Last night I got to drive a A4 1.8T with the engibe chipped. I was a little disapointed, did not seem much better than my standard vRS. Maybe the A4 is much heavier.

It was also a horrible rust brown colour yuk!!!!!!!

yuurrck brown, I thought they stopped making brown cars a long time ago along with beige.

Brown, nice colour :thumbdwn:

Quite like brown myself hmmmm Austin hearing aid beige yum

......on a lovely maestro vanden plas with its electronic dash faulty

Nah mate hearing aid beige is only to be found on the Allegro the Maestro VDP can only be bought in Vomit beige there is a subtle difference

ones horrible and nasty, the others just grotesque!

nowt wrong with either IMHO both good cars for their times just political issues that stuffed them

the main problem with them was thier release. When they were brought out they were top of their field, the problem was that everyone else then released new models not long after which blew them out of the water and not fixed untill they were fully merged with rover and the maesto scrapped for the 200

I still can't blieve that they released the Montego Turbo onto an unsuspecting publis.

I had a "series 2" model, which was supposed to have had it's wayward habits tamed, but the thing was bl00dy dangerous, particularly in the wet.

It was good fun at times, but if you actually had to get somewhere quickly, it was hard work and risky. I've always wondered what the designers were thinking when they finally said "right, it's sorted. Lets sell it".

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I still can't blieve that they released the Montego Turbo onto an unsuspecting publis.

I had a "series 2" model' date=' which was supposed to have had it's wayward habits tamed, but the thing was bl00dy dangerous, particularly in the wet.

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They must have went on to design wheels for michelin as the std fabia vRS tyres are awful in the wet!

it torque steered so violently that you didn't need to steer when you pulled out to overtake, and if you backed off, it would shoot back toward the verge.

The guy I bought it off told me afterwards that he sold it because he nearly wrapped it up twice when aborting an overtaking manoevure, and his wife refused to drive it!

I didn't think it was quite THAT bad, I must admit. Cooshty in a straight line though

Chris

british cars....... BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!

I drove one of those, once, while waiting for a new car from a leasing company. I waited for a quiet stretch of the A1 at 2am to give it some stick, and floored it as I entered the Hatfield tunnel. I started in the inside lane, but by the time I reached 110, I was in the outside lane. All without steering!

Scary, very scary..........

Phil

Something to keep away from Jason then?

...I started in the inside lane' date=' but by the time I reached 110, I was in the outside lane. All without steering!

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Ahhh, the memories come flooding back ...

It sounds like my old Rover 400 constant opposite lock going round bends because the rear suspension was knackered and both springs broken

It sounds like my old Rover 400 constant opposite lock going round bends because the rear suspension was knackered and both springs broken

sounds like my fabia after i hit the kerb because of the ice last week, i was going as slow a i could and it still went what ever way it wanted. It's fixed now thank god.

Aaah the joys of knackered suspension

i had to call the bloody AA out to tow it to the dealers as it was dangerous. To make things worse they gave me a Micra to use for two day and it was horrible to both look at and drive.

when the octy went in i had a 1.6 octy that had (Not ) been tuned god it flew!

alright for some :(

A mate of mine had a MG 1300 the one with the 1293 Cooper S engine (if I counted the head bolts right)

He loved handbraking it around Anglesey and trying hard on the Menai Bridge side of the old bridge the rear weld that ran from door to door below the rear passengers feet , split completely with a +30cm gap.

He drove it back to Bangor with only the brake cable,fuel line and the roof line holding the rear in place . By the time he got there the metal fatigue was so great that it took only half a dozen wriggles up and down to separate the two bits and the split had worn out to the back of the rear of the seats and the whole rear passenger well.

British Engineering the marvel of the Victorian World !

My first car, an Allegro, did exactly the same thing. Scary really.

the roof rotted through on my fiesta and i resprayed it with a can of paint from Halfords true class