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This could make a nice little trial runner

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    farva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭farva


    It would need a bit of a suspension lift and I doubt that theres much (low down) torque from that little old 1.8 but you could be right and it is stupidly cheap! Its a RHD aswell which is strange, I thought that they were all LHD sold in mainly Meditterainian countries, I've never seen one advertised in Ireland before. Where are they from? Who owns Asia? Kia?


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    peasant
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    As far as I remember "Asia" was Kia before it became Kia ...or something like that.

    If I'm not mistaken, that thing has leaf springs all round ...so you could do a lift for 50 cent and a bit of welding.

    I've seen this advertised for ages ...it was 6k at first, 4 k for a long while then 1.5k and now 1.5 with warranty ...you really couldn't go far wrong with that.


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    farva
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    Thats a big hit to take from €6k to €1.5k!! Its in a Toyota main dealer too, how did they end up with that!?! They hardly took it as a trade in!


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    My guess would be that they've taken it on in the hope that the "original Jeep" look would sell for big bucks....and it didn't.


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    Max_Damage
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    It must have been for the British market, since there is rear seatbelts and the speedometer is in miles per hour, not to mention RHD.

    Just checked Wikipedia (yes, I know, not the most reliable source, but whatever....):
    UK sales of the Rocsta ran from 1994-1997, which included both 1.8 litre petrol and 2.2 litre diesel models. Both could be purchased with either a hard or soft-top. Both models were distributed by Kia Motors and used Kia copies of standard Mazda engines, with five-speed manual transmission.


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