The best and worst things about the Coupe?

Best: Ferrari ass. Makes a lovely deep sound.

Worst: No turning circle. Turns you into a mental paranoid fccuker.

Best: So much style and performance for so little

Worst: Handbrake

yep agree with alan! damn hand brake ruined my car! rolled into a wall!

Best,looks so good

Worst,i never got any money for myself

Best - so much car, style & carisma for the money!

Worst - Insurance is very expensive

But i would't change it for the world!

Best: Still turns heads after 15 years on the road.

Worst: No storage for sunglasses, bottle of water etc. And the glovebox is rubbish!

Worst: No low oil warning light

Love the looks, sound and performance

Dislike the inaccessibility of everything under the bonnet on the 20v

Best: The sudden turbo kick after flooring it below 2000rpm and full boost comes on when the revs rise

Worst: Turning circle... I feel like an oil tanker captain sometimes, plotting my route

Best: Entering the Dartford tunnel, and hanging back from the person in front as far as possible without getting beeped. Waiting until the very bottom, opening the windows all the way, and flooring it right up the hill. Beautiful. Makes me chuckle every time.

Worst: Headlights make the journey home each night something of a lottery. (And all the above comments )



PS - The left hand tunnel has better acoustics than the right tunnel for some reason.

Worst...not being able to drive it at the speeds it was designed for!

Worst thing, no rain guttering

Best thing, They are so cheap you can buy a good one for £3,000!

Worst, turning circle encourages you to carry on to the nearest roundabout, rather than attempt a 3 point turn. And the handbrake has about as much ability to hold the car on a hill as a small child (though that is perhaps being unfair on the child).

Best, it looks and sounds awesome. Oh, and you can pick a good one up for less than half that - I just did


B

best looks sounds
ok performance and interior
worst how much it cost to sort out to mint condition, everyone hates fiats( my rover got more respect!)

Best thing:People still stare at the car and occasionally compliment the car in petrol stations and car parks.

Worst: Having to get your passenger to wipe the windows down inside for you everytime it steams up every five minutes when it rains because your too busy squinting through the window to see past the 1 metre of illumination that the headlights provide while worrying about putting on the rear screen de-mister incase:-

a) You lose the radio transmission at the point where it's about to give you the most useful traffic information of the day.

b) You may push the button through the dash

Austin

I'm totally in agreement with people still staring and got a few compliments too,
I've never had any problems with it steming up, not without due cause I changed the pollen filter and always have climate control set to auto.
Def get some HID's Austin!

Your "worst" list will fade out there after

I think I found the culprit for the steamed up windows whereby some paperwork had got wet in the front of the boot (boot seal)

HID's sound like a plan

I which case the new worst will be:-

Handbrake and frozen locks

Austin

sorted
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Best: engine noise, styling, individuality, anonymity
Worst: turning circle, rear 3/4 vision

To me, it's an utter beguiling car. Up until now, I always used to be thinking about what to get next. Whilst I still do that, it's now as an addition to, rather than replace.

I love em to bits. Just love em.

Cheers, Hedge

Best: The combination of noise, straight line grunt and long gearing... while looking very sexy

Worst: Too heavy nose and 'fussy' handling on bumpy B roads.

best; stunning combination of power, grace and class

worst; handbrake, although mine has been sorted by motormech so its great at the moment....

Sunglasses case goes in the little narrow long tray on the transmission tunnel next to the handbrake, one of the bigger squareish Volvic bottles fits snugly in the holder in between the seats.

Best - Raw power

Worst - Not currently owning one

Best - looks, rarity ( in the Ireland anyway ) powwwwwwwwwwwwwwer, and from a date I had lately, when walking side-on to the car "That's a really sexy car"

Worst - turning circle for parking and poor rear view for parking, but hey, you can't have everything

Best: Driving it
Worst: Running it

I agree..

That's a GOOD one

Best: looks, performance, pleasure of driving
Worst: low MPG, maintenance

Best: Rare, looks, grunt.
Worst: Turning circle, oil consumption, handbrake.

best: No computer or superficial tat like in most modern cars.
worst: Makes me go out and look at it even if its raining.

best: suprise factor bye bye gti
worst: turning circle

Best: Looks, performance, rarity
Worst: Mine is silver and not something more striking.

