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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 12:34:59 GMT
Won't sticky this one, it'll either live or die!
Last-spec Astra VXR at two consecutive sets of lights today. Quite a handsome thing in an understated dark blue, but still not a match for 4wd and a V8. |
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Post by alf on Apr 13, 2017 10:15:17 GMT
Decent opportunities to "compare" in a safe environment with tasty motors are few and far between, but I've had 3 crackers in recent months. Firstly a Golf R on the M11 late at night - parked in my boot and weaving needlessly as I waited for someone slow to clear a lorry in the outside lane - when clear I gave it the full beans and was astonished how quickly I pulled away. He was trying too - it happened three times, then when I let him pass it was so easy to keep up on a part throttle the next time he got slowed up and pulled away.
Then some fancy lights in my boot on a narrow country lane for a while the other day - it was dark, I had no idea what it was, when I reached a dual carriageway that is joined from a right-angle at walking pace (no slip road or visibility) I decided to give it the full beans and somewhat hilariously saw the car behind immediately move to the outside lane assuming he would pass me, then recede rapidly behind me and have to pull back over. When we got back to singletrack roads and I slowed to 70, he overtook me (naturally) and it was an E92 M3.
Then yesterday a new Bentley coupe ahead of me, once as we turned onto a dual carriageway, then again on an M3 slip road, giving it the full beans and looking astonished in his mirror as I sat equidistant behind him.
Quite a Q-car, the XFR. Respect any Jag with 4 pipes and bonnet cut-outs!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 10:25:15 GMT
I think the Golf R is a prime example of 0-60 being people's sole benchmark of speed. It's aided off the line by 4ws and has an advantage over its own output because of a quick/trick gearbox. But once you are up and running, you've only got what you've got (as it were).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 10:34:36 GMT
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Post by Alex on Apr 13, 2017 12:53:28 GMT
There are a few tuned ones was about, mostly mk6s. Chap I've met a few times at meets had one with over 500 BHP and it did 0-100 in under 10 seconds from memory. He doesn't have it any more, though. The 2.0ltr engine probably blew up having to deliver that sort of power output! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 16:02:43 GMT
Friend I was just talking to had a mate with an Impreza boosted to that sort of figure. It went pop in the most major of fashions.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 0:12:02 GMT
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 14, 2017 7:56:20 GMT
I love the ability of a Volvo estate - a Volvo estate - to demolish unsuspecting hot hatch drivers.
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Post by grampa on Apr 19, 2017 10:11:42 GMT
Won't sticky this one, it'll either live or die. Rare that I get a chance to take part - I'm almost thirty miles from the nearest opportunity - we only have lights at zebra crossings. |
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Post by Blarno on Apr 19, 2017 10:38:00 GMT
I love the ability of a Volvo estate - a Volvo estate - to demolish unsuspecting hot hatch drivers. Surprisingly, for a diesel, the 93 is a bit of a TLGP weapon. I've surprised a few people off the line so far. It's far better at 4th gear overtakes, mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 8:13:07 GMT
There's a bloke who sometimes swims at the same time as us - can't abide him. Insists in swimming in the same place even if it's occupied and there are spaces elsewhere (as per yesterday - so three of us had to move along rather than him accept the empty space at the end), and always wears the bitter face of the miserable near-pensioner whose life hasn't turned out how he'd wanted - we call him Old Misery after the character in the Graham Greene short that's part of the story in Donnie Darko.
He happened to get out of the pool just before we did yesterday. And lo, the lord did deliver him unto me at the first set of lights. In a 118d.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Apr 21, 2017 10:07:00 GMT
He didn't try, did he?
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 21, 2017 10:16:05 GMT
It's springtime now so TLGP is now an option for me in the Gorilla. In the lakes I had a bike behind me; not a sports bike but a sit up commuter bike with a big engine: the kind of thing I don't understand at all, but then I've only ever owned race rep bikes so I'm clearly mental anyway.
Open bit of dual carriageway: left him for dead with all the family on board. Got told off but laughed at him all the same when he passed and gave me the wanker sign. As said above, 0-60 is no benchmark: when the Gorilla is rolling you'd better have a supercar to consider taking it on. Somewhat more comfy, too. It's time for an annual report as it's been a year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 14:11:57 GMT
In all honesty, it's hard to say! |
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Post by grampa on May 4, 2017 15:27:41 GMT
Won't sticky this one, it'll either live or die!
Last-spec Astra VXR at two consecutive sets of lights today. Quite a handsome thing in an understated dark blue, but still not a match for 4wd and a V8. The Mk5? - probably dressed up to be a VXR look alike - the only Blue it was available in was Arden Blue (the same I think for the Mk6) - more like the colour of the heading on this site. Not that a true VXR would have been a match for you anyway of course - people with a reasonably fast car like a VXR seldom seem to appreciate how how much faster something like your car is. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 7:21:47 GMT
Sorry, I actually meant 'latest', rather than 'last'. I'm pretty sure it was a VXR though, it seemed lower, wider and had the correct roof spoiler - no whiff of the aftermarket about it. But definitely also a darker, more sober blue. Whatever it was, it worked as a combination.
