RE: Citroen Saxo VTS: Spotted
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£500 tin can.
You can still buy a manky or thrashed one for banger money. There's a quite clean, unmessed with one on the bay for 1500 quid at the moment. They are a relic of the days when you could still buy a normal car that weighed under a ton, so 120 hp is probably adequate.
Small hot hatches of this era were properly in the front lines back in the late 90s because 17 and 18 year olds could actually get insured on them. They have a reputation for fragility but did get the living shinola thrashed out of them, plus the typical owner could barely afford to put fuel in let alone service them so they weren't exactly well cared for.
Small hot hatches of this era were properly in the front lines back in the late 90s because 17 and 18 year olds could actually get insured on them. They have a reputation for fragility but did get the living shinola thrashed out of them, plus the typical owner could barely afford to put fuel in let alone service them so they weren't exactly well cared for.
LewisR said:
It fails the No. cyls > No. seats test... and it's FWD and it's a hatchback.
You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
A Z4 is more of a comfy cruiser and a 325i is a bit of a barge in comparison to a hot-hatch. So, two completely different cars mentioned there. You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
Edited by LewisR on Thursday 12th October 12:23
Unless you mean an 325ti Compact?
sidesauce said:
£43,000 for a Peugeot 205GTI!? £43. Thousand. Pounds!?!?! Even with all the work on offer to be done to the next buyer?
No. Just..... How?
No.
I came here to say.....well exactly what you did actually No. Just..... How?
No.
I'm sorry but you would have to be absolutely barking mad to pay even half that for a 205 GTI!
The fact is, it's not meant to be bought to be driven, it's meant to be put in a collection until it does a 205 GTI and rises to stupid prices. It'd be this for me:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...
aaron_2000 said:
The fact is, it's not meant to be bought to be driven, it's meant to be put in a collection until it does a 205 GTI and rises to stupid prices. It'd be this for me:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...
127k miles. "Over £1000 of welding done recently"https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...
kayzee said:
Just look at that arch gap, no wonder everyone lowered them!
Yes that was back in the day when cars also rode well as well as just handled - a lost art in the current era of 20+" rims and slammed suspension.I'd wager a guess that a Saxo (in good order obviously) would give some much more powerful modern hot hatches a good run for their money....on Britain's crumbling infrastructure
A Clio 172, even in Phase 1 form scores a 4* Euro Ncap rating (properly impressive in the late 90's in any segment). The Saxo scores 2*! It's basically turns in to a plastic bag on impact.
That is the problem for me, now being a proper adult. I couldn't drive my kids in one. I'd drive them around in the Clio though.
That is the problem for me, now being a proper adult. I couldn't drive my kids in one. I'd drive them around in the Clio though.
Edited by lee_erm on Thursday 12th October 16:10
molineux1980 said:
I think Citroen sold the VTR with free insurance for a while.
At 17, I looked on with jealousy while I pootled (and crashed) around in my Fondmetal wheeled Nova 1.2. Saloon. In brown.
Happy days.
Also the VTS got the insurance deal ( at least in 99 ).At 17, I looked on with jealousy while I pootled (and crashed) around in my Fondmetal wheeled Nova 1.2. Saloon. In brown.
Happy days.
I test drove the VTS and the 106GTi.
Bought the VTS as it would have cost over a grand extra to get the nicer interior trim of the 106Gti - wasn't worth it to me
culpz said:
LewisR said:
It fails the No. cyls > No. seats test... and it's FWD and it's a hatchback.
You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
A Z4 is more of a comfy cruiser and a 325i is a bit of a barge in comparison to a hot-hatch. So, two completely different cars mentioned there. You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
Edited by LewisR on Thursday 12th October 12:23
Unless you mean an 325ti Compact?
LewisR said:
culpz said:
LewisR said:
It fails the No. cyls > No. seats test... and it's FWD and it's a hatchback.
You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
A Z4 is more of a comfy cruiser and a 325i is a bit of a barge in comparison to a hot-hatch. So, two completely different cars mentioned there. You can get a straight-6 Z4 or 325i for the same price.
Edited by LewisR on Thursday 12th October 12:23
Unless you mean an 325ti Compact?
LewisR said:
Understeer is fun ?
RWD straight-6 cars are a massive amount of fun. I can't see how a shopping car would be any more so.
The BMWs are considerably quicker too.
And also costs a fortune to fix when things go wrong...RWD straight-6 cars are a massive amount of fun. I can't see how a shopping car would be any more so.
The BMWs are considerably quicker too.
It's different strokes for different folks here, clearly.
Edited by culpz on Thursday 12th October 16:50
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