Renault Clio 1.2 petrol; takes about 20odd seconds if not more to hit 60 and then when it hits 60mph the engine accelerates so much better
Feels strange having such a dead car while accelerating but then getting up to 50-60 it begins to really pull better. It handles resaonably well although in the wet I've nearly lost the back of it a few times, very unpredictable in the wet. Only on round abouts on the dual carriage ways, take it a lot easier on open roads in the wet as it's far to unpredictable for my liking.
Someone wrote off our other car and trailer last week so the insurance company have sorted us out with a car of similar quality and value to our old rust bucket of a Passat with over 160 000miles on the clock. You can imagine our faces when they turn up at our house with a brand new Audi A4 estate SLine (the sports one) was like this :
Then my Dad asked them if his 17 year old son could go on the policy for this hire car and the guy laughed and said No and I was like :
This car is just crazy though, the brakes are incredible and the thing just grips. I know not to follow close behind one of them things in my Clio I'd smash right into the back of it, my Dad brought the car to a near stop from 60 in a blink of the eye and he didn't even press the pedal that hard.
I got a shot in a car park and just couldn't believe how good it was, made the Clio feel like a sponge. I could accelerate up to 60mph and stop again in the length of this car park, in the clio I'd have been lucky to hit 35mph in the same distance.
Will be a shame when the insurance claims get sorted out and we're back to a rust bucket
Keiran
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My Suzuki GSX600R is much quicker.
My Dad forgot when he showed me and all the stuff in the back of the car hit the back of the seats :o luckily nothing hard or breakable!