Paul.V

As title above have been looking at one on P/heads, has been shown as concourse over many years. Any body ever owned one and what are your thoughts on these cars? I have owned a cosworth and a rs turbo in the past and be under know illusion i,m not looking for power. I just want a general thought to these cars, as the 4x4's info say that 500 were made is there any way of finding out how many are left, and do you think they will become a future rs classic? Cheers for looking and would love to hear your opinions...

RS Grant

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It'll be a reasonably pokey, safe, daily driver.

I seriously doubt it'll ever become a loved classic RS.


Cheers,
Grant

Icurus

A bit under powered in 4x4 guise, but a good daily car.

Mark_

theres around 200 and something left,
a guy on www.rs2000-16v.com has made a list of all the 4x4's left

Paul.V

Thanks for the info, is that your car in the pic? How do you find them if it is?

cossieprob

Paul, that mint saff is back up forsale that my old man was telling me ,you was after.
looks very nice.

CheeRs Rich

Paul.V

Hi Rich i did see and pm'd the guy, just can't make up my mind at the moment.... Seen so many nice motors but all different apart from that there all RS's of course..

Mark_

yeah that was my rs2k 4x4, i sold it about 6mths ago.
it now lives in lithuania.

tbh i think they are fantastic cars that get alot of bad reports from people who havent owned or driven one.

you hear tales of the transfere box being weak but i think this is untrue.
regualr oil changes for the t-box and all is well.
i absolutely canned mine everywhere and it never let me down.

fantastic through bends, holds the road like shit to a blanket.
id agree they are slightly underpowered but do a 2.3 conversion and you will have quite a reliable tool.

i drove mine very hard most the time and it didnt miss a beat.
the only thing to remember is you wont be able do do wheel spins or doughnuts in it.

in the wet the back end is quite light and you do get it stepping out which is fun.

dont expect lighting performance but they are very fun cars that you can throw around and know its so sure footed.

the intererior on the mk6 rs2k is spot on, very comfortable recaro's.

like i say get your self onto the rs2000 site and there is bags of info on there.
some very intresting projects on there aswell.

you wont get much positive comments about the rs2000 on here even though most havent driven 1.


id buy another one if i had the chance at a later date however family duties call so something more practical was needed.

Paul.V

Thanks for your opinion i have spoken to a fellow rs owner and he sais they are a good car as well, like i said b4 its not about to power but the over-all car. The one i have seen is a past concourse winner so its not for thrashing around in but more of showing. Thanks again for your time and it gives me food for thought...