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Kyle T
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13th Dec 15 at 10:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Dudes, as some will know - Subaru sold on Friday. I had a plan to take a Clio 182 off the hands of a friend, run that over winter whilst I add to the Subaru money and buy myself a new dedicated track car.

Clio would continue on as a daily, until my mileage requirements increase (next summer) and then I'd chop it in for an exec saloon - probably on lease.

As it happened, the Clio broke down on its way to me for a test drive - so we both decided to maybe give it a miss as I don't want a nail, and he doesn't want the guilt of selling me one...

Went round a few dealers yesterday to look at some exec saloons, got an idea of pricing and I don't want to be paying that much whilse my commute is still <10miles. I'll suck that up when I need to, for now I need a cheap and fun car that I can run for 5-6 months without costing me too much, and that won't eat into the track car fund too much!

So, with that in mind I'm still looking at Clio 182/172 type cars - maybe also an EP3 plus anything else in that bracket you can think of. I've been trawling PH and Autotrader, there's a scruffy 182 local but that's about it. As I'm hoping to pay as close to £2k as possible - I don't want to be tramming round the country to find this car, so within 50miles of YO8 would be good. I've specified a hot hatch because I want something fun, that won't completely suck out my love for cars in the next few months - I've been there before when trying to be sensible.

Ones that have recently had new consumables would be a bonus - I want this to cost me as little as possible while I own it... which I know is a bit of a gamble buying a £2k hot hatch

Any Forum pointers? Keeping an eye on Cliosport - but that's about it.

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13th Dec 15 at 12:16   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Seat ibiza cupra R '04 diesel great on fuel and has a decent bhp.. And its got a shit load of torque!
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Tbf I found my Corsa 1.8Sri a cracking runabout, it never really gave me any hassle, and once I had fitted some decent suspension it handled alright too.

It's just a run on the mill 1800 engine, so shouldn;t see any issues with it.
Kyle T
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Seat ibiza cupra R '04 diesel great on fuel and has a decent bhp.. And its got a shit load of torque!


I used to have a FR diesel for 6 years and it was epic. Consider the cupra on the list, cheers Chris!

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Puma and change
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13th Dec 15 at 15:04   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?
BeetleGav
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http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201510157825161
IvIarkgraham
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http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201511269009219?postcode=YO8%209FT&onesearchad=used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew&maximum-mileage=up_to_80000_miles&zero-to-60=fast&page=1&sort=default&radius=20&search-target=usedcars&body-type=hatchback&logcode=p
Kyle T
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will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?


Nope this will only ever be a daily until I need to trade it for a barge.

That said, if a 182 or similar came up, and a mega cheap trackday came up... Who knows

Never thought of looking at mk4 Astras before , good shout. What's wrong with the Beemer?

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could pickup a classic scooby for 2k
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That Astra looks value given the history, you'd need to keep it nice though.
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quote:
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?


Nope this will only ever be a daily until I need to trade it for a barge.

That said, if a 182 or similar came up, and a mega cheap trackday came up... Who knows

Never thought of looking at mk4 Astras before , good shout. What's wrong with the Beemer?


could have my coupe for £2500
Corsa_Sport21
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quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
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Originally posted by Kyle T
quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?


Nope this will only ever be a daily until I need to trade it for a barge.

That said, if a 182 or similar came up, and a mega cheap trackday came up... Who knows

Never thought of looking at mk4 Astras before , good shout. What's wrong with the Beemer?


could have my coupe for £2500


Does it come with free admission to the nut house?
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What track car you buying?
Kyle T
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What track car you buying?


Elise / VX220.

Got the cash for a really tidy VX already but the aesthetics of the Lotus keep drawing me away, so going to save up another couple of months and see what the markets are like.

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IvIarkgraham
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?


Nope this will only ever be a daily until I need to trade it for a barge.

That said, if a 182 or similar came up, and a mega cheap trackday came up... Who knows

Never thought of looking at mk4 Astras before , good shout. What's wrong with the Beemer?


could have my coupe for £2500


Does it come with free admission to the nut house?


if you want yeah
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I prefer the vx220 myself
antnee
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There is usually loads of cheap 172/182 for sale on Clio Sport Owners Club on Facebook, you would be able to get something quite decent for 2k
AndyCorsaSport
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
will you be using this hot hatch as your track car eventually?


Nope this will only ever be a daily until I need to trade it for a barge.

That said, if a 182 or similar came up, and a mega cheap trackday came up... Who knows

Never thought of looking at mk4 Astras before , good shout. What's wrong with the Beemer?


could have my coupe for £2500


Does it come with free admission to the nut house?


He must already be in the nut house to suggest £2500 for an old Astra coupe

You'll be best off with a 172/182 Kyle.
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civic type R (older shpae) - great cars and very reliable
Nic Barnes
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330d bmw, faster and more economical. and look less like a kids toy.
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quote:
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330d bmw, faster and more economical. and look less like a kids toy.


agree but I don't think you can get them for 2k
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Ep3's are hard to beat for what they are out the box but I've noticed lately that a lot are being broken due to bottom end failure or timing chain issues after a certain mileage.
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
330d bmw, faster and more economical. and look less like a kids toy.


agree but I don't think you can get them for 2k
suppose i sold mine a bit too cheap at £1400

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