Pug 306 GTi-6
10 August 2005, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
As you say it's the best hot hatch ever according to a magazine article written 7 years ago.
10 August 2005, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Senior_AP
Overall best hot hatch ever made.
Thanks.
Thanks.
It goes OK if you're gunning it, and handling is good. If you cut out the BS thats where its good points end IMO.
Other than those 'plus' points it's no different to several other 'ordinary' 306's I've had, i.e identical seats, dashboard and everthing else. No way does it feel special at all, a very ordinary and dull daily driver.
As for the £18k when new price tag, well what can you say, just shows what idiots there are out there LOL.
10 August 2005, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ForesterBoy
I've got one ('99), and frankly as an overall car to own long term I'd say it's pretty grim TBH.
It goes OK if you're gunning it, and handling is good. If you cut out the BS thats where its good points end IMO.
Other than those 'plus' points it's no different to several other 'ordinary' 306's I've had, i.e identical seats, dashboard and everthing else. No way does it feel special at all, a very ordinary and dull daily driver.
It goes OK if you're gunning it, and handling is good. If you cut out the BS thats where its good points end IMO.
Other than those 'plus' points it's no different to several other 'ordinary' 306's I've had, i.e identical seats, dashboard and everthing else. No way does it feel special at all, a very ordinary and dull daily driver.
It's clear you're missing the point. A bit like saying "VTEC is hard work". Or, if you wanted to 'jazz it up' - some white dials perhaps??? 
QUOTE: "The best hot hatches are not necessarily the fastest: a good one needs more than just a powerful engine. They have to have agile suspension, well-placed gear ratios, loads of grip and excellent balance, as well as razor-sharp reactions and racy responses".
Looks are subjective, the GTi-6's strengths are purely factual based.
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10 August 2005, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Senior_AP
5 pages of thead and you've just twigged?
10 August 2005, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
I never doubted it was a good hot hatch 7 years ago, I said that on an earlier thread.
The rest is subjective and purely 'opinion', and one should never begrudge somebody of one of those.
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10 August 2005, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
Especially when viewed though rose tinited specs
Ranout of things to say I take it.
I'm far from rose-tinted-glasses mentality, Hell - I admitted several car purchasing mistakes, much like my Mk1 Clio 172 (the one you said was 'gay' when you had your Impreza). Remember the time? When all RWD cars were death-traps (when I had the M3) and I'd end up in the ditch cos of it?
Rose tinted glasses indeed. lol
Oh, sorry I forgot - you're a "late developer".
10 August 2005, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
I had time to read that......lol
For anybody following this thread, it was just more observational comedy about Davyboy.
10 August 2005, 09:48 AM
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Am I wrong but was the Golf GTi not the daddy in the early days, this was then surpassed by the 205GTi which was then beaten by the Clio williams, then a load of crap was made until the 172/182 clio came along? Evo mag seem to think the 182 with the clio williams close behind.
306 is a great car for sure but im not sure it was ever good enough to hold the title.
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306 is a great car for sure but im not sure it was ever good enough to hold the title.
Gary
10 August 2005, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
post it again then
Originally Posted by Senior_AP
Davyboy just PM'd me and asked me to not mention the fact he prefers men to women.
10 August 2005, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
Wasn't the 944 turbo the best car ever made for a short period of time too Senior??? 
....... Oh yeah but now its rear wheel drive turbo lag crap
couldnt resist.....
Gary
....... Oh yeah but now its rear wheel drive turbo lag crap couldnt resist.....
Gary
Regarding your opinions about hot hatches, which were spot on except 1 little flaw, read the below link (again), last paragraph:
http://www.dzidek.nildram.co.uk/Cars..._Road_Test.jpg
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10 August 2005, 09:55 AM
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....or just do a google - plenty of articles stating the letters "P e u g e o t" and the numbers "3 0 and 6" in the same sentence as best/definitive hot hatch etc. As there are for the 205 in the early late 80's/early 90's, and Golf GTi in the mid 80's.
10 August 2005, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
Link doesn't work thankfully
10 August 2005, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Senior_AP
I didn't like that old heap when I owned it, and was happy to see the back of it
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340450
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340907
10 August 2005, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
'bout those rose tinted specs
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340450
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340907
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340450
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=340907
How funny it is reading back over that!! I'll be the first to admit how very wrong I was back then, and how scary it is how much I sounded like someone else I know.....!! "I was in denial, and I soon got bored"
at putting more oil in it than I did petrol, amongst all the other crap involved in owning the poxy old thing. Well, we live, we learn - and we progress.
I've subsequently learnt that car ownership should only make one person happy - yourself, so from now on I'm far more open about what I like/dislike, with the purpose of pleasing nobody other than myself. The Pug
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10 August 2005, 01:27 PM
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....just been thinking about this.
Apart from the high oil consumption, all the problems he had are the same I had, only squeezed into a 5 month time frame, Rather than 3 years for mine.
Apart from the high oil consumption, all the problems he had are the same I had, only squeezed into a 5 month time frame, Rather than 3 years for mine.
10 August 2005, 01:31 PM
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I just didn't like the car enough to spend the sort of money on it that I was spending. If it wasn't one thing it was another.
Anyway, that's been done to death - I'm happy now with the Pug.
Anyway, that's been done to death - I'm happy now with the Pug.
10 August 2005, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
Don't start this again Gary! Please!
As my above previous post, not interested in talking about it - this is a positive thread, not a negative one.
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