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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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Best one I've had was a Diahatsu Charade, was a 1.0 3cyl model... I got it when my first Subaru shat it's engine and was in getting a replacement at the dealer. The 'Zaibatsu' (named after something on GTA ) got fucking death everywhere, seats had zero support so if you attacked a roundabout/bend then you could actually end up heading towards your passenger seat at speed and hanging onto the steering wheel for dear life.



I also got a brand new Corsa 1.2 when I was getting a car repaired at a bodyshop... decided to take it out that evening to give it a rip (as you do with hire/courtesy cars) and picked up MarkB.

We were motoring down the road, quickly approaching a corner that I was planning to apex beautifully........... however MarkB decided that we weren't going to make the corner, so from the passenger seat, ripped up the handbrake and send us sideways over a traffic island. 15ft in the air, written off Corsa with a couple of hundred miles on it, an angry bodyshop manager. Game over, no replacement courtesy car for Grant.


Cheers,
Grant
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