sold the fabia to the stealers today and picked up my FTO

was sad letting the fabia go but i really wanted a change of car plus no debt anymore (may have to take a loan out to pay for fuel )

shes a 1995 GPX 2.0 v6 24v mivec auto with triptronic and sounds awesome

here she is

Mmmm I've always liked the FTO, a very good looking car. How's the performance compared to Fabia?

That area looks familiar as well, is that Dickens of Wrexham in the background?? If so, which stealers did you sell your car to? I could be on the lookout for a new car

the performance is a lot different. this is the first fast petrol car ive owned and very impressed, but you have to work for the power unlike the fabia.

the fabia is a great car and i didnt want to get rid of her but i just wanted a new toy

the power comes in about 5500rpm me thinks and goes to 8000rpm about 75 in second and only 4 gears

but from manchester to llangollen i done it with £10 of petrol

p.s the car was sold to oswestry furrows skoda i just stopped near dickens on the way to take a piccy - you should of bought the car off me !!! haha they are going to sell it for £10600 he said

pics taken just off the A483 , totally different car to the Fabia , looks good though , whats the insurance like ?

was quoted £3000 by most (the ones that would insure an import), then £2000 by sky insurance, then i joined the fto owners site (which cost £18) told sky and they then quoted me £1600

phoned adrian flux and they quoted me the same but then they found a company for .......... £1250 !! :):) with the fto membership

think it might be an 18 ? someone on the fto site pays more for the fto than there modded evo

I play "spot the import" by looking for that "extra" stuck on fog light

looks nice though... I heard they are v.fast in a straight line, but don't much like the corners... bit like the fabia then!

friend of mine had a GTO..... that was a cracking car

Looks like a nice example.

Just sold my Legnum VR4, if the FTO is anything like that you will be grinning on ear to ear

The legnum didn't like the bends either, relyed on all the electronic gadgets (TC, AYC, ASC) to get it round the bends.

My mate has a GPX too, not bad at all, make you feel much faster than you are actually going, and sound pretty damn good too, His is a bit marmite though

thanks for comments

no electrical gadgets and is amazing round corners

factory lowered in Japan and has been described as second best handling front wheel drive car after the integra type r

just got to get a major service done to make sure everything's sorted

*DROOL* I Lurve the FTO!!! I just wish I didn't have 9 points on my licence!!

Give it a few years, and i'll get one as a toy. As they becoming relatively cheap to buy now!

Be careful in the wet because the back is very light. First time I drove my brothers' FTO I overshot a junction expecting Fabia like levels of braking that just weren't there :eek:

Does the FTO use the INVECS II tip box? That was pretty cool on the VR4.

How much BHP does it have? Am I right in thinking that its not that amazing, or is that the pre-mivec one?

i had a play with a guy in one fo them the other day

he would come screaming upto me on the straights but wouldn't even consider keeping up round the bends even though i wasn't driving like a complete tool, that was in my mazda by the way

160bhp 2.0 v6 rings a bell with them for some reason, time to go and look

oohhh, 200bhp but quite a disappointing 0-60 etc of *only* 8.8 :confused:

best of luck with it though

Don't forget the age of the cars. 2.0 and 200 bhp in an M reg car...that was impressive in its time!

Nissan and Honda can get 200bhp from a NA 1.6 though :P

Both around 1995 as well.

FTO looks nicer

the power comes in about 5500rpm me thinks and goes to 8000rpm about 75 in second and only 4 gears

I think you've identified what always puts me off these rice rockets.

FTO looks nicer

It does?!?! :eek:

Chris

It does?!?! :eek:

Chris

In my world anyway

I think you've identified what always puts me off these rice rockets.

what? by being fast?

on another note i never do understand when people say they like diesels as they don't like thrashing a car :confused:

the same people rev their diesels to around 4k rpm when driving fast so normally about 80-85% of their max rpm yet revving a petrol to 6k rpm which is quite often about 85% of max is *revving the nuts off it* or thrashing it yet in percentage terms its no different.

i never will understand these people.

on another note i never do understand when people say they like diesels as they don't like thrashing a car :confused:

the same people rev their diesels to around 4k rpm when driving fast so normally about 80-85% of their max rpm yet revving a petrol to 6k rpm which is quite often about 85% of max is *revving the nuts off it* or thrashing it yet in percentage terms its no different.

i never will understand these people.

Try looking at linear piston and valve speeds rather than rotational crankshaft speeds. Also consider that I don't drive fast all the time, and the diesel gives me enough torque to meander through town with about 1_000rpm on the clock, where my mate's FTO needed 3_000.

i miss the diesel low down torque and i am still finding it strange driving round town is 1st most of the time

but its a whole different experience and for me, my first fast petrol car and im enjoying it :)

theres some nice looking ones over here in dublin:)....well i should say that theres shed loads of them over here!!...jap imports are a huge bussiness here with lots of FTO's about:)....all at silly low prices...youl get an FTO in very good order and spec for a few thousand euro:)

k:)