Back in the day

[swiss]

Ah, 1995. Nick Leeson was arrested and Windows 95 was sent by the devil to plague us. Also, this appeared on our telly boxes.

Sexy, sexy, sexy motor vehicle. I wonder what a 1.9 sounded like when it was brand new...

[Doggy]

Never tried a 1.9 406, but had a go in a demonstator 405 1.7td in 1991 - that was bl00dy impressive in it's day.

You could only just hear it was a diesel from inside when idling, not at all when it was moving. 4th & 5th gear performance was amazing for those days, felt more like a 3 litre petrol. Pulled really well from 1500 - 4000. Only real flaw was it felt a bit nose-heavy and didn't change direction as smartly as the 1.9 petrol.

[darrenwall]

Never tried a 1.9 406, but had a go in a demonstator 405 1.7td in 1991 - that was bl00dy impressive in it's day.

You could only just hear it was a diesel from inside when idling, not at all when it was moving. 4th & 5th gear performance was amazing for those days, felt more like a 3 litre petrol. Pulled really well from 1500 - 4000. Only real flaw was it felt a bit nose-heavy and didn't change direction as smartly as the 1.9 petrol.

i had the same engine in my first ever car , a 309 grd turbo , it was a flyer back in the days cos most diesels were still rattly old direct injection non turbo jobbies . my friend had an xr2i and my 309 was just as quick off the line but from 70mph my 309 would leave it for dead ahhh them were the days

[teamster1975]

Windows 95 was sent by the devil to plague us.

Come on now Tom, it wasn't that bad (Apart from getting it to connect to novell shared printers )
NT4 wasn't that far behind

[mjb]

Windows 95 was sent by the devil to plague us.

Come on now Tom, it wasn't that bad

Er yes. Yes it was. OOB Ping of Death? No USB/FAT32/UDMA support until OSR2? Daily BSODs? Weekly reinstalls? I even did some tests and discovered the ORDER of driver and updates installation from clean would have up to 50% impact on 3dmark results!

Did I mention weekly reinstalls?

NT4 wasn't that far behind

NT4 worked. Bloody well. Just like XP, if you didn't do anything dumb (like buy cheap hardware or install crap/dodgy software), it would never crash or go wrong.

Just hope I can squeeze another 8 years out of XP. I've still got a daily use machine that's on the very same install of XP I did in 2001 before XP was released!!! Different hardware, but the system partition's still the same. I've even tried reinstalling it on a different hdd and had zero performance difference. Win. My XP laptop also had about 1.5 years uptime on it before I had to change the hdd last week.

I don't use antivirus software either

[eoin27]

Still a much better designed and better looking car than many eurobox shite thats been sold today. Cough Cough focus Cough

[Welly]

mmmm, 1995......I was whizzing about in a G-reg 405 1.9 GR petrol (that was a flyer, 4 years old, mint with 50K on the clock) then I decided (really stupidly) I needed something more economical (should have punched self in face at this point) and went about trying to locate a 309GRi, found one (at Dave's Dodgy Motor's Ltd) and it was a pig...it had the 1.6 205 GTi engine but it was burning oil somehow - que expensive engine refurb, then I found out it had been jigged after a bad accident etc etc....

That was the end of Peugeots for a few years

[DaiRees]

'95? 1.2 Nova Merit


I used to watch that 406 ad and think "one day....."

[teamster1975]

Fiat Uno 60DS, my first car!

[STALLED]

Feck. I was still in primary school

[puglover]

dai....
was it your sat nav that nearly took you of that cliff ?

sry but someone had to ask lol

[eoin27]

'95?

[puggy]

In 95 i was mostly driving one of these, cant remember which exactly cos around
that time i owned all 3 , 1.3 , 1.6 , MG Turbo








AAAHHH those were the days

[eoin27]

In 95 i was mostly driving one of these, cant remember which exactly cos around
that time i owned all 3 , 1.3 , 1.6 , MG Turbo

Unfortunately the basic model (in the middle) didn't boast side repeaters,rear seatbelts or a passenger wing mirror in the spec list eh?

[Welly]

Puggy can you remember the horendous 'bash' when you shut the doors

My mate had an MG Metro Turbo, I can still remember the pretty 'christmas tree' of gearbox swarf stuck to the magnetic sump plug when we did an engine oil change