Souped Up Saxo's - Why?!

colino

It is a curious thing that usually applies to young males that, with the passing of time, makes no sense at all. It starts off with two basic truths. Insurance for young guys is astronomical, and everyone wants to be an individual.
Two divergent paths then appear. In the pursuit of individuality, one group all buy the same, cheap to insure car and then buy the same, over-priced regalia to adorn them with. One thing is certain, the vanity boys have no mechanical clue, and while noisier, their cars tend to be slower and less economical. The other group buy a less popular, bigger, more expensive to run and insure car and either leave it alone, or spend many hours improving them mechanically.
With hindsight, if honest and not using their man calculators, both groups would reflect that they could have got better cars in the first place if they realised how much both paths would tot up to.
Unfortunately it never stops. Even in later years, ask you boyfriend/husband/partner how much they have tied up in their other toys, which they've used once, or not at all.

Stoke

Saxo's are cheap to buy, and fairly cheap to insure. There's billions of them about so getting spare parts is as easy as going to your nearest junk yard and picking them off. That's where your sprayed panels and dashes come from.

The exhaust thing is purely vanity. Take off the back box, fit a straight pipe with a chrome vanadium tip and it looks as though you actually have a performance exhaust. Come on, you were young once. If you weren't doing it with cars, I'm sure you were doing such daft !!!! with other stuff.

wba31

King_Nothing wrote: »

The exhaust on my car is pretty loud :O If I come home late at night or leave early in the morning have to keep it in third to keep the revs down.

At last - someone with a loud exhaust with consideration for people around them!

I always laugh at the people with loud exhausts who must drive everywhere in 2nd gear just for the noise of it.

room512

Strider590 wrote: »

Boy racers, I laugh at them and I feel slightly sorry for them.

BUT It's these busybody attitudes that have resulted in car enthusiasts being banned from arranging meets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30300916

Because the definition set by president means that any car enthusiast cannot arrange to meet up as a group, this will now affect classic car owners and make/model specific owners clubs as well as the many perfectly responsible owners/drivers of modified cars.

I'm so sick of the way folk punish those who refuse to conform, those who go their own way, those who express individuality. We must all drive ugly euro-boxes, silently at 40mph and never overtake other cars (because this is inconsiderate).

It's not about boy racers, it's just discrimination as a result of unwarranted fear.

I live in the Black Country and used to have to drive through where some of the people met up and it was scary. The amount of reports in the paper where young drivers had died was shocking. My sympathy started to wane when reading the reports that the cars were travelling at 90+ miles per hour and the grieving relatives saying that the victim had only popped to McDonalds. I have no problem with people meeting up but this was getting out of hand and the police were having to waste time each night as they would get report after report of racing cars. I don't know what the solution is but the ban seems to have solved the problem in the Black Country.

motorguy

The exhaust of my Caddy van is pretty loud. I try not to rev it going through built up areas.

It has got a modded 2.8 VR6 engine to back up the noise of it though.

1.1 and a big exhaust is a bit embarassing.

InsideInsurance

I do find the likes of the Jaguar F-Type having a button on the dash to make the exhaust louder or the BMW i8 piping exhaust sounds into the cabin via the speakers funny.

Even Mercedes are in on this game now with the AMG GT opening up the exhaust sound as you move the transition modes from E to S to S+ etc

Guess these are for the generation that first grew up with modding cars and can now afford bigger toys.

Strider590

room512 wrote: »

I live in the Black Country and used to have to drive through where some of the people met up and it was scary. The amount of reports in the paper where young drivers had died was shocking. My sympathy started to wane when reading the reports that the cars were travelling at 90+ miles per hour and the grieving relatives saying that the victim had only popped to McDonalds. I have no problem with people meeting up but this was getting out of hand and the police were having to waste time each night as they would get report after report of racing cars. I don't know what the solution is but the ban seems to have solved the problem in the Black Country.

The solution would have been specific to the problem group and not a blanket ban that affects genuine enthusiasts.

I have a kit car and this ban has been discussed many times by the owners club, even though there is no irresponsible driving, basically if anyone made a complaint about the owners club meets, the Police would be forced to charge all of us purely because of the precedent that was set in the effort to stop boy racers.

You may think that would never happen, but i've had old busybodies shouting abuse at me just for driving normally, at the speed limit, behind other cars, through a country village.

I'm not against stopping the boy racers, but do something that stops the idiots with the plastic whale tails, rather than punishing the responsible enthusiasts that spend large sums of money on their cars.

DKLS

timbo58 wrote: »

Each to their own as long as they aren't harming anyone else, if anything they provide a few laughs for the rest of us like the time a Peugeot 106 actually though he could race me along the motorway the 1st night I had my Audi TT, needless to say as soon as I had stopped laughing I put the 'loud' pedal down a smidgen and left him biting his steering wheel.

There is a guy I see on my commute who drives a 106 rallye and whenever I see him he has a massive grin on his face, it certainly isn't a standard 106 the way that thing takes off.

lulu_92

My sister has a Saxo but I assure you the only thing she's done to it is buy a CD player for it! :rotfl:

I have a Citroen C1 VTR+. I have no idea what makes it better except the half leather seats. Whatever it is it costs me £100 more to insure than the VTR. (to clarify I didn't purchase the car because it's a VTR+)

I don't think my exhaust is particularly loud, and I like to keep it that way.

Retrogamer

It's an Ibiza FR TDi i use just now with a few mods. It's part a fun car to drive but also a daily driver.

Front brakes have been swapped to 312mm discs / calipers from an Audi TT - The original front calipers had seized & ruined the discs.

Skoda Octavia VRS Wheels - Purely cosmetic

Limo / 5% tint on rear windows - For privacy when i have stuff in the back with the seats down.

Bigger cold air feed pipe from the Cupra TDi

Turbo back free flow 2.5" exhaust. Much less restrictive than OEM, made from stainless and still quite quiet.

There's some other stuff planned such as EGR delete, front mount intercooler, poly bushes, upgraded clutch and a remap.

By the end it should be making a lot more power, without compromising reliability too much, feel nicer to drive and still manage 60mpg on a motorway run