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Whats your best Coupe experience/memory? #849299
13/06/2009 21:03
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Mine is when I first saw mine in the flesh (metal).

love at first sight.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: JKD] #849300
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Every time it starts laugh

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Theresa] #849305
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Matt Neal accelerating hard around Rockingham Speedway in my first Coupe and remarking "this is more like it" after driving a brand new Civic Type-R for the morning

A rather attractive young lady remarking "phwoar - your car's sexy" as I was about to give her a lift

The look on the face of a Ferrari 360 driver as he failed to pull away, despite him hitting the rev limiter

The noise through Birmingham's Queensway tunnel as I ran it round to the redline with both windows open, and my son and I laughing uncontrollably as several other drivers fell over themselves to get out of the way laugh

Hitting 160mph after just a mile from a standing start at TOTB two years ago.

Hitting 43mpg after a day's motorway cruising


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Nigel] #849309
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Originally Posted By: Nigel
Hitting 160mph after just a mile from a standing start at TOTB two years ago.


Was that a black Coupe with a zender bumper? the coupe with the most bhp?

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: JKD] #849311
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Originally Posted By: JKD
Was that a black Coupe with a zender bumper? the coupe with the most bhp?


Nope - that was me laugh


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Nigel] #849312
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so what bhp was yours running at?

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: JKD] #849313
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5 am on a sunday morning, A628 woodhead pass, beautiful july sunrise, no traffic, 314 bhp, not one single problem with the car, windows down, soundtrack to die for, drive of my life laugh

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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: JKD] #849315
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Originally Posted By: JKD
so what bhp was yours running at?


Around 400bhp


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849316
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The best experience of mine is driving it at the weekend, after I have been using the 1.2 Bravo all week for work.

In comparison the Coupe goes like a rocket.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849331
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My best experience would be a toss up between :-

1) My first meet with my 20VT with Sparkyman,H2ypr and Lou wink laugh .

2) Big Coop Meet 3:Cowboy`s Revenge cool You had to be there to know how good it was laugh .

Baz smile


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Baz76] #849340
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Every time I hear that 20v 5 cylinder howl and the looks I get in her.

OR

When I passed a Porsche Boxster S and the driver's face was brilliant lol!

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849351
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1,Big Coop Meet 3:Cowboy`s Revenge (unreal)
2,weekend meet at my house,12 coupes


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: cowboy] #849354
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1, Cowboys revenge 3, the hole experience, the people, the coupes, the location, everything was spot on. the weather on the last day was stunning as well
nothing better than meeting up with like minded people that come from all walks of life and having a few beers

2, the drive back from wales a few weeks ago, lovely weather, windows down, 5 pot singing, and a audi TT licking its wonds

3, this is a random one. every time i step out of my coupe when going to see a client, i can cover 100's of miles in a few hours down to London, step out of my car. and feel as fresh and relaxed as a dasiy. it does everything i need, and with no compromises

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: samsite999] #849355
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Dicing with a Lamborghini Miura at Spa-Francorchamps last summer cool

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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Boosted7] #849374
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puuling up at auto-italia with rog and ruben stood next to my car with it all cleaned and polished thinking im gonna buy that laugh

then the very enthusiastic test drive i got taken on by ruben (akeme) wink got shown the coupes capability's.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849395
14/06/2009 07:25
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1. I met my best mate and a lot more mates through the coupe and the club.

2.The first midlands meet I organised 11 coupes all with aftermarket exhausts the noise was fantastic.

3. The first cosford meet 24? Coupes entered the place in 1big line.

4. This years auto Italia brooklands 50+ coupes and running up the test hill.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849750
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The first test drive of a Coupe - was 10 years ago and the look on the car salesman's face as the wheels spun in 3rd on a slightly damp road laugh

When mine first arrived from Germany (sprinty) and the other one we had (nana with body kit) and my mate thinking I had actually bought two for myself (rather than one to keep and one to sell on) - as I couldn't choose the best colour. laugh

Boxing day drive from Derby to London, en route to Channel tunnel it was 8am, cool but a nice winter sunny'ish day and 1h 20 mins later I was walking out of my house in London (needed to go home for my passport). Felt like i had only been on a 10 minute drive to the shops.

Driving from Dusseldorf to Munich - and as we dropped round the bottom of Frankfurt the Porsche GT3 I was chasing had a clear road and left me for dead at around 140+. Then pulling into a garage for fuel and realising that we had done a tank of petrol in just under 2 hours and covered a little over 250 miles.

Driving through any tunnel - drop a gear, 6000+ rpm and windows down - still makes me laugh out loud like a kid on christmas day getting his first bike.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #849751
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One of them was (when the coop was working) driving round some fantastic bends going up the side of a mountain in Scotland with DanDan infront in the rain as quickly (and safley) as possible!

Cars sounded great! No need to have the radio on! love



Ooh yeh and everytime the car starts!


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: MattyB] #850063
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Each time i get in and drive the thing :DI thought i'd be bored of these cars by now but after getting a 20vt the opposite is true, i like them even more!


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Tommy_Coop23] #850067
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When I picked mine up from Joe at country a few weeks ago after having the clutch,LE kit etc etc done to her! Wicked lol

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: jacob0902] #850220
15/06/2009 20:28
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When I hit 118mph over a 1/4 mile love

Among many others smile


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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: Taffy20vt] #850407
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It's still the first time I picked it up and drove it home.

Though if I ever get molested by three lesbains in it my opinion might change.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #850730
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Until my Coop I was always a VAG man, I've had Golf GTi's, VR6's a couple of Corrado's and more notably an S4, an RS2, an RS4 and an RS6 as well as a random Mitsi Evo 6 in the middle somewhere!

All of them great cars, but none of them are as special as the Coop, and the Coop gives me a new best moment every single day, and not just for the Coop, but for all my years of driving!

Cheers all.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #850732
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Epic drive from Anglesey to Magny Cours in 36 degree heat (OK, getting stuck in Paris with faulty A/C was unpleasant) but that road trip was fantastic, and the Coupe behaved impeccably.

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Originally Posted By: gmot16vT
an S4, an RS2, an RS4 and an RS6 as well as a random Mitsi Evo 6... none of them are as special as the Coop


I am surprised by that. I'd say Alessandro prefers his RS6 plus to the 20vt Plus he had.

I'm also thinking of binning the coupe for an S4.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #850867
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Something like 7yrs ago I had just finished uni, was temping in a call cetre type place and shared the car park with staff from a restaurant next door. One of the restaurant staff owned an ink black 20vt and whenever I was working and it was there I would spend ages just dribbling over it, I said to myself when I grow up i'm gonna get one of those laugh

Just over one year later I got a better paid job and bought my first scotts green 20vt love


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Taking it to the top of 4th, windows down on my favourite road where I grew up.

Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: simonj] #850885
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Finding this site a while after buying my 16VT! Life Saver!

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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: ] #850891
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Re: Whats your BEST Coupe experience/memory? [Re: MCMike] #850946
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driving My drive home from Wetherby to Chelmsford after I bought her.... won't ever forget that cool love driving


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