RS2 for sale

Started by feelou, September 05, 2006, 08:09:27 AM

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bsting

 ;D and how much have you spent keeping your car on the road in the last 18 months?
Nik has a car in mind that he really wants, as do I.

Thats how it is.

Hands up who would like to own an RS2 in their lifetime...

1.

RS ZWEI

Quote from: Audiman on September 07, 2006, 11:51:16 PM
Simon,

You knocked a lot of it on the head mate. There is no way it felt like a sub-5 sec car. It was fast, but not as fast is a 3.6 triptonic Carrera 2 that I drive frequently (brother in-laws), and this is a 6 sec car. Had a very clunky gear box. I didn't feel it suffered from lag - but there was no real whooosh. Just didn't feel super car fast.

To be honest I jumped back into my 1.8T and thought it drived much better. Not as quick - granted - but much nicer car to drive.

With this guy taking my car at a good price as a part trade, the difference is very manageable, but I just didn't enjoy the experience. Like I said above, I thought my car drove better.

I little disappointed as I was expecting a real "driving experience".

I don't wish to knock this car or RS2's in general - just relaying my experience, and Simon's comments seem to ring true.

Maybe I need to drive another one?

The car was very original. Has lots of little annoying things like the front bumper lights on one side having been replaced at some stage and being a difference shade of colour. The bonnet and front bumper didn't seem to fit well. The paint was faded on the rear RHS of the car, yet the front was much sharper, suggesting various touch ups throughout it's life. The front grille is sitting loose. The paint on all the mags is faded - fallen off - List goes on. ( I hope I'm not knocking a future Vaskers car too much - sorry)    

The interior of the car was excellent. I think you need to budget $10K+ to bring this car back up to mint.



The 4.8 secs to 60mph only comes from having the car on the limiter and side stepping the clutch.

If the car doesnt kick you back in the seat around 3000 rpm, something maybe wrong, from what I have read it would be air leaks, 3000 rpm should feel alot like a 747 taking off down the runway :)

Dont kid yourself when it comes to paint, this topic always cracks me, so many people think that there cars have "original paint", fact is, just about everytime a car touches a caryard paint is done let alone insurance jobs, spotting the difference depends on the quality of the job done.
1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

RS ZWEI

Quote from: BSTING on September 08, 2006, 07:36:59 AM
;D and how much have you spent keeping your car on the road in the last 18 months?
Nik has a car in mind that he really wants, as do I.

Thats how it is.

Hands up who would like to own an RS2 in their lifetime...

1.

lol, I WILL own an RS2 at somepoint in my life :) makr my words.

1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

spooln

#43
Simons right on here, they are a 10 year old car. The gear change is slow (but will be shifting the same way in another ten years). Off boost they are slow by modern standards. Simon covered the suspension nicely. As a daily driver, my wife's Mk5 Golf is far easier to drive, especially around town. Yes they need looking after, but don't we all. For me I like the fact they have an interesting history as the last of the I5 range (and what a range that was!), and are very very well made.

The RS2 is a GT, not a race car. At the lights you will easily loose to lots cars, remember you weigh in at 1600kgs or so, plus what ever hamburgers you ate the week before. However on the highway with boost in the zone, you have the option to simply wave by by to most other cars. Best judge of these cars is to Taupo and back, or some similar trip. Around town probably a bit ho hum for most.

Stilll an icon IMO, as are all I5 turbos vehicles.

Neil

77 CS1 Fiat Spider. 78 Mk1 Scirocco. 83 Mk1 GTI. 12 Abarth 595C Competizione. 18 Golf R. 20 Kodiaq vRS

John Stone

One thing that has become apparent to me with the WR is how low boost not only gives a sluggish performance, but also there is no really big difference before and after the turbo kicks in, it will run to the limiter, but not with any fizz. Now it's more sorted, turbo lag is much more apparent than ever before - particularly so when the revs reach 4K and all of a sudden, the scenery starts rushing by. If the RS2 has induction leaks and isn't boosting correctly, then there will be a sense of lameness - debugging can be bloody expensive if you don't know what you're looking for. Saying that, I'd love one.....

John
86 WR
04 A3
05 V50T5

td19

....and as an RHD it is one of certainly less than 100 still available world-wide.

old4130

Quote from: BSTING on September 08, 2006, 07:36:59 AM
Hands up who would like to own an RS2 in their lifetime...
1.
Quote from: Golfboy666GTI on September 08, 2006, 07:42:05 AM
lol, I WILL own an RS2 at somepoint in my life :) makr my words.

1.

So will I  :)
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1997 VW Golf GTI 16v
2011 Keeway Matrix
1987 Honda Beat FC 50 ~ 50cc of Fury

2000 SEAT Cordoba SXE ~ Her Car - Sold
2004 Subaru Forester XT 2.5 Limited ~ Her Car

RS ZWEI

Quote from: td19 on September 08, 2006, 08:54:43 PM
....and as an RHD it is one of certainly less than 100 still available world-wide.

