C Thom 
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thinkin of changin ma car 
 
either 8v cav sri or metro GTi 
 
which one use think? 
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Corsa Lad 69 
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iv heard metro gti's doing 150 or somthin...no joke either
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Gaz@Vauxnova 
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Narr they arn't that quick  
They are pretty damm nippy 1.4 16v in a metro. 
handle well but not as quick as a cav sri  
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miles 
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Not as quick in a straight line maybe but a metro would piss the cav around a track. Go and by the latest CCC mag.
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Corsa Lad 69 
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gaz im not lieing...il put u in contact with a girl who knows about them...she had silly speed with a few engine mods
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miles 
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no metro will to a 150mph.  
 
Think about it.
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ajscorsa 
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think he meant 150 bhp
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Plymouth_Corsa 
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right, okay, some of you i think are refering to the SPi model (slow) and they also do a gti MPi which 0-60 is faster then an RST S2! And top speed is about 120mph, they ARE fast!
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AdiSRI 
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From parkers:- 
 
CAR                        ENGINE     BHP  TOP SPEED   0 - 60       MPG 
 
Rover 1.4 GTi 16v   4/1396       95      116              8.6          40.4 
Vauxhall 2.0i SRi     4/1998      130     128              9.3          35.7  
 
So the cav is faster top end but the metro whips it to 60 and handles better too.
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Gaz@Vauxnova 
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Oh i thought we were talking stanadrd ? 
Plymouth_Corsa- Ive driven one on a few occasions they arn't that quick as standard, plenty of potential due to the K-series engine  
but they rust everywhere  hell ove seen them with a rust hole in the roof ?!!?
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Corsa Lad 69 
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not bhp the mph... 
 
maybe it was 141 not 150...still tho very fast... ask this girl here 
 
catz_ohara@hotmail.com
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d0gz_bollox 
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lmfao @ comparing two totally different cars. 
 
Id go for the cav being a bigger car, theres also no replacement for displacment
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Kris TD 
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its still a metro though. 
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Cybermonkey 
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My mum used to have a metro GTi MPI and it made a joke of some other bigger engied cars! 
 
Dave
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Plymouth_Corsa 
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why not get an old 213-S instead?
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Matty Hall 
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metros are the least safe car to be in a crash in!! Crumple up aroud you   
 
I hated my metro lots  
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PeteMTBer 
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I had a 114GTa was almost as quick as my 1.4 16v sport.  
 
Pete
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IntaCepta 
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rather have a cav... 
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Ant 
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yep i konow a kid who hada metro git but a decar pipe and full system on it got 135mph 3up
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C Thom 
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wots the difference between the GTi and the GTa? 
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SetH 
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A metro Gti nearly made me look very silly in my rallye, they are definately not slow. End of the day the metro is still one of the least desirable cars out there, theres a few with 1.8vvc engine transplants out there though. 
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Matty Hall 
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Think the gta was made up from a load of parts that were left over from different models. They dont seem any where near as quick as the gti.  
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PeteMTBer 
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There are different versions of the gta. 8v spi, 16v (spi or mpi cant remember). 
 
Mine was 1398cc 8v spi. 76bhp. Reved and kept reving. Reved to about 9k before the valves bounced. Stopped pullin at about 7.5k though. 
Quick lil' car. But not compared to the gti 16v 
 
Pete
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C Thom 
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would a gti eat a 1.4/1.6 corsa? 
 
what about the gta 16V spi?
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PeteMTBer 
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the gti 16v mpi is quicker to 60 than 1.4 and 1.6 sports. Dunno abvout 1/4 mile times between the gti and 1.6 though 
 
Dunno the figures for the 16v gta
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