Question for Citroen Ax GT owners
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If it's like everything on a real AX GT, after ten years it will just fall apart on its own accord 
I know, because I used to have one. An Airfix kit is built better...
I know, because I used to have one. An Airfix kit is built better...
but ax gt's are cool cars and pretty nippy too for a N/A 1.4
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what does GT stand for anyway? best i could come up with was general turbo
Doesnt GT mean grand touring ?
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christopher watson said:
so it means absolutly nothing of importance lol, and what about GTi i know its grande toure injection (or somthing like that) but is it really any better than just injection?
Sorry bulldog, but your right, its nothing special - Grand touring injection
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while were on this, what the hell is 'ghia'???
Dunc Uno Turbo said:
Yes, they go well and handle amazingly, but they are built like poo and fall to bits! How many do you still see on the road?!!!! They weren't built to last...
GT = "Grande Tourismo". The GT badge was used on high performance cars simply to denote their ability to cover a great distance a high speeds. Grande Tourismo is losely translated to Grand Tourer or Big Tourer. It was popularised in the 1960's by the likes of the Ford GT race car, and even by the Ford Cortina GT models!
Ghia = Italian (I think) independant styling company that styled a lot of cars. The Karmann Ghia coupe is probably the most famous of their work. Ford then bought out the company and used it as badge engineering to denote their top models, even though Ghia had nothing to do with the styling of them...
Without stirring up a hornets nest, it's kind of similar to Fiats current use of Abarth, except at least Fiat kept the name in the spirit it was intended for. Abarth used to be an independant tuning/ racing company that modified Fiats and Lancias. Fiat bought them out, and now use the name to denote the high performance models in its range. However, none of the original Abarth engineers have anything to do with the design of the more recent (late 80's onwards) Fiat cars that the badges are attached to. Not to say that Abarth versions aren't good cars, not at all, just that the original Abarths were almost hand crafted by skilled engineers, whereas now it's all done on a production line.
However, the new Grande Punto Abarth coming soon looks like it will be especially worthy of the Abarth badge
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tbh wth the state of tune of my cinq, it can proudly wear an abarth badge imo
1986Uno45S said:
hahahhahahahhahahahaha thats gotta be quote of the day for 4 days ago :slayer: :worship:
I chased an AX GT in my cinq the other day, it was red and was spewing white smoke... i can only assume it was shagged because i was absolutly stuck to its bumper
and i had no 3rd gear...and they were going for it coz they nearly lost it round a bend.... ANYWAY i digressAX spoiler fitted on a cinq
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christopher watson said:
Errr... Gormless Twonk innit (usually piloted by one?)
Especially if you used to lust after the original supermini... the Austin 1300GT!
Alex22 said:
You don't mean to say that another Peugeot/ Citroen 1360cc engine has blown its head gasket?!!!!!
Very common fault. My AX GT started using oil and coolant, plus smoked like buggery on the overun so I sold it on while it still looked good and ran ok
