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Just bought a new toy, can you guess what my other hobby is? ...

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andyf:
Lovely! I'm envious, both of the car and the ability to get in and out of it without a struggle. At my age, I need transport which is a bit further above sea level.

Andy.

NickG:
Cheers guys  :lol: the steering wheel is on the correct side and it has a manual gearbox as any sports car should!!!  :thumbup:

Jim is exactly right. It's called a Vauxhall VX220, there were two versions, a 2.0 Turbo charged one 930kg and 200bhp and a 2.2 normally aspirated, 875kg and approx 150bhp. Both mid engined rear wheel drive. Unfortunately mine is the latter but it's still good fun. They were build along side the Lotus Elise in their factory so a very similar car in many respects but use many different components.

Jim, the wife is none too impressed but such is life, I had a good plan and compromised earlier in the year and bought a nice Vauxhall Vectra as a family car for her!

Andy, I haven't mastered getting into and out of it yet. The first time this morning was almost a crawl out job - highly embarrassing with the neighbour watching. I'll get there though!

Nick

AdeV:
At 6'5" tall, and quite wide, I actually did have to crawl out of a Lotus Elise... in a bloody showroom. How I managed to get in the thing I'll never know. How I got out is, well, a sorry tale indeed.

Sadly, I will never own a VX220 for that reason. A Monaro or VXR8 on the other hand.....  :)

DavidA:
In my neck of the woods it wouldn't last five minutes.

Dave.

foozer:

--- Quote from: NickG on February 09, 2011, 07:00:26 AM --- a 2.0 Turbo charged one 930kg and 200bhp and a 2.2 normally aspirated, 875kg and approx 150bhp. Both mid engines rear wheel drive.

Nick

--- End quote ---

Must be a kick to drive tho, Turbo, they are wonderful things but there is such a thing as too much power for those of us who tend to , what the heck once in a while. Had a chance to drive a converted 66 Chevy Corvair for a while with a 350 small block in the back seat. Aside from it being death on wheels, the fact that it was death on wheels made it so much fun. It didn't come alive till around eighty (mph), course it also tended to get a tad squirrelly as the speedo just kept climbing. If you wanted to risk blowing the transaxle, it was great fun to side up to a porsche on the freeway at 60mph, drop down a gear and smoke up the tires while doing a rocket away. Really red faced when the trans blew.

Ah to be young again.

Enjoy your toy, keep it under 90

Robert

 

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