Best :- Looks, individuality, grunt, everyday usability, the way passengers look out of other cars and obviously comment 'that's that crap car off Top Gear' and then watch it disappear with a boner-inducing engine note.

Worst :- Visibility when parking, turning circle, the ability to tune it and therefore the inifinite cost, gauge-watching paranoia, the way bits split and fall off (justifying the gauge-watching paranoia) :-(

Best: different styling to most cars.

Worst: random noises that get you worried for no reason.

i love silver!

any how best

the looks you get from other drivers,
kids asking mums if its a super car
looking back over a car park full of grey euro boxes and seeing your coupe...and my does it stand out and look good
the sudden rush at 3k rpm of the turbo spooling up
the look of confusion and interest as you overtake that porch

worst

never taking your eyes off the oil temp, coolant temp, oil pressure gauges
the maintenance bill each month
planning your root to avoid anything more than a 90 degree turn
looking silly when you cant turn in to a car parking space
rear visibility
ringing in late to work before you even bother going to the car if there is a frost


i can go on

but i still love them

Worst=I only use it about twice a month.
Best= when i use it.Its like a new car every time.

Worst: The 'little' list of small jobs that is actually about 30 items long.

Best: The look on peoples faces when either:

a: they see it for the first time.
b: they RIDE in it for the first time (and there's some duel carriageway on your route)

best- scaring the lass

worse- cambelt change

Worst:- Repair bills , Job list (ie one job off - two go on) , Carpark paranoia , the list could go on............


Best:- This car is just..........AWSOME !!!!

Best - widget!
Worst - *need* for widget!

(The above is a pre-paid announcement and does not necessarily represent the views of the poster...)

Neil

your right,coupes are awwsum
as for the worse things,its the same we any car,good points-bad points
my coupe is a secondry car becauase its moded and i no it will need things3,4 times more often than a normal run around.
coupes arnt meant as a work horse[so to speak]they are more or a weekend car[thats my view anyway]

Au contraire, Jim, I put as a best point that everyday usability is one of the good points. With a standard clutch, it's driveable in commuter traffic, and economical if you choose to drive it as such. Visibility for parking is not a good point, mine regularly has three mates in the back seat and a pushchair in the boot, two things that surprise a lot of people when I tell them, given the shape of the car. But then, yes, anything modded is going to need some extra care given that componenets are put to more strain.

Best - driving it!

Worst - parking it!

Best - Its a coupe!

Worst - Its a coupe...

Im strating to believe CarlT's famous "Reds are jinxed" statement...It breaks my heart to look out the window at 2 inactive coupes that have been great fun - but now look set at £2,500 to pop them back on the road...

*Stares furtively at the petrol can*

if my coupe was standard i would prob. drive it more often but not everyday becase some times by the time of warmed it up got to destination and warmed it down its quicker to go in my girls car.

Fair do's Jim, I'd say if the mrs still had her Punto Abarth, I'd take that a lot of the time. But then I haven't got the mrs any more, so I lose out on both counts...

life a bitch then you go out with one
until you find the right bitch do sidn your life away to.
its a hard life[lol]

I though of another bad point..

Does the spending ever stop?

Best - The look and feel of the thing - can anything else this cheap look and feel so good?

Bad - working on them, worst car I've ever worked on!

Gareth

yea,not the easyist car to work with.

Best: Styling/looks, straight line performance.

Worst: Useless sunvisors, rubbish turning circle, poor seating/driving position with Recaro's, non-adjustable intermittent wipers, corrosion of metal trim.

Best: performance and looks
Worst: heater, on/off

Best: Looks so special, not many cars look as good as a Coop, even today. Sound of 20V is so damn good I never grow tired of it. Mines been the most reliable fault free car I've ever owned.

Worst: Handbrake useless and wish the steering on the 20V NA was a little sharper. The feeling I really need 2 Coupes - one for everyday and a minter in the garage.

yea think what your saying is bang on mate

doesn't count - women can't park for sheite anyway......

(kidding, ok? jeeez)

LOL - you like living dangerously dont ya?

I admit that I am rubbish at parking (not because I'm a woman - am just rubbish) but the coop makes it about 10 times worse sometimes!

