR 1400 on eagle f1s and £150 coilovers wound down. Flat out 110 was your maximum, but cornering and grip was unreal. Owned it 3 years, and in 90k miles don't think I had to slow down for a corner ever. Stuck like poop to a blanket.
200sx running 360bhp ish. The sheer laughable boost, and manic way it accelerated. Foot down in 2nd, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Whoosh! Hedge/central reservation/straight line again. Redline. Grab 3rd. Do it all again.
£3k car at the time, remember having a silly race with a 911 of some flavour, and a kid in his mums 12 month old st3 focai mountune.
Finally, the £400 Alfa Romeo 146 tspark. 4 months test, winter hack. Not a chance of passing ever again. Wouldn't even go 1st to 2nd.
5k miles, 4 months, beat it to death everywhere. Probably the most unhinged thing on earth c/o liftoff oversteer, dodgy bushes, and sheer bonkers amounts of grip... Until it let go. My only ever visit backwards into a hedge.
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Mar 14, 2016 21:27:14 GMT
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Quick in its day I had her out yesterday for a wee blast and still not to bad for a 1988 motor. Still love her/it now that is fukn lovely, always loved 21 turbos, is it a quadra
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Mar 14, 2016 21:47:59 GMT
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Not really driven , more just reversing a Genuine Shelby AC Cobra . I was ordered to do it all a 18 year old apprentice , reverse it out of the workshop wearing my big steel toecaps . Ordered because they knew i would curse word myself at stuffing up a million pound car .
Talk about small pedal box and big feet !!!!!
They tried to get me to do the same with a Dodge viper GT car , i got wise and told them to naff off !!
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Mar 14, 2016 22:03:31 GMT
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A peurgeot 807 with a loose front subframe, scarey as fook ! but i take it you meen scarey fast ? Been in and built a few RS turbos back in the day with HUGE turbo lag and smack in the face accel and torque steer that made it feel like a bucking bronco, so anything not well set up is scarey, anything propperly set up tends to to feel slwoer than it actually is and safer. V true, i had a budget-built supercharged mk2 scirocco that torque-steered, kangaroo'd, wheelspun & felt like a rampant beast to drive, but in reality it was the crappy 185 tyres and the non-progressive throttle actuation that made it that way...
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Mar 14, 2016 22:32:58 GMT
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Not exactly a car but its got more than 2 wheels 495cc 2 stroke single, built by a friend of the guy who does Wasp sidecars, road registered and 'marginally' road legal, had supposedly won it class 3 times at Weston beach race. Was clocked at over 80 on a private test road running MX tyres, hideously loud and had a massive thirst for tyres chains and sprockets as well as managing between 12 and 20mpg. I stupidly sold it due to lack of storage space
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Last Edit: Mar 14, 2016 22:33:40 GMT by dodgerover
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tragic
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Mar 14, 2016 22:40:50 GMT
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Went to the pub one night with a car dealer mate. "You can drive", and threw me a set of keys. Thought it would be some old trade in chod he had brought home because it had fuel in. It was. 8.3 litres of V10 Dodge Viper. Totally at home on ruined Buckinghamshire single track country lanes it wasn't....
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All under £1500:
Scariest was my Suzuki Super Carry, not fast at all but with worn front shocks scared the curse word out of me and anyone else that dare ride in it lol.
Close 2nd was a mr2 gti 16 rev1, nippy but not fast however it did try to kill me more than once in the short time I owned it, had to sell it as Mrs was following me when I (kinda) crashed it when it decided it wanted to go backwards whilst travelling forwards... She wouldn't go in it after that.
Quickest for cheap is my VRS, will pull 45 in first and 70 in second. If it's anything but dry it just wheelspins even with good tyres. I think it must have been remapped, I would say it's as quick if not quicker than my old mk5 golf gti. I have a feeling though that the mk2 will be even quicker but haven't driven it yet.
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2016 9:10:54 GMT by joem83
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A Z32 300ZX twin turbo with poor tyres,i tried very hard not to go sideways out of every junction and failed miserably.
Fastest ride i ever had was in a very well modded RS Turbo that was putting out about 300 brake.I couldn't focus on anything partly through speed and partly through the lack of suspension travel,just a blur it was.
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vulgalour
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Both sub £1k these.
Lexus LS400 Mk1 - easily the fastest car I've ever driven, not the car I've driven the fastest. Not very scary, tbh, very well behaved and well composed, the power seemed more for getting it going and making driving easy. Nice place to be.
