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Back when 100bhp was awesome and 150bhp was a dream and 200 was un heard of. Brilliant era of cars.

I had a 1999 vtr as my first car, back in 2006. The insurance was £1800, with no years no claims at 19 years old. Also had the vts a few years later. Great little cars, surprisingly nippy!

Mate at college had a VTS , brand new, when they were released in ‘97. Felt like an absolute missile compared to the usual 45-55 bhp novas , metros, polos and the like the rest of us had!

I’m 33 now and really wanted one of these when I past my test. Engines are actually solid. They used that engine for a good 20 years.

Old Is Gold 🏆

For us in our mid to late 30’s this is a great trip down memory lane! Saxo’s, 106 Quiksilvers, Clio RSI’s 🤩

banger??!!!! its gonna be a classic hot hatch soon the 106 gti is going up price now by quite a bit same cars the saxo and 106

Always wanted a Saxo, growing up and seeing the old AX in France it looked much better than what other brands offered in my mind. When I was 17 ended up with a '03 fiesta, I love these cars and think they are miles ahead of their modern equivalents for new drivers or for a city car.

I think the VTS was the 16 Valve one...Standard VTR was 8 Valve....The VTS engine in the Saxo was the same as the GTI engine in the Pug 106 GTI I believe.

Love them, was desperate to get a vtr when I was 18, but ended up with an astra. Guy down the road from me had a blue one on T plate with skirts, a splitter and rear valance, was obsessed with it. Such a cool car, but one you never see anymore

can remember buying these for £40 - £150 back when I was younger can't believe current prices I fancied one the other week and looked cpuldnt find a clean one less then 4k

My first car was a 99' T reg so pre face lift Saxo VTR, absolutely loved it and it was bright blue and had blue clocks too! So thanks for the trip down memory lane 👌🏻

Great to see a little VTR. My first car was a mk1 VTR then upgraded to a MK2 VTS. They were so much fun and had a big culture around them too. Glad this one is still driving, they did have lots of a problems though. They rust a lot, the gearbox bearing go and the rear axel bearings go. My VTS went through 3 rear axels. But I love seeing them out and about still.

The Saxo was such a great car back in the late 90’s-00’s, it felt so ahead of its time and I know so many people who had one and it was such a great era to be part of. I would love to drive one again to bring back so many happy memories, especially the VTS that I always wanted but they are a lot rarer to come by!

That was my second car, really pulls on all gears. Only downside I didn't like about it was the windows, always felt cold in car even with heaters on full blast.

I used to have a blast with these in my XR2i back in the day, was a close race lol niceone Cal, haven't seen one of these for a while in the wild. ✌🏼

They don’t make them small and fun any more! Great video Calv

I had a Poseidon blue VTR back in around 2007, great little car, can see these being sought after in a few more years.

Miss my little saxo! So much fun especially when they are lowered.. Like go karts! Love a calibra too especially the 4x4 turbo

I wanted one when I passed in 2005 but I couldn’t get insured but as I got older there were better cars to have but I didn’t miss out on the fun because mates had them and we were always thrashing about or up hams hall in them.

Loved my saxo vtr but always regretted not paying extra for the vts, they were like a go-kart

I used to have one of these in the 2 tone silver and grey at the bottom I loved it literally lasted for years no service or nothing like you do when in your first cars as a teenager 🤣🤦🏼

These will go the way of the 205 GTI. My first car was a pre facelift 99 VTR. Loved it

I had both VTR 90hp 8v (wrote it off 9 months old🤣) then replaced it with the VTS 120hp 16v main difference was u could hit 60mph in 2nd gear making the 0-60 quicker. Great car for the time and probably getting on for 400kg extra weight for a modern car but then we have more toys. 12k roughly for new one back in the day for a vts I think.

Amazing little cars. My mum had a vtr and when I was 17 years old they were super quick. These are 98bhp by the way 👌🏻

Saxo's are nice cars - particularly the vtr and vts models. I was going to get a vtr a long time ago and wished I did tbh...

Those days were the best , foundation petrolhead era, Superchips, bigbore exhaust then a sub, amp maybe some tweeters

Saxo’s was ace back in the day, i drove a VTS from Scotland to Germany for laps round the Nurburgring 😅 rear axles were also a common problem on these cars. Great video great memories

Hated these when they were common, when i was a teenager. I decided to own one recently and actually found it a fun little car. Was really surprised by it. The free insurance when new helped make these a popular choice.

Great video Calv... I had an identical one back in 2001 from new... sold it 3.5 years later to a "new driver" thanks to his mum and dad... it never was MOTd again.. :-(

Take that wee car up the backroads and attack them until the brakes go soft lol, you don't need 300bhp+ to get a real buzz from driving and these era cars prove it. Sister had a black vtr and it was great fun. I've a friend who has a 2019 M5 that has become an ornament due to the acquisition of a 182 Cleo, that speaks volumes about the lightweight small old skool hot hatches and the enjoyment they bring when you take them out and drive the wheels off them. Four branch and a cheeky cam maybe Calvin ?🤔🤣

Loved my Saxo vtr it was two tone colour silver with gun metal grey, superchips ecu and straight through exhaust

Haven't watched the full video yet but please take this on a winter track day there so much fun for lift off oversteer

I had a 2003 VTR, same colour as this in 2012. Just checked the MOT history and it looks to have gone to car heaven in 2017, RIP.

