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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:18 PM
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:20 PM
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The best comment by far:

"the vec was excellent and i could have got it around that track faster than the stig, he clearly does not know how to drive a high powered front wheel drive car!! "

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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:22 PM
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thats funny. Vectras are wank though. Drove too many of them at work and just hate them
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:23 PM
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"It only did bad around the track/turning because it had the t.c off"
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by T598 Dave
the vec was excellent and i could have got it around that track faster than the stig, he clearly does not know how to drive a high powered front wheel drive car!! has any one saw that magazine which had the vec vxr in it when it was first released? think it was called evo. they had it up against a new scooby, new evo, and new 330i M sport, up in the mountain roads.. well it was staying in front of the scooby and the scooby had bout extra 30 brake. and was just out handling the 330i, but it didnt do to well on their track bout 1 sec behind the 330i m sport, its not the best car on the track no but how often do you go on a track any way?


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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:32 PM
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Must admit the stig did look a bit crap deiving that
i love the comments also the other one ..

just admit it was crap round corners
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:33 PM
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There like a bunch of kids..................Just face it there SHIT
My gsi this,my vxr that bla bla
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 05:34 PM
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:14 PM
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To be fair, you could see the Vectra was being driven to "prove a point", so to speak - Same way the Astra VXR was.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...81612270651855

Not half as bad as it was made out to be on Top Gear.
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:15 PM
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Err, did nobody realise where it came?

It was the next car down behind the Focus ST! A fraction of a second slower than the car Clarkson and everyone wanks off over!

Its a load of bollocks, just like the rest of Top Gear, he WELL overdid the thing saying how bad it was!

Its a "safe" car, its not made to be a track car, and it clearly aint slow if it went round almost as fast as everyones fave Focus ST...
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:18 PM
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:28 PM
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lol despite the fact its in the next class of car up from a focus,
so supposidly has more power etc.

the car it compairs to is a mondeo ST.. which is what top gear did
and it got shit on

the focus st got compaired to the car in ITs class the astray
and probably did the same
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:29 PM
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lol despite the fact its in the next class of car up from a focus,
so supposidly has more power etc.

the car it compairs to is a mondeo ST.. which is what top gear did
and it got shit on

the focus st got compaired to the car in ITs class the astray
and probably did the same
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by pee vee
lol despite the fact its in the next class of car up from a focus,
so supposidly has more power etc.

the car it compairs to is a mondeo ST.. which is what top gear did
and it got shit on

the focus st got compaired to the car in ITs class the astray
and probably did the same
Eh? In English you mean what?
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 06:56 PM
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I mean they compaired Each car to the respective car in its class. lol

Let me spell it out for you

Vectra v Mondeo

Focus ST v Ashtray
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:11 PM
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PMSL at the Veccy owners. Looks like Vauxhall just chucks big engines in cars and forgets the rest!

Steve Focus was up a bit more than one wasnt it?
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:29 PM
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Focus was done in the sopping wet no?
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:38 PM
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what engine is in them new vectra's?
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:39 PM
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lol

Actually the next car up from the vectray iiiisss


the Ferrari 575

focus ST is 4 or 5 places above and is 0.4 of a second behind the mondeo ST.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/powerlaps.shtml


EDIT: Intersting that the 'monster vauxhall monaro' is only .5 of a second
quicker than a mondeo round that track of theirs
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:40 PM
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focus was pissing it down to be fair yes
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 07:44 PM
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What did Clarkson think of the Mondeo.....I missed the first 5 minutes of it
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 08:13 PM
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he said he would choose hte mondeo over the vectra and the other car they had, think it was a mazda 626
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 08:17 PM
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Ford Mondeo ST220

3.0L V6 N/A
226PS@6250rpm
285Nm@4900rpm

Top Gear Time: 1.34.5


Vauxhall Vectra VXR

2.8L V6 Turbo
255PS@5500rpm
355Nm@1800-4500rpm

Top Gear Time: 1.35.3
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 08:21 PM
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GrahamM thanks mate
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by TIFF
What did Clarkson think of the Mondeo.....I missed the first 5 minutes of it
He said after he drives one every time he gets out and says "Why would anyone ever buy any other car but this"

Case closed

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Old Jul 18, 2006 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Stavros
It was the next car down behind the Focus ST! A fraction of a second slower than the car Clarkson and everyone wanks off over!
Steve,

Don't forget the Focus ST was timed on a wet track and not a dry one like the Vectra.
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