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[TheBoy]

ha ha the vx bug you just like me

nah, I've spent long periods away from vauxhall, as I always say no more vauxhalls.

[slb]

ha ha the vx bug you just like me

nah, I've spent long periods away from vauxhall, as I always say no more vauxhalls.

na had a shedscort was s*!t and a volvo missed mi vx's wiffey has a shedscort leave her to it with it never liked fords from when i was a grease monkey in 80's

[TheBoy]

ha ha the vx bug you just like me

nah, I've spent long periods away from vauxhall, as I always say no more vauxhalls.

na had a shedscort was s*!t and a volvo missed mi vx's wiffey has a shedscort leave her to it with it never liked fords from when i was a grease monkey in 80's

i won't own a ford, i always crash them.

[slb]

yep or as the letters stand for Fix Or Repair Daily

that was true of mine and i only got it cos i was in a tight spot after one of mi cavs was nicked (barstuwards)

 

[Martin_1962]

Never liked MkII cav, few friends had the 130s which were popular at time. Handling was not that great from what I remember at the time, suffering from dreadful understeer with the boot down.  I had an Astra GTE at the time, pretty much same engine, but lighter car, much quicker. Shame that handled a million times worse than the cav!

My lodger at the time had her XR3i, that wasn't in the same league - slow, typical escort unpredictable handling.

Nothing I drove around then I thought was good, until I swapped the GTE for the Rover - what it lost in power (was only 1.6) it more than made up for in its ability to do corners and its ability to lose speed.  Trouble was, in true Honda style, had to scream its nuts off to make it go.


Had I had been a bit older at the time, I reckon I would have liked the cav more - I thought at the time that the sri (State Registered Idiot ) looked the part (even though they only seemed to be available in red or white!), though like the xr3i a couple of years before it, became the yuppy's car, hence driven by tossers and none had the optional indicators pack fitted - what we now call BMW 3 series man...

I had driven a lot of cars from that period - and do you know what did handle - Carlton, the Mk2 Astras were quite poor the Mk2 Cavalier a bit better

[Martin_1962]

not too keen on bmw's dont get me wrong nice cars and all but just dont like the ora around them and the stigma that comes wi them been a vxhall man thro and thro from my first wich was a belmont sri 1.8 8v and it had the same handeling you mention of its astra sibbling

Yeah, my first Vx was a 1986 Belmont GLSi with same 1.8 fitted to the sri one, but a longer box.

Hated the bloody thing, only had it 3 months, rather awful. Swore I'd never get another Vauxhall after that, so replaced it with the 2.0 GTE

I delivered a few - quite crap!

[Martin_1962]

ha ha the vx bug you just like me

nah, I've spent long periods away from vauxhall, as I always say no more vauxhalls.

na had a shedscort was s*!t and a volvo missed mi vx's wiffey has a shedscort leave her to it with it never liked fords from when i was a grease monkey in 80's

i won't own a ford, i always crash them.

I just kill them

[TheBoy]

not too keen on bmw's dont get me wrong nice cars and all but just dont like the ora around them and the stigma that comes wi them been a vxhall man thro and thro from my first wich was a belmont sri 1.8 8v and it had the same handeling you mention of its astra sibbling

Yeah, my first Vx was a 1986 Belmont GLSi with same 1.8 fitted to the sri one, but a longer box.

Hated the bloody thing, only had it 3 months, rather awful. Swore I'd never get another Vauxhall after that, so replaced it with the 2.0 GTE

I delivered a few - quite crap!

The one thing I will say about it, went like the friggin clappers (one the first engine)

[Martin_1962]

not too keen on bmw's dont get me wrong nice cars and all but just dont like the ora around them and the stigma that comes wi them been a vxhall man thro and thro from my first wich was a belmont sri 1.8 8v and it had the same handeling you mention of its astra sibbling

Yeah, my first Vx was a 1986 Belmont GLSi with same 1.8 fitted to the sri one, but a longer box.

Hated the bloody thing, only had it 3 months, rather awful. Swore I'd never get another Vauxhall after that, so replaced it with the 2.0 GTE

I delivered a few - quite crap!

The one thing I will say about it, went like the friggin clappers (one the first engine)

Even the 1.3 Ashtrays were not slow, they would rev to almost 8000rpm

2.0 GTe I delivered once was quick but torque steered like buggery, I did not feel safe in it.

Cavaliers were more controllable.

Carltons were very quick top end but took a little while to get there, I did redline a 2.0 in top

[TheBoy]

not too keen on bmw's dont get me wrong nice cars and all but just dont like the ora around them and the stigma that comes wi them been a vxhall man thro and thro from my first wich was a belmont sri 1.8 8v and it had the same handeling you mention of its astra sibbling

Yeah, my first Vx was a 1986 Belmont GLSi with same 1.8 fitted to the sri one, but a longer box.

Hated the bloody thing, only had it 3 months, rather awful. Swore I'd never get another Vauxhall after that, so replaced it with the 2.0 GTE

I delivered a few - quite crap!

The one thing I will say about it, went like the friggin clappers (one the first engine)

Even the 1.3 Ashtrays were not slow, they would rev to almost 8000rpm

2.0 GTe I delivered once was quick but torque steered like buggery, I did not feel safe in it.

Cavaliers were more controllable.

Carltons were very quick top end but took a little while to get there, I did redline a 2.0 in top

astra gte 2.0 wasn't too bad on torque steer, its problem was an utterly shite chassis, just no way to get any power down.

Only car I've ever had banging off the revlimiter in top gear for mile after mile

[Martin_1962]

I red lined the Carlton on Witney bypass over 20 years ago

That one absolutely flew.

Had such an effect on me I bought a Carlton as my first newer than 15 year old car

[Christian]

I adore the MK2 Cav, i love them, if i had enough money to run 2 cars of my own ide buy one just to garage and polish!

[LaserLance]

My 1st VX was a cav mk1 1900 coupe with auto box ,yes i know with hindsight it  was crap gearbox and it was just aopel manta badged VX think i got the VX bug with that one ,brought a cav mk2 SR ,which used to eat front tyres ,lucky me brother was a tyre fitter i used to get all the sales reps runners .then i got a seirra 1800....ugghh big mistake had it 3 months px it for a Astra 1600 gl ,saw the light with that one ,No more fords for me  8-) 8-)

[slb]

I red lined the Carlton on Witney bypass over 20 years ago

That one absolutely flew.

Had such an effect on me I bought a Carlton as my first newer than 15 year old car

yep liked the carlton had a 2.3 td cd that was a good car it just keept going and going till i stufed the front end in with the help of a citron ax it stufed all inter cooler and turbo.

funny that it was 3 years ago on this very day my little lads birthday his mums was none too pleased then

[Bob S]

My first car was a Viva HC then my beloved Mk 2 Cavalier 1.8i CD, white, loved that motor so faithfull, used semi synthetic in it after warranty did over 174k miles on the last MOT before she went garage could not beleive how good nick the engine was, p/x'd it for a mk3 and was still going in the Darlington area after that.