One of my mates had the VTS back in the day. Cool relatable motor that many of us aspired to when I was rocking an old AX.

The calibra and the rover tomcat were my favourite cars back then. My mate had a yellow vtr and it was brilliant down the lanes, lots of fun

I had a mk1 Saxo vtr 1999 and it was a very nice car back in the days I had four 6 x 9 on parcel shelf and two 12” kickers and rockford fostgate punch and Phoenix gold four channel amp and for head unit I had a kenwood dvd player and brought a Freeview box to watch tv on it with a little aerial on top loved mine

What a beaut. Used to go out in me older cousin's, had a cam, spicy exhaust, intake and a chip. Lit up in 1st 2ns and 3rd, it was unreal at handbrake turns haha. Cracking little beasts

1st car I've ever owned was a Saxo VTR 1,6 8V. Loved it I put it into a field and survived so not the worst motor! Cost me a grand and was 1,5 to insure lol. Being 17 was fun! I knew what I was doing... Put a K&N induction kit and it was on coils so basically built to kill

Done a vts conversion on a 1.4, all the bolt ons Newman cams, pug sport exhaust, pug sport air intake 421 manifold stripped it out and it chipped on right up until it hit a wall, then it got stripped to a shell the same night before the insurance could ask questions lol

Mate I'm not surprised it beat all the other more powerful things. I have a citroen c3 VTR as a car to get to work & back. Similar in weight n power to the saxo and its a little go kart!. Love throwing it around

I went for the one of the other French hot hatches of the era for my first car. I had a 106 GTi in Blaze Yellow. I was £2500 a year for insurance at 18. It felt like a rocket ship when I first got it.

Don't see many saxos around anymore. Be a modern classic soon

Had one of these as my first car when I was 18. Bloody brilliant fun. Gearboxes are chocolate though. I went through two in a year. 😂😂😂

Loving the little Citroën mate an old car now but what a little hot hatch. I've got a few quid spare for a few months so you know it I've become a dreamcatcher. I don't expect anything back but I hope it helps the giving back cause abit.

Love a vtr, had 3, wrote one of properly, flipped it up an armco barrier 😄

❤️ My Saxo vtr FP02 MGY! Sold it for my Clio 182 FF, which sadly was written off this Jan. Now I have golf r mk7. Miss my French hatchbacks. Hot hatches will never be the same again 😔

Back in day when I was a youth 😂🤣😂 I can remember some funny times in a saxo.. . Calvin 🤣😂🤣 loving the power of the saxo beast

Had one, lime green, with cheap monthly payments, and for some reason, I loved it. Great fun, but looking back now, it wasn't brilliant, i did roll 6 times and lived 🙂

Calv, thats more than good enough for POD! I would love a whippet like that to get me to work and back and save my car for good :)

Remember test driving a vts back in 99’ when my current car was a 59hp rover metro, felt like the fastest car in the world and pedals tiny for my size 12 feet 😂

Does this manifold have air intake temp sensor on throttle body or elsewhere?

Small cars are great, I think people with more than one car appreciate having a small car. I'd love something like that but have two cars already.

Remember those cars well. You either had them where I live , a corsa gsi or what I had which was a Renault Clio 1.8 16 v. Hope you can get one of those on your channel mate 👍🏻

I’ve loved my VTR tried to locate my old one to no joy, I would love one again as a weekend car such a fun car to drive and back in the day off the mark they surprised a lot of cars! you should keep this Chuck 5-6k at it and a turbo and make it mint and make some content on it only going to go up in value

Bought C4 Vts 180Bhp, 2L petrol, brand new in november 2006 and still have it . The car has less than 100K miles and I kept it as spare car which I never needed. The only problem now is lacker peel. I don't use it during the winter at all but after d winter, I occasionally drive it . and service it b4 the winter. I kept it totally original except for the radio 📻 which I upgraded to dvd music centre within 2days of purchase, but still have the original one. I was very happy with the car since day one and I haven't changed anything under the bonnet except the service and this year I had the timing belt changed. I really don't know what to do with it now at my older age. Sometimes just dusting down and run the engine for 3 to 5mn or quick spin around the house brings back a smile to my face. AND I hate citroens except this model.

I built a pug 106 basically the same thing as a saxo only using standard parts from lots of different Peugeot and Citroen's it was still only a NA 1.6 8v and it did 0 to 50 in under 6 seconds

My eldest son had a VTR after a couple of Furios (1.4 version of the VTR). He loved his Saxos!

Bought a good one a few years back, there just going up in value

cool video, not surprised it didn't finish last, they were nippy little cars, though I am surprised it lost out to the Yaris T Sport! keep em coming Calvin!

