Practical performance cars

I’m getting a bit narked with up to date cars and all their electric gubbins…..so what were good cars of the seventies/eighties maybe even nineties that you wouldn’t mind driving today?

personally

a bit thirsty perhaps?

rose tinted glasses…….probably

Quattro = Win.

Going back a little earlier – I had one of the original 400 made ….
Started as a road car, then road rallied and onto stage rallying !

Great fun and a change from the Escorts at the time 😀

Really miss my Golf VR6, though not the bills that went with it. Fantastic car, fast, comfortable, practical. Bought a new mini and wish I had kept the VR6 and spent the difference on getting it properly sorted.

saw one of these up the Horseshoe Pass a couple of weeks ago. Obligatory Cibies too. 😀

A chap coming on our annual bank holiday ride/bbq tomorrow has a mint RS2000

Aracer, congratulations for picking the most unreliable car on the thread! I thought I’d win that one with the Integrale….. 😉

I’d like an early Elise, I will own one, one day.

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Looking back l’v owned a few chavy cars in my youth 🙂

Love that corrado, not sure on the R5. Escort??? Well what can I say, before the Vr6 I had an Astra GTE, loved it too

…and a guy at the gym has a Maserati Ghibli, 1990s one. That’s nice too.

still tempted to buy one on the cheap.

I’d say Escort 2000 by far. Sound fantastic and rwd.

Or out there, Capri !

+1 for the Mk2 RS2000.

Here’s mine taken at Gisburn forest in 1987.

Blimey, is it 24 years ago…… 😯

1990 3.9 efi Defender 110
Two people, four bikes and a weekend’s camping gear with ease.

The r5 Turbo and escort wasn’t even fast by today’s standards., I was only 18 at the time tho!

This was prob my favourite alongside the vr6

I had one of these, it was a cracking motor….

The Sierra & Escort Cossie’s always seemed to be popular, mostly with blokes making un announced withdrawls from Post Office’s

I’d love an rs2000 now, bit before my time back then.

slainte 😳 rob

Talbot sunbeam! Fast motor they were 😀

The Sierra & Escort Cossie’s always seemed to be popular, mostly with blokes making un announced withdrawls from Post Office’s

The bloke who owns the house opposite us had an Escort Cosworth. It got nicked three times! First two times was used for the aforementioned withdrawls, that last time they torched it.

The funny thing was, I never saw him drive it once.

I think I prefer the flat front RSs now.

Had a 1670cc Sport that was quite rapid, followed by an XR2i. How unstable did the Fiesta feel at speed?

more unreliable than both the lancia and the lotus

By Christ there’s some shit cars on this thread! 😆

The Eighties must surely rank as the worst period for car design in the history of the Automobile.

How unstable did the Fiesta feel at speed?

My Supersport was on rails.

Agree on the flat front Escorts – preferred the slope nose when I was young, but not now.

Elfinsafety – Member

By Christ there’s some shit cars on this thread!

The Eighties must surely rank as the worst period for car design in the history of the Automobile.

Haha – from the bloke who doesn’t drive 😉

(of course you can still have an opinion on aesthetics though)

I think I prefer the flat front RSs now.

The only ‘official’ flat front Mk2 RS’s were the Mexico with the 1.6 Pinto engine, & the RS1800 with the iconic 1.8 twincam BDA engine.

However, if you’d stacked your droop snoot RS, there was nothing to stop you rebuilding it as a flat front.

steellam – Member
Talbot sunbeam! Fast motor they were

The Lotus-tuned ones were at least…

slainte 😀 rob

loving this thread, these were the cars I lusted after as a kid. You can keep your ferraris and lambos (I’d have a porsche but thats just an air-cooled thing) I’m still obsessed by late 70’s and 80’s coupes with wide arches and rear wheel drive!

When I was 24 I got a £5k loan to buy a “sensible car” it came down to a near mint, sierra engined flat front mk2 RS200 in signal yellow on black 4 spokes, or a mk4 golf.

Stupidly I bought the golf, and when the gear box failed a few years later I looked at similar escorts and they had appreciated somewhat! Bought an 82 Transporter instead, but could quite fancy a mk2 XR2 for the teenager in me!

I mean, look at this… thing. Just look at it.

Horrible, isn’t it?

Haha – from the bloke who doesn’t drive

I’ve had the misfortune to sit in some of these jalopies, nasty cheap poorly made crap fell apart why don’t you see hardly any of them any more, like you do Beetles and Minis and that? I’ll tell you why; it’s because they’re so shit they’re not worth keeping on the road or indeed keeping at all. Scrapping’s the best thing for ’em heaps of junk.

And you’ve obviously never driven owt decent if you think some of those are good cars…

(of course you can still have an opinion on aesthetics though)

Well durr! That goes without saying. Had I bin designing cars in’t Eighties, we’duv not had to suffer such eyesores. I was too young though and not interest in cars I preferred girls…

The Eighties must surely rank as the worst period for car design in the history of the Automobile.

Most ridiculous statement ever on STW. And as you can appreciate, that’s up against some fierce competition. Well done.

Lancia 037

Lancia Delta

Can’t be arsed getting more pictures but Jenson Interceptor, Lamborghini Countach, Audi Quattro, the modern Ford Capri for christ’s sake!.

Yeah, they had corners. But we’re men aren’t we? That’s what we like.

Piece of unstable (at 110-115) junk!

I’m getting a major case of gonna go out and buy something from my youth now
MkII RS2000 5 speed box and some engine tweeks could hit 7000 in 5th
MkII RS Mex just silly
Mk3 RS1600i overtake them on the outside on bends, not quick but it handled well
Capri3000S Swaymar inlet manifold with Holley 4 Barrel carb bored out to 3.1 with a high lift cam, could hit 80 in second and in the end sold it as I thought I was going to die in it.
RS Turbo 2 Litre conversion, total money pit, but god was it fun