S1.5 and 2 Differences

S1.5 and 2 Differences

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Stwdv

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273 posts

123 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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What are the main ones please, I am trying tell which mine is ?

GreenV8S

30,150 posts

283 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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S2 has the 2.9 V6.

SS2.

14,455 posts

237 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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Thought some of the S1.5 models came with the 2.9 V6?

Mine, for instance (which I always assumed was an S1.5) - late F plate, 2.9 V6, S1 dash, S1 alloys, older style dash arrangement, etc.

GreenV8S

30,150 posts

283 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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You're probably right.

We pretend that there were discrete models with a few variations, but I think the reality is there was a steady stream of cars produced over the years with varying specs, some similar, some not, and the model numbers we use just group together the cars that seem kinda similar.

phillpot

17,105 posts

182 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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Surely there are no specific differences as an S 1.5 never really existed, it is only a term used to describe transition cars caught somewhere between the S1 and the S2?

SS2.

14,455 posts

237 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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I think that's pretty much the case.

The S2 was the successor to the S1, with whatever bits they had lying around the factory being used on units produced during the transition between versions.

This is why there's a bit of a mixed bag of parts fitted to the late F / early G plated cars.

Barry S1

1,709 posts

188 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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The 1.5 has still got wind up Windows but has the 2.9, that's about it I think.

glenrobbo

35,077 posts

149 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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Or electric windows and the 2.8... wobble

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Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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There is no S1.5. It's just something someone came up with to try and describe a car built around 1989. There was no clean break between S1 and S2, so quite a few cars have a mix of bits. Mine, for example, looks like an S2 and has S2 geometry on the rear suspension, only it has wind-up windows and a 2.8 V6. You also find 2.9 cars with S1 wheels and so on.

I'd say if you've got a 2.8, it's an S1. If it's 2.9, it's S2. If we're having little variations on a theme, we'd need to have some for S2.5 models too, where you've got the longer doors but the earlier bonnet, and crap wing mirrors.

cb500t

149 posts

87 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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SS2. said:
Thought some of the S1.5 models came with the 2.9 V6?

Mine, for instance (which I always assumed was an S1.5) - late F plate, 2.9 V6, S1 dash, S1 alloys, older style dash arrangement, etc.
Same as mine....and I assumed its a 1.5.