NickAdams

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Have driven a VX220 turbo my neighbour brought home one night (He works for a vauxhall dealer) and have to say the acceleration was phenomenal.It's quite 'cosy' in the cabin too especially with two people in there.If you take a bird out in it that has a short skirt,it's worth hangin around as you'll get a real eyeful as the sills are soooo wide and it's virtually impossible to make a 'gracious' entrance into the thing!!
The only downside for me (And probably cos I'm a lazy git and like the luxury) is that there's no power assistance on the steering!!! (I'm sure someone will correct me and say power steering is for wimps though )

Good luck and forget what the badge says!! (They're a nice motor)

Nick

john_s

iTrader: (1)

I test drove a NA 220 (only for a play - my mate's buying one), and i didn't like the overly heavy steering - would perhaps benefit from a bit larger wheel, but don't think it need power assistance.

Didn't push it too hard, but it felt like it had very similar acceleration to my scoob.

John.

T5NYW

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Dave,
Still got the overweight underpowered STi7 I would love a Turbo version but need the 4 seats ;( of topic but has anyone tried The Nissian 350Z ? is that a 2+2 ? how much ?

Neal,
Most on here are Petrol heads and love all cars there will always be some snobery my bit of snobery is I'll never buy a French car yet like the Laguna nobody's perfect C'est la vie or someting like that

V-techland

Two of my friends have driven these and said they were the best fun that they've had in a car for ages (driving that is!)

One has come from an Evo 5 and the other a 2-door Sti - V5 type -r running 317bhp, so they are not exactly novices to fast cars

Regal (and Courtney?) offer a 270 bhp conversion on the Astra Coupe Turbo's! Add this to a custom Stainless exhaust and I can imagine that it would be a real (Q-car) weapon!!

If a Blink motorsport Civic Type-r engined Elise can do 0-60 in 4secs flat and get to 100 in well under 10, then imagine what a 270 bhp VX220 would be capable of???

PS = Just check if the warranty will still be valid!! hehehehe

Ian Griffiths

Nice in theory but I don't think you can hike the power up that much because of cooling issues. I may be wrong though and yes, a 270 brake VX would be a sheer weapon.

You and your badge snobbery anyway, farmer fodder

Gedi

these things sound like a lot of fun. Can't wait to test drive one now.