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Steven11
30-01-13, 02:33 PM
Stopped at the lights last night and a couple of wee guys in a saxo VTR pulled up beside me and said nice Evo big chap, bet thats fast as f**k.

I had to laugh, not the first time the Zed has been mistaken for an Evo. Cans see the resemblance myself :huh:
ZS
30-01-13, 02:37 PM
My Blue ZS MK1 used to be mistaken for an Evo all the time L: ) (Blue saloon with huge spoiler lol)

My Black MK2 ZS seems to be mistaken for a Monaro now... I can't see how personally, but I'm not complaining :D
Steven11
30-01-13, 02:49 PM
I have a hatch with the small spoiler so i just cant see the resemblance. Ive also been told from a distance the front end looks like a BMW :no:
R8NMG
30-01-13, 03:23 PM
Ive also been told from a distance the front end looks like a BMW

From distance this can be true for a mk2.
Steven11
30-01-13, 03:25 PM
From distance this can be true for a mk2.

Its the mark 2 i have but i just dont see it ?
Witnes$
30-01-13, 03:55 PM
Was the other driver in question trying to take the ****? I use the word trying in the looses sense as he was driving a saxo.
Steven11
30-01-13, 04:12 PM
He was deffinately looking for a race. He tore away from the lights like a bat out of hell. Fortunately my days of racing we neds in Saxo's are well behind me.

Besides i dont know if my 180 would keep up with a VTR through the town. On the motorway no bother but from a standing start im not so sure ?
idge2003
30-01-13, 04:26 PM
The Saxo VTR is a 1.6 8 valve with 90bhp I would hope you could!#

Brett
Steven11
30-01-13, 04:28 PM
But keep in mind they weigh next to nothing. Up to about 50 -60 from a standing start they do go like stink. My 180 is fast once its going but until you get into 3rd gear i dont think its that great !!
idge2003
30-01-13, 04:42 PM
Just looked on Parkers and they are 2 seconds to 60 slower at best and 2.8 at worst even a VTS is slower than the 180!

I wouldn't be happy with a Saxo beating me off the lights if I was trying against something like that! I tend to keep creeping forward as if I'm gonna fly off just to let them go on their own! :-)

Brett
Maxxed_Ross
30-01-13, 04:49 PM
the key points here are that the statement was made by a Saxo driver... possibly from Glasgow.


Says it all really lol
Steven11
30-01-13, 06:49 PM
the key points here are that the statement was made by a Saxo driver... possibly from Glasgow.


Says it all really lol

Very true
Leigh_EvoIX
30-01-13, 11:46 PM
My car got mistaken for a Subaru :(
WalkerDnB
31-01-13, 07:24 AM
My car got mistaken for a Subaru :(

I hope you gave them a slap for such a mistake lol
Blade9274
31-01-13, 08:46 AM
Mine keeps being called a ROVER lol.
Smokey
31-01-13, 09:07 AM
I had the track car referred to as a Rover once...while the guy was standing next to it...you know...with all the massive MG stickers on it!
sneekyparrot
31-01-13, 09:16 AM
It will never change, will always be referred to as a rover by those who don't know. Was speaking to Avo the other day and had to refer to the zs180 as the 45/400 so he new what car I was on about 😝
WalkerDnB
31-01-13, 10:18 AM
your all going to hate me for this. But I call them rovers lol
To me its just a rover with an mg badge
Blade9274
31-01-13, 10:31 AM
your all going to hate me for this. But I call them rovers lol
To me its just a rover with an mg badge

With a Honda Civic Dash ;)
stamford
31-01-13, 10:50 AM
With it being called a Rover is probably funnier if said car has made a fool of something far superior in someone elses eyes. What sounds better, to have been embaressed by an MG or a Rover!
ZS
31-01-13, 10:57 AM
Honda Civic body shell and loads of Civic shared parts ;)

Although if you have a 180 then the engine and suspension was never fitted to a Rover (the Rover 45 V6 was a 2.0 litre engine and was only available in auto) so hardly a Rover!
Cally180
31-01-13, 02:56 PM
Mine keeps being called a ROVER lol.


I had the track car referred to as a Rover once...while the guy was standing next to it...you know...with all the massive MG stickers on it!


The boys I go to knockhill with call me and my mate "team rover" and also ask if the Rover still weighs a few ton haha.
Smokey
31-01-13, 03:26 PM
Mine probably only weighs about a ton lol
Cally180
31-01-13, 04:17 PM
Mine probably only weighs about a ton lol

would say I'm there about's as well.



I've also had the Evo comment before then its usually followed by a bit of a pause and and you can see them thinking "yellow Evo??" then they click and think "not a Evo" but they don't really know what it is now haha!
talkingcars
31-01-13, 05:29 PM
Although if you have a 180 then the engine and suspension was never fitted to a Rover (the Rover 45 V6 was a 2.0 litre engine and was only available in auto) so hardly a Rover!

and for only 2 years and only as a saloon.
Steven11
31-01-13, 07:56 PM
Was there ever a V6 civic?
petet16
31-01-13, 08:00 PM
Was there ever a V6 civic?

I don't think so
MickUK
02-02-13, 12:24 PM
I just went to Tesco & a couple of lads in a fiesta shouted "nice scooby mate!"

My Mrs laughed & said its a MG. they looked puzzled...
talkingcars
02-02-13, 12:29 PM
Was there ever a V6 civic?

No.
MickUK
02-02-13, 01:08 PM
Was there ever a V6 civic?

Yes....

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q172/Mick820/TwinTurboHondaCivic_zps138030b0.jpg


:noexpression:
ian zs180
02-02-13, 04:30 PM
Ive had its a rover by a mate of mine for some time then when i wiped the floor with his st24 mondeo its now an mg to him what a nob :rofl:
talkingcars
02-02-13, 05:00 PM
Yes....

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q172/Mick820/TwinTurboHondaCivic_zps138030b0.jpg


:noexpression:

Isn't that a V8?