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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 10:37 AM
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They look well

anybody had one, any good?
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by LeeMac
They look well

anybody had one, any good?
i like them a lot.

designed by a boffin from ferrari aint they?

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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 12:15 PM
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Saxo Boy has recently swapped his Scoob for a 3.0 V6 I think. Maybe send him a PM?
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 12:27 PM
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Lovely looking car on the outside, rep wagon on the inside.
Great engine, uninvolving handling, naff steering
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 01:00 PM
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I don't have the coupe though just the 3.0V6 saloon Its a great car with lots of nice toys, etc. The engine is considerably more economical than the scooby despite its CCs and is fooking quick when you get her wound up The best bit is the lazy driving where you can pull cleanly away from mini-roundabouts in 3rd and 4th!! Feel free to ask any questions
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 02:39 PM
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mother in law had a 3.0v6 coupe, suprisingly quick and handled well, interior was ok was this sandy coloured leather, with sky blue paint. It should of been real wheel drive as it had a few tourqe steer problems in the wet.

it was a w plate and had the updated 230bhp unit and sounded pretty sweet.

had a bucket load of problems when it was new but was ok upto when she sold for a cr-v yuck.

is there many used ones around what do they fetch ??.
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 05:26 PM
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Had one very briefley-was a company car.

It was an automatic-felt very smooth and responsive. Brakes seemed good and thought the handling was ok at the time. As mentioned before a bit uninvolving but effortless driving. Had all the toys (crusie etc) Shame the alloys looked so damn small otherwise nice looking car.
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 05:28 PM
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im thinkin of one of these but in HDi form. just to run to work n back. the scoob gets rather expensive on the 120 mile round trip...
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 10:28 PM
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the guy I bought my Scoob from went to a HDi coupe and he really likes it.
I also think they are really nice looking cars !
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Old Mar 11, 2004 | 10:32 PM
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SB, wheres the Scoob gone ?

230 BHP, dont you mean 210 ?
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Old Mar 12, 2004 | 10:31 AM
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2nd Gen engine was 210bhp as J4CKO suggests. The scooby is sitting in the car port costing me £130 a month EXTRA in insurance and about £50 a day in depreciation. Now at £7500ono for a 60k MY99 impreza - watch NSR for a MASSIVE rant when I finally sell it
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Old Mar 12, 2004 | 06:06 PM
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SB Why ?
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Old Mar 12, 2004 | 06:59 PM
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I want to invest some money into my flat so I need some capital from the scooby's sale and also a car thats cheaper to run
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 02:10 PM
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just bought one of these (should pick it upfriday/saturday).

3.0 v6 light blue with full black leather interior. v plate

gone from mx-5 to wrx to 205 gti's to 406
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 02:17 PM
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I doubt you'll regret it. I was supposed to be taking a step down but I've somehow found a cheap car with loads of toys and stonking performance that can give scoobys a good run when up and running. Win-win I think
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 02:22 PM
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SB - what sort of MPG are you getting out of the V6? as i have accidentally gone over to the pug side, this could be a route to more fun for me.

atm i get about 30 mpg out of the 2.0 406, mainly dual carriageway and A road driving. (must bear in mind that when i was doing the same route in the scoob, i hardly ever got out of the high teens )

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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 02:42 PM
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At the moment (mainly rush hour motorway driving = slow down/speed up) I'm getting 26.5mpg. This is with the air-con in eco mode most of the time, having no fear of a 20-120mph then back off run from roundabouts, using cruise where I can (defo saves) and generally setting cruise at 81mph (indicated)(don't know why, just sits nice at that speed )

The 2nd version of the 3.0 (210bhp) is said to have a few more mpg's up its sleeve

In real world terms I can get £45 of optimax into my scooby and £45 of NUL into my pug. I'd get 260-80 miles out the scooby and 350-70miles out the pug (same routine during the week) so effectively I'm getting about 90 miles per tank improvement. Factor in, longer service intervals, cheaper services, cheaper insurance and peanuts to buy and overall its a good swap for a scooby I'd say

I'm getting a sports zost fitted tomorrow to free up a bit of a growl - will report back with results
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 08:21 PM
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Default 406 coupe - any thoughts?

Just got this



2 litre, met green, R plate

could do with a big turbo tho

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