Vauxhall Vectra owners react to clarkson...
17-07-2006, 05:18 PM
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17-07-2006, 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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"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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17-07-2006, 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?
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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17-07-2006, 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.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...81612270651855
Not half as bad as it was made out to be on Top Gear.
17-07-2006, 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...
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...
17-07-2006, 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
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
17-07-2006, 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
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
17-07-2006, 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
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
17-07-2006, 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?
Steve Focus was up a bit more than one wasnt it?
17-07-2006, 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
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
17-07-2006, 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
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
17-07-2006, 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
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18-07-2006, 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!
Don't forget the Focus ST was timed on a wet track and not a dry one like the Vectra.
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