206 GTi 180

it is in gear acceleration were you feel the extra power,

the more i drive the thing the more a realise i have spent too many years driving diesel as a main car, the 206 is now averaging 34mpg which is 8 mpg less than the 1.3mj 90 GP it replaced, add in the fact that diesel is at least 10p per litre more expensive then i am not really loosing out that much in day to day terms plus, i am less stressed at the end of every journey

Great taste in cars

heres mine



on a 54 as well but in flamenco red and 47k on the clocks so fully wore in (apparently they dont wear in till 40k)

if you havent already i would recomend a stainless sytem, i have the full Janspeedon mine and the sound is unreal and it seems to start pulling strong at 3400 revs now, fuel ecconomy is bad at 24mpg round town and 27 mpg average over a tank but it makes me smile every time i drive it

bloody amazing cars, my sister has a mint 51 plate 206 GTi 138 and for those thinking there isnt much difference you are SOO wrong, not only does it leave it for dead off the line, it kills it mid range and top end and the handling difference is unreal, as allen saids you find yourself getting way above the speed limit before the car starts to loose grip

has the snap happy oversteer caught you yet i have always had my cars set up to oversteer rather than understeer, the arosa especially you could have that drifting round corners but in the 180 come into a sharp corner, back off and you end up 90 degrees but feather the throttle and then boot it and your gone (i found this out by accident )

wayne

At least it has the same handling characteristics as it's dad then

Like these a lot and and the money you can pick them up for is very tempting..

Any reliabilty issue's with them? I've not heard of any so far

It will have a stainless one on in the end but the current one is still in very good condition and gives a nice rasp so it can stay for now, plus the spare car cash at the moment is going into the Cinq Turbo money pit and a rebuild on the Cavalier's suspension but the end is in sight

I'm doing better on economy than you averaging 32mpg constantly

No re-map and induction for the 180?

Well i always try to have at least 1 more or less normal car and it is quite heavy on insurance as it is (the other 3 cars all together costs less than this one)

The other thing is with this car is at the moment i am happy with it's performance but you never know

(i also have my eye on a rather nice Golf R32 but I just need to somehow convince the wife we need another car )

Far toooooooo slow and boooooring.

I hope your being sarcastic? lol

I have to think about this one.

I can think of better thing to buy for R32 money.....

Performace wise maybe after all I've just got rid of a Lotus Esprit V8

But I have just been given first refusal on an absolute minter by a friend of my dads it has done 11K miles from new and was taken by him as part of his retirement package i doubt the engine has ever gone above 3K revs in it's entire life, it is very difficult offer to refuse

Im a big fan of the 206 GTi 180, my mum drives one at the moment. Its a 53 plate with just over 10k on the clock, its absolutely mint, you could easily be forgiven for thinking it was an 08 its that tidy. Hers is in red and looks the nuts. Ive got to say though, as much as i used to think it was a quick car my opinion changed after i had my GP 1.9 Sporting remapped, on many occasions she tried to out gun me and not once did it happen, i put it down to the torque i had. That aside though there is no doubt whatsoever that it handles miles better than the GP, it sticks to the road. Her partner used to own a 306 GTi-6 and that was even better still, even though it produced 13bhp less at 167 it went so well, one of the best cars i have ever been in.

Rich