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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:25 pm
by Karl_CLCoupe
I learnt in a 1.5DCi Clio. Oh joy of joys
. Steering was dead, and the rattle from the engine at idle, and its supposed to be one of these new-fangled common-rail jobs. Was nice to thrash though.
Karl.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:22 pm
by Revis
I learnt in a 1.9 td escort. Was quite quick at some points, but the lag was terrible sometimes. Especially on roundabouts when u needed to get out quick
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:40 pm
by Redline
My driving instructor started off with a 5-door Peugeot 306 1.4. Was quite cool to drive in an old skool kind of way.
Then a week before my test he traded it in for a new Renault Clio 1.2. I found it really hard to get used to the overassisted steering and stuff, I was used to having to "drive" the car
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:04 pm
by GroovyCarrot
Most powerful car I drove as a learner was a clio 1.6 rxe (my dad's).. 96bhp, nippy, but a vrs would have been heaven
Also learnt in a clio 1.5dci (my instructor's) and a 2.5 td shogun (mum's).. neither of which were exactly fast
Although, the dci was perfectly reasonable.. didn't like the clutch, brakes or steering on it at all, but the engine was pretty gutsy for a 1.5d..
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:19 pm
by Mac
13twelve wrote:did my lessons in a 306 1.9 td
the couple o times i managed to floor it in second where fun
and the plumes of black smoke coming out the back made me laugh n all
me too. The car I've got now is actually my instructors second 'personal' car which he had tuned - he loved them that much!