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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/xb22boNDEV0

So.....don't be a tight bastard and buy the girl the car she wants.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Says he who makes his Mrs drive a 20 year old Corsa! 

[STEMO]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp, 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp, 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

Is that wise?

110 BHP is more than enough for a girlie 'runabout'

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Says he who makes his Mrs drive a 20 year old Corsa! 

Well, that just goes to show you how piss poor and impoverished  I am.

 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Says he who makes his Mrs drive a 20 year old Corsa! 

Well, that just goes to show you what a tight bastard I am.

Fixed that for you M'Lud! 

[YZ250]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp , 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

Quite a nippy engine.  . Economy is pretty good for a petrol engine as well, if driven sensibly. Not sure if they all have it but when coasting/cruising the management system can turn off two cylinders for economy, so if you see ‘COD’ in an Audi advert it means ‘cylinder on demand’ and has nothing to do with fish. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp , 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

Quite a nippy engine.  . Economy is pretty good for a petrol engine as well, if driven sensibly. Not sure if they all have it but when coasting/cruising the management system can turn off two cylinders for economy, so if you see ‘COD’ in an Audi advert it means ‘cylinder on demand’ and has nothing to do with fish. 

Some of the big American pick-ups have that, so you can get 8 mpg on a run rather than 6mpg! 

[Doctor Gollum]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp , 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

Quite a nippy engine.  . Economy is pretty good for a petrol engine as well, if driven sensibly. Not sure if they all have it but when coasting/cruising the management system can turn off two cylinders for economy, so if you see ‘COD’ in an Audi advert it means ‘cylinder on demand’ and has nothing to do with fish. 

Some of the big American pick-ups have that, so you can get 8 mpg on a run rather than 6mpg! 

And a top end rebuild every 40k

Still, being an LS based engine, deleting it is easy enough.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp , 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

Quite a nippy engine.  . Economy is pretty good for a petrol engine as well, if driven sensibly. Not sure if they all have it but when coasting/cruising the management system can turn off two cylinders for economy, so if you see ‘COD’ in an Audi advert it means ‘cylinder on demand’ and has nothing to do with fish. 

Some of the big American pick-ups have that, so you can get 8 mpg on a run rather than 6mpg! 

And a top end rebuild every 40k

Still, being an LS based engine, deleting it is easy enough.

 Pretty common 50 years ago.

Cars for sale adverts would often say things like.....45000 miles new engine fitted, or, excellent condition engine decoked and rebored at 50,000 miles.

[BazaJT]

Spend the morning doing a de-coke and in the afternoon stuff bunched up newspaper into the sills before covering over with Isopon and thick underseal

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Those were the days. 

[ronnyd]

Spend the morning doing a de-coke and in the afternoon stuff bunched up newspaper into the sills before covering over with Isopon and thick underseal

Don't forget to put the sawdust in the gearbox. 

[Viral_Jim]

https://youtu.be/xb22boNDEV0

So.....don't be a tight bastard and buy the girl the car she wants.

"it feels way quicker than the 110hp would suggest"

Presumably that's car journo speak for "its noisy in here"

[Marks DTM Calib]

She'll get an A1 if she wants one, but certainly not 110bhp.

It'll probably be the 1.5 petrol with 150bhp, 0-60 in just over 7 secs.

A wise move, the 110 is horribly slow, that said the neighbour has just bought the 1.5 in a Q3 and in that larger platform, it also slow and strained, probably not so bad in a Seat Ibiza/VW Polo/Audi A1

[Doctor Gollum]

75bhp in the Ibiza wasn't unreasonable.

110 in the A1 will be fine. The Q being a turgid suv type thing with all the finesse of a Jaegerbomb

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Spend the morning doing a de-coke and in the afternoon stuff bunched up newspaper into the sills before covering over with Isopon and thick underseal

Sounds like you owned a 3 year old Austin 1100/1300.

Hopefully enough to get it through it's first MOT.