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This Week's Show
Jeremy gives his verdict on the BMW M5, while Richard and James try their hand at Russian roulette road testing. Meanwhile, the Megane Renaultsport 225, Vauxhall Astra VXR and Golf GTi fight it out to be crowned king of the hot hatches.
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Pablo
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Should be good! Nothing will beat that Ferarri last week, that was mazin 
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Edd
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i know the astra vxr has the straight line speed will be interesting to see how it compares in the handling stakes
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Tom
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NOT gonna miss that can't wait to see the review on the m5 
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Pablo
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Still think old one is sexier !!
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Tom
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Originally posted by Pablo
Still think old one is sexier !!
WTF 
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Tom
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Ohhh I re-read I thought u were meaning that was the old one
I love it v10 beast.
The old is still nice tho...
[Edited on 22-07-2005 by Tom]
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Pablo
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Yes I will have a 3.0 M5 replica if I dont get my integ
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antscorsa
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how cna u call any of them hot hatches tho, there the most expoensive but worst in that grouping
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Ian
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They are the ones that are going to sell though, what would you have prefered to see in there?
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vibrio
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I'd rather have an alpina B5 that a M5
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DanielJ
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golf gti will win
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mav
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going to be a good show...
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vibrio
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astra will win
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Robbo
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GTI will win IMO purely based on the fact that it is the better car overall, not the fastest or the cheapest granted (not that they usually care) but they didn't vote it their overall car of the year for nothing... Jeremy absolutely loves it
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Paul H
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i have driven the new M5 awesome car look so nice in the flesh.
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whitter45
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quote:
Originally posted by Edd_20
i know the astra vxr has the straight line speed will be interesting to see how it compares in the handling stakes
Auto car this week had the road test
Vauxhall beats them all hands down or straight line speed handling and ride quality
They test drove the new focus ST abroad and reckon this will beat them all. It has 223 BHP offical figures from Ford not 217 BHP as originally stated
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Ian
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Autoexpress prefered the Golf as it was more refined and better ride, don't know why they didn't test a cheaper Astra with smaller wheels if they were going to come to that conclusion.
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mwg
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Originally posted by Ian
Autoexpress prefered the Golf as it was more refined and better ride, don't know why they didn't test a cheaper Astra with smaller wheels if they were going to come to that conclusion.
The car mags are strange! They go on about the GTis losing their raw driving appeal and complain about them becoming softer and more refined compared to the Mk1 GTi but then they choose the GTi over the Astra because of those reasons
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Robbo
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Because in all truth, the Golf is the better car, its jus more expensive with les spower, not that im biased or anything 
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whitter45
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Originally posted by Robbo
Because in all truth, the Golf is the better car, its jus more expensive with les spower, not that im biased or anything
I don't agree with that at all. Granted its a good car but for over 20K I could think of several better cars to buy. Plus they are very popular on the road - seen alot recently all gun metal grey
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Robbo
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Yes but magazines etc couldnt give two tosses usually what u cud buy for the money, if its within a few k they generally arent interested. like last week with the tt an the (awful) crossfire
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mk4_astra
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whichever 1 wins it will be close, all 3 are great 'hot hatches' and you would be happy with any of them
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Robbo
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indeedifus
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Because in all truth, the Golf is the better car, its jus more expensive with les spower, not that im biased or anything
Yeah but the best they could do to criticise the Astra was that it didn't ride well - and it has 19" wheels. Its not going to ride well is it.
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