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[alexjb]

Evening all, me and the missus (Stacey) ordered a new clio 200 this morning, with the cup chassis, anthracite wheels finished in ultra red. Should pick it up in about 2 weeks! Stace already has a 1.2tCe TomTom which we are putting in PX. I have a Peugeot 208 which is my company car, I work for Peugeot! I was planning on getting a weekend toy, rear drive 2 seater, stace wanted a new car, we have met in the middle! My last car was a mk1 mx5 and before that a mk2 mr2, so a 200bhp front driver is going to be new to me! Can't wait!!

Pictures to follow as soon as the car is in our possession naturally!

Cheers, Alex.

 

[The_Pirate]

Welcome along mate, did you go for the recaro's?

 

[The Boosh!]

Welcome to the forum, alexjb!

 

[Knuckles]

Hi and welcome

what options could you spec?

 

[alexjb]

To be fair the only option we were bothered about was Bluetooth, that gets a lot of use in the current clio so it had to be on the next! Didn't go for the recaros no, yellow doesn't go with red apparently lol!

 

[The_Pirate]

Black eyes and shutting the hell up do though lol

 

[alexjb]

Haha! I did like them, but what I don't have I won't miss! Drove one for the first time this morning, test drive route was very tame! So I'm itching to get it out on some proper roads to enjoy it!

 

[The_Pirate]

It'll be a weapon compared to what your at the now!

 

[alexjb]

Oh god yea without a doubt! I used to love hammering the mx5 around but it never quite had enough power!

 

[Daniel]

It'll be a weapon compared to what your at the now!

Op, I'll translate that to English for you...

Compared to what you're driving at the moment, a Clio 200 will be great.

 

[alexjb]

Op, I'll translate that to English for you...

Compared to what you're driving at the moment, a Clio 200 will be great.

Hahaha thanks!!

 

[The_Pirate]

Op, I'll translate that to English for you...

Compared to what you're driving at the moment, a Clio 200 will be great.

Prick.

<3

 

[alexjb]

Great to see the love is strong on this forum

this waiting for the car to arrive business is killing me! I hate waiting.

 

[Knuckles]

i know exactly how you feel lol. the wait for my r27 was excruciating lol!

 

[alexjb]

Still killing me!!!

 

[jamier27]

bet you got a good deal as news of new clio rs must be hitting sales hard....

 

[alexjb]

The deal was pretty good, yea. We were pleased with it.

 

[alexjb]

Thought I'd share my last couple of cars.

This is my mr2, near enough looking as it did when I bought it, but for the wheels and exhaust. The picture does it far too much justice, the paint was a mess.

So I did this before Japfest

No fat chicks!

And this was my mx5, great handling car, but lacked power IMO.

 

[Adam.]

When is it due?

 

[alexjb]

Next week some time! Seems to be taking forever!! Really wanted it this week, as I have the week off!

 

[Matt W]

Welcome

I only had to wait 12 days for mine and that was hard enough!

Best colour too

 

[Adam.]

Lucky.

I waited 2 months for mines then when it did turn up it was the wrong spec.

 

[Gally]

Welcome mate, nice buy. Pics when it arrives!

 

[alexjb]

It's only been 9 days so far, feels like at least 9 months! I had a phone call the Monday after we ordered it to say they had made a mistake and the car wasn't the spec they told us it was, it doesn't have Bluetooth... So the garage have offered to fit a Parrot kit, a good one! Frustrating thing for me about it was, when we ordered the car, I wasn't convinced that it had Bluetooth fitted, I asked the question about ten times. So the Monday morning phone call wasn't the end of the world lol, I kind of expected it!

Matt, red was the only colour we could really agree on haha!

 

[alexjb]

Well... we picked it up last night! Left the dealership just before 7pm.

230 miles later... first impressions; I'm completely in love with the car! The power delivery and handling are superb. I'm burning petrol faster than I can spill it though! Have been at work all day so have had no daylight to get any pictures!