.............please stop pulling up next to me nodding, grinning and thinking just because your car is blue, it has 4 doors and a minature spolier that you have the same car as me.
You don't.........you have an exhaust-anti-flame-plate because they wanted to make you car look "sporty" and you probably wanted it as an extra anyway.
You'll end up driving faster that your car can handle or more importantly, you can handle, and will end up causing a serious accident......

Before you BSN people go crazy and think i'm saying my car is better than anyone else's.....i'm not.............i'm just saying it's better then these

Happy Mondays

 

it's a ROVER

 

Before you BSN people go crazy and think i'm saying my car is better than anyone else's.....i'm not.............i'm just saying it's better then these

Doesn't handle as well as 'them' though

 

Ya think?

 

Its not hard to handle well when the speeds are acceleration aren't enough to coax a pensioner out of boredom

The diesel one isn't actually too bad, they are quite a nice motor for what they are...........a Rover

 

hmmmmmmmm,well a couple of us have done very low 14's just nudging 100 mph up the 1/4 with just exhaust and induction,not record breaking but a lot faster than you giveing em credit for,you have a look on the letstorque bhp website and see how many front drivers can do that ,theres about 3 on the whole list,not even the supposed super hatches like fst and vxr can match that,theres a few circuits that use these for their experience cars too,i wont go on about the scoobies i overtook at castle combe IN THE WET last year.
I used to have a classic scooby ,zs is better handler ,has better brakes,masses of grip ,feels alive in your hands compared to the old numb feeling understeering scooby its just not as good for straight line grunt,standard they arent the fastest cars in a straight line .
There are some modified zs starting to appear now in nasp form and supercharged that are genuinely very quick.

 

Indeed they're not bad for what they are and congrats in the 2wd list.....but i'm saying it's a very laughable when I get them pull up to me and they think there is a kind of kinship between us. As if they're saying, i've got one too.
You haven't......

I had a black one cut me up a couple of days back with black windows and a bigger (yet still smaller) rear wing.
When I pulled up to the lights next to him (he was on a right hand filter) he was grinning like he'd just taken a monkey off me down santapod and I can guarantee he was telling his wife, "see, they're not all that......."

I suppose I can be a little more than most as mine isn't completely standard but even still.........a standard scoob and a standard rover?

Please......

 

Nowt wrong with the ZS 180 - great handling car, if a little hard on suspension. Sounds fantastic too, and in the right hands, can embarrass a lot more expensive metal through the twisties.

 

I bet they can, and I bet I could also like a lot (and I mean a lot) of other cars can........that game has been played to death

I'm just saying stop with the "I have four doors, a mini rear wing and it's blue so we're in the same boat" stuff.

 

so 5% of the public can probably do well in it?

Your average scoob owner with a few mods will slay majority of much more expensive metal in the twisties though

 

Were they on their cool-down lap?

 

Good lord - suprised to see the usual scoob bashing suspects have not jumped on this one yet, i am sure it is just a matter of time though

 

I know, where's the banter ?...........davyboy, [Davey], rabid, Gutmann, Audilover ..........any one else i missed .........come on tell us how wrong we are

 

Impreza Sti's great cars.

MG rover......

People always have a bias towards the cars they drive, impreza drivers rightly so. MG drivers however

Its like when my dad upgraded is car from a cavalier. He thinks its the dogs danglies. Its not. I dont tell him that though, dont wanna ruin his day

 

wow..........Audilover are you feeling alright?
Maybe it's me not feeling well because we agree!!??

 

thought you weren't going to grace us with your presence there

Good point though

 

Sorry but there isnt that much in it, both old, cheap and relatively competent, the Scoob isnt the icon it was, they are both bazmobiles to most people.

 

^^ Blasphemy

 

Apart from newer scoobies that arn't that old, arn't that cheap and arn't as bad as a rover.....

 

most people meaning commoners? Us scoob owners are very exclusive

Tripple has a point too

 

'arn't as bad as a rover.....'

Now theres a fact to cherish !



Dont get me wrong, still love Scoobs but they dont have the mythical status anymore, a new one is now what, 15 and a bit grand ?

 

pound for pound you'd struggle to match an Impreza for performance, potential, sound and still even today headturning capacity ( followed by ambulance chaser claims against you )

 

Wasnt the rover chassis originally lifted from a honda civic?

 

sounds about right........how many chavs you know can go an afford one?
afford to tune it up (if thats their wish) and afford to run it?

This thread is about a rover........the scoobs not that bad to a lot of cars but better then a rover in this thread.

 

Scoobs are tremendous fun, but I wouldn't call Subaru an aspirational brand.

I think that's a good thing though. Excellent road cars that look after drivers.

 

I like a little mild trolling on a sunny afternoon !

 

Me too mate. That's why I feel the same as he does when scoobs pull alongside me in the evo
dave

 

P.S. New series fifth gear tonight 20:00 channel five.....
dave

 

"but i'm saying it's a very laughable when I get them pull up to me and they think there is a kind of kinship between us"
3XOG
I certainly dont think theres any kinship between brands and if a ZS owner is grinning then maybe you have got it confused with smugness

Smugness in the fact that the ZS is much cheaper to run,is a far better point to point car with is superior chassis,not likely to be stolen and the Mrs hit over the head with an iron bar by some scally at Tesco's or the most likely scenario that the ZS owner is about to nail you
You see, back in 94/5 the scoob was something special but in the noughties even tarted up Rover 45's can dish it out and to be quite honest anything under a STi is poverty spec Scoob a bit like those those old MK 2 XR2's that had the steel wheels -it says i couldn't quite afford the real deal
btw,i hope you guys aint going to have the cheek to stick st georges flags on your cars during the world cup-some of us can wear it with pride!

 

What boat is that? The Subaru sinking ship of total chavdom?

Let me guess you wear rally jackets, gold wheels a baseball cap and have stickers on your car as well.

I'm not one to stick up for rover products of any kind but the ZS is meant to have far better handling than people give it credit for. Maybe better than a WRX which doesn't really have good handling* at all. They also aren't nearly as ugly as the 'failure' bugeye model.

*high levels of grip don't necessarily equate to good handling