well sold the octy vrs lastnight,,:( kinda felt a bit of regret as she drove away with her new owner ...anyways,,the question i ,,what next ???????? wrx, evo, audi s3 ? or a mark 2 vrs ???? anyways just want to say thanks to all ye guys for tips, parts and advice while iv been hereon briskoda,,ps I MIGHT BE BACK SOON

please dont go for a subaru there are so many of them it's unreal, if i do say so i would go for something rare and fun like a lotus carlton

Just sold my Fabia vRS yesterday :(

Am in the same boat, considering S3, 1 and 3 series 335i, and Porsche

Cayman. Looking at a Sportback on Monday

1 series 335d is a monster

Mmmmmmm Cayman....

S3 shouldn't even be on the same list as 335i, assuming the 3 series is E90-E93 series...

And if you do go for the BMW, GET THOSE POXY RUNFLATS OFF!!!! (Partially because they cost a fortune to replace, but mostly because they're sheer crap)

skyline? please dont get a mk2... there fat lardy and slow! :p

im thinking of a skyline too gee.. or a fiat coupe 20v turbo and tune the balls off it

i love the skylines, a car you don't often see now, and well tuned the right way are wickedly fast...... seen one of the newer ones vs a vayron and the skyline left it

Mmmmmmm Cayman....

you mean gayman?

get a real porsche...hippie

I don't think you'd find a lotus Carlton in the same price bracket as any of these on the list.

Evo 6 would be my choice out of all these, unless of course you can stretch to a lotus Carlton then its a no brainer

ooooo now you are talking lotus carlton....supercar porn from my youth!

however the evo 6 is gonna be a better car, it just is, vauxhall just can't make cars that handle properly, the evo 6 is a phenominal machine out the box with huge tuning power and loads of backup and support as well as a huge tuning/parts market unlike the carlton.

Its like an integrale imo, one of those cars i have wanted since they came out, but i doubt i will ever own as the idea is just better than the reality, they are expensive, unrealiable, delicate and hard to work on...

still i love them, but i will alway go back to the golf rallye/audi ur quattro as my 80/90s must have cars, they are german and just better:>

Evo 6 would be my choice out of all these, unless of course you can stretch to a lotus Carlton then its a no brainer

Thats funny, I sold my Evo 6 last year and bought an Octavia vRS yesterday

Thats funny, I sold my Evo 6 last year and bought an Octavia vRS yesterday

lol, are you mad?

on a serious note, they are not comperable cars, the vrs as a daily taking into account running costs ie fuel and servicing is going to be a winner!

Maybe a little mad yes.

But as you say the vRS is a cheaper car to run (I paid less for my vRS than I did for a clutch on my last Evo) lol.

Maybe a little mad yes.

But as you say the vRS is a cheaper car to run (I paid less for my vRS than I did for a clutch on my last Evo) lol.

feck! says it all really!

as said not a fair comparison, as a daily the vrs makes way more sense, as a fast road car/track car, money no object evo 6 all the way!!!

feck! says it all really!

as said not a fair comparison, as a daily the vrs makes way more sense, as a fast road car/track car, money no object evo 6 all the way!!!

To be fair, i've had a couple of Evo's over the last few years (2 Evo 5 GSR's, Evo 6 GSR, 2 Evo 6 RS2's and an Evo 1 RS).

I had to put a clutch in everyone of them except the 2 Evo 5's as I didn't keep either of them for more than a few weeks.

There were all used as daily runabouts, and other than clutch's and fuel they were pretty cheap to run (except the last 6 RS2 that I had, as I couldn't stop messing with it, and by the time I sold it, it was running around 730bhp @ flywheel and would do about 100 miles on £60 - £65 of v-power).

I never seriously tracked any of them, as I was too worried about braking them. The Evo 1 RS got tracked a few times though.

But Evo's are not that expensive to service and maintain if your able to do it yourself.

Now i've moved on, and bought the vRS with the intension of using it as a track toy, but for the moment it is going to be used as a daily runabout too.

well you are our forum come-to guy for evo knowledge, 703 bhp, lol, awesome, pure awesome!

100 miles to a tank...not awesome however!

Thought they had expensive servicing costs/requirements like every 4/6k, but as you said, i would do myself if i ever had one so guess other than oil/filter cost thats not an issue.

well you are our forum come-to guy for evo knowledge, 703 bhp, lol, awesome, pure awesome!

100 miles to a tank...not awesome however!

Thought they had expensive servicing costs/requirements like every 4/6k, but as you said, i would do myself if i ever had one so guess other than oil/filter cost thats not an issue.

They do have 4500 mile service intervals, mainly due to the AYC (active yaw control) system, and thats what makes them more expensive to service than other performance cars (subaru's for example), but if you use a specialist for this then it's not so bad, (or even better buy an RS / GT model and you won't have AYC instead you get a propper LSD and no computer aids (or ABS))

Edited 28 October, 201213 yr by Cossie1

Was you on the Evo forum ?? 700 bhp I must have seen this car lol

Was you on the Evo forum ?? 700 bhp I must have seen this car lol

Yeh I was on the MLR.

Same username

pics or it didn't happen!

(couldn't resist saying that) but pics would be great

I'll have to try and find some.

It was featured in Redline and Total Evolution a while back.

It was only 623bhp then though.

well don't bother if it was only 623...you give it all the 'big' about being over 700, and then you lowball us with 623...

lol

And a crap video clip showing why it needed a triple plate clutch