Peugeot 106 Graduate - easily the scariest and probably the lowest powered too. Lift-off-oversteer ftw! Most fun I've had behind the wheel within the speed limit in a car for a very long time. Very close pedals and surprisingly handling habits made for what could be a scary car, particularly in stock trim, but lots of giggles and never really got out of shape on me.
All out power isn't where it's at on the street. Low powered, tall, skinny tyred hatchbacks offer very good fun:cash ratio. The bigger more powerful stuff is great and all but you'll barely ever have an opportunity to really enjoy outside of a track day and while they might be cheap to buy initially, they can get expensive very quickly to maintain unlike the aforementioned biscuit tins.
Get an AX, they're ridiculous and brilliant.
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mt2man
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Was going to say fastest for the cheapest a ls400 is a good shout, mine was £400 with straight pipes and a welded diff, was an amazing car!
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220bhp rwd, 600kg
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All out power isn't where it's at on the street. Low powered, tall, skinny tyred hatchbacks offer very good fun:cash ratio. The bigger more powerful stuff is great and all but you'll barely ever have an opportunity to really enjoy outside of a track day This, I have had more fun in slow hatchbacks than anything fast as by the time you are having fun in a fast car your generally going far to fast.
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Mar 15, 2016 10:18:46 GMT
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^^^^^ Totally agree! The most fun car I've driven was my wife's old Pug 106 1.1L , not fast but an absolute hoot to drive at perfectly legal speeds!
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2016 10:19:54 GMT by Vintage75
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alecf
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Mar 15, 2016 10:50:50 GMT
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All out power isn't where it's at on the street. Low powered, tall, skinny tyred hatchbacks offer very good fun:cash ratio. The bigger more powerful stuff is great and all but you'll barely ever have an opportunity to really enjoy outside of a track day This, I have had more fun in slow hatchbacks than anything fast as by the time you are having fun in a fast car your generally going far to fast. yup. ive had the mrs 205 gti rally car out on the lanes a couple of times this year and its more fun round the twisties then my old golf was.
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Mar 15, 2016 11:35:15 GMT
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This, I have had more fun in slow hatchbacks than anything fast as by the time you are having fun in a fast car your generally going far to fast. yup. ive had the mrs 205 gti rally car out on the lanes a couple of times this year and its more fun round the twisties then my old golf was. Yup, all that. Never had so much fun (and learnt more about car control) than in my '56 Morris Minor. I put a Slark built 1312cc a-series in it - less than 130BHP, but I still maintain it was the fastest car I've owned on account of the fact that I could squeeze every last 8th of a horsepower out of it and use every last shred of handling on my everyday drive to work. Fastest cheap car was the old e55 below. 354 BHP for under £2k. Bloody marvellous thing. I have something *much* faster now as my daily, but that's not in keeping with this thread or forum
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There is nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes
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thesam
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Mar 15, 2016 12:45:45 GMT
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5 door Nissan Almera with an SR20 swapped in + GT30 turbo bolted to it.
Happened across a 911 turbo on the ring road, he was most confused why I was still in his mirrors.
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dark
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Mar 15, 2016 17:50:27 GMT
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Mazda b2000 with a 13b rotary engine. 160bhp, straight to the rear wheels with not much over the rear axle.
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Mazda B2200 Diesel - Toyota AE92 Sprinter Cielo - Ford Escort Mk5 Estate
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Mar 15, 2016 18:16:43 GMT
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Not exactly a car but its got more than 2 wheels 495cc 2 stroke single, built by a friend of the guy who does Wasp sidecars, road registered and 'marginally' road legal, had supposedly won it class 3 times at Weston beach race. Was clocked at over 80 on a private test road running MX tyres, hideously loud and had a massive thirst for tyres chains and sprockets as well as managing between 12 and 20mpg. I stupidly sold it due to lack of storage space I had one of those when i was 14 ! without the sidecar . My dads next door neighbour had one he sold me for £250 as he was scared of it . A new clutch lever [£90 !!!!] and it was good to go . Never new if it was a 500 or 350 . It was a 1988 one i think and we later found out it was a ex-works bike . I couldnt keep the thing down and could barely touch the ground on it . Bloody lethal !!!
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Mar 15, 2016 20:47:38 GMT
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So you couldnt work out if it was a 500 or a 350 but found out it was a works bike, hmmmm. Great thread! Scariest thing i've driven is a Peugeot 205 turbo diesel with nackered axle bushes. Went like curse word off a stick and snaked up the road.
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elfman
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Mar 15, 2016 20:54:24 GMT
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Road legal, 200bhp Turbo, Space frame Riley Elf. You had to have arms like Popeye to drive it...
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