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0-60 Charade Vs Fiesta 1.0

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The Charade GTti was a proper car... the engine was fantastic and easy to tune to 140bhp. Car weighed not a lot, but you wouldn't want to crash it!

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    The Charade GTti was a proper car... the engine was fantastic and easy to tune to 140bhp. Car weighed not a lot, but you wouldn't want to crash it!

    The additional 300kg the porky pig Fiesta is having to haul around is not helping

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    Maybe if ford had Turbo'd the Fiesta like Daihatsu did with the Charade, it might have been a contender for the likes of the Charade or the Renault 5 GT Turbo.

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    The 1.0 is turbo'd.

    Ford claim that the "140 PS 1.0-litre EcoBoost is the most powerful 1.0-litre volume production car engine ever"

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    Yes I know the new fiesta is, but not the old ones the same age as the charade and R5GTT.

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    A proper mini I hope, not these BMW wannabes!

    I had an awesome mini when I were a lad, a 1275GT with a Metro turbo engine.

    Surprised a few show off's at the traffic light Grand Prix's.

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