Never liked MkII cav, few friends had the 130s which were popular at time. Handling was not that great from what I remember at the time, suffering from dreadful understeer with the boot down. I had an Astra GTE at the time, pretty much same engine, but lighter car, much quicker. Shame that handled a million times worse than the cav!
My lodger at the time had her XR3i, that wasn't in the same league - slow, typical escort unpredictable handling.
Nothing I drove around then I thought was good, until I swapped the GTE for the Rover - what it lost in power (was only 1.6) it more than made up for in its ability to do corners and its ability to lose speed. Trouble was, in true Honda style, had to scream its nuts off to make it go.
Had I had been a bit older at the time, I reckon I would have liked the cav more - I thought at the time that the sri (State Registered Idiot
) looked the part (even though they only seemed to be available in red or white!), though like the xr3i a couple of years before it, became the yuppy's car, hence driven by tossers and none had the optional indicators pack fitted - what we now call BMW 3 series man...
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