The central 'zorst was always a giveaway of the non-VXR on the previous model, but current one is two widely spaced pipes, I think. Can't recall whether I saw it from the rear - we went different ways after that. |
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Post by Tim on May 5, 2017 10:25:56 GMT
Current has 2 wide spaced ones.
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Post by Big Blue on May 5, 2017 12:52:13 GMT
I think the Golf R is a prime example of 0-60 being people's sole benchmark of speed. It's aided off the line by 4ws and has an advantage over its own output because of a quick/trick gearbox. But once you are up and running, you've only got what you've got (as it were). Indeed, and here is a chart showing that the Golf R is a cracker off the line but once doing over 100kph it really does run out of steam before a big V8  |
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Post by johnc on May 5, 2017 13:41:40 GMT
I like your acceleration figures between 150km/h and 200 - it's virtually linear. Very impressive.
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Post by Martin on May 5, 2017 13:50:20 GMT
Impressive figures for the B5.
Maybe it's all the fuss made about the Golf R in the press, but it does 'only' have 300hp, it's never going to be as quick in a straight line as an M3/RS4/M5 etc etc. I wouldn't be worried against one in mine above 50mph, but it's plenty fast enough for the road really.
I'd be interested to have a go in one and compare it to a GTI, as i like the discreet look and what you'd expect to be excellent all weather cross country pace.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 16:06:11 GMT
I was first at the lights at a set which cross a junction, after which the road almost immediately narrows to a single lane. I was therefore slightly surprised that the Hyundai i30 sitting (too) close to my rear swerved right to occupy the overtaking lane. I wondered whether he was turning right, but traffic light creep suggested otherwise. Plateful of carbons for table two.
Next set of lights, the left lane had two ordinary cars and the right, a black cab. I chose the former (assuming the cab would be slow away, which it was, i30 man chose the cab's lane. So he had to duck out from behind it after we'd all gone past, in a manner indicating chagrin, and lunge for his original lane in a similar manner.
Not my fault, mate. If you are disappointed in your inability to make progress, get a better car and/or learn to read the road ahead.
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 15, 2017 19:43:37 GMT
I eagerly await the TLGP Gods to serve up a suitably tasty morsel. The time will come. Oh, yes. The time will come.
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Post by Andy C on May 15, 2017 22:01:02 GMT
Let's convoy to/from Prescott !
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Post by Alex on May 15, 2017 22:34:28 GMT
I've been quietly satisfied with how the Golf has been burning people off from the lights recently. I'm not for a moment suggesting I'll be seeing off the Beast any time soon but all the pretenders who still think a 1.6 diesel is the clever option have been somewhat surprised when the Golf That slowly settles in the left lane shoots off like a scalded cat leaving them sat in the right lane looking like a knob. Didn't think I'd enjoy a turbo triple that is supposedly a Bluemotion engine but it's growing on me!
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 7:44:35 GMT
Automotive pleasure, like that derived from food, comes in many different forms!
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 16, 2017 8:07:39 GMT
Let's convoy to/from Prescott ! Can you be up early enough?! |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 15:55:13 GMT
There's a bloke who sometimes swims at the same time as us - can't abide him. Insists in swimming in the same place even if it's occupied and there are spaces elsewhere (as per yesterday - so three of us had to move along rather than him accept the empty space at the end), and always wears the bitter face of the miserable near-pensioner whose life hasn't turned out how he'd wanted - we call him Old Misery after the character in the Graham Greene short that's part of the story in Donnie Darko. He happened to get out of the pool just before we did yesterday. And lo, the lord did deliver him unto me at the first set of lights. In a 118d. Must have bothered him. He turned up in a 718 yesterday. |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2017 13:25:26 GMT
I had two chimps in a red Mustang sat on my arse today. Was hoping we would end up at the lights together, but alas, not.
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 30, 2017 12:29:11 GMT
There's a bloke who sometimes swims at the same time as us - can't abide him. Insists in swimming in the same place even if it's occupied and there are spaces elsewhere (as per yesterday - so three of us had to move along rather than him accept the empty space at the end), and always wears the bitter face of the miserable near-pensioner whose life hasn't turned out how he'd wanted - we call him Old Misery after the character in the Graham Greene short that's part of the story in Donnie Darko. He happened to get out of the pool just before we did yesterday. And lo, the lord did deliver him unto me at the first set of lights. In a 118d. Must have bothered him. He turned up in a 718 yesterday. Ahem. Boxster or Cayman. Let's not pander to this 718 bollocks! |
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