Cheap car question please
14 December 2009, 11:36 AM
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Cheap car question please
Looking to get either a 205 gti 1.9 or nova 16v sometime after the new year. If you had a choice out of the two and only those as i dont want to complicate things, which one and why?
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14 December 2009, 11:39 AM
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Assuming they're the same price and in good nick, the Peugeot wins every time on account of being almost the definitive hot hatch, and a scream to drive, while the Nova is a chavvy sh*tbox.
14 December 2009, 01:17 PM
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205 is definetly the better of the two. But I have owned some cracking Novas when I was a lot younger including an SRi and a Sport. The Sport was a cracking little car and rare as rocking horse sh*t now! 
14 December 2009, 01:52 PM
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novas r smart if you find the right in standard from ie gte sr or sport but most of the 16v red tops have had the ***** raged of them.As for the 205 gti r 1.9 from standard and you can find them clean 4 good money it wins every time.
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14 December 2009, 02:24 PM
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I've owned both when I was about 20/21. First was an SR Nova, good fun to drive but lacked something that the 1.9 205 made up for. Plus the Novas are a bit of rot box as far as rust is concerned.
A 1.9 205 in good shape is very sought after these days as they're a bit of a classic. Great on the back roads but lift off over steer can very veryyyy snappy for the unaware. It certainly caught me out badly once..although I was lucky to keep her on the black stuff!
A 1.9 205 in good shape is very sought after these days as they're a bit of a classic. Great on the back roads but lift off over steer can very veryyyy snappy for the unaware. It certainly caught me out badly once..although I was lucky to keep her on the black stuff!
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i would have to disagree with most of you and say id go for a mk1 nova (would have to be a mint un chavved version granted) strip it out and drop a C20LET calibra/cavalier turbo engine into it or a rebuilt redtop as they are like **** off a shovel easy and cheap to tune and im sorry to say it but would kill most of our beloved scoobys in a straight line! peugeot is french too need i say any more lol
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[quote=zippy!;9099414]i would have to disagree with most of you and say id go for a mk1 nova (would have to be a mint un chavved version granted) strip it out and drop a C20LET calibra/cavalier turbo engine into it or a rebuilt redtop as they are like **** off a shovel easy and cheap to tune and im sorry to say it but would kill most of our beloved scoobys in a straight line!
untill it rained lmao
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14 December 2009, 10:15 PM
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Had a 1.9 Gti before and it was fast, very fast, but had no power steering, no air bags etc etc and felt like you would die if you hit a bicycle! haha
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It handled like a kart once you lowered them. God I'd love another blast up a back road in a 19
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