Yet another car question

I thought that 40p figure was only up to 3,000 miles then much lower
after that.

Been awhile so I may be wrong and if so, sorry.

 

Yes. Well done, a TT is shorter in wheelbase than the Golf.

However, the Golf and Bora are exactly the same size.

B5 if you're getting technical. A platform which is also shared with the
A6.

 

Bolt it onto the shorter golf floorpan do they?

No.

They make the floorpan long enough in the first place. it's a different
floorpan built on the common A4 Platform.

<porl>
IF I WERE A TERMINATOR YOU WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW!
</porl>

 

I fucking give up.

 

I've been trying to visualise Champ in a car, without much success.
Maclaren F1 or a hotted-up Focus possibly.

Twenty years ago, he'd have had a SAAB 99 Turbo - Euro-butch without being
too much of a medallion-man chariot. Now? <shrugs>

There's other factors to consider: Pittville is going a bit gay, but it's
embedded in the worst bit of Cheltenham. Anything nice left on the street
will be at risk, and the garage will be full of bikes. In Champ's shoes,
I'd have a nice old Series Landy for getting around town, and hire as needed
for long-distance work. Or maybe an old Volvo 240 estate.

Bet he ends up with an Audi A3, though.

 

SteveH says...

Wrong.

It is different from the B post back. You still haven't answered my
question about when you last saw both Golf and Bora with the rear seats
out. Give up Steve, you are very very wrong on this one, I have done my
research which extended to pulling the rear seat cushions[1] out of a
Bora and comparing the floor to my MK4 Golf after the last discussion we
had about this.

So fucking what? That means nothing, as I will prove later. Later
Vauxhall Vivas shared the same track and wheelbase, but HB and HC were
built on different floorpans.

I know a fucking sight more about the layout and seating of many modern
cars than you give me credit for. This subject brought me into close
observation of floorpans and the differences between similar models.
Mostly because we were forever being asked if seats from one model could
be fitted to a similar car. You might think a 2-door Coupe 3 series BMW
shares the same floorpan as the 4 door, they don't. They are very
different and the rear seat cushion from one will never fit the other
even though they share the same width and wheelbase.

I learned from experience, not from reading magazines written by
clueless journos, nor from the car companies own hype.

I got one thing wrong and that was more a matter of English language,
rather than a technical question. How many times do you ever get it
right when it comes to technical stuff?

[1] Takes about 20 seconds

 

He has a little of the Reliant Robin about him...

 

SteveH says...

Its about fucking time, you were showing yourself up to be the clueless
arse that you are.

 

No, you showed yourself to be the clueless numpty you really are.

 

SteveH says...

Yeah, me Wessie, Ginge, we're all wrong and you're right. I understand
now.

Twat.

 

As it happens, yes.

Ooooh, temper.

 

Paging TOG

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

She'd tell him to **** off. Trust Me on this.

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I think you're both right, in different ways.

Fact is, the Bora has as much in common with the Mk4 Golf hatch, floorpan
wise, as the Mk4 Golf estate has.

They're all based around the same, *basic* floorpan, when all is said and
done - if they hadn't have restyled the front end to help give the Bora more
of an identity in its own right than they did in the past with stuff like
the Vento and Jetta, you'd not think twice about it, if it had been badged a
Golf.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus"

I say; got any Kleenex?

One of my fave cars of all time, that.

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Crikey! Sunds like I should be able to do ok.

 

Erm, have you been frequenting my shop?

To know so much about it's layout suggests you have.

 

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SteveH

^
Oops.

No, that was by way of a joke. My missus being called Sharon, you see.

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WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

The 180 bhp Leon is almost the same price as the Octavia VRS. The 225
bhp Leon is around £18k, which makes the Octavia + ECU upgrade look
good value.