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So the throttle cable on my W123 snapped, and it was a three-week wait for one coming all the way from Germany... I needed a cheap car to get to work, and this is what I got:
Christ, what a shit car. It's a 1.8 and goes well enough in a straight line, but there's no torque and you have to absolutely rev the tits off of it to get anywhere. It understeers as you'd expect, but you can't actually drive it quickly because the ride is so atrocious. The driving position is complete shit - I'm only 6ft but the seat doesn't go back far enough, the steering wheel is minuscule and makes my shoulders ache after a couple of hours, the pedals don't line up with the seat which makes my knees ache. The headrests are too far back so they're uncomfortable, and you can't actually use them anyway because when you go over a bump they whack you in the back of the head. The visibility is terrible, the steering is heavy and the turning circle is a joke, so it's actually far harder to park than my W123 despite being considerably smaller. It also gets attention from all the boy racers. The fuel gauge varies depending on whether you're going uphill or downhill (the last car I owned that did that was a Morris Minor).
The plus points are that it was only £500, and I just put it through an MOT at my local well-trusted garage and it only needed rear brake pads. I won't have any problems selling it, since the boy racers love them so.
The worst thing is that it's not even black like the photo, it's BRG with a big dent in the door. Oh, and the wing mirrors flap at 70mph.