Ruan's GTi6 (XU10>XUD9) - Subject to Change ;)

[cwspellowe]

You know my views on economy, mine does 35-40mpg grannying it! And having driven it hard against a fair few of my mates supposedly superior cars it aint far off at all Brilliant engines in my eyes, good low down torque and 167bhp up to with decent economy. Good foran engine introduced in 1996 in my book .

For 1996, yes, but they didn't change it at all, in fact pretty much the only change was they dropped the rev limit after the phase 1 ended production. Desperately needed updating as other manufacturers caught up and eventually overtook. CTR anyone?

Low down torque is crap on the GTI6 too, one of the reasons I didn't like it. You'd be lucky to peak at 150lbft on a good engine, and even that's at about 5500rpm.

Don't get me started on economy too. If they'd put a longer 6th on it then yes, could probably get 35mpg every day of the week. Instead they fitted it for POWAHHH. 70mph at 3.5krpm is far too high in the UK.