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Total engine rebuild at 200k km.
No functional handbrake.
Just love this car, but they do need love and attention. I beat on my S6, while the RS2 will be kept in OEM shape and never sold.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 29th March, 2009
Can't fault it!!
Bulb blown.
Very fast, very rare, very cool and excellent all rounder that is a very capable daily driver, more so then the Lancia Integrale Evo or Escort RS Cosworth I had previously.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 1st June, 2008
Unusual, under-estimated and enormous fun to drive
Given the age, not surprising but here goes: front brakes replaced, (costly); rear drive-shaft, (costly); hand-brake very poor, (complicated Porsche affair and known weak point - ask the list RS2list@egroups.com); rear brakes would have needed replacement if I had kept the car, (VERY costly - worse than the front). That was it.
Incredibly fast and solidly built.
You need air-con as the engine gives out an incredible amount of heat into the cabin.
The space is OK but for an estate, not brilliant.
The car sits VERY low and tends to scrape in car parks and on ramps - watch that front air duct!
The Quattro system is amazing. So much power, (315 ps), but the car just grips and goes. The RS2 has a strengthened 1st gear, (6 speed), as the S2 gear-box had a notoriously weaker 1st gear.
Seats are wonderful and grippy.
Car is very heavy and only really gets into its stride around 3000 rpm, but even below that, it is severely grin-inducing :-).
Tyres are difficult to come by for the summer wheels, (only one tyre type approved, but now out of production), so most are being down-sized to 225's with some say, better grip and handling, so no problem.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 9th May, 2001
29th Jan 2002, 14:17
Homologated 245/40 17 dunlop sp8000 is still available.