The 206 gti 180 will probably be a fraction faster than the 172 at best, so at least we know that it would be pointless swapping the 172 for one( no doubt there were quite a few people on this forum interested to see if it was worth buying ). So maybe only the Civic type r is now the only option for some? Shame it is 15k at cheapest for quarter of a second quicker to 60 and 1.5 secs quicker to 100 over the cliosport. Is that worth it?
On another note, Its funny isnt it, that 6 months ago the peugeot brigade were saying that these 206 rcs would be leaving the factory with 185bhp MINIMUM! Yeah right, what a load of tosh, if it was that easy to build a very fuel efficient, cheap, high performance normally aspirated hot hatch, then the 172 would have had 175-180 bhp to start with 3 years ago. Renaultsport won half a dozen F1 titles, countless rally victories etc.. and put most of what they learned into this bog standard mass production cliosport so that even lotus are struggling to better it in the 206 rc. Just goes to show how good the cliosport is, please have more faith in their ability( the 172 that is, not the after sales service )people.
Finally, got some interesting news about the cliosport cup. My brother just got one and we raced yesterday( in my mk 2 172 ), going from a sliproad onto an A road, from about 50mph up to about 115 mph, side by side! the result?.............he won by a car length so did not get cained like I thought I might. YES he confirmed he was taking it to 7k rpm in the first 4 gears and he has only done 1000 miles in it, wheras I have 8000 on my 172, and my 172 has 144bhp@the wheels, so we cliosport users continue to get value for money, were not past it yet are we?
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