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Old Feb 14th, 2020, 15:32   #11
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Surprised i've not seen that one around but maybe he's out and about at different times to me.

Shame about your white one, especially as it had the proper "dogleg" 5 spoke Roversport alloys as the Mk1 Vitesse should have.
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Surprised i've not seen that one around but maybe he's out and about at different times to me.

Shame about your white one, especially as it had the proper "dogleg" 5 spoke Roversport alloys as the Mk1 Vitesse should have.
Yeah, that tends to be the case..

Everything was standard apart from the windows, oh and the alternate flashing headlights
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Everything was standard apart from the windows, oh and the alternate flashing headlights
Aaaaaaah, it was one of THOSE white Vitesses?

Manual or auto?
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Aaaaaaah, it was one of THOSE white Vitesses?

Manual or auto?
Oh yes lol
It was the auto, had to have the torque converter sorted of I remember correctly...
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Oh yes lol
It was the auto, had to have the torque converter sorted of I remember correctly...
That had seen some hard service then or maybe someone used the wrong ATF in it. Or both!

To quote a Met Police Officer who drove 827s back when the Met used a lot of them (and later went on to own one that was sold to the TV production company who made The Bill), "You sit up on the "piggy-perch", wait for a speeder, snick it into Drive and floor the loud pedal. A second later and you're in Warp-Drive!".
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That had seen some hard service then or maybe someone used the wrong ATF in it. Or both!

To quote a Met Police Officer who drove 827s back when the Met used a lot of them (and later went on to own one that was sold to the TV production company who made The Bill), "You sit up on the "piggy-perch", wait for a speeder, snick it into Drive and floor the loud pedal. A second later and you're in Warp-Drive!".
Sounds about right, wasn't it about a 9 second 0-60 and about 147 topend, was a decent motor for the time
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Sounds about right, wasn't it about a 9 second 0-60 and about 147 topend, was a decent motor for the time
Depends which source you refer to but the most believable ones i know of were 0-60 in 7.3, top whack about 147, the manual was 0-60 in about 7.7 and top end of about 143mph - yes, i know, the figures appear back to front but the autobox changes faster than the manual and will reach a higher top end because it's slightly lower geared allowing the engine to rev higher.

That said, Tony Pond got 150+mph out of the 2.7 manual Vitesse round the Isle of Man TT circuit and broke the record for a an average speed of over 100mph on the entire circuit (about 37 miles in 22 minutes ish) which wasn't broken until a long time later by Michael Higgs in a full tricked out Subaru rally car!
The engine in TPs Vitesse had been in his company car until the previous day so was already run in and i daresay had been tweaked a little.
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Depends which source you refer to but the most believable ones i know of were 0-60 in 7.3, top whack about 147, the manual was 0-60 in about 7.7 and top end of about 143mph - yes, i know, the figures appear back to front but the autobox changes faster than the manual and will reach a higher top end because it's slightly lower geared allowing the engine to rev higher.

That said, Tony Pond got 150+mph out of the 2.7 manual Vitesse round the Isle of Man TT circuit and broke the record for a an average speed of over 100mph on the entire circuit (about 37 miles in 22 minutes ish) which wasn't broken until a long time later by Michael Higgs in a full tricked out Subaru rally car!
The engine in TPs Vitesse had been in his company car until the previous day so was already run in and i daresay had been tweaked a little.
I think that 0-60 maybe for the 2.0 turbo? 147 was deffo about right though
and im sure it was 8.9s 0-60 for my vittesse not sure about the sterling, although, mine was the auto box ut im still fairly sure even the 2.7 manual didnt do sub 8, could be wrong, gonna go look it up now lol
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I keep finding conflicting results for the top end, some say 136, others say 147, but that was for the 1987, mine was the 1989 G reg, but 0-60 is quite consistent and 8.4 but i think thats a little low, even though 1 goes as low as 8s, could have sworn it was 8.9 myself...
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I keep finding conflicting results for the top end, some say 136, others say 147, but that was for the 1987, mine was the 1989 G reg, but 0-60 is quite consistent and 8.4 but i think thats a little low, even though 1 goes as low as 8s, could have sworn it was 8.9 myself...
The original (massaged by the manufacturers) figures for the 827 were 0-60 7.3 for the manual and 7.7 for the auto. Correct figures were 7.3 for the auto and 7.7 for the manual.

Again, top whack was 133 for the manual and 137 for the auto, again massaged to read 133 for auto and 137 for the manual.

The early turbo Vitesse was (if memory serves) 0-60 7.2, top speed 143mph, later 200bhp was 0-60 6.5 and top end of 146mph.

Thee were the manufacturers figures, so many different road testers got varying results and their results went down in the records as being "accurate". Takes a bit of practice to get the best out of individual cars and for comparison, ideally the same driver. That's why i prefer the manufactures unmassaged figures.

The reason they massaged them (and so did Honda for the Legend) is nobody at the time would have believed the auto could outgun and outrun the manual.

That said, i do know (please don't ask me how ) the auto is very capable of 145mph and still accelerating like the clappers.
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