TU-Tuning
27th October 2008, 00:46
Bit of a long read here, my bad lol.
Been thinking a lot about what car I want recently, I love the saxo it such a laugh to drive and it handles so well, also got it stripped out pretty heavily with no cards carpet and roof lining etc, problem is its only a 1-4, so the original plan was to upgrade to 16v next summer, and eventually look at bodies etc. I want to get into doing regular track days too,
But now Im thinking that even though it would be a fairly rapid car, for a 20 year old anyway, and even more so with the bodies, i keep thinking its still gonna be a cheap car with reasonably low build quality, eg plastic arches and cheap feel in some areas. And Ive really been looking at DC2 tegs. Both the cars and the insurance are pretty cheap now. And obviously theyre track machines as standard, and handle stupidly well aswell as being well built. And theyre just more grown up than saxos?
One final thing that messes my head up again is that my 1-4 lump is on 82k now, so by the time i sell it the car will be worthless because of the engine. Whereas if I buy a VTS/GTi lump for say 300-500 quid, and then fit it myself as I would do anyway that would surely at least add the value the engine cost me back onto the car as one its now a VTS and two its got much lower mileage.
Sorry if you had to read all that, but opinions would be cool lol. Cheers
Been thinking a lot about what car I want recently, I love the saxo it such a laugh to drive and it handles so well, also got it stripped out pretty heavily with no cards carpet and roof lining etc, problem is its only a 1-4, so the original plan was to upgrade to 16v next summer, and eventually look at bodies etc. I want to get into doing regular track days too,
But now Im thinking that even though it would be a fairly rapid car, for a 20 year old anyway, and even more so with the bodies, i keep thinking its still gonna be a cheap car with reasonably low build quality, eg plastic arches and cheap feel in some areas. And Ive really been looking at DC2 tegs. Both the cars and the insurance are pretty cheap now. And obviously theyre track machines as standard, and handle stupidly well aswell as being well built. And theyre just more grown up than saxos?
One final thing that messes my head up again is that my 1-4 lump is on 82k now, so by the time i sell it the car will be worthless because of the engine. Whereas if I buy a VTS/GTi lump for say 300-500 quid, and then fit it myself as I would do anyway that would surely at least add the value the engine cost me back onto the car as one its now a VTS and two its got much lower mileage.
Sorry if you had to read all that, but opinions would be cool lol. Cheers