Daimo B
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Registered: 20th Mar 00
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Racing only had 500 made.
Huge arches, bigger exhaust tailpipe, alloys.
Great handling car, but retains the pooey 1.7 Puma engine.
Getting a bit long in the tooth, quite old now, money could be better spent on a more modern faster FWD hatch.
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Phil W
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Registered: 1st Jul 05
Location: Shropshire Drives : Focus ST
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Slightly more power than the mornal 1.7 Zetec engine, different Inlet Manifold etc.
Expensive to maintain, each service the brakes need to be completely stripped down and have new seals etc, as grit works it was into the calipers.
Bloody gorgeous though.
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micra_pete
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Registered: 23rd Apr 03
Location: West Yorkshire
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i recently bough a very nice low mile 1.7 puma, very gay, but an excellent drive.
looked at the racing puma but to me its not worth the extra cash.
EVO gave the puma 5 stars, and the frp 4, make of that what you will.
Damo, pooey engine?
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Daimo B
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Not keen on the 1.7 nope, found it a litte underwehlming and gutless.
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micra_pete
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Registered: 23rd Apr 03
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really? ah well 
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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how quick are they?
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micra_pete
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not very
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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0-60 7.4 sec. id say thats nice and nippy, wouldnt call it racing thou
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Phil W
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Registered: 1st Jul 05
Location: Shropshire Drives : Focus ST
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YES.
Review - Tiff Needel
[Edited on 13-08-2008 by Phil W]
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by JM_16v
0-60 7.4 sec. id say thats nice and nippy, wouldnt call it racing thou
0-60 is not a good way of measuring a cars performance at all. Just as its the legal speeds.
0-100 shows a cars true performance. Thats the reason saxos got such good 0-60 times, they only needed 2nd gear. A F20 vauxhall needs 3rd.
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paul.mitchell1984
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Registered: 31st Aug 06
Location: Wakefield
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iv been in one, i dont like ford much but i liked this the rawness of it , lives local to me too would love aniother go in it but we fel out 
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Jill
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Registered: 8th Jun 01
Location: Aylesbury, BUCKS
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Last year I had the use of one for about a week, just after selling my corsa . They handle great IMO but the engine is lacklustre, again IMO- maybe this was do to the fact I was used to driving my corsa everyday though, I'm not sure. As Robin's said a few parts are very rare now and consequently ++expensive. There were 500 made, but I wouldn't exactly say it was a limited edition/the tye of car/edition to hold it's value as a result. I'd recommend taking one for a test drive, this will probably convince you that it looks better than it drives (again imo).
JILL 
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00fergie
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Registered: 24th May 06
Location: Paisley-ish
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ive got one  its honestly the best car ive ever driven could do with being a bit quicker but its not slow. geared more for accelertation than top speed but it will still get to 130 easy.
It holds the road like it is on rails and is quite hard to get it to slide in the dry!
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