How often do you stop in the middle of the road to see who can then pull away quickest.

 

Some level headed people on here i see, which is refreshing. Anyway i'm off for a drive, may look for some veyron's to beat

 

As often as i race other cars

Although if this is your thing then there are always traffic lights

 

Quiet often, normally to wait for the trailing vxr or to find out whats broke this time

 

As an adult I would't drive like a **** against another car on the road, BUT how on earth can a VXR beating a bug-eye ( eight years old ) be a "win" ?

Sorry, but whilst liking the VXR, it's a young 'uns car.
I'm quite happy with ( so far ! ) un-broken traction, and 400 bhp/500+ Nm.

dunx

P.S. If anyone near Leeds wants to scare me rigid, bring yer VXR down !

 

I don't trail, although with 400lbs of torque I'm open to towing offers.

If you guys want to see 170 I'm your best bet.

 

Bet you are 5' 10" , pretty fit and go to the gym.....

 

Nope, 5' 9", used to go to the gym, then got married with children and the stress made me think F**k that I'm having a burger.


Banter is all this argument can over be m8 as VXR's and Scoobs are for different markets.

The VXR is very fast in a straight line and potent in the twisties

The scoob is fairly fast in a straikght line and brutal in the twisties.

They both do one job extremely well and the other is a compromise, neither is better than the other.

 

thats why God invented the large displacement 3 series

 

Can't be arsed to read all 6 pages ... the OP must be a fecking useless driver & should sell the STi NOW!

TX.

 

A classic Impreza is 1200kg which must be way less than a lardy VXR. Standard STi will be about 230hp per ton which must thrash a VXR

TX.

Edit - 170hp per ton (apols if mentioned before!):

http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/astra-vxr.html

 

Me too !



And on the other end....



No twisties, just a moorland jump/dip/lump creavasse....



dunx

 

Lol those 2.5's just aren't as good as the 2.0's.

or did I just open a can of wigglies.

good pics m8.

 

It's a sport.....

Soft suspension caught it out, and I nearly T-boned him as he spun.....

Glad I did the brakes first !

LOL

dunx

 

I already knew both were really good cars, what I have so far learnt from these threads, is both also have their fair share of total tools driving them..............as well as some good guys from both sides!! Sadly the total tools let us all down...............

 

FWD cars didn't fare too well at the 30-130 day which was a rolling start too!

http://www.lancerregister.com/mlrspr...0100314&last=5

TX.

 

to be fair they didnt have eleventy million bhp either

 

Where is that vid of the scoob towing a truck?

Tony

 

isn't 50-70 times in 5th a good indicator of 'once rolling'? and are usually pretty accurate as there is no launch to perfect, just mash and go?

kudos to the the vectra vxr though, just about the same as the lotus carlton from 50-70 in fifth. The standard Wrx is 10s, i won't print the sti as it will be not 'real world' and be obviously wrong.

 

ther lotus carlton was 7.6s 50-70 in fifth?

 

i have never been in a vxr but i can understand why there quicker then an old scoob, theres a lot of progression on cars since the classic imppreza's were first designed and made. don't get me wrong i love my scoob but a standard classic will struggle against a golf gti or a vxr. btw i don't drive like a pansie and can get a shift on, on track of course and still struggle against the new hot hatches due to the fact of transmission loss and big lag when starting.

i'll still have anything in the twisties though.

 

Not being funny mate, but who would do a rolling start drag race from 50mph in 5th gear?

 

i'm not being funny either mate, but it's the actual times that are the point, not the sporting event.

 

my dads harder than your dad....... im glad this thread is up, having only just moved from an astra vxr to an sti. the astra is now with my brother and as this seems to be a touchy subject about vauxhalls being rather good cars nowadays, we are planning on doing some 'real world testing' when we get off work for the summer. il get the results up and hopfully raise one or two eyebrows.
we all love our cars and slagging each other is just stupid. if you wanna slag each other join youtube and join the internet hard men and let the rest of us crack on.

 

..........but surely when people are saying VXR is quicker from a rolling start, they mean in the best and quickest possible gear from that speed................starting from a set-speed in a set gear would depend too much on gear ratio's etc.. and not be truly reflective of genuine rolling speed acceleration.

Accepted that the figures are impressive all-the-same........

 

PMSL couldn't agree more mate......I have never posted on YouTube for fear of the keyboard gangsters that lurk there LOL

 

So what we've concluded is, if we race to the Impreza's strengths then it will win and if we race to the VXR's strengths then that will win

glad we've got that sorted out now

 

There are quite a few different model scoobys , so which are you guys saying that a vxr is better than or faster than etc
Figures interest me so any concrete timings of the cars mentioned
Thanks mick

 

it'd be a fun having a meet with the two clubs, i've never been in a VXR, would love a ride, espesially in a tuned one. Anyone have one in Beds?

 

i think the dc5 type r is even better through the bends