Punchy Puma

Advantages: Looks
Disadvantages: Insurance

...Owned a Puma from new for 18mths now, so had quite sometime to get to know it's characteristics. During the time I've owned the car, its price has fallen dramatically, especially thru car importing. You can pick up a new Puma from Holland now for around 10K, with all mod-cons. My Pumu can be quite a guzzler of fuel (as can any car driven with lead-feet), but generally I average around 27mpg. Servicing falls in at around GPB100 every 12K miles. The insurance is a group 12E, making the car quite expensive to own for younger drivers. Externally the car is layed out as a 2 door - coupe, with bug-eye projector front-lights and neat rear light-nests. The 'Bullit'-fuelled sleak-styling makes the car really stand out from all other Japanese and European cars. Performance is superb in all weathers. The engine is smooth...

stephbu 15.02.2001 (16.02.2001) · Read review
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Review of Ford Puma 1.7

Puma Ballistic 4000

Advantages: High quality cricket bat
Disadvantages: Little pricey

... Puma Ballistic 4000 The Product This is a cricket bat, made by the Australian based manufacturer Puma. Puma make all sorts of sports equipment, but have only recently moved into the manufacture of cricket bats. They have, however, exploded onto the scene and are now amongst the most popular manufacturers. This particular bat is a Puma Ballistic 4000. All the Puma bats come in a series of grades, 5000, 4000 and 3000. Therefore, the 4000 is a middle range bat, but as the quality of all the Puma bats is so high, this is like a high grade bat from any other producer. The Ballistic is characteristic for its thick edges and enhanced sweet spot, making it a bat for players of power rather than precision. The 4000 model is made from Grade 1 English willow, the highest you can get. The only thing that differs from...

martin0201 19.12.2007 · Read review
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Growling big cat. The Ford Puma.

Advantages: Great fun to drive
Disadvantages: Expensive

...When Ford eventually ended the Probe saga a few years back, I thought to myself " They should concentrate on what they know best". Cheap reliable cars that suit either new drivers (Fiesta's), small families (Focus) and larger families (Mondeo's). Leave the sportier hot hatch type cars to other manufacturers. They had success in the past with The XR series of cars and the RS series. The Fiesta and Escort both proved market winners in the 80's with their great GTI type performance. The Cosworth development team even went one better. Then, the rot set in. Probes proved heavy, slow and unreliable. Ugly huge sports cars without the performance. Ford's fast cars days seem to have passed them by. That was until the unveiling of the Ford Puma. An instant success the world over. It was helped by a clever marketing advert utilising...

andycharger 02.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Ford Puma 1.7

Puma shin pads

Advantages: good price, attractive design, excellent protection
Disadvantages: thickness when waering in matches.

.... Puma is a great make of which I have had many things as trainers, bags and clothing, and they have all been durable yet fashionable. Although the shin pads are for protection and not what they look like, as socks when playing football mainly hide them, it's an added bonus if they look good. Just to let any lads needing some new pads these would be a highly recommended purchase as they are well tough, I have been clattered loads of times since buying them and been ok. Studs are not able to break or penetrate the plastic on the outside and the reinforcing and padding would give you extra protection if this did occur. Which I would be very surprised if it did, another point id due to the thickness you may need a size up in socks to cater for the thickness. I'd rather do this then have a broken leg, so in conclusion I am very...

dingoo 02.11.2005 · Read review
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Puma 1.6 Litre

Advantages: Excellent Handling
Disadvantages: Impractical & too small.

