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Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
‘Run Of The Mill’, But Curious For Some Reason
- Thread starter Richard A Thackeray
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Looking at the Vectra in that brochure, my instant reaction was an SXI, son had one with those alloys while my slightly newer SRI had the multi spoke alloys.
SRI in the brochure, an early model perhaps ?
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Richard A Thackeray
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I had a new Cavalier SRi 130 for about 4 months whilst I was waiting for my company 320i Touring to arrive, it was a good, fast long distance car, used it for a trip to Scotland and the French Alps, the 320i felt sluggish and heavy in comparison
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I suspect the brochure features early Vectras given its showing the lineage. Probably those alloys were indeed SRI spec then got demoted to SXI when the newer multi spoke ones came in (which I always loved but weren't easy to clean)
The SRI was a really nice car, half leather, nice styling (I thought), the 1.8 petrol gave enough performance is you were just Joe average, fairly nice interior, and driven carefully would display 50mpg.
It didn't do anything extraordinarily well but did almost everything more than adequately well.
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Richard A Thackeray
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Friday 1st
Spotted on my ride to work earlier this morning
That roof-rack would look more at home on a Transit, or other similar sized van, than on a Renault Megane!
Spotted on my ride to work earlier this morning
That roof-rack would look more at home on a Transit, or other similar sized van, than on a Renault Megane!
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
Given Renaults, and French car manufacturers in general, flair for the unusual I wouldn't have been surprised if that was a stock option on the car when new!
Jameshow
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Probably worth more than the car!
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I had a 2010 SRI but only the 1.6 petrol. It really zipped up through the gears, good acceleration for a NA car but felt like it would blow up at high speed. I know the 1.9 turbo diesels went really well....
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Richard A Thackeray
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Monday 4th
I drove to work this morning in the ’free Corsa’, & during the journey the trip-odometer turned over 100miles!
No!!, that’s not the length of my commute
It is however, the mileage covered since its MOT test 2 calendar months ago (4th September), as l reset it, after putting fuel in less than a mile from the MOT test station
It wasn’t even physically touched all of last week, let alone driven anywhere
I drove to work this morning in the ’free Corsa’, & during the journey the trip-odometer turned over 100miles!
No!!, that’s not the length of my commute
It is however, the mileage covered since its MOT test 2 calendar months ago (4th September), as l reset it, after putting fuel in less than a mile from the MOT test station
It wasn’t even physically touched all of last week, let alone driven anywhere
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
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Richard A Thackeray
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Audi's aren't my kind of car
This particular one was far too ostentatious & certainly not a 'sleeper', like the earliest RS4 (& definitely not like this awesome Superb, but I followed a '21' plated RS6 estate out of Wakefield yesterday
I'm not sure what engine they have, whether a V8, or that V10(?), but it certainly sounded good!!
This particular one was far too ostentatious & certainly not a 'sleeper', like the earliest RS4 (& definitely not like this awesome Superb, but I followed a '21' plated RS6 estate out of Wakefield yesterday
I'm not sure what engine they have, whether a V8, or that V10(?), but it certainly sounded good!!
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Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
An 8. V10s were only produced between 2008 & 2010.
