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  • On video: racing the family runabout

    Dec 02, 2007 8:03 PM

    It's very simple, really. We've taken four of the most recent sub-£40k family performance cars, and put them on a track to find out which one would win a half-mile drag race. Because that's what you do with your super-saloon when it's not on the school run, isn't it?
    Our first competitor is the 400bhp Vauxhall VXR8. The blunt instrument of the pack, and the hardest to get off the line, but will brute force win in the end?
    The Audi S5 can't be left out. With the much-praised 4.2-litre V8 fr...Read the full article
  • Re: On video: racing the family runabout

    Dec 03, 2007 9:25 AM

    Sub 40k is classed as a family run about?  Get real autocar have you completely lost touch with the public?  £40k is supercar money.  A family runabout would be scummyplans famous 'bleedin' Picasso.

    The user formally known as Matthew
  • Re: On video: racing the family runabout

    Dec 03, 2007 10:48 AM

    They have lost the plot. It has often been muted, but this is final proof.

    The man in the street does not on average spend £40k on a family runabout.

    Why do you bother Autocar?

    Caeser ruled with an iron hand, then with a wooden foot and finally with a piece of string.
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