How you finding the Meg? They are really growing on me.
My favourite car I've ever owned View attachment 1446746 this thing
Once we moved house and I was a lot closer to work I could finally justify going back to petrol with a Golf 7R:
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My car turn over is pretty slow really.
2009-2015 Clio 172 Cup
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Renault Clio 172 Cup by Adam Lister, on Flickr
2015-2016 Honda Integra Type R
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honda_integra_dc5_L15TFR_rays_ze40-1 by Adam Lister, on Flickr
2016-XXXX Mitsubishi Evo 6, soon to be sold/broken.
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And I've just taken the Evo thing a bit more seriously, adding this:
2020-XXXX Mitsubishi Evo 6
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Not had a Clio in nearly 5 years. But, this is still the only usable forum left.
What's the spec of the new one? Looks pretty serious?
Powerwise, about the same. ~350BHP with bolt ons and a map.
Over and above my old one, it has:
- RS Turbo, titanium bits, faster spool
- RS Steering rack, 2.1 instead of 2.6
- RS Rear diff, no AYC
- Cage, 6 point SD bolt in
- Stripped
- Lovely Recaro RS-G Ralliart embroidered seats
- Most importantly, it's still white underneath
I had mine for about 8 years couldn't part with it so I had it till it died. I think it was more the memories i had in the car than the car itself but it never let me down no matter how I treated it. I'd buy another one if they weren't so silly pricedI looked at a couple of these before I bought my 172. Always had a certain appeal. The seats were lovely. The two I looked at were dogs though.
That looks lovely in red on prets. I wish I'd gone for those wheels on mine, but couldn't justify the expense on a lease. The Cadiz wheels are awful.
Sounds nice. Just needs a Motorsport UK passport and to be used as intended then
Yeah trackdays are getting a bit samey.
Started with my first ph1 in about 2008...
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Had that a couple of years and wanted a change in 2010.. picked up a classic UK Turbo 2000 Impreza wagon which I'd wanted since I was about 15.
Had been fiddled with and was running about 330hp.
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Loved it, and hated it...
That was messing about so I bought the mintest lowest mileage 172 I could find while it got fixed, again:
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While I had that, I bought a mint standard Impreza and swapped a few bits over from the green one that I sold as a rolling shell with engine.
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Had that a couple of years and ended up looking like this..
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Ended up buying a house and deciding to become less of a noisy chav so I bought Daniel's old BMW off Tim...
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Also bought a Sunflower to track for fun. Did a couple years of trackdays in that.
Had the BMW about 2 years and was doing well at work.. Craig bought it off me (eventually) and I upgraded to a modern German Impreza...
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Didn't really get on with that until it went to Germany in winter, where it all made sense at 150+ on the autobahn, with many crates of beer in the boot.
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Two years on and it went for a diesel Bini Clubman which brings us up to 2020.
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only 2 in 10 years
View attachment 1447128Front side driver by matt eaton, on Flickr
View attachment 14471294th aug 2019 by matt eaton, on Flickr
I intended to start getting into track racing (bit overkill for a first rwd car) but instead bought a house. Had the Z4M, Impreza and the RX7 taking up the drive so one had to go. If I continued driving it like I was doing it would have killed me as well. 🤣What happened to the RX7?
Ah hah! I knew I recognised that CL10 GAS reg! Seen it a few times on my way to work! Lol! And yes, car crime is definitely rife in that area! 😂The Clio was 10 months old and the Fiesta 9 months old, the attempted thefts were 7 years apart.
I live in Solihull, car crime is rife over here at the moment. Obviously the result of living in an affluent area 😁
Current trend is car jacking or breaking in and stealing keys, but the cars they go after at the moment are Audis, BMWs and Merc's, that's why I'm happy with the 182!!