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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Test driver of the Manta on the cornering test (pictured):

    "You're doing it wrong!"

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    reading that cornering test, it says it all, it understeers and then crrects itself and then go for oversteer, sums it about right hence why I used to loose my Manta around corners because by overcorrecting the initial understeer and it wuld then add sverely to understeer and I used to get almost no warning and the next thing is I am facing the approaching traffic which was behind me!!! two or three times I done that in wet conditions and once veru embarrasingly on a round about!!!!!lol
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    I can't believe they describe the Fuego as stylish. My dad had the turbo version many years ago and I hated it then.

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    intresting read that,best bet for the manta is bin the pig iron cih,and insert a c20xe
    plus bilstien dampers.
    not seen a fuego for year's and the last scirocco i saw ate my dustlmao

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Nice to see the manta not tripoding..
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Quote Originally Posted by Benn View Post
    Nice to see the manta not tripoding..
    Dude, it is RWD FFS. How would you get the back wheel up on that?
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kerr View Post
    I can't believe they describe the Fuego as stylish. My dad had the turbo version many years ago and I hated it then.
    Aye, still Mantas around, and plenty Siroccos, but have you seen a classic Fuego being restored anywhere?
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Theres a fugeo being restored near melmao

    Shows how much the Manta needed the GTE model by the time it came along.
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    .Jesus how did that happen!
    if it wasn't for the earth , there wouldn't be any universe, mother earth gave birth to all the creation! and without the earths gravitational pull, the sun and the moon would have long gone adrift!

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Out of all of them, I prefer the Fuego followed closely by the Manta! I love those Fuegos!
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    Fuego, all show, no go, and they rust like you wouldn't believe.

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    my neighbour has the scirrocco before that one, its old x, complete minter, ive never seen one before tho, wouldnt know what it was if it didnt have an old skool scirrocco graphic on the side
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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    I love French car design! They're a decade ahead of everyone else! (and a few decades behind in engineering)!

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    Re: Manta vs Fuego vs Scirocco!

    is it wrong that i think thats cool?
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