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dabigginger Crazy Courier
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barclay03 Derestricted Danger
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Lovely cars! and you cant beat that noise lol mines has the old 5.0 pushrod engine with performance headers and straight through stainless |
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sinedtomuch Spanner Monkey
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fazer_kid86 L Plate Warrior
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Nice
I've always had a soft spot for these - and you've got the best colour as well. |
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.Bishbash. World Chat Champion
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Considdering what section you posted this in, I am dissapointed on the lack of photos of this beauty. I speak for all of us when I say, we need more pics.
Stunning car pal, My cousin bought a yellow one(fastest colour I hear ) and keep meaning to get a ride out of him as they are pure sex.
Is it true when you drive through town womens knickers just drop??? ____________________ Current bike - GSX-R1000 k8 |
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Dave_80 Renault 5 Driver
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mentalboy wrote: | .Bishbash. wrote: |
Is it true when you drive through town womens knickers just drop??? |
This is the ONLY reason to own a 21st Century Pony.
You might just as well be driving a Sherman tank. They are so heavy that they need a staggering amount of horses just to keep up with the average (US) family sedan in a traffic light Grand Prix.
My scabby old truck has the same engine as fitted to 5th gen Pony's, they'd stopped fitting them to the trucks for a few years, because they were a bag of shite, before sticking them in the Pony's - Ford fit them with crap and churn them out as cheap as they can get away with, they're about equal in build quality to an 80's Metro.
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But it's never been any different.
The problem with the Mustang (and most other Yank performance cars) is that they have never been premium products, but the early cars have become such icons, now everyone thinks they're looking at a Ferrari and then get disappointed when it doesn't stand close scrutiny (not that Ferraris are any better).
The thing is, the starting price for a V8 Mustang is about £26K in the States, which makes it damn good value, less so here, where they start from £31K.
And while they might not be the best built car on the planet, what's the survival rate, against the Metro? ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
20 RE Interceptor, 83 Z1100A3, 83 GS650 Katana
WooHoo, I'm a Man Point Millionaire! https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=234035 |
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Would still back in blighty, in a 1980's in your face/Essex wide boy way rather own the Metro though!
I believe that yank cars only really work on their own football pitch, not across the pond on the wrong side of the too narrow road.
Add to that the fact that like Shaft said, American cars in the 80's and definitely the 90's were not that good at best, and sales and popularity were only made possible by being cheap, and also the import restrictions and emissions outlawing of many of the interesting Japanese and European cars.
You could always get an American built Honda/Accura/Toyota Legend/Accord/Camry with a soft tuned V6 and slush box, but you couldn't get a stripped out Integra type R with a 190bhp 1.8 and knife through butter 5speed manual.
Oh and back to on topic you could have a 5.0L tuned Mustang, and while not a fair or accurate comparison a clubman spec MG6R4 Metro would bury it performance wise.
I know what I'd like most, and add to that I have a sick perversion to want to own the fastest accelerating production MG of all time, which I'm not classing the Metro as, as it wasn't really a proper production car. |
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lilredmachine World Chat Champion
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 79 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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