Thursday 15th August 2002
Astra Tat
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Discussion
Like Duh! Makes it look wikkid!
I think it all comes down to the fact that people want to make their cars different to everyone else. Doesn't matter if it's a knackered old XR2, a van or a TVR.. people like to personalise it a bit.. or make it better.
HOWEVER, the issue of taste, intelligence and knowledge (and money) are the variable factors...
I think it all comes down to the fact that people want to make their cars different to everyone else. Doesn't matter if it's a knackered old XR2, a van or a TVR.. people like to personalise it a bit.. or make it better.
HOWEVER, the issue of taste, intelligence and knowledge (and money) are the variable factors...
I hired an Astra yesterday, only 'cos they had run out of Focuses. Jesus, what a pile of shite.
I thought the journos had praised the chassis and handling? I found it nervous and twitchy with the chassis flexing all over the show. Maybe I'm comparing it to the Scooby which is unfair, but bloody hell - what a crap car.
I thought the journos had praised the chassis and handling? I found it nervous and twitchy with the chassis flexing all over the show. Maybe I'm comparing it to the Scooby which is unfair, but bloody hell - what a crap car.
There is no accounting for some people. Last night I saw a bright orange Metro cruising around Maidenhead wtih blacked out windows and no bumpers, blasting out Scooter on the stereo. I could not help but remember the Jaffa Orange mini based cars they used to keep in a garage in Tring.
Cool no, but the small ones are more juicy
Cool no, but the small ones are more juicy
Ok I am going to chuck the cat among the pigeons with this one but I think it looks good.
I am all opposed to nova boys bolting rubbish to their cars but where do you draw the line. Example a E30 325i BMW with M3 arches, crap? The original ethos was that it was done to fit larger wheels/tyers, so is doing it after the car left the factory uncool. Is a factory fit bodykit ok, would the last M3 have the same kudos without the spoilers.
If Vauxhal had built the van with metal spoilers as an integeral part of the bodywork ala E30 M3 would that be ok? or is it that they have been added later in GRP a problem?.
My E30 325i was bought second hand but has a factory fit front spoiler, is that ok or will I be slagged off if it did not come with it and I added it, or should I now remove it as I fall under the banner of a bolt on boy?.
I am all opposed to nova boys bolting rubbish to their cars but where do you draw the line. Example a E30 325i BMW with M3 arches, crap? The original ethos was that it was done to fit larger wheels/tyers, so is doing it after the car left the factory uncool. Is a factory fit bodykit ok, would the last M3 have the same kudos without the spoilers.
If Vauxhal had built the van with metal spoilers as an integeral part of the bodywork ala E30 M3 would that be ok? or is it that they have been added later in GRP a problem?.
My E30 325i was bought second hand but has a factory fit front spoiler, is that ok or will I be slagged off if it did not come with it and I added it, or should I now remove it as I fall under the banner of a bolt on boy?.
I think the main problem people have with bolting bits of plastic to mundane cars is that the people that do it are trying to make it appear as something its not - ie - a proper car. Like these Nova boys spending £10k trying to make there car look cool when they could have spent the money on a car that IS cool
Ted, those door mirrors you've got for sale.... are they still there? I NEED a set of them man.... could you hold them for me? (if they haven't already gone) I calculate that in NZ dollars, 14 K quid works out to be about $45,000,000 which is a BARGAIN.... you know the numbers Ted.... just dial 'em 
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Some novas are actually quite good? Believe it or not, I have seen a nova beat a new shape WRX at santa pod... and it would have cost the owner loads less than 1/2 the price of a shiney wrx!
As philshort said - you can make anything go in a straight line... but how much of it was REALLY Nova, or was it a spaceframe with a Nova body on it... and either way, the Nova shape is hardly pretty is it?
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I hired an Astra yesterday, only 'cos they had run out of Focuses. Jesus, what a pile of shite.
I thought the journos had praised the chassis and handling? I found it nervous and twitchy with the chassis flexing all over the show. Maybe I'm comparing it to the Scooby which is unfair, but bloody hell - what a crap car.
your right the handlings crap , Very nervy ,handling by lotus would you belive , Lettuce moelike
, ive just had a close shave with a tractor in mine and its totally destroyed the rear shock on the passengers side , Handles worse now like its got a flat tyre quote:
Apart from the engine it was mainly as vauxhall intended. The engine was a 2ltr 8v, with a turbo and NO2.
And I have been in 1.4 novas that go round Race Cicuits faster than Elises etc!
An Elise is powered by a hairdryer...so what?
I've seen them burnt out in a layby...so what?
You see a NOVA, loud ICE, loud exhaust, loud paintjob...you think tosser...you are never wrong!
If it does not fit the above descrption it is either an 18 year old student..and mum & dad bought the car or else it is a NUMPTY
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You see a NOVA, loud ICE, loud exhaust, loud paintjob...you think tosser...you are never wrong!
I always think that when I see bolt-on-boys Nova outside Halfords, and then you go inside and spot him looking through the glass of "W@nkers Window" drooling over some shiney peice of bolt-on crap that costs £50 that does nothing.
nice one annom, at least someone on here is open minded!!!!, as you say they are only doing the best with what they have got, might not be to everyone ones taste but fair play to them, I used to be what you would class as a bolt on boy until I could afford a TVR!!! Most of them are decent blokes (and girls) who are just very interested in cars (like most of us on here!!), but the odd one is a complete w@nker who gives them all bad names!!!
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