Saxons VTRs and VTs, and Nova SR and GTEs and Gsi”s and xr2i and RS turbos was all the lads had when I was 17 and I’m now 38 😂 Happy memories, my friends had both VTR and VTS, Vts I think had a 0-60 in 7.2 or there abouts if I remember (ain’t looked 😂) very nippy. Insurance was insane for a VTS

Always fancied a VTS saxo for years, I’d like to think as they’re getting rarer they will one day be appreciated as a classic!

Had a VTS engine in a Mk1 106 Rallye. It was BONKERS!

Just don't see saxo on the roads there was loads of them now wondering how much my 106 quiksilver vts conversion is worth? Mine on 62,000 miles

Always wanted a vts when I was 16. By the time I was 18 and could get one though, the type r was affordable to me, so I skipped the vts. Honestly, I would have one now just for nostalgia. Set of neons, exhaust, sub, an aftermarket headset, then throw your chip in and you're good to go.

Enjoyed this video, had a VTR and VTS when I was younger

I remember having the hexagonal Xplod sub box in my first car and it sucks nothing like that is available now :(

Used to love the look of a saxo vtr and a 104 quicksilver

A few months ago, an article in the paper, states that these are on the verge of vanishing from our roads in the uk, But then again i think these ended been the most scrapped car in the mid 2000s. I remember seeing a load of them in, and not one had the standard rear lights at all!

absolutely loved the VTR, light fun and simple...

First car was a 03 saxo, in silver, just a 1.1 desire model, one of my mates sold it to me for £300 thinking it was going to fail it’s mot, it passed with flying colours, only 32k on the clock. It was slow, but it was great fun, like a little go kart around the town 😂

My first car was a 1.1 Saxo Desire. Man it was SO slow. These VTR and VTS models were like £900 at the time, but I ended up moving to a MK5 Golf instead. Kinda wish I'd grabbed a VTR for a laugh.

Come on Calvin these are great little fun cars, it doesn't deserve the title 'banger of the week' smiles for miles is more appropriate bro.

Mate that draggy time is unbelievable brilliant video again calv ❤️

Had a 1.4 Saxo Furio which was a VTR lookalike. More expensive to insure than my RS 2000 MK5.

9:20 LOOL Calvin just remembered there’s a camera recording him

Had a cracking VTS many years ago

These are great little cars, i had one when i was 20 wish i still had it tbh.

surprised no comments from the top has mentioned the irony that the £1709 listing in your autotrader search is your own and that very car 😂. anyways saxos were all the rave back in the early 2000s, i never had one, but i did have a metro which was also the rave. mates had novas. good ole youth moments. bring all the nostalgia back.

Ahh brings back some childhood memories grandad had this car taught me to drive in it

Loved my vtr. Not sure if it’s still in one piece 😂 same colour and spec. KL02 ZNM was the reg

First car was a red vtr bringing back all the good memories would love to have a go in one now

My friend had a blue 1 back in the day had a 5000w system in it used to blow the back window out every other week 😂

I've owned a furio 1.4 and a vtr. Both were rot boxes. And head gaskets went on both

I used to have a saxo vtr and paid my mate £100 for a Citroen c2 vts engine fitted! 😂 went like shit off a shovel! Good old days 🤙🏾

Had a Y reg Vts in metallic green in my youth, loved that car. Raced my mate in his Vtr and destroyed it lol

Wouldn't trust a saxo, recently there was a fatality in my area involving a saxo, they hit a transit at 40 mph and both the driver and passenger were killed instantly. Their ncap ratings are shocking.

Had one these in maroon red on alloys got stolen in 2016 never found till this day was brum and that car had 28k on clock was very clean but still not around don’t know where it is

And yes Calvin I had the full set up in my little 106 1.1 Sony xplod sub and amp 1200 watt lol

So what did it do 1st 4 years before he brought surely its 2 keepers at least

Yesss I’m seeing more of my car everywhere 🎉

I had a gold saxo vtr loved it had it 7 years was 4 years old when I got it. Was immaculate.

I still got a x plod head unit In my 05 ford ranger

Vts should sound better than a vtr. I've had both with a saxsport exhaust and the 16v are one of my favourite sounding hot hatches. Proper little cars these

I currently own a Citroen C2 2006. Best car ever! Cheapest car ever to run too! Haha! Probably got a year left with it then I'll definitely take it to a body shop to begin turning it into a track car :)! Cheers for the video!

In Northern Ireland. These were sold new with 3 years free insurance, vts was £140 a month, vtr was £130 a month, with £500 deposit. Mental

these use the tu series of engines calv not known for head gasket issues these were bomb proof. the later prince engines used in 207s and c4s were shite.

Amazing little nippy cars such a shame they don't make little fun cars like that now

The word your looking for is nippy lol there nippy little cars and they are fun to rag the arse off. Super chips was the thing back in the day. I remember my mate had a corsa Sri with a chip and we thought it was the fastest car going lol