It's white, and not covered in frost

Every time I see one of these, the roof always reminds me of that coupe headlight bottom shape.

Nice, bezzer! Spec?

Perfect women's car!

Lol

That looks smashing, I knew you'd fallen for them

It has a completely different front end to the 62 one you were looking at before. I think I prefer this front end over the other

Obviously Mr's Bangle a bit older now!

In Turin Mr Bangle said the inspiration was BOOBS not BUM

Well, I knew it would be the Pug.


The front end is definitely nicer on yours.

Good luck. Hope you get on well with it.

Ok time for a bit more detail. As you can see it's a 63 plate. 1 previous owner and it has 20k miles on it. I can honestly say there isn't a mark on the bodywork or the interior.

There are 3 engines available on the RCZ, 2 petrol and a diesel. The petrol ones are 1.6 turbos kicking out 156bhp and 197bhp. The Diesel is a 2 litre HDi pushing out 163bhp.

I drove all 3 of them and straight away decided against the 156bhp one. It reminded me of my old ST170, lots of engine noise but lacking in guts. The 197bhp was a lot better and felt pretty swift off the mark but did lack the mid range punch. The diesel was fairly quick off the mark and the mid range was fantastic. Turbo kicks in below 3k revs and with 251lb/ft of torque it felt like the 20VT 3rd gear

In the end I plumped for the oil burner. I decided against the 197 petrol as that model has 'up rated' suspension which made the ride really harsh and crashy. I didn't like the drive in it at all.

It's the GT spec so gets electric heated seats, full leather interior (seats, dash, doorcards etc), 19" alloys, front and rear parking sensors, auto lights and washers, hill start assist, cruise control, folding mirrors, blah blah blah...

It hasn't got the wheels I want (the ones in the picture Bob posted above) but I've ordered some. I'll put winter tyres on the current ones and run the black ones in the summer.

I've only done 100 miles in it and I love it already. We even managed to fit 2 teenagers in the rear seats!

Weather permitting, I'll give it a clean at the weekend and take a couple of decent pictures.

Proccy, you'll be pleased to know there's ample storage space for the hairdryer, tongs, straighteners and scissors

BTW, I've christened her Oscar....

Nice. Remap?!

Seems a few on the RCZ forum have had theirs remapped by Quantum Tuning. Claimed the map increases bhp from 163 to 196 and the torque from (NM) 342 to 402.

I might consider it after I've paid for the new alloys.

Nice buy Bezzer. I see a few about over here among the 2cv,s.

There is one though that comes to a few track meets. And it's a beast it leaves my coupe behind all over the track.
I will check it out when I get the chance.

Good shout on the wheels, I too like those on the earlier car. I also can't believe I am going to say this but good call on the Diesel too.

I have always been a petrol head and felt diesel was for trucks, vans and those that needed the economy. But having now played with some of the modern "performance" diesels I have seen the light. The zero effort torque is often alarming and although I do enjoy the high rev power surge and noise of a petrol the low down low fuss torque of Diesel is addictive.

I checked out a few vids on Youtube; definitely a nice car you've bagged there. As with BB I agree about the diesel being a good call, I would have gone for that too. More bang per buck and very tune-able. Always good to get chipped once you are used to the car and feel like it's time for more power

The only thing I dislike about diesels is the sudden drop off at the end of the power band, it's like they just stop? But keep away from this and it's ride the torque time!

We need more pics, come on, we've been riding this one with you!

The technology of diesels is so good these days that petrol cars find it hard to compete. As said above, the low down shove makes you feel like you could stop the earth rotating.

As for the revs, our Giulietta JTDM-2 likes to rev and doesn't seem to tail off suddenly like others I've driven. Much more akin to a petrol.

The real world performance feels more like a big petrol, yet the mpg is far more friendly on the pocket.

Oh no, an oil burner in a sports body...

TT TDI..

I get the best of all 3 worlds. Looks, performance (yes it performs well enough for me) and great economy

Yeah but where's he going to find a perfect woman

Nice car though Bezzer reminds me of the bat mobile (the first one) from the back.

And now for the detailed review ....... God!!! Come on man!

This weekend it's going to get a lot of TLC. I'll post up better pictures and a detailed review!

But.......... I love it!!!

Arty Farty -

In bezzer's head Arty Farty = Picture of car by wheely bin- with a little sun glare on the camera lens

It was the glare that made it arty farty

The bin doubled the appeal of the car!