Still available? Have alot been written off in the UK td19? They were meant to have 180 RHD models for the UK market.
1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

spooln

That would be sad if that is true. Hard to really know.
77 CS1 Fiat Spider. 78 Mk1 Scirocco. 83 Mk1 GTI. 12 Abarth 595C Competizione. 18 Golf R. 20 Kodiaq vRS

Filx

#49
Sorry to rant guys (and I have no relationship with the seller) - but why are people criticising an old car with a few issues? It's an RS2 and there's how many in NZ, 15?? How many of those are going to have nothing "wrong" with them?

To me in these situations you're not buying the car - you're buying an opportunity to own one! It's not like buying some ordinary car where there's ~50 on TradeMe, you look at ~10 of them, figure out which one is the best, make a low offer, do the deal and smile smugly as you drive off because you got it $500 cheaper than the last one you saw!

If someone wants to own an RS2 here's an opportunity that might not come around again for who knows how long!?! Stump up with the cash, take whatever is wrong with it on the chin, rectify those issues - and then get on with enjoyment of owning and driving a unique and desireable vehicle!
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robh

well said, guess the only question is what's it worth?
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hitmanGTI

1 x toyota carolla please ;)

old4130

Quote from: robh on September 09, 2006, 02:47:31 PM
well said, guess the only question is what's it worth?

Yea agree completely too..
timing is not right for me.. but 1 day I am sure it will be
But also as there are so few, you start to to know a bit about each car.. & you can wait for one of the ones you are after to come up
2005 Audi A4 1.8tq S line
1997 VW Golf GTI 16v
2011 Keeway Matrix
1987 Honda Beat FC 50 ~ 50cc of Fury

2000 SEAT Cordoba SXE ~ Her Car - Sold
2004 Subaru Forester XT 2.5 Limited ~ Her Car

RS ZWEI

Anyone heard if this RS2 has been sold?

1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

spooln

#54
A post on the S2forum recently (ex their govt registration system) showed that about there was 135 odd RS2s still on the road in the UK. Another 15 or so with reg lapsed, the rest are write offs. So approx 30% over the last 10 years...if this keeps up they will be vary rare in another 10 years.
77 CS1 Fiat Spider. 78 Mk1 Scirocco. 83 Mk1 GTI. 12 Abarth 595C Competizione. 18 Golf R. 20 Kodiaq vRS

RS ZWEI

Quote from: spooln on February 26, 2007, 09:46:50 PM
A post on the S2forum recently (ex their govt registration system) showed that about there was 135 odd RS2s still on the road in the UK. Another 1 or so with reg lapsed, the rest are write offs. So approx 30% over the last 10 years...if this keeps up they will be vary rare in another 10 years.

Id say that these days RS2 spend more time being loved as a 2nd car than a daily run-a-bout in there first 10 years of life. Lets face it, they are very practial performance cars, for example the lowest km RS2 in NZ is somewhere around the high 70,000kms low 80,000kms, it might even be your car spoolin? So I would think the the RS2 death rate will slow (I hope )  :)

1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

spooln

Not mine, as Ive just cracked 90k. Thinking of getting a cheap runabout though....
77 CS1 Fiat Spider. 78 Mk1 Scirocco. 83 Mk1 GTI. 12 Abarth 595C Competizione. 18 Golf R. 20 Kodiaq vRS

RS ZWEI

Quote from: spooln on February 27, 2007, 08:25:30 AM
Not mine, as Ive just cracked 90k. Thinking of getting a cheap runabout though....

Its either yours or TD19s, when I got details on both of your cars yours had the lower mileage, in saying that you might use yours more that TD19s in the last few years. Anyway, they are the only RS2s in NZ with less than 120,000kms on the clock. :)



1980 VW Golf GTI Track Car
1995 Audi RS2
2003 Mini Cooper S (Written off - rear ended)
2005 Mini Cooper S
2006 Skoda Octavia vRS Combi
2009 Renault Megane 230 R26 (Written off - rear ended)
2013 Renault Megane RS265 Redbull RB8

Mike

From what others have said, it seems to be basically sound, but has quite a lot of issues (paint, other cosmetics, poss air leaks, suspension??). Front panels not fitting correctly is both expensive to fix in itself (labour $$$), and could indicate a frontal, which could mean other things such as leaking intercooler and a bunch of other (expensive) issues.

There is $10+K of immediate rectification work required. And then there are the other things you don't know about yet.

In my opinion, I would want to see a more sorted example for the thick end of $40K.

But then someone else might be happy paying that for it as is.

I hope someone takes it on.

td19

Quote from: Golfboy666GTI on February 27, 2007, 08:30:32 AM
Its either yours or TD19s, when I got details on both of your cars yours had the lower mileage, in saying that you might use yours more that TD19s in the last few years. Anyway, they are the only RS2s in NZ with less than 120,000kms on the clock. :)




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