- Mon Sep 23, 2002 1:06 am
#69
The Smiley face should say it all!
I picked it up from the Sloan Honda in Edinburgh on Saturday, lost all enthusiasm as was trying to cope with the worst hangover in the history of my life!!!
However all I can say is that Milano red is the way forward and the Pimp Tints look the business! Got told not to Rag It for a while, but within the first 100 miles I found myself albeit briefly dropping a gear and in the 6000 rpm range. Once it happened the first time then for the rest of the day I seemed lost without it!
All checked out well with the car, my only problem is that the Passenger seat release handle has lost the spring mechanism and no longer works, so people have to use the bottom release handle! Not a great issue, but it was only used that day three times!
Today was amazing, left Edinburgh for Perth and had been on the Motorway for all of about 15 mins and just after Forth Road Bridge a VW Jetta/Golf thing sat up my arse, thought about it and could tell he was eager to give it a shot, raced off thinking wow didnt even leave 6th gear. 2 seconds later he kicked my ass and flew past me. I now know from one of the members on another forum that he knows the car and it had a Nitrous Boost button giving an extra 85bhp!!!!!!! Dont feel quite so bad now!!!
Spent about 3 Hours touring the Local Fife tourist route with the Girlfriend, trust me this was no gentle Sunday drive, my advanced driving lessons were paying off, it held to the road like it was on rails, fantastic day, took some pics of it by St Andrews which may appear in the Gallery!
Other than that was challenged by two scoobies, one Volvo T5 (made sure it was not an unmarked Cop Car) and best of all a Ford Focus brand new ST170, shouldn't have wasted her time
Took it quite a few times into the 'range' and had to start laughing it was such a surreal experience. Even more surreal is getting used to visiting petrol stations every 230 miles
Amazing Car, and now even more than anything want to get the whole of the Scottish CTR's together for a big meet before winter arrives, so mail me or set up a meet thread somewhere on the site, and P.M Me.
Sorry to bore you with such a long post but the girlfriend and my flat mate are no longer speaking to me because I am boring them to death with Vtec ranges!!!! Althought both agree it looks the daddys!!
Dave
The Smiley face should say it all!
I picked it up from the Sloan Honda in Edinburgh on Saturday, lost all enthusiasm as was trying to cope with the worst hangover in the history of my life!!!
However all I can say is that Milano red is the way forward and the Pimp Tints look the business! Got told not to Rag It for a while, but within the first 100 miles I found myself albeit briefly dropping a gear and in the 6000 rpm range. Once it happened the first time then for the rest of the day I seemed lost without it!
All checked out well with the car, my only problem is that the Passenger seat release handle has lost the spring mechanism and no longer works, so people have to use the bottom release handle! Not a great issue, but it was only used that day three times!
Today was amazing, left Edinburgh for Perth and had been on the Motorway for all of about 15 mins and just after Forth Road Bridge a VW Jetta/Golf thing sat up my arse, thought about it and could tell he was eager to give it a shot, raced off thinking wow didnt even leave 6th gear. 2 seconds later he kicked my ass and flew past me. I now know from one of the members on another forum that he knows the car and it had a Nitrous Boost button giving an extra 85bhp!!!!!!! Dont feel quite so bad now!!!
Spent about 3 Hours touring the Local Fife tourist route with the Girlfriend, trust me this was no gentle Sunday drive, my advanced driving lessons were paying off, it held to the road like it was on rails, fantastic day, took some pics of it by St Andrews which may appear in the Gallery!
Other than that was challenged by two scoobies, one Volvo T5 (made sure it was not an unmarked Cop Car) and best of all a Ford Focus brand new ST170, shouldn't have wasted her time
Took it quite a few times into the 'range' and had to start laughing it was such a surreal experience. Even more surreal is getting used to visiting petrol stations every 230 miles
Amazing Car, and now even more than anything want to get the whole of the Scottish CTR's together for a big meet before winter arrives, so mail me or set up a meet thread somewhere on the site, and P.M Me.
Sorry to bore you with such a long post but the girlfriend and my flat mate are no longer speaking to me because I am boring them to death with Vtec ranges!!!! Althought both agree it looks the daddys!!
Dave