Best Hot Hatch!!!!
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106 Gti.
- Handled as well as the 205 but with a little less chance of death if lift off on a bend.
- Well enough equipped that a cross country journey was acceptable for up to 4 people
- A great design that still looks pretty fresh today.
- So many different colours that each one stood out in it's own right (Sundance Yellow and Cherry Red being the best!)
- Giant killing performance in their day, 7.4 seconds to 60mph and a top speed nearing 130mph in something that small in 1997 was impressive.
- Excellent fuel economy, 35-40mpg normal driving and 50mpg possible on a run.
- Huge tuning ability later in their lives, gaining 20-30bhp is easily done and puts them right on par with newer more powerful cars.
- But most importantly there is nothing FWD that gets close for fun factor. 99% of people that drive will say it is the most fun car they have driven and in a hot hatch that says a lot!
- Handled as well as the 205 but with a little less chance of death if lift off on a bend.
- Well enough equipped that a cross country journey was acceptable for up to 4 people
- A great design that still looks pretty fresh today.
- So many different colours that each one stood out in it's own right (Sundance Yellow and Cherry Red being the best!)
- Giant killing performance in their day, 7.4 seconds to 60mph and a top speed nearing 130mph in something that small in 1997 was impressive.
- Excellent fuel economy, 35-40mpg normal driving and 50mpg possible on a run.
- Huge tuning ability later in their lives, gaining 20-30bhp is easily done and puts them right on par with newer more powerful cars.
- But most importantly there is nothing FWD that gets close for fun factor. 99% of people that drive will say it is the most fun car they have driven and in a hot hatch that says a lot!
SteveSteveson said:
Clio V6. Awesome, no compromise, totally silly car.
From what I recall - it had a dose of 1970's Porsche-itous!,ie, if you went for it in a tight bend and over did the throttle, you ended up in the hedge, ditch, wall or what ever!"The car is all the more remarkable for the fact that Renault needed a second go to get it right - the first version famously proving too wayward in the wet for some buyers."
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