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That's pretty cheap compared to Do-Luck. I totted up on the back of an envelope how much completing my Do-Luck bodykit with all the remaining parts would cost the other day. Let's just say it makes nismo stuff appear to be very good value!

Saw one of these a few times at the Nottingham Cricket ground in the past. Not my cup of tea personally, but does look a little different. On a separate note, is it just me or is that front lip not attached to the bumper properly? Someone been having a rendez-vous with kerbs while parking?

I would fundamentally disagree here. Everybody can see the obstruction, everybody politely queues up to get past and the idiots who feel they can use this as an opportunity to "overtake" and bypass everybody are incredibly annoying. Everybody else is just being sensible about it rather than pushing past each other just right by the cones.

I agree with most of the above. With a fair bit of driving during the rush hour, one thing that has recently really begun annoying me is people who, when travelling in a rush hour continuous stream of traffic and approach a roundabout where everybody goes left/straight and go into the right-hand lane trying to jump 1/2 cars by pulling in and pushing their way through. This really ticks me off as it is both pointless and extremely dangerous. Most won't condone my response, but the moment I see one of these bypass the line of traffic and pull up next to me at the roundabout, there is only one thing I now do and that is keeping exactly in line with said car and at any attempt to pull in, I just get as close as is necessary to the car in front. This week had a guy who had to physically stop in the middle of the road as the road narrows after the roundabout because I wouldn't let him in and there was a stream of oncoming traffic. These kinds of idiots need some serious education.

A more complete list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Top_Gear_test_track_Power_Lap_Times While the 370z/350z position is interesting, I still can't get my head round the GTR. rear seats, decent amount of space, large boot, engine at the front, stereo, etc, etc & costing pennies in comparison with almost every supercar there is, including the original Veyron, all Zondas, all Ferraris, all Porkers & all Maseratis including the MC12 being slower. One can only wonder what a slightly enhanced one would do.

I've been drooling all day. Contemplating swapping BOTH kidneys for a cheapo dialysis machine.

Anyone know whether 295/30/19 on the rears is too far out from standard?

not lowered and no rubbing issues. The wheels aren't that close to the arches, and I would hazard a guess than an extra 1cm will fit easily. Might do some measurements later today.

Pretty sure mine are 9 wide at the front and 10 wide at the back. In my personal opinion 245 and 275 is not quite wide enough for a fair coverage if you have a rim poking out. That's why I'm thinking of getting slightly wider tyres all round.

I just wanted to check before plunging in and ordering a set of new tyres for my wheels. I've got a set of Rota GTRs all round. 19 inch wheels with 9 inch width on the fronts & