Stablemate to the chim?
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We have had several of these threads in the past but this has a twist.
I've run mainly 4x4s as the daily for years but now all the offspring now drive the "heavy" of the motoring world is less fun and more pointless.
I posted this up lst night on the TD forum thinking I'd get loads of advise but as yet it's either too boring or they're still asleep!
So, having only had an hour of ebaying I thought I'd put the following to your collective knowledge.
Here's my TD forum post:
A bit of advice required from you guys.
I run a sorted TVR for play and TDs which Ii really enjoy,..............when it's dry.
I've recently attended a couple of really wet TDs and you might as well stay at home.
Now please don't say that wet days teach you all sorts of things, I don't want to know.
My Tiv is brilliant in the dry and lethal in the wet. Yes, you can drive it in the wet but Miss daisy will be passing you!
Here's the thing, about 4 years ago I did a Combe TD in winter, sleeting wet, the worst conditions.
I left the tiv at home and took my remapped VRS Octavia which I had only used on the road. What a day, I loved it.
Yes traction, yes ABS etc, etc.
I wasn't cheating, it was real world fun and I loved it. That was the only time I used it on track because I have been so lucky with the weather on TDs.
Sooo, after years of family 4x4s I believe it's time to put the daily ML out to pasture.
Logic states, buy at least a front wheel drive replacement, better still something with 4x4 underpinnings.
Something fast, capable, safe in the wet, (and on the road) and won't break the bank mpg wise.
I do about 15K miles a year, meet clients and need to keep a respectable image, (not the old cliche "boy racer").
Budget, about 6-8K.
This is an honest question as I don't keep up to date with the last 10 years of cars.
?
Edited to say, yes this will be used on track. So capable but not hardcore!
I've run mainly 4x4s as the daily for years but now all the offspring now drive the "heavy" of the motoring world is less fun and more pointless.
I posted this up lst night on the TD forum thinking I'd get loads of advise but as yet it's either too boring or they're still asleep!
So, having only had an hour of ebaying I thought I'd put the following to your collective knowledge.
Here's my TD forum post:
A bit of advice required from you guys.
I run a sorted TVR for play and TDs which Ii really enjoy,..............when it's dry.
I've recently attended a couple of really wet TDs and you might as well stay at home.
Now please don't say that wet days teach you all sorts of things, I don't want to know.
My Tiv is brilliant in the dry and lethal in the wet. Yes, you can drive it in the wet but Miss daisy will be passing you!
Here's the thing, about 4 years ago I did a Combe TD in winter, sleeting wet, the worst conditions.
I left the tiv at home and took my remapped VRS Octavia which I had only used on the road. What a day, I loved it.
Yes traction, yes ABS etc, etc.
I wasn't cheating, it was real world fun and I loved it. That was the only time I used it on track because I have been so lucky with the weather on TDs.
Sooo, after years of family 4x4s I believe it's time to put the daily ML out to pasture.
Logic states, buy at least a front wheel drive replacement, better still something with 4x4 underpinnings.
Something fast, capable, safe in the wet, (and on the road) and won't break the bank mpg wise.
I do about 15K miles a year, meet clients and need to keep a respectable image, (not the old cliche "boy racer").
Budget, about 6-8K.
This is an honest question as I don't keep up to date with the last 10 years of cars.
?
Edited to say, yes this will be used on track. So capable but not hardcore!
Observation from driving 150 miles of single carriageway A roads on Friday in the pissing rain, puddles,, rivers etc etc everywhere and never saw them before I hit them.
After all the good comments on the TVR forums, my newly acquired Saab Turbo estate is shod with Uniroyal Rainmaster 3 tyres.
What an eye-opener! Car as stable as a rock, never aquaplaned once, handled it all as if it virtually wasn't there.
If it is (still) raining on Friday I think I might take the front wheel drive, 260 bhp, stealth mode Saab on track on its Rainmasters. It has the most comfortable seats in any car I have ever owned, and that includes Lexus LS400, Volvo 850 T5, Audi A8 and Renault 25 (crap car, great seats), and is a manual. You are welcome to take it for a few laps or a test drive. It cost me £1,500 for a 2006 car, plus about another £1000 to change the oil, front brakes, aircon pump and all four tyres, so your budget would buy a newer and lower mileage one.
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After all the good comments on the TVR forums, my newly acquired Saab Turbo estate is shod with Uniroyal Rainmaster 3 tyres.
What an eye-opener! Car as stable as a rock, never aquaplaned once, handled it all as if it virtually wasn't there.
If it is (still) raining on Friday I think I might take the front wheel drive, 260 bhp, stealth mode Saab on track on its Rainmasters. It has the most comfortable seats in any car I have ever owned, and that includes Lexus LS400, Volvo 850 T5, Audi A8 and Renault 25 (crap car, great seats), and is a manual. You are welcome to take it for a few laps or a test drive. It cost me £1,500 for a 2006 car, plus about another £1000 to change the oil, front brakes, aircon pump and all four tyres, so your budget would buy a newer and lower mileage one.
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This is mine
ch427 said:
The focus is a capable car if you can live with the image, what are parts like to get hold of for saabs these days?
It would have to be a plain colour.From left field.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Saab-9-3-Aero-Ttid-DIESE...
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