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Old 04-05-09, 09:02 AM   #1
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My New Car

Hi everyone. Some of you may know already that I've sold my ZS and have put down a deposit on a Vectra VXR. I collect it this coming Saturday.

I bought the car blind after trusting the salesman's opinion of the condition of the car, and luckily it paid off.

It's a 2007 '56' reg with 10k on the clock. It has 4 brand new tyres, full service history, 1 year warranty, tracker, full electric leather recaro seats, xenon headlights, sat nav, pearlescent paint and best of all it's the newer 280bhp version. I even managed to buy it with no deposit or part exchange and I asked for 6 months road tax and got that too.

All for £10,999

The car is in it's dirtiest state in the photos as the owner only dropped it off in part exchange 2 hours before we turned up at the dealership in Birmingham. The dealer was excellent. He just put some dealer plates on the car then let me and my girlfriend take it out on our own for half hour!

I hate the alloys but I've already ordered some vxr replica BK999's with toyo tyres.

First thing I'll be doing is washing it and removing the swirl marks from the bonnet, plus giving the leather a damn good clean. I'll add a vxr badge to the front grille and remove the vectra badge from the rear. I'll see how it goes standard for a month or two then think about a remap.








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Old 04-05-09, 09:06 AM   #2
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Not bad at all, that should shift.
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Old 04-05-09, 09:11 AM   #3
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Not bad at all, that should shift.
yeah it does! Very twitchy full throttle in sport mode. Hopefully the remap will tweak the aggressiveness a bit.
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Old 04-05-09, 09:36 AM   #4
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I love them in silver... sound good too.
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Old 04-05-09, 10:10 AM   #5
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Whats wrong with the alloys?? They look spot on!
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Old 04-05-09, 10:12 AM   #6
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Whats wrong with the alloys?? They look spot on!
I personally think that from the side they look lmore like SRI than VXR wheels
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Old 04-05-09, 10:32 AM   #7
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lovley car. go like stink, just a shame they handle like a boat. lol
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lovley car. go like stink, just a shame they handle like a boat. lol
should be ok for the road. Never touch track days so all should be ok
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Old 04-05-09, 11:24 AM   #9
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they are great on the road, every car is. just not so good on a track, but it wasnt designed for that so it doesnt matter.
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Old 04-05-09, 11:39 AM   #10
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Colmore Suzuki on the Chester road just up from the Tyburn island? Im suprised they sold it you so cheap. Some of the cars i've seen them trying to sell have been way overpriced like an R plate MGF a few months back for £3.5k :O

Looks good anyway mate . Like the VXR's in that colour.
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