RE: Vauxhall Vectra VXR estate | The Brave Pill
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AngryPartsBloke said:
That's because a Supertouring and an St200 were very different vehicles.
32 ST200's were made with AP racing calipers, koni adjustable suspension, speedline wheels GSI engine.
Supertourings are just white SRIs with the GSI interior.
Yep, it was the ST200 I would want - LSD, AP brakes, burbly V6 32 ST200's were made with AP racing calipers, koni adjustable suspension, speedline wheels GSI engine.
Supertourings are just white SRIs with the GSI interior.
Terrific
If I wanted a large red V6 Vauxhall estate my money would be going here all day long (no relation to seller etc):
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1327832
(Omega Elite estate and a manual!).
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1327832
(Omega Elite estate and a manual!).
almost didn't make it to the end of the article before going to the comments to laugh at those godawful wheels. What a metallic crime they are. Yuck. the stock wheels looked an entire universe better.
This is a cool sleeper, the Saab 2.8T is satisfyingly grunt even stock. But honesty for this money I'd rather have a Saab 9-3 Aero Sportwagen with the... exact... same... powertrain, but better looks and a less depressing interior.
Still, cool car.
This is a cool sleeper, the Saab 2.8T is satisfyingly grunt even stock. But honesty for this money I'd rather have a Saab 9-3 Aero Sportwagen with the... exact... same... powertrain, but better looks and a less depressing interior.
Still, cool car.
Had an '06' plate Cdti version of one of these a few years ago. Fantastic motorway cruiser, very relaxed, which was good as at that time i was doing a 110 miles a day commute.
But on anything other than motorway, the chassis was found wanting.
To be fair though, its an estate, designed for lugging big loads about. If you want a car that fast, agile and handles well, buy one that's designed for it.
But on anything other than motorway, the chassis was found wanting.
To be fair though, its an estate, designed for lugging big loads about. If you want a car that fast, agile and handles well, buy one that's designed for it.
I am almost sixty now and have never owned a Vauxhall of any description . Back in the Sixties and Seventies when I was a kid there was something called Brand Loyalty which today seems totally ridiculous . Inevitably It was something from British Leyland , Vauxhall or Ford and looking at this VXR again in preference I am thinking Ford like my old man did . ST220 in that lovely Metallic Blue please !
milu said:
soopernoodle said:
Weren't these absolutely blighted by shockingly bad understeer? (even for a big engined fwd barge) I'm sure I remember Clarkson smoking the tyres trying to get around the hammerhead and going straight on 
No..it was Clarkson being a twit..Difference was, EVO mag didn’t pull out the fuses for the traction control and active damping in the interest of tyre smoking telly!
Top Gear magazine did admit it some time after
stickleback123 said:
If you really must have a FWD scrabble wagon then Volvo sold a T6 V70.
I thought those were all 4WD and auto? I know my mate had to replace the rear axle in his as the dif was made of cheese. Auto is no bad thing for this sort of car but I know a lot of people would want a manual.donkmeister said:
stickleback123 said:
If you really must have a FWD scrabble wagon then Volvo sold a T6 V70.
I thought those were all 4WD and auto? I know my mate had to replace the rear axle in his as the dif was made of cheese. Auto is no bad thing for this sort of car but I know a lot of people would want a manual.andyalan10 said:
The groupthink here really is Maoist. Or should that be Orwellian. I'm not sure.
The uniform must be dark grey metallic and carry a MBMVW badge. Anything else is socially unacceptable.
Here is a car that costs about the same amount as the essential options add to a typical £80-90,000 German car.
It comes in the same colour that people used to choose on Bentley Turbo Rs, series III Jaguar XJ12s and the like.
A lot of people seem to think it takes more bravery than they could ever summon up to choose a car with a different badge, or of a different colour.
I'll go and take my pills now.
Underacknowledged and underappreciated comment. There is a degree of truth spoketh here...The uniform must be dark grey metallic and carry a MBMVW badge. Anything else is socially unacceptable.
Here is a car that costs about the same amount as the essential options add to a typical £80-90,000 German car.
It comes in the same colour that people used to choose on Bentley Turbo Rs, series III Jaguar XJ12s and the like.
A lot of people seem to think it takes more bravery than they could ever summon up to choose a car with a different badge, or of a different colour.
I'll go and take my pills now.
I had one of the police versions in hatchback form. They were called Vectra V6 Special but were pretty much a Vectra with SRi bodykit, base interior, Zafira alloys but they had the VXR active damping, brakes, engine. They're badged simply as 'V6 Turbo' and all came with xenon headlights (I think because it used the levelling system to feed level information to the damping system) and dual zone climate control but not much else.
Quick and drove really well. I bought it for (old) shed money and it's one of my favourite cars I've had. Thirsty and heavy on tax admittedly.
I never saw a problem with the interior really, after 170k miles it still felt solid and I thought it looked fine, apart from all the holes that were drilled into mine for brackets for police equipment!
I think the main reason I got rid of it was that the seats weren't great. I should've just got a set of heated leather seats with lumbar support from a scrap Vectra Elite (they are very good seats) for about £100 on eBay but I didn't. I regret that, in hindsight. I should've done that and kept it.
Quick and drove really well. I bought it for (old) shed money and it's one of my favourite cars I've had. Thirsty and heavy on tax admittedly.
I never saw a problem with the interior really, after 170k miles it still felt solid and I thought it looked fine, apart from all the holes that were drilled into mine for brackets for police equipment!
I think the main reason I got rid of it was that the seats weren't great. I should've just got a set of heated leather seats with lumbar support from a scrap Vectra Elite (they are very good seats) for about £100 on eBay but I didn't. I regret that, in hindsight. I should've done that and kept it.
radovich said:
andyalan10 said:
The groupthink here really is Maoist. Or should that be Orwellian. I'm not sure.
The uniform must be dark grey metallic and carry a MBMVW badge. Anything else is socially unacceptable.
Here is a car that costs about the same amount as the essential options add to a typical £80-90,000 German car.
It comes in the same colour that people used to choose on Bentley Turbo Rs, series III Jaguar XJ12s and the like.
A lot of people seem to think it takes more bravery than they could ever summon up to choose a car with a different badge, or of a different colour.
I'll go and take my pills now.
Underacknowledged and underappreciated comment. There is a degree of truth spoketh here...The uniform must be dark grey metallic and carry a MBMVW badge. Anything else is socially unacceptable.
Here is a car that costs about the same amount as the essential options add to a typical £80-90,000 German car.
It comes in the same colour that people used to choose on Bentley Turbo Rs, series III Jaguar XJ12s and the like.
A lot of people seem to think it takes more bravery than they could ever summon up to choose a car with a different badge, or of a different colour.
I'll go and take my pills now.
After the next VED rise these will be £600 a year. For £6k you could probably buy the same age A4 2.0tfsi Avant quattro, that with a remap would have similar output. And cost half as much to tax, plus leave the Vectra for dead in the wet. Admittedly the Vauxhall has more space, but I'd probably pick a Volvo for that.
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