cruiser647 Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 This morning, just been to Alconbury for my mddle daughters' football game, (they won 6 - 2) On the way back up the (surpisingly) busy A1, 3 lanes of cars, doing 75 - 80. Lane 4 is empty Look in my mirror and see 2 cars approaching at warp speed. Mk II ML AMG comes by. 20 metres behind (effectively tailgating at that speed) a white Golf GTi Mk 6. Lovely sound from the AMG, but fecking reckless beyond belief. 100 metres behind, a big bored Puma (with wider wheel arches) making a lot more noise and not as fast. They were long gone though as they were well over 100 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 GTI wasn't trying:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Puma would have been one of the fairly rare Ford Racing Pumas with the wide arches. Only a 1.7 so ultimately not especially fast, but, it would show both those cars a clean set of heels on a twisty road, one of, if not the best handling front wheel drive cars ever made. They only made 500 and only sold half that, so they gave the rest to management on very attractive deals, they were built by Tickford too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 The standard Puma 1.7 is pretty impressive. I thought the Racing version was said to be a bit twitchy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted March 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 The Puma was met green. Not sure if I'd seen one in that colour before. Oh, if the Golf was red, then it would be infront! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Hmm, not sure they did the FRP in green? I thought they were all blue so could have been a bodykit or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 No, you are right, they were all blue. The Racing Puma with 153 bhp and 119 lb ft and the Focus ST170 of the same era with 171 bhp and 145 lb ft show just how far hot hatches have developed in the last ten years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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