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When I have advertised cars for sale before I get messages with low ball offers, stupid questions and other crap like...

"Can you hold on to it until the end of the month because that's when I get paid?"

"How many doors does it got?" when there are a dozen flipping photos.

...and so on. I have been getting messages about my Alfa that read like a CV. Listing all the Alfa's they own, have owned, members of owners clubs, live just up the road from an Alfa mechanics and will be kept in a heated garage.

I'm thinking of holding auditions.

:D
 
Nothing quite makes your brain hurt like selling a none-runner..

*answers phone*...so does it run? Well the first words in the advert are spares or repair does not run..so interpret that as you wish..
 
StevenRB45 said:
Then it'll have that day when you drive it and think "I should hate this car...but I'm enjoying this..little bastard".
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Back when I worked in the motor trade, the Citroen’s we sold used to regularly go wrong and keep coming back for repairs, but at the same time they were fun and enjoyable cars to drive.

It’s a bit like an abusive relationship.

The last Citroen I drove was a C3 (older model) 1.4 Diesel engine with a panoramic glass roof. I really enjoyed driving it, but at the same time it was completely gutless.
 
AndyRKett said:
Back when I worked in the motor trade, the Citroen’s we sold used to regularly go wrong and keep coming back for repairs, but at the same time they were fun and enjoyable cars to drive.

It’s a bit like an abusive relationship.

The last Citroen I drove was a C3 (older model) 1.4 Diesel engine with a panoramic glass roof. I really enjoyed driving it, but at the same time it was completely gutless.
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Agree...loads of fun in it's own way, wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy on the basis I wouldn't want them blaming me for it.

If you've driven an old C3 you've driven the new one...just with less suspension travel and firmer damping. So somewhere between an old C3 and a 2CV although wouldn't say the 110 is gutless..the engines a bit fast for the car. I also sampled an old c3...it was one of many courtesy cars we had during ds3 ownership, it was a good way to try the range if anything!
 
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StevenRB45 said:
Agree...loads of fun in it's own way, wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy on the basis I wouldn't want them blaming me for it.

If you've driven an old C3 you've driven the new one...just with less suspension travel and firmer damping. So somewhere between an old C3 and a 2CV although wouldn't say the 110 is gutless..the engines a bit fast for the car. I also sampled an old c3...it was one of many courtesy cars we had during ds3 ownership, it was a good way to try the range if anything!
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Having quick look online, the car I had was a 1.4HDI circa 2011 with 70hp and 118ft/lb of torque

At the time I was driving a 1.3 multijet Diesel with 70hp and 132ft/lb of torque.

The Citroen was 150kg heavier, so the difference was massively obvious, when driving, especially if you wanted to overtake anything.
 
AndyRKett said:
Having quick look online, the car I had was a 1.4HDI circa 2011 with 70hp and 118ft/lb of torque

At the time I was driving a 1.3 multijet Diesel with 70hp and 132ft/lb of torque.

The Citroen was 150kg heavier, so the difference was massively obvious, when driving, especially if you wanted to overtake anything.
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If anything the turbo petrol engine is a bit fast for the rest of the car. It's got 33ft/lb more torque delivered over a much wider range than the diesel could manage..and 40 more horses, oh and a new 1.2 petrol turbo is 100kg lighter than the old 1.4 hdi.

It's not fast fast but UP! Gti/warm fiesta fast.
 
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StevenRB45 said:
It's not fast fast but UP! Gti/warm fiesta fast.
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Put the Up GTi and the puretec 110 side by side and the numbers are very similar on paper, the Up is even slightly heavier (I have no idea how such a small car can weigh 1100kg!)

However the Up accelerates quicker and I suspect corners better, however it’s still impressive for the Citroen which doesn’t get anything like the praise the Up gets.

What looking at these things has made me notice is that as small cars have gotten heavier and the power has gone up the outcome is that despite all the advancements, cars haven’t got any faster as a result.
 
AndyRKett said:
Put the Up GTi and the puretec 110 side by side and the numbers are very similar on paper, the Up is even slightly heavier (I have no idea how such a small car can weigh 1100kg!)

However the Up accelerates quicker and I suspect corners better, however it’s still impressive for the Citroen which doesn’t get anything like the praise the Up gets.

What looking at these things has made me notice is that as small cars have gotten heavier and the power has gone up the outcome is that despite all the advancements, cars haven’t got any faster as a result.
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Yeah I won't pretend the C3 would see which way an Up! Gti went on a back road but it would be a surprisingly close drag race given the totally different brief.

The C3 performance figures are pretty much a match for a mk1 golf Gti which when you think of the extra weight seems impressive though it's got an extra 40lb/ft over the golf.

Rather misses the point of the car anyway, you've just got a nice wedge of power in hand so it lopes along well and can overtake easily. If you use all the speed..then you tend to wish you hadn't at the next corner.
 
On my way out of town there was a pothole partially blocking the lane I was in. I could see it was basically a four to six inch cliff edge and didn't want to damage my car or potentially get stuck. There was a van coming the other way so I checked my mirrors, signaled and slowed. I came to a stop about six feet before the pothole as the van passed. Less than a second later there was an elongated horn blast from a Vauxhall Vectra behind me, a few seconds after that there was a gap big enough so I went round the pothole. Both drivers side wheels crossing the centre line.

Diesel engine revving it's arse off and tyre screeching behind me as the Vectra went full bore.

BANG!!!

Rattle, rattle, stop.

The idiot in the Vectra was so preoccupied looking for the end of his bell his inside wheel was still spinning when he hit the pot hole making the engine cut out.

I didn't stop to help as undoubtedly it would have been my fault.
 
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