...You might be thinking why an opinion on a 1.6l Puma has been written under the 1.7l heading? Well, after requesting a heading for the 1.6l, I'm still waiting. So what about the car? Body wise, it is identical to the 1.7l version bar the engine. Suspension, brakes and interior are identical. The 1.6l produces about 15bhp less than the 1.7l version does. What does this mean in the real world? The 1.7l version will get from 0 to 60 in just under a second less and has a higher top end. In practise, most people do not take advantage of the additional power to spring them from 0 to 60. The power is far more useful during normal acceleration. The main difference between the two is that the 1.7l pulls better than the 1.6l meaning gear changes are less. Not much can be made of the acceleration though, when we have pocket rockets like...

steve.toplis 16.02.2003 · Read review
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I own a cat a dog and a "PUMA"

Advantages: very pretty to look at gets you noticed.
Disadvantages: blind spots

...Puma owner my story.... Hello, firstly I'm not a hairdresser ha ha, it seems lots of my family friends and work colleagues refer to my car as a hairdresser's car, well its not and im not I am in actual fact a nurse. I discovered the puma when I decided to look for a new car I bought magazines and local papers to review " The puma" I don't know that much about cars so I go for looks and wow is this car good looking. After I found a one I liked the look of (a black one) I decided to visit the garage, I saw the car at a local garage and asked the dealer about this beauty they told me some of the features, I was told that the car handles well, is reliable, its a head turner and though a sports car it's affordable and could possibly run some of the more expensive so called sportier cars off the road. In my experience since...

cabsookie 08.05.2005 · Read review
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Puma deliver with this fine shoe.

Advantages: Quality, durability, comfort.
Disadvantages: Nothiing, but try to get a lower price online.

...I should stress before starting this review that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a bowler, so what follows is written very much from the point of view of a batsman/wicket keeper. BASIC INFORMATION The Puma Signature Full Spike is a lace up cricket shoe, and, as the name suggests, is spiked both at the toe and heel end of the shoe. It is predominantly white, with a red, black & grey trim and retails at between £40 and £60 (as usual, you'll pick up some better deals online if you search it out). The heel has 4 spikes, the toe 6, but it is possible to fit fakes to keep just the toe half spiked or to fit pimple spikes, but there are plenty of shoes out there that offer this as a basic anyway, and it would make sense that, were you looking to buy a 'full spike' shoe, you'd be looking to keep them all in! I...

Maylie 04.02.2008 · Read review
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Puma Power!

Advantages: fast, handling, comfort, boot space
Disadvantages: rust

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AlastairI 03.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Ford Puma 1.7

Wonderful Puma

Advantages: Cheap to run and service,reliable,good resale,drop dead looks,easy to drive
Disadvantages: Cheap interior fittings,rear parcel shelf comes off its mountings,cold gearleaver handle in winter.

...I always wanted a Puma but felt they were a little overpriced,that is until I saw a car supermarket advertising Pumas for £11950!I rushed off and bought without a second thought and have had very little reason to regret.The car is now a year old and has covered 11,000 miles without any mechanical problems whatsoever.The first service has just been completed by a Ford dealership at a very reasonable £130.The service was very good in spite of the fact that I purchased the car from a supermarket and a small warrenty claim was dealt with no problem.The car drives like a dream is economical and its Yamaha derived engine is a pleasure being both powerful and extremely feul efficient.I added fitted carpets which cover the really cheap looking interior carpet but are expensive for what you get.I also had Puma mudflaps fitted as the tyres stand...

alexander50 09.08.2001 · Read review
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Puma Abuse

Advantages: At times side splitting in its humor
Disadvantages: Some will object to the "toilet" humor

...second which involves a terrible burning and a similar after effect left me in stitches, I literally roared the house down, thinking at the same time as Jeff that this poor woman who for some reason is attracted to Jeff, must believe that he has some sort of terrible bowel disorder to continuously end up in a series of almost stomach wrenching similar scenarios. The next scene which I need to bring up because I laughed so much it made me cry, involved Jeff as a child with a very life size Puma, whom he called Scotty. Due to a tear in a wrong place, Scotty comes back to haunt Jeff through his childhood to his adult life. To add further comic element to the movie, the wardrobe department dress Seann William Scott in some of the most horrific fashion disasters I have ever seen, kind of like a four year old child in the 1980's but as an adult...

sghawken 03.04.2008 · Read review
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