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A colleague has today given me a booklet on what £5k car to buy. He knows me too well. The pages are yellow and torn, the cars look very cool, but rather dated. The book is dated 1993! (in today’s money £5k is ~£8k.)

Author’s previous owned cars:
VW Corrado 89/F 70k £5500
Mercedes 500 SEC 84/C 147k £5000
Sierra XR4x4 2.9i 90/G 50k £3500
Alfa 164 V6 90/G 80k £4500

Top 10 Hot hatches
Golf GTi 90/H
Peugeoot 309 GTI 90/H
Citroen ZX 1.9 Volcane
Toyota MR2 88/E
Escort XR3I 90/H
Peugeot 205 GTI 90/G
Escort RS Turbo 90/G
Nova GTE 91/H
Renault 19 16v 91/H
Citroen BX19 16V 91/J

Top 10 Luxury Performance Saloons
Sierra XR4x4 2.9i 90/G
Senator 3.0 88/E
Saphire Cosworth 2WD
Carlton GSI 3000 88/E
Alfa 164 3.0 89/F
Audi 80/90 Sport/Coupe
BMW M535I D/87
Scorpio 2.9i 89/F
Jaguar/Daimler XJ40 2.9/3.6 87/D
Peugeot 605 3.0

Reading some of the stats the biggest difference 20 years on is the performance and economy. Typical diesel cars were 0-60 in 12s and 45mpg. Hot hatch petrol cars were 0-60 in 8s and 30mpg and servicing every 6000 miles. Today a hot hatch has to be nearer 6s and give 40mpg, despite quite possibly being 200kg heavier.
 
5k will get you a Subaru Legacy 3.0 Spec B.... Had one in manual form and its a whole lot of car for 5k....
 
Sorry BaldGuy, I wasn't very clear in my post. I'm not looking to buy a car (for the moment at least). I was just enjoying reading a 20 year old booklet on cars.
 
Lol, I thought the same (didn't read all of your first bit) - then I noticed XR4x4 for £3500 and I thought "sod that" and all became clear from the other cars!
 
wemorgan said:
A colleague has today given me a booklet on what £5k car to buy. He knows me too well. The pages are yellow and torn, the cars look very cool, but rather dated. The book is dated 1993! (in today’s money £5k is ~£8k.)

Author’s previous owned cars:
VW Corrado 89/F 70k £5500
Mercedes 500 SEC 84/C 147k £5000
Sierra XR4x4 2.9i 90/G 50k £3500
Alfa 164 V6 90/G 80k £4500

Top 10 Hot hatches
Golf GTi 90/H
Peugeoot 309 GTI 90/H
Citroen ZX 1.9 Volcane
Toyota MR2 88/E
Escort XR3I 90/H
Peugeot 205 GTI 90/G
Escort RS Turbo 90/G
Nova GTE 91/H
Renault 19 16v 91/H
Citroen BX19 16V 91/J

Top 10 Luxury Performance Saloons
Sierra XR4x4 2.9i 90/G
Senator 3.0 88/E
Saphire Cosworth 2WD
Carlton GSI 3000 88/E
Alfa 164 3.0 89/F
Audi 80/90 Sport/Coupe
BMW M535I D/87
Scorpio 2.9i 89/F
Jaguar/Daimler XJ40 2.9/3.6 87/D
Peugeot 605 3.0

Reading some of the stats the biggest difference 20 years on is the performance and economy. Typical diesel cars were 0-60 in 12s and 45mpg. Hot hatch petrol cars were 0-60 in 8s and 30mpg and servicing every 6000 miles. Today a hot hatch has to be nearer 6s and give 40mpg, despite quite possibly being 200kg heavier.
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....are you sure it wasn't "tigerdriver"....???;);)
 
Looking at my book it's fun to see how cheap some 80s/90s hot-hatches were and what they've now become, whereas some have almost completely disappeared - I can't remember the last time I saw a ZX 1.9i
 
wemorgan said:
I can't remember the last time I saw a ZX 1.9i
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If you had said, I could have had a look for you on Saturday. 1,800 cars...bound to be a ZX in there somewhere, although to be honest, Peugeots with the wrong badge on didn't feature heavily.
They were replaced by the 2.0i Volcane. A rapid motor.

Looking at the Golf Gti makes me think of a friend that had one similar from new then changed it in 1991 for a new brilliant blue 4 door...which she still has.
 
MK2 are well thought of, a nice one can fetch decent money.
 
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The Mk3 was the real flop. They even did a GTI badged version with only 115bhp.
 
wemorgan said:
The Mk3 was the real flop. They even did a GTI badged version with only 115bhp.
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...and rightly so. It was shyte. I can remember driving a newish N reg one and it was no improvement over my 1990 XR3i of the time. Gearbox was worse.
 
John Hi

the Golf GTI was as smooth as silk in comparison to the XR3i - especially as my mates XR3
had the ashtray full to overflowing and stank of cigarettes hehe
that said i loved the XR3 too - all the bad boys had them
 
wemorgan said:
The Mk3 was the real flop. They even did a GTI badged version with only 115bhp.
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I think my mk II 8v was 112-115 bhp too:dk: 16v was 136 bhp ish
 
wemorgan said:
But lighter i imagine
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Yup, a lot lighter.

Bugger all safety features helps.

I think my XR3i had 108BHP (EFI). Certainly I easily kept up with XR3is in the Manta previously, and vice versa.

Escorts handling was amazing - felt planted doing 80mph round the slip road joining the M25 anti-clockwise at JC16.

Good cars a lot of the hot hatches (except the French shyte - but only certain types drive French shyte LOL).
 
mika said:
John Hi

the Golf GTI was as smooth as silk in comparison to the XR3i - especially as my mates XR3
had the ashtray full to overflowing and stank of cigarettes hehe
that said i loved the XR3 too - all the bad boys had them
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Evening chap.

Hmm, not sure what the score there was then - unless the one I drove had a duff gearbox. It was dreadful.
 
JohnEBoy said:
Good cars a lot of the hot hatches (except the French shyte - but only certain types drive French shyte LOL).
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French...

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Norfolk...LOL. I'll refer you back to the what's Red and.... :D
 
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