CSL - what would you have changed

[glendog74]

:-D

:birdman: :smt055

[Mark CSL]

Can you please make your mind up. :bigcry:

Dont tell him that it will be for sale by friday :finga:

[sfh3l]

I've gotta say SMG. I know I'm going to be shot down and I know that it is part of the character of the car.

However, as an occasional browser of this forum, I am struck by the number of SMG problems everyone has and how far reaching they are through the rest of the drive train. It is a wonderful piece of kit when driving fast on the open road, but horrible when cold or in traffic and the whole thing does not operate with any mechanical sympathy at all. Put another way, if someone asked you if they could drive your (ordinary manual) car and then proceeded to jolt and jerk about like the SMG system does, you'd say "get out of the car - now!" and yet we all accept it as the way these cars are.

For me, it would be SMG and only SMG. No need for a cage where I come from and go to and my brakes have always been fine (no track work). Everything else I'll take just as it is please.

After all, what DO we get?
911 worrying performance
A noise you don't get this side of a Ferrari
Great handling and great (road) brakes
Cool understated looks

All of that AND genuine 4 seats and an enormous boot!!

IMHO the CSL is as close to perfection as it gets. Think Megan Fox, only with good conversation, Great cooking and mothering skills too...........

Now waiting for the shouts of derision

[Yanto_csl]

Think Megan Fox, only with good conversation, Great cooking and mothering skills too...........

Now waiting for the shouts of derision

I can report she has all these and more :smokin:

[DuncanR]

Now waiting for the shouts of derision

dERISION dERISION FOOK CAPS :banghead:

[toplad]

Id have a manual and wouldn't mind a arm rest on the drivers door

Smg only, is the biggest fuck up since bill Clinton jizzed on that bird's jacket and didnt have it dry cleaned.

[E46CSL]

A club sport package would have worked well.

Better brakes
Manual
Better seats
Half cage/ no rear seats
Lighter Exhaust

& Cup holders

[J13NY S]

Not really an issue but often thought I’d prefer the gear indicator displayed higher on the dash.

I’m 6ft but even at that were I like the steering wheel it can obscure the gear indicator a little, at the top between the rev & speedo I think would be ideal.

But ya better brakes are a requirement & a half cage would've been nice.

[sfh3l]

dERISION dERISION FOOK CAPS :banghead:

Oh well. I suppose SMG is a bit like having a pot of Marmite in the car - perhaps in one of your cup holders?:wink:

[83SY]

Id have a manual and wouldn't mind a arm rest on the drivers door

Smg only, is the biggest fuck up since bill Clinton jizzed on that bird's jacket and didnt have it dry cleaned.

Smg as said is superb when driven hard and realistically if you don't use or drive the car how it should be driven you've bought the wrong car!

IMO when you drive around steady in town & traffic etc it's fine if you decrease the senstivity down to a couple of bars.

I always wanted a CSL but before I made my purchase I did the rounds and drove the rs4 (boring) and ive owned an rs focus mk2 and many other similar cars, but the longest I kept any car was six months!

Now a year with the CSL and I wouldn't change it for anything in the sub 50k bracket

Do agree with the comments regarding a cup pack with cage and harnesses etc

[E30M3SE]

Mudflaps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:finga:

[toplad]

Smg as said is superb when driven hard and realistically if you don't use or drive the car how it should be driven you've bought the wrong car!

IMO when you drive around steady in town & traffic etc it's fine if you decrease the senstivity.

What a load of fan boy rubbish

I suppose its easier for you to say I bought the wrong car than for you to admit that smg is piss poor at any other thing than track driving or when on a charge.

I test drove many cars and knew the pros and cons of the smg gear box, for my particular needs I can live with it, but that doesn't mean its not poor in auto mode does it?

Id much prefer a manual, I miss matching the revs and heal n toeing down through the box.

[Alx007]

I would also choose a manual gear box.

But you know that I don't track the car much and rather use it as a garage queen on sunny week-ends.

I wouldn't mind a reinforced subframe too. I've had no problems with mine, but it keeps me worried.

[Christophe.m]

The concept car of the CSL was kind of better with :

-no rear seats
- better seat
- no rear electrique windows
- more carbon

[E46CSL]

The concept car of the CSL was kind of better with :

-no rear seats
- better seat
- no rear electrique windows
- more carbon

The E9 CSL did have rear seats, had the Scheel seat (better in some ways), did have electric windows and of course plenty of aluminium.