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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #15 on: 30 January 2007, 10:03:44 »
I think my best one's been a Supercharged Jag XKR that I kept up with on the M56, (I think!), driving back from Wrexham one time.

I regularly see the back of Nissan 200's and GTI's.

I'm quite surprised regularly by how spritely BMW diesels are though. Just as fast as the MV6.

I do love blasting past chavvy Corsas and the like tho'!!!  ;D

And the best bit is that mine's an estate, so it's a great 'sleeper'!!!
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #16 on: 30 January 2007, 11:52:35 »
I was in my 24v Senator and a Lotus Carlton approach the lights I was stopped at. We both pulled gently away preparing for a rolling Grand Prix start at the next set of lights. I buried my foot in the carpet but H10 TUS was gone!! Just a dot in the distance!  :-?
Lotus Carltons are a bit quick!!  ;D
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« Reply #17 on: 30 January 2007, 20:14:17 »
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I think my best one's been a Supercharged Jag XKR that I kept up with on the M56, (I think!), driving back from Wrexham one time.

I think that's another case of a driver not trying TBH, an XKR will absolutely destroy any Omega (bar maybe the Lotus Carlton engined one!). They're around 400 BHP I think, certainly not far off it! And to make it even worse, it's a grandaddy friendly beast with a sludge-o-matic so they don't even have to get the gear shifts right - just work out which pedal is stop and which one is go ;D It's actually pretty similar to the Aston DB7 Vantage, the Aston being more upmarket, more exclusive, comes with a 6-speed manual box and costs about £20k more! They're both Fords underneath ;)
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #18 on: 30 January 2007, 20:23:01 »
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It's actually pretty similar to the Aston DB7 Vantage, the Aston being more upmarket, more exclusive, comes with a 6-speed manual box and costs about £20k more! They're both Fords underneath ;)
Different chassis - AM don't technology share with rest of PAG, neither do Volvo...
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #19 on: 31 January 2007, 15:38:29 »
Different chassis maybe, but i wouldn't go as far as to say they don't technology share. The Aston uses a special version of the Jag AJ-V8 engine (XKR uses the AJ34S), and there are likely quite a few other crossover points between them. Similarly the Focus ST engine is basically a Volvo unit.

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« Reply #20 on: 31 January 2007, 18:58:37 »
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Different chassis maybe, but i wouldn't go as far as to say they don't technology share. The Aston uses a special version of the Jag AJ-V8 engine (XKR uses the AJ34S), and there are likely quite a few other crossover points between them. Similarly the Focus ST engine is basically a Volvo unit.

OK, I should say AM and Volvo do absolute minimal tech share within PAG, which is quite unusual...

But my point remains, the Jag and the AM are very different...
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« Reply #21 on: 01 February 2007, 10:27:57 »
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I think my best one's been a Supercharged Jag XKR that I kept up with on the M56, (I think!), driving back from Wrexham one time.

I think that's another case of a driver not trying TBH, an XKR will absolutely destroy any Omega (bar maybe the Lotus Carlton engined one!). They're around 400 BHP I think, certainly not far off it! And to make it even worse, it's a grandaddy friendly beast with a sludge-o-matic so they don't even have to get the gear shifts right - just work out which pedal is stop and which one is go ;D It's actually pretty similar to the Aston DB7 Vantage, the Aston being more upmarket, more exclusive, comes with a 6-speed manual box and costs about £20k more! They're both Fords underneath ;)

I know, I was doubting he was trying too, but the rear bumper was on the ground when he was accelerating. I couldn't possibly have beat him, and he was pulling away from me, but only very very slowly!! I swear he wasn't messing about.
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« Reply #22 on: 01 February 2007, 10:51:47 »
Perhaps it was  a badged up XK8 then? They do exist, although not that common I don't think. That's the only possible explanation I can see, the XKR is going on double the power of a 3.0/3.2 Omega and similar weight, there's no way they'd even be close in a proper boot-down test. The 0-60 is around 5 secs and 0-100 under 13 secs. I don't know the 0-100 for the Omega but it's got to be going on 17 or 18 secs and that equates to a huge gap at 100 MPH.
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #23 on: 01 February 2007, 13:11:23 »
OK, I'll take your word for it!!

Just burst my bubble why don't you?!?!?!?  :-/

 ;D :y

(Edit to add) Hang on! I might've gotten my models mixed up. It was a four door model, you know the 'type' that's not the mondeo derivative. (X Type????) It definitely had an 'R' suffix and said supercharged somewhere. It was very new and that was about a year ago.
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #24 on: 01 February 2007, 16:59:55 »
The MV6 when running properly is quick and smooth and will keep up with most things.

However, the Carlsson was very funny. I would get all sorts trying it on, the 06 plate 330ci was the most comical though. Came up my back end down the A52 one night flashed me to move over, so I did, we drew level at  :-Xmph ... then I put my foot down and he rapidly disappeared into the rear view.

Just for fun I let him catch up, looked across, smiled and did it again!  ;D

That car really was quick and he was NOT happy!

Edit: This site in no way condones such childish behaviour on the public highway and the Admins really should be more grown up! ;)
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #25 on: 01 February 2007, 17:41:46 »
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and the Admins really should be more grown up! ;)
In that case I resign now...
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #26 on: 01 February 2007, 22:29:16 »
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The MV6 when running properly is quick and smooth and will keep up with most things.


They're not bad on the M-way, will keep up or pull away from most things if you drop a cog or two. Not so impressive off the line though, just too damn heavy for a 210 BHP car and the gearing means it's quite sluggish until the revs get towards 4,500 RPM (unless of course you beast the clutch lol).
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #27 on: 02 February 2007, 10:32:37 »
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The MV6 when running properly is quick and smooth and will keep up with most things.

However, the Carlsson was very funny. I would get all sorts trying it on, the 06 plate 330ci was the most comical though. Came up my back end down the A52 one night flashed me to move over, so I did, we drew level at  :-Xmph ... then I put my foot down and he rapidly disappeared into the rear view.

Just for fun I let him catch up, looked across, smiled and did it again!  ;D

That car really was quick and he was NOT happy!

Edit: This site in no way condones such childish behaviour on the public highway and the Admins really should be more grown up! ;)

With the omega nobody would bother racing me on the road, they would leave ,me alone.
now i get every person with a fast hatchback trying to race me so far i had prellude typeR, Ford focus ST, VX220(i didn't bother raceing with), Golf GTI, Golf GTi D, Bmw z4.
It gives me great pleasure that i completely whooped all apart from the VX220 that i didn't race. Yet again i have spend 2 fuel tanks in 3 weeks and i have only done 550miles.
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Re: Giant killer for £1000
« Reply #28 on: 03 February 2007, 17:18:38 »
people dont expect them to be fast...hah mistaken!
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« Reply #29 on: 28 February 2007, 14:36:23 »
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am sick to death of having to crucify golf gti turbos and bimmer rep mobiles on the 30 mile trek to work... however on saturday nearly got owned by a st220 but he didnt have the testicles!!!!! :P ::) and i aint got my Mtek chip ......yet( supposidly in the post!!!)

Just to add, this wasnt ordered from us.
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