Charlie Chalk

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Thinking of one in the new year? Or possibly a 200sx



Views people please

Serious aswell please

rapidcossie

VTS and VR's are good cars..

not fan of 200's

Fudgey

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depends if you want fun in it not?

if yes - get a shonkey 200sx that you dont mind stacking lol

danneth

i had a vts there ok until they fall to bits

stuartrst

hi i just sold a vr6 a few weeks ago it was great fun to drive handles and pulls very well.

Sukhy RS

Get a 200sx. My bro has got one and they are a very nice car , very cheap now and they have got good power and the best thing about them is that they are RWD

MrBroadside

Just got a Golf VR6, awesome car pulls like a train, always been a ford man (cossies ect) fancied a change and a winter run around. To be honest i love it pulls well and goes like stink..Petrol is fine unless you have a heavy right foot, to be honest better fuel on my VR6 then my Scoobyi had, give em a wirl there fun..

Escy

S13 200SX out of that list. For the money you'd be spending on a VTS or VR6 worth owning (about 2k?) you'd have a very nice 200SX that'd have a few mods and would wipe the floor with the others. 2k buy's you something with a healthy spec.

Sukhy RS

Spot on, for 2K you could get a stage 1 or even stage 2 S13 200sx
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My brothers is a k reg Nearly Stage 1 and his shifts i tell ya and for a automatic aswell

Fudgey

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get a 200sx rotter with T&T for about Ł500

ace fun to drive and worth fuck all if/when you bin it

Rhys

Depends what you want it for, two totally different cars imo.

COMEDY DAN

Exactly what I was going to say.

VR6 if I had the choice.

Escy

Shit ones are more hassle than they are worth. These cars tend to have high miles and don't get looked after, worth spending on a good one.

Dan B

Not driven the VTS or 200, but have driven a VR6, it pulls and pulls and pulls......very nice cars, and feel sturdy enough (unlike the VTS, which may aswell be made of rice-paper).

Escy

I've driven a VR6, nice low down power but poor handling and the steering is very poor, really light with no feedback.

Plus, I couldn't own a car with a 2.8l engine which produces less power than your average 2.0. No bragging rights in that

Charlie Chalk

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every day car.... thats what i want it for, but i want a bit of poke....

stonehavencossie

VTS - Boy racer mobile, quick off the line but thats it

Golf VR6 - For old men and slow (corrado vr6 now were talking)

200sx s13 - Cheap as chips even for a decent one. More refined than the above and much quicker. Just make sure you know what your doing especially in the wet. Ive had two standard ones and they scared the crap out of me much more than my 380bhp cossie

XRT_si

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A saxo VTS is good ragable car, you can rinse every last rev out of them, throw them into virtually any corner, they are good fun cars in my opinion. Not built the best but hey.

Charlie Chalk

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cheers for all your replies

Rab

VTS is shit. I had one. It fell apart.

Made Fords look reliable

Charlie Chalk

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I was even thinkin an rst

Rab

Don't get an RST for a daily runner


Get a nice VW

Oranoco

Agree Built like shit but so much fun. It's like driving a road legal go-kart. Shame about the Lax Flower image

danneth

same

Rab

Did you pull interior parts off every time you touched them?

I did

When you got the speed above 80mph did body parts fly off on the motorway?


Mine did


I can remember pull the whole heater control part of the dash off when I was putting the heaters on one cold night

danneth

interior yes very shabby needed plenty of super glue

how did you get yours up to 80mph my local garage aint that big inside

Rab

Mine was new...... it did 90 once but the grill came off.

Stuck to 70 after that

xr2i-carl

hate the look of the 200sx but out of the motors its the one to go for a late one say a 2000 model

i test drove a 310bhp one and it was pretty quick

NathR

I had a VTS for a few years, awesome fun little car, would be my choice.

Paddy

VTS - Race everyone at Mcdonalds and enjoy grown ups laughing at you at traffic lights.

VR6 - adopt a look of superiority over every other car owner [except for the bmw 3 series you long to own], try to race every one so they can see the vr6 badge on the back and realise it's not a snotty 1.8 gl with alloys.

200 sx - grow your hair long and buy a medallion. Pretend you're so old skool that you were into drifting years before Max Power and that shit film made it cool.

My serious answers:

VTS - Brilliant fun to drive, everyone should try one before slagging them off. Handle like Go kart but bits fall off in a typically french build quality type way.

VR6 - I'm not a fan of V6's but these seem to be more reliable than most. Pull well and although the VW build quality was waning on the Mk3, they're still better than many equivalents.

200 sx - I honestly can't understand why these are so cheap! Reliable nissan technology, to be critical a bit dull inside but most jap cars are.

I'd go for the nissan

caprixpack

dont bother with any of them, find a decent xr2 then bung a rst engine in

sweet looking car with rst performance

rallycross

having owned VR6's. Saxo VT's and Nissan 200's can comment


Golf is a soggy lardy spunge of a car with a fab engine, sort the brakes and suspension and it might be ok but fundamentaly flawed and if you like to press on in the twisty bits forget it.

SAXO VT's great little cars, brilliant chassis. Made out of recyled tin cans though and at the end of the day always feels like a shopping trolly, only on steroids.

200 sx - Have got an old shape (S13) that we use for track days. Standard car is dreadfull with wallowy suspension, laggy turbo and crap brakes. Does not cost too much to improve on these problems and impressively reliable

stonehavencossie

Agree with comments on suspension but didnt find the turbo laggy at all and the brakes were fine. I can imagine them having to be upgraded for a track though just as with most cars ?

fezzajsy

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my m8 got a vr6..its a beast..

would be my choice ...