Best part of a 306?

[THE_Liam]

I agree Liam, definitely a certain 'je ne sais quoi'...........that you can't put your finger on....but its definitely there.

Did we just agree on something?!?!

Wait, hang on, surely not.....

Yeah I think we did.

Holy surfing Jesus! :o

First Liam and Tom agree on something.....


Next will be then beginning of the plague and the end of the world

And then, maybe one day, there will be no tapping 6's

Hell will freeze over before '6s stop tapping

Don't Golfs have springs and torsion bars? Their definitely not fully independent I know the much, hence the tripoding through bends...

Nope, they're just anti-roll bar and springs on a big old bar running from one side to the other.

They call it twist-beam - probably because the beam can flex a little, they're semi-independent...

Learn something new every day, it works well because the Golf was the only thing that could get close to a 205/306 back in the day

are the other comparable cars of the same age/era?

This is what gets me about the 306, let's have a look at the competition...

Mk5 Escort - Awful, ugly, can't handle, rusty, cramped.
Focus - Shit driving position and rusty, but the best handling besides the 306.
Mk3 Astra - Genuinely dangerous understeer, boring looks.
Mk3 Golf - Comfortable and well made but slow, boring and soggy in the bends.
ZX/Xsara - Uglier 306.
Megane - Hateful.
Civic, Almera, Sunny, Corolla etc. - Snoooooooooooooooze.

Easy. The Focus is closest, but still miles away