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(*135bhp) @ 87.90 @ 99.99 
@ 91.14 Please do not personally attack this person, educate him My first ever 2 drag races at santa pod were agains 2 different Clios. Both were the mid engined wide arch versions and I left them for dead. This was when I was running a lot less power too. I think your mates tubby has a problem 
""claimed"" bhp ( i have seen several clio172's fail to make 160 on the rollers) :thumleft:and the added advantage of mid-rear traction contest . ,pschtt 
'Tubby' is if he has no idea of clutch control and sat there spinning up the wheels while trying to accelerate.'MR2 -Poor mans ferrari' isnt one of my prefered phrases towards my car, but tbh the phrase is there for a reason.. Its cheap(compared to a ferrari) and just as fast as one!! ; or any other supercars in that respect!. Come to santa pod!!
( well lets be honest is there any point)( was he facing the same way as you, or was he by any chance in reverse??) 
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@ Clio 172 beating an MR2 turbo.C Reedit wrote:
This as you can imagine has put me off the slow japanese tractors!
.. then im afraid the clio is no more than a lawnmower. (a french one which makes it all the more better)steve b wrote:
His must have been broken.
I don't have an MR2T anymore but you wouldn't know which way a decent running MR2T went in the shopping box.
RedMR² wrote:PMSL
A clio would be:
Breakfast
Lunch
Evening meal.
No contest!
Get real!! 
The Lancia Delta Integrale was the best hot hatch ever...the 172 was the badly built underpowered unreliable heap of toss that lead to the not-much-better 182, and the only good thing THAT overrated heap of rubbish ever did was spawn the Trophy (which actually is pretty good).'sport' clios....the thread starters Clio either has a hyperspace engine or his mates MR2 is broken.C Reedit wrote:Honestly it was a turbo, i could hear it dumping through my open window when i went passed it! He has had it rolling roaded at 228bhp at the wheels.
Trust me these clios are top banana, the best hot hatch ever made!
or both. if he does have a tubby and he was putting his foot down and we are sure he didnt make any driving mistakes, then i think your mate needs to get his car checked out as its not performing as it should. I actually like the Clio 172/Sports etc, I'd never own one as its a french piece of junk, but it is a nice bit of kit... (?) is down on power if you beat him, simple as that. ? "raced" (don't like the thought of 2 powerful cars driving within inches of each other seeing who can do the stupidest overtake) but we have driven each others cars around a bit to see what they're up to. It's far more than the build up you get from taking a clio right up to the red line, although you shouldn't mistake the clio for being slow in absolute terms. It does get rapidly to illegal speeds. It was far more confident negotiating bends than my 2.- I don't mean the car of course - they don't have feelings apparently. My MR2 has koni shocks, oe springs, standard 15s with T1Rs (boo hiss) with a fair amount of tread left, but there's no way i'd go into a fairly tight bend at more than 50 in the dry - far less in the wet. This could well have lead to the situation we're hearing about. It was hardly a measured 1/4 mile sprint.(apologies any warehouse operatives), so the lunchtime sprint was probably around the industrial estate - perhaps to the burger van and back?- we've all done the odd bit of exaggerating in our time. The guy has witnessed this himself first hand (unless he's just wasting our time - a risk I'm willing to take), and no amount of disgruntled noises are going to make someone disregrd it. - do you think I'm ever going to let an owner forget this if I meet them? No chance, despite them being one off, even freak occurances."I'm not buying a Caymen S because my MR2 made it look like a tractor"? - er, no. No seriously its a drag monster is a 172 
Im sure they're great cars and tbh i'd have one as a town car or at least have a look into the possibility as people do seem to rave about them - and not all of them wear baseball caps ..had a run-in with one of those about a year ago. Me: 2-up, him: 3-up Both floored it away from the lights, both *definitely* trying. Had a nose in front, up to 80-ish or so for when we both had to slow down and turn off in seperate directions...this was just after I'd sold my '2 and got a Merc SLK 230 auto (193bhp/1470kg)....lovely car but WAAAY slower than the turbo, even when it was still standard.