Goodbye 306 (as I knew it), Hello V50

[Kezzieboy]

So the 306, as I knew and loved, is no more. I took a couple pictures before work commenced putting her back to standard, cambered beam and all:







Sounded good too:



And this is the first picture on my photobucket of the car, almost standard:



Which is pretty close to how she looks now, just without the splitter, and still got the Mi16 alloys on. No pictures in that state though.


And so here's the replacement, dirty pics as I've nowhere to clean it, living in a flat:







Lovely interior



Already started fettling, that chrome grille on the floor was the garish standard item....



It's a Volvo V50 T5 AWD, one of f*ck all in the country. Unfortunately an auto, but the kickdown is pretty responsive, and it's geartronic, so I can use sequential gears if I so choose. It's 220bhp, same engine as the Focus ST (potential to map to about 260), and handles deceptively well in spite of the monster truck ride height (which I intend to remedy). Oh, and it sounds lush even though from an engineering point of view 5-pots are just wrong-uns.

Got a few other changes I'll be making, as my current underwriters wont touch stock cars, hopefully eventually I'll be rid of the roof rails and it'll be lowered a little and have the full sports trim all round. Then eventually a remap, but I'm owning it for at least a year before I start messing about with performance mods.