I'm yet to see anyone run a frog car at the strip.
Anyone here seen one pull a time yet?
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I'm yet to see anyone run a frog car at the strip.
Anyone here seen one pull a time yet?
I can't believe I read all of that, it's absolutely INSANE that many of you are not speaking from 1st hand experience, but instead, speaking from having read something, or heard something, or playing GT4.
It doenst really matter LOL justin.
Driven both,
two factors
1. The clio engine sounds like a tractor engine, there is no passion just mundaness
2. The gear shift comes from a bus
Clio is most likely a better car for daily *untill the exhuast falls off, dont laugh it has, many times*, but hey, if u like daily cars get a corolla.
Or a Civic!!! *ducks*Quote:
Originally Posted by JDC5R
i can organise a clio cup to race a teg>??
any challenges??
not being biased, lol, but me and someone else has lined up a clio sp and a dc2r, clio sp gets the head start for about half of first gear, then when vtec engages, and then goes into second, the clio sp, has dropped back, and the dc2r is infront, and is still pulling away from the clio sp.
Bah what the hell. I'll chuck in my bit as well. I am sure the Clio Sport/Cup is a car that handles well, and hey it's fast too but I don't really care much for the specs, or what it can do, it still looks damn ugly to me, so damn ugly. Like designer A did one bit, then designer B did the next bit, and in the end they joined it all up together. It's not exactly an object of desire for me. I don't perv on them on the streets, they look like silly cars and make the drivers look even more silly in their little cars.
The Type-R on the other hand has history, it's legendary. It's not exactly a "hot hatch", it's a front wheel drive sports car.
Oranges to Apples, why are we even comparing them? I have nothing against Clio's or Clio drivers. In the end of the day it's just not the car for me.
You are comparing cars in different era's......... ONes euroDm and d other is JDm..... In Sep EVO mag the best front wheeler of all time is the DC2R... COming second is the Clio cup... well thier you go...... both excellent vehicles in thier own origin>>>>
For me owning a CLio, i can say its one of the most torquiest thing on the road........ As i say to my Honda accociates.... ""its all torque no action""!!!!
The Clio is known as a Vtec killer which mean only the EK 1.6 classes and the DC non type R class......the design is not for track or race use.....compare the both the DC5R and DC2R with LSD as stock there is no way a clio can beat an R on the track.......As if both are driven by the same guy.....the seat on the clio is comfortable as a daily but if for track....you are going to slide everywhere in the car.....the gear stick is too short and hard to reach....but think of all the lux option you can get like senser wiper......trip computer which can tell you how many K's you can travel with how much fuel you have.....thats a good daily......but if you are more of a track person.....they are all useless for you......thats my 2 cents...
I agree with the above two posts.
clio 182 cup - (+'s) very very kart like with loads of torque down low. lots of fun to drive at low speed and around every corner. cheaper (-'s) possible lack of build quality, styling no wear near as nice as the integra
which is faster? depends on driver. So, own an integra and wanna chop clio's? improve your driving. Regardless of what car you buy/own i'd still give you a thumbs up and say 'great car' to you. :)
Clio looks gay imho....
TypeR's look sexy and thats all that matters to me :)
justinfox this is what I wrote
this is not from what I read or GT4 so yeah, and people just remember it's a clio, entery level is under $20000, and if you want bang for buck that VW polo GTI is the winner, 1.8 turbo for $26000, add for the price difference you can get stage 2 tune which is around 160+KW with VW warranty included.Quote:
Well I drove a clio sport cup (my cuz worked as salesman for holden/renault) and I had few test runs with that car, I think it's ok but just too agly and too small (it's size of jazz or getz) and some people say it's cheap but in my opinion it's not, remember you are not getting sports coupe (like integra) you are getting small hachback that has entery price of under $20000, so that's extra $15000 while integra is completly different story.
Ok back to driving, car is very responsive, first and second gear is great but once it hits third it lacks power, starts slowing down, cornering is simular to Type R, I would not say better but about the same, brakes are great as thay are made by brambo so that's what you expect from them, probably a bit better than R. I had a race with my cuz, I was in my DC2R and was in clio, first two gears he was in front, once I hit third he was gonne, so I wouldn't even say that clio is better in stright line, maybe I could say thay are about the same with slight advantage to R.
So my final concusion is that Type R and Clio are very simular performers but R has better looks and is in class of sport coupes while clio is small buffed up hach that in my opinon is overprised, you put few more $$$$ in and you get yourself Megan Sport (turbo), ITR, WRX and so on.