RE: Shed of the week: Seat Arosa 1.4 Sport

[E36Dan]

I wanted one of these for a first car. Reasonable performance, low insurance, centre exit exhaust! What more could you want.

[colin_p]

cookie1600 said:

If I bought this, I'd take a few precautions

I've always thought that whenever I've seen one.

Wonder if Shed of the Week will ever feature a Nissan Enema?


Besides, those Arousers are gumpingly ugly and as well as having a rubber-jonny-esque name also look like Beavis. Any family who happened to have a Rav4 would have cars that look like Beavis and Butthead.

[humphra]

kellyt said:

I like coffee flavoured Revels

That's just WRONG. No one could like the coffee ones.

I do too. But then I drive an old mx5 and an old slk...... I'll get me coat.

Edited by humphra on Friday 9th November 15:06

[BeirutTaxi]

Built during the dark era of VW build quality. Avoid.

[Richard-390a0]

sr.guiri said:

can't remember said:

I think it's about time this feature was killed.

SACRILEGE!!!!! You can't say that.....this is the only Pistonheads feature worth reading.....much more relevant (to me) than a million BHP McLaren that only 3 people in this country will buy.

My purpose of being is to read Shed of the Week......

To be fair I enjoy sotw too, but I skim the Mrs Shed old cobblers & just read the bit about the car. You just can't please everyone or anyone if you go by most of the threads on here rofl!!

[aka_kerrly]

BeirutTaxi said:

Built during the dark era of VW build quality. Avoid.

Nonsense, these are cracking little cars with very little that can go wrong.

its a fun little engine in a tiny chassis how can it not be liked?

Granted id rather a yellow one.

[the_hood]

Seat's of this era aren't well build in my experience. I'll pass, thanks.

[kellyt]

humphra said:

kellyt said:

I like coffee flavoured Revels

That's just WRONG. No one could like the coffee ones.

I do too. But then I drive an old mx5 and an old slk...... I'll get me coat.

Edited by humphra on Friday 9th November 15:06

Slk? No, take a seat again, sir. That's an interesting car. Quite fancied one myself. My experience of Mazdas on the other hand...

[DomRoePhotography]

Had a 1.0l version of this as my first car. God awful thing in boggo spec with an insurance box fitted, but handled well! Had a tendency to rip through spark plugs and coil packs (every 3,000 miles!!!)

Eventually got Cat-D written off by a poor old lass who t-boned me, took the payout and drove it around with a huge dent in the side for another 2,000 miles until the valve stem seals disintegrated and hell broke loose!

Kinda got put off them after that!

[njw1]

kellyt said:

I like coffee flavoured Revels

That's just WRONG. No one could like the coffee ones.

Coffee flavour Revels are my favourite.

[s m]

re33 said:

can't remember said:

I think it's about time this feature was killed.

Strongly disagree. It's the only thing I make a point of reading. This is a great example, forgotten model that's fun to drive. You don't have to buy it!

Did there used to be a £5K car of the week? Would seem like a good feature to me if same amount of effort was put in as SOTW.

Yes, 5k feature would be good

[BeastieBoy73]

kellyt said:

humphra said:

kellyt said:

I like coffee flavoured Revels

That's just WRONG. No one could like the coffee ones.

I do too. But then I drive an old mx5 and an old slk...... I'll get me coat.

Edited by humphra on Friday 9th November 15:06

Slk? No, take a seat again, sir. That's an interesting car. Quite fancied one myself. My experience of Mazdas on the other hand...

My wife has had a couple of MX5s, both have lost the battle to rust. She now has a 2002 SLK and hates it. It is a manual one and I have to admit, the gearbox, especially when compared to the MX5's is terrible... She wants another MX5 asap.

Back to shed... Quite like the Arosa. Friend had a Lupo GTI and given they are now victims of a scene tax, this little car looks like a chunk of fun, for a lot less.

Shed of the week is the only article I look out for on Pistonheads. I know it tends to go live between 7:30-9am on a Friday and check it as soon as I can. Quite often, it's something I've little interest in but other times it can throw up a gem.

I know I'm never going to own any of the cars featured but I find it an entertaining read regardless (especially when there is no 'comedy' mention of Mrs Shed).

There's plenty on Pistonheads (and in the world, generally) that I've no interest in. I don't find it difficult to ignore/not read it though.

[BeirutTaxi]

aka_kerrly said:

Nonsense, these are cracking little cars with very little that can go wrong.

its a fun little engine in a tiny chassis how can it not be liked?

Granted id rather a yellow one.

Owned a Polo GTI of the same era, never owned such an unreliable second hand car.

[SandyT]

njw1 said:

Coffee flavour Revels are my favourite.

+1 for the coffee flavour Revels!

Shed should save himself some time every week and just select a Revel for us to debate. Although someone would still say that a Golf R was a better option...

[aka_kerrly]

BeirutTaxi said:

Owned a Polo GTI of the same era, never owned such an unreliable second hand car.

Shame, there are some lemons around. My limited experience of Polo GTIs is a few mates have had them over the years and they didn't have any major dramas other than the BBS wheels corroding and the pedal boxes cracking. I bought one just for the engine but never drove it. .

There have been a few Ibizas & Polos in my family from the 1997-2004 era which have been mostly trouble free(for context, as reliable as you would expect a middle aged car to be) . Me an my brother had a couple of Polo 16vs which were bombproof. The last one was only taken off the road in order to put the engine into a mk2 Polo and then the mk3 shell was turned into a rally car with a 1.6GTI.