sasha@lazytrips

2,000 miles around Europe over the weekend and all I spotted was a silver car in Belgium with Belgian plates on. On another note, the zed was pretty awesome on the long stints and with the tarmac about 10,000,000 times better in Europe than over here, the tyre noise is pretty low too. P.S. bit of advice for fellow travellers: going around Europe in the middle of the night, finding your hotel in a city you've never been to before and all that jazz is actually pretty difficult without any maps or a SatNav.

I might be slow, but I've looked through that ad about 10 times and I still don't get it.

Would a man wearing some ugg boots make them "mugg" boots? I guess you'd look like a.... erm... mugg?

And 300% LESS drive-able A number of other manufacturers manage to figure out alternative ways of building their cars

I heard there was a clinic in Switzerland which offered help in cases like yours.

Whilst technically you "can" get two full-size suitcases into the zed, but given the size of the boot, this would have been infinitely easier and less annoying without the strut bar. Same goes for any other bulky item I have had to carry. I love the car - but that bar has got to be one of the most annoying bits. If it wasn't there, the car would become about 300% more practical for me.

No wait. He actually stuck an R32 badge on the front and made it cost twice what he bought it for? Some serious modding.

1. Do-Luck rear - very rare and 2. Rear strut - so unbelievably annoying when trying to fit anything other than 2 bags of shopping into the boot.

Enjoy the hours of grinning.

How dare they do this just as I'm starting up my new business?! How exactly am I meant to concentrate?

This looks pretty decent too

Is that an NSX? Looks fantastic.

Not OEM, but the price is pretty good if it's your sort of thing. On those pictures, the numbers look very badly cut out. Not sure if it's just the picture, but doesn't look very high quality to me.

They're not exactly going to break the bank if you find you don't like them after a while O.o I somehow managed to hit 500 posts.

I've had some of these burger zed badges on mine for about a year and a half now and am very keen on swapping them over for something better looking - firstly they don't look as good as I thought they would once on the car and secondly, they weather very poorly - mine's turned all green, etc. Definitely gonna get rid and stick on some nicer badges in the next few months.

Just a point of note: while the paintjob on my rear bumper was of good quality, it did take about 8 months to source the bumper, a number of rusty bolts were used, the rear lights were not attached properly (which I managed to fix with only some pliers at home as I didn't have any of the necessary tools) & a load of garbage was left between the bumper and the car (e.g. old bumper had parking sensors which I wanted removing along with all the wiring, etc - when I went and looked under the car afterwards when I heard a load of rattle, all the bits were dangling just above the exhaust. Not to mention the huge amount of sticky patches over the rear hatch which was clearly held up by cellartape during the repair process and not cleaned after. [/rant]

That's Rik's garage 110% - I remember exactly what it looks like. Must be one of his cars. Edit: actually clicked on some of the other shots and it is definitely Rik selling the car as I've been there before. Nowhere does it mention that the Veilside is an original kit and Rik's garage is fairly well-known for making replicas of very questionable quality.

To be frank if you are after beating your 17yr old friends in a maccy d's car park drag race, there are better options than the zed, especially when you consider the potential to buy cheap & easy-to-tune light cars. I have a boyracermeter way of evaluating a car's ownership profile which includes going to said car's owners' club forum, taking the top 50 threads and tallying up the number of "0-60", "quarter-mile", "how far do your wheels stick out", "how to chop your springs & roll your arches", "best sticky tape for holding your rear bumper in place" & "guide on how to drill holes & hang your massive exhaust on a piece of string" threads as a proportion. You'll find that stuff like VXRs and suchlike have a boyracermeter score of around 80% compared to somewhere around 2-4% for something like an Aston Martin/Classic Car club. Says it all really.

I can't imagine the size of the queues in Nissan dealerships if the 370z looked like that.

Reminds me of quite a few similar trips - from transporting a set of Rays inside to a set of furniture including table tops to huge christmas trees. I'd never want to own a car which I could never use for anything remotely practical.

I'd love to see if anybody responds to a scam on a scam

They wrote that sometime after trying to steal it and driving off to get a maccy d's.

I've always had a bizzare wish to one day go down to South Africa along the west coast and back along the east in something hugely impractical and not built for the purposes just because it would be entertaining. People would ask why the hell I'm doing it and I would just say because I have nothing better to do. Would certainly need an adjustable suspension though. I think I might be on my own in that school of thinking.

You have done one of three things: 1. You reset the trip calc recently and it is adjusting. 2. You have gone around 7,000 miles since the last reset at which point the calculator begins losing out on a digit in its calculations and presumes that you have spent XXXXX amount of petrol to go 25 kilometres (10,025 in reality). This happened to me, so I reset it and waited a few months and it did it again 3. Your car leaves a trail of petrol everywhere it goes through a crack in the tank.

Hmm. Is this Boughton or Broughton?