You're right Yella, I'm just a sore loser!

Right thats it.

I'm selling the Coop and buying the Peugeot.

Goodbye everyone.

i got mine at 6am this morning,read it on my break,and was a little disapointed with the viee ws,however the coupe came 2nd behind the rallye,id have thought the clio cup might have came 1st. ps the highlight for me was when i showed the comment about the coupe outruns the focus st for less than a qtr of the price to a member of staff(she owns an st)

Tight !

Picked up a copy today, fair write up but not enough of it based on what you have told us patch. Could have put pages 28 and 29 to better use rather than a repeated contents page me thinks!

Beaten by the French though....

Just bought my copy (last one left as well!)

thermostat, big fix?? ... although, I am impressed the £1200 engine-out cam-belt didn't get mentioned

I got a copy, nice one Patch the car looked good.

Cheers, I still think the article was a bit poo though! - I should clarify - long long way to go, long long wet day, loads of questions and writing - content in article - limited!

I'm suprised at the lack of technical content too, but that went for all cars

Didn't they wedge you up though ?

No, I'm 6ft, and the deemed me high enough

Filled the tank with fuel for me! That's it!

Hey patch, just got my copy... Must say, a plus does look better than my tatty sprinty!!

fair play mate! Looks lovely!

Still gutted though...

Cheers Marco - You didn't miss much mate! Still, bit of exposure for the coop and something to save for future posterity.

Well done Phil

Something to show the kids mate....well done
A bit jealous actually.
If that was me,I would have let his tyres down and won......lmao
Paul

Ahhh i have saved this into my phone so when i pop to asda before my night shift again tomorrow night i can get it to have a look at it.........

I know how you are feeling as i had an article done on coop's in AUTO-ITALIA years back and one of the 3 coops was my baby girl Angelica and she was there on the front cover in all her glory (granted all be it at the bottom of the front page but even so) and then we had a few pages with group pictures and then i think it was 2 pages on each car ------- when that mag came out my dad was the first one up to the local papershop and bought up all the copies they had

so i now have a nice copy i keep safe in my bedroom on the shelves and a rough one thats seen some mileage (and hands looking through it) in the boot of her gotta LOVE the coops

Got my copy this morning, although what is with security guards in shops these days? I was only taking it outside to read it, honest!

Anyway, good write-up, bit of a bizarre result though, not sure I follow the logic employed there, but then again, why allow the facts to get in the way of a good story?

I guess we're biased on here, and given the chance we'd have the coupé beating everything and we'd ignore all the heartache we have with these cars from time to time.

Oh, and I do prefer the Plus wheels

Very nice looking Coupe and the black set it apart perfectly from the other cars in the article.

Kind of know why they went with the 306 though since it's the most complete package of all the cars there - if you're after a hot hatch that is. Trouble is they were kind of comparing chalk and cheese. If the author was after a Coupe or a genuinely fast car then the Fiat would win.

I'll be keeping the Coupe of course but that hasn't stopped me having a look on Autotrader to check out the prices of those pesky 306's. Now if only I had space for more than one car!