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Trophy has Recaro's, dynamique rear bench (cloth, no headrests), Speedline Turini Alloys, and the dogs danglies suspension wise.
182 has leatherette/alcantara interior, auto xenons, auto wipers, climate control (air con on the Trophy). probably more I'm not mentioning.
If your not into...
Picked up my Trophy tonight, good and bad so far.
Good:
-Handling, even on worn tyres and in the wet the front end feels nailed to the apex
-Noise. Has decat, stainless exhaust, bmc cda, sounds great.
Bad:
-Boot lock screwed! Apparently a fairly common fault, new solenoid required, but until...
When EVO ran a test, CTR and Jag (supercharged) showed the most gains, BMW m-coupe showed hardly any (better made lump). I use them more for the cleaning additives and smoother idle than any performance gain.
Whenever I've tried the Tesco stuff, car has run really badly. I think it's because of the Ethanol, IIRC it's not a true 99ron fuel, they artificially push the ron up with the ethanol (as opposed to Vpower which is true 99)
Also the age of the fuel plays a big role, octane rating drops with time. So find the fuel your indivual car runs best on (Vpower for me), then use a busy station where the fuel won't have been stored for months on end.
All these results mean nowt. It's been shown many times that different cars run better on different fuels (Evo's run better on Vpower, Scoobs on BP Ultimate IIRC).
But the RS's have quite a poor amount of suspension travel (one of the biggest improvments on the 197) so although the drop would look good, would kind of defeat the purpose of the car.
Vee's are amazing cars, but don't go over the top defending it. As I've said before, it's an aquired taste. I know several people that can't stand 911's because of the light front end and the style you have to drive them in order to get the speed out of them. The same probably applies to the...
Few years ago, 2 of the gf's wheels were stolen (no idea why, standard rover 25 1.4). Rings up the garage, girl on reception "Oh dear, that sounds nasty. If you drive over, we'll take a look".
Kind of moron that fails a mcdonalds interview.