Firstly you have to find a spot in the car park where you are going to feel it safe to leave the coop. Next to 4x4's or any car with a child seat / childs toy in the back is a huge no no.
Then you have to get it in the space. If you're going in forward then the turning circle is so bad it makes you look like a reet idiot when you can't swing it in in one go. If you're going in backwards you may as well go in blindfolded for all the good the mirrors and rear quarter visibility is going to do you.
Then you have to worry about it all the time you're away from it!
Parking at kerbs is also touch and go if you've got skirts / are lowered. Oh yeah and multi story car parks? FORGET IT!! Mine won't even get up the incline!!!

All that is forgotten though when you come back to your car in the car park (hopefully it hasn't been dinged!) and you get your key out and get in it and people notice you (I think this is even more pronounced when you are a woman - the car gets the looks not me )

Women are only bad at parking because men keep telling them that this <---------------------------------> is eight inches!

i think its a fairly well proven fact that men have a more developed ability relating to spaceal awareness

comes from the days when men run around with spears and woman went berry picking

runns and hids!

How come loads of other people have said that the worst thing about the coop is the turning circle and bad rear visibility when parking (even you Sam)


Yet I'm the only one who gets picked up on it?

Back on topic........

Best bit: The view from the driver's side rear view mirror showing the gorgeous curving flank

Worst bit: Current values

no stan...thats the best bit...well for me

i think in all honestly, its just got to be the turning circal, just on a day to day basis it causes me problems

all the other problems are niggls, not being able to go around a mini island is a true pain in the ass

best - everything is so so sexy...lol beating the chav's in there done up cars.

worst - timming belt costs, turning circle.mpg. bloody worping disks.

Best: parking the car at its best angles and returning to it after a long day at work :#. Fuel cap, engine note, that 'what the fccuk is that' look from passers-by, the colour coded strip inside, the rear on a bright sunny day.

Worst: Undoubtedly, the turning circle, makes you look like a spacko lol, otherwise cant really fault it, in terms of cost apart from fuel and monthly insurance i rarely have to spend money on it apart from wear and tear items, such a reliable motor Love em

you go girl!

I have another one....

when some one cuts you up, or is about to....looking for the bloody horn! buy the time you have found it and pressed it....there is no point because your now at home, parked up, and just getting out of the bloody car

its the one car the misses doesn't mind following in the dark or motorway as the rear tail lights are so distinctive

Best - When its running sweet, all polished up & you get the chance to give it a blast. Always makes you Smile

Worst - When it doesn’t run sweet & in this weather when you can’t even get the doors open!!

Does she usually follow people in the dark?

yeh, she has been warned about it in the past, that restraining order i got is bloody useless

haha, gotta agree with the doors freezing, makes you chuckle but is bit embarassing too lol

Best: mega performance v's price; looks, Italian pedigree, the 'slip-diff' that got me back home at 4 a.m on A/B roads Monday morning from Gatwick Airport (scary), sound on giving it some beans from Peco 4", relative rarity. Leaving my school with some kids giving me the thumbs up and a few the finger! ha ha

Worst: freezing up of doors, locks, petrol cap lock, insurance grouping, maintenance costs v's actual residual worth.

very accurate my friend

It is what it is.
If it turned brilliantly it would be a black cab.
If it didnt freeze up, break down, cost loads to run then it would be jap.

Its italian, tempremental, fun. Makes you believe your a child again. I get up earlier to go the long way to work.

Yes it causes paranoia, and can make you look silly/mad.

But thats why we love them so much!

my friends are jap car mad,one has evo 7 and when i got in it i was shocked to see how cheap iyt was inside,chap plastic dash was a turnoff,when im in my coupe i feel like i just got in a supercar,its style at its best.i think the coupe is=======,words cant describe how much i love my coupe.when i finish project and its about 300bhp then that will do me,i will never need to buy a car again.unless i decide to buy a 20vt or le and mod it again.
my point is some cars have speed some have style not many ghave both but the coupes does.
the genral cost of coupe isnt cheap and thats the worse,but if you do things like me and have it as a special car you only drive hen there is no traffic,no bad conditions not use it as work horse[even tho a coupe can do that for fun]take it off road first sign it needs something replacing,you cant go wrong