205 DT vs CTR

[THE_Liam]

0-60 on CTRs is gonna be crap as you have to wait till about 6k before any power, thats 5k of waiting while the other car is pulling away.......It'll easy take a lot of 'normal' cars top end though.

Feeling 'quick' is all in the mind of the driver though. Liam, you seem to think a lot of cars are 'quick' or atleast 'not underpowered' (standard HDi for example) whereas to me they feel unbelievably slow, even on a stage 1 I don't find them 'quick' at all. And i often see posts where someone has said how 'quick' thier 1.6/1.8/HDi is, depends entirely on the user tbh.

Right, first of all, 0-60 on a CTR is apparently 6.6, and having driven one I can believe that. They aren't actually bad in mid-range although they are gutless below 3k.

Secondly, you don't understand what I mean when I talk about a car not being underpowered. A HDI isn't underpowered, it keeps up with modern traffic just fine and can do 100+mph, how is that underpowered? My mates '82 coach built Transit motorhome with its 1.6 pinto is underpowered, because it can just about hold 60mph until it sees any kind of hill, then it's 40mph, that's underpowered.

The HDI feels slow because you've gone from 165-170bhp to 110bhp. A standard XUD isn't underpowered, but it felt that way after the 200bhp Skoda...