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If myself and tracy had been in the circumstances we are now back when we bought the Z, ours would be about that mileage. Its done precisely 17 miles since the last Wales run in October.

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Couldnt this be seen as attempting to pervert the course of justice?

Hi Buddy! We made th same switch from roadster to coupe some time ago. There will be days in the summer when you wish you still had the convertible though!

It was in the boot on Tracy's MK2. This was a great car, very reliable and handled incredibly well. Though as others have said its not the most "manly" of cars. Tracys went to make way for the Z, but given another couple of garages Id buy another one for her without hesitation. Heres Tracys old one:

There is also our own, which has been based on the US one with kind authority of Josh on my350z, which members are able to update...

Big Phil used to sell these, if you PM, Andrew may still have some left, I also think Envy may do these too.

Dont worry too much about the 3 points, there re that many drivers withthree points, Ive been told before that the first three dont make any great difference anyway. What with millions of people getting 3 points for the likes of 36 in a 30 at 2am in the morning being done by a machine that hasnt got any discretion, 3 points will soon be the norm. Havent got any myself yet, touch wood, but with the growing nanny state, its only a matter of time.

Yes, this is the company I work for. We all gotta make a living! Can you teach them how to do it properly in our area then - they are starting road works on my way to work to install a roundabout, and the diversion takes you down a narrow road.... They have then placed cones either side of this narrow road to stop people parking on it and restricting the flow of traffic to only one vehicle width at any point... Trouble is, the cones are that wide that placing them either side of said road has made it single width anyway....

ah yes thats me - Changed to reflect my new home on the web as I haven't updated that site since 2005!

I do wonder whether the email address the chump registered with is actually his own. If it is, it would certainly explain some of the moronic decisions made by road works companies, if this is the level of intellect that can be expected from one.. Maybe we can keep the next one in a confined area of the forum, for baiting and Friday giggles?

Awww, never did find out which homepage Im on - must be famous

Which homepage would that be? And no, not really.

Four. PS. Do you commute to Reading for the extra tuition?

One thread is enough for this I think... http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic ... 557#265557

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Just a minute - isnt this £114k based on the 15 (ish) million yen at todays exchange rate. When the GTR was priced at 7.8M Yen, that equated to £35k at the time, but when it got to our shores in the UK, it found itself bloated to £55k, or up by 57%. Apply the same to the GTR and its closer to £150k plus...

National Insurance, both employers and employees Income tax Corporation tax Tax on dividends And then on anything you manage to get into your back pocket after all that, you get to pay Value added Tax on the stuff you buy! Follow £100 through the flow and its £32.50 in corporation tax, pay yourself the remaining £67.50 as a bonus and at 40% thats another £27 in tax, and lets not forget the 67p national insurance, leaving you with £39.33, oh and it cost the comapny £12.80 to pay you the £100 in the first place. So in the above example it costs £112.80 to put £39.33 in the employees pocket. Thats over 65% in tax. Then you spend that £39.33 on goods liable for VAT and youve actually coughed up another £5.90 in tax, leaving you with £33.43 from the original £112.80... Of course there are options for some of dividend payment instead of bonuses, or sticking money into a pension fund to save the corporation tax, though the latter doesnt officially get it into your pocket until you retire, but even these methods aren't exactly what people would call major tax loopholes. What with the economy having a wonderful time of it and Darling hell bent on getting us into a mess which will need taxes raising to resolve it - I dont think we are in for a pleasant time. Happy days..

If you are planning on going for a 370 in a couple of years, then you will probably lose more on a new 350 in the next two years than you will on your current one, and thats if you sell your current one in any decent timeframe. The way I look at it is: current 350 - say 10k? In two more years £7k? New 350 £20k, in two years £13k? 370 in two years - £20k? So using the figures above, you would spend £10, and to trade to the 370 spend another £7k, so alltogether £17k. Leave it two years and go from the current 350 to the 370 and its £13k. Thats if the figures above are anything like correct. Though I would guess a new 350 now will lose money more rapidly than your existing 350 in the next two years, so Id stick it out.

Nor me.

Me too - dont know how long for - as little as possible would be nice. Then I can go round all the relatives, deliver the presents, visit Grandad in hospital, then come home and crack open the wine

They look like some pretty tasty discounts! I wonder if there are any other manufacturers who have, or are about to issue similar schemes... Though I could quite fancy a Murano at that price.

I should imagine shifting new £30k 370z's is not going to be the easiest of tasks in 2009 either

Nixy, if it makes you feel any better, Ive driven into our garage with BOTH Z's we have owned, and Ive also done exactly the same thing as you with our Altea when putting that in the garage. Scraped the rear arch of that and its made a bit of a mess of it. Did you get that same pondering sensation after the crunch - will it be worse if I keep on going, or reversbe back out of the situation. I chose to keep on going.

For me witht he imminent release of yet another xfactor winner drivel which seems to have become the standard for Christmas Number 1's, I thought the following parody was hilarious.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrf2GOKAIVc