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CORSA NUT
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23rd Apr 07 at 19:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Think it's MK5 i'm looking at..yeah MK5...

General concencous(sp) seems that they are very underated.One i've got my eye on it a 1 owner with FFSH but has a high ish mileage.Recaro interior is really nice and they have 150 brake so i'm ed to believe.

Gather the 4wd is better than the 2wd versions? 0-60?

JR you must know somthing about these cars mate????
Robin
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23rd Apr 07 at 19:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
4wd suffers from the same sort of trouble as the Calibra does, it has a transfer box which can be weak.

Other than that, and rust, they're good.

It's a mk6 if you're considering 4wd, they only make 2wd mk5s
Robin
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Oh, the Mk6 doesn't seem to suffer from rust as much as the mk5 either.
Rob B
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My mate has one, tbh not that impressed standard wise, the handling is pretty good but its rather slow, around 9 secs 0 - 60, his is a 4wd though ...



TO make it quicker
SVM 286
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Blasphemy
Cupra Steve
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The 4wd ones are rarer than cosworths!

My old mk5 xr3i does the job, handling isn't that bad either, Can look very good with a few touches. There was a stripped red one in PF last month that was meant to be fairly quick.
Marc
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Look good and arches are
Jambo
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CORSA NUT
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23rd Apr 07 at 19:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
9 secs to 60 Fuk me i wasn't expecting 7 but even 8 would have done me!
CORSA NUT
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Looking for a cheap..nice ish runaround for 2.5K and it's either this or a saxo VTR

Oh and i know the VTR does it in 9 secs too but at least it will feel quicker because of all the wind noise etc

[Edited on 23-04-2007 by CORSA NUT]
Rob H
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Astra Mk3 Gsi/Mk 4 Gsi/Sri/sport?
jr
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as you said quite an underated car, mainly because its uses one of fords all time great names, but in a car that wasnt as good as the orginal

IMO i would go for a nice 2wd, and just make sure its not rusty
CORSA NUT
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Had 2 Astra's but there's a MK3 GSI near me but it's a bit far away.. is the R reg still a red top engine??
GT4Brody
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only rs2000s EVER worth considering are mk1 or 2, 5 and 6 are absolute gash imo.

[Edited on 23-04-2007 by GT4Brody]
jay kay
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23rd Apr 07 at 21:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
My mate has one, tbh not that impressed standard wise, the handling is pretty good but its rather slow, around 9 secs 0 - 60, his is a 4wd though ...



TO make it quicker



Seen this in the flesh looks
mk4_astra
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tbh 4wd with a 150bhp engine seems abit pointless imo.

remember ages ago my mate had the gti version and that was pretty nippy, think that was something like 150bhp aswell
Robin
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GTi is 115bhp.
GT4Brody
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I had an si for a while, what a sack o shite that was lol
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
GTi is 115bhp.


oh

mind you this was when everyone had there first cars, so it seemed fast compared to 1.2 and diesel engines anyway

 
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