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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2010, 07:02:13 pm »
Fair enough then  :happy2:

I know a lot of people were complaining they didn't make the 300bhp

One of the blokes at work has one and had his tested and it only got 276bhp  :surprised:

Might tell him to go and get it back on the RR

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2010, 07:04:02 pm »
couldnt care less really, have  you heard them, bloody epic.  he couldnt get away from me once rolling when i had all the mods on and stage 2+, which p!ssed him off, lol.  id have one ina blink of an eye.

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2010, 07:07:08 pm »
Yeah I'm slightly quicker than him to 150  :party: :party: ( done on a runway before anyone asks )

He was quicker to about 75-80 though and yeah the sound is nice from that 5 Pot

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2010, 07:38:02 pm »
According to fifth gear the Focus RS only does 0-62 in 7.3 secs  :surprised: :signLOL:

Think they need to go check their figures :signLOL:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2010, 07:55:50 pm »
Button and Hamilton get an MP4-12C for free  :surprised: :surprised:

W@nkers :fighting: :signLOL:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2010, 07:59:37 pm »
well the meganne spanked the focus RS by quite a big margin.  The focus RS spanked the RoccoR, and we already know the rocco is faster on track than the golf R.  prob a good thing they never had the golf there, could have been quite embarassing given the price tag of it. 


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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2010, 08:02:14 pm »
well the meganne spanked the focus RS by quite a big margin.  The focus RS spanked the RoccoR, and we already know the rocco is faster on track than the golf R.  prob a good thing they never had the golf there, could have been quite embarassing given the price tag of it. 



Don't  forget that there has been tests with the Rocco R being quicker round track than the RS. Bit odd really..  :confused:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2010, 08:03:04 pm »
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Sorry Sy, but the Rocco's back seats are very poor - You can't see out the side windows unless you're a child - and the back isn't hatch shaped. It's a Golf coupe, not a hatchback imo.


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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2010, 08:18:39 pm »
still faster than the golf R though :grin: irrelevant of what type of car you think it is


Don't  forget that there has been tests with the Rocco R being quicker round track than the RS. Bit odd really..  :confused:

that is true, however in the 4 or 5 vids i have seen now with these cars in the meganne has always been the top car, with the Rocco R and RS, being very competetive with each other. 

that said the golf R might have had a slight advantage with the traction in the damp.  I wander if that was why the rocco R was left behind, since it was the only one without a proper LSD. 

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2010, 08:28:17 pm »
Is it repeated ?.Stuck on nights & forgot to set the box.
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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2010, 08:31:13 pm »
Five on Demand :happy2:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #26 on: June 03, 2010, 08:43:18 pm »
it was a poor review of all the cars, they couldnt have spent morwe than 1 minute on each of the cars.  3 of the most important cars to hit the market :mad:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2010, 03:22:15 pm »
couldnt care less really, have  you heard them, bloody epic.  he couldnt get away from me once rolling when i had all the mods on and stage 2+, which p!ssed him off, lol.  id have one ina blink of an eye.

Some serious quality issues are already cropping up though. Several instances of the plastic inlet manifold exploding - one instance I know of needed a new bonnet! And they weren't mapped either, so standard boost pressure.

I'd take either R over the chav-chariot any day of the week. There's more to life than peak power figures and lap times. Point to point, on an a-typical British road, in a-typical damp British weather, I know where my money would be. All £37.5k of it.
Only 250.1bhp - but with that noise, who cares?

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2010, 03:28:36 pm »
Surely you can get an S3 cheaper than £37.5k  :party: :signLOL:

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Re: Heads-up for new Fifth Gear series....
« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2010, 03:30:15 pm »
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