i had the aussie version with teh 1500 ohc maxi engine and 5 speed. i had the b.l special tuning twin carb kit and a mild port and polish. the thing flew. like off the end of the strip speedo. the front subframe was different and beefier as was the shell. was a riot. ex wife hated it. too bumpy and ...

wasted my time with this...

im enjoying this, a neighbour in hull had an n plate cav tdi for eons as a taxi. he bought it new and ran it for 15 years or so. thing had 670000miles on it when the ol girl went. he replaced it with a mk3 astra tdi on an s plate.

HOLDEN VF GTS LSA. TOO MUCH POWER IN A FUCKING TAXI. CAN BE OUTCORNERED BY A DACIA SAQNDERO

sorry, i should clarify, i spent 5 years fixing the damn things for a day job and it actually ended up with me on a decent anti depressant and therapy. no joke.
i like the new ones but anything pre 2012 is pure bleh.

though i have a fierce passion for vauxhal novas and mk1 cavaliers....

May I politely suggest that you drove a fucked one? You may suggest that but others said it was a good one. It just didn't impress me at all, in any way. Nova Gte was a better car & that's saying something. id agree the nova was better. though a 106 rallye is close. the 205 was more fun as a 1....

gm did a 1.6 dizzler in the mk2 astra and mk2 cav. they then used the 1.7 izusu dizzler in the mk3 cav and some mk3 astras. they then bored the og 1.6 to 1.7 and called it the low blow and wedged it in mk1 vectras and some astra mk3s. meanwhile the izuzu got thrown into the later vectras and then ha...

k11 micra. utter fucking garbage.

mid 90s corollas. toss.

mk1 + 2 ford escorts. the normal ones are worse than a marina and the hot ones are a boat anchor in a fucking bog roll. plus ford tax, utter twattery.

land rover anything. owning one means you should be aborted. with a exocet missile.

AutoshiteBoy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:46 am Original VW Polo was supposed to be an Audi

Honda Accord Aerodeck was supposed to be a replacement Scimitar

Wasn't the BX supposed to be a Reliant until they went tits-up?

og polo was the audi 50.

bx was originally a volvo design idea...

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:22 am

Sloth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:27 am karen ogle of ogle design

Hey Trump. Is that like Tim Apple of Apple? I think you mean Tom Karen...

fucking hell how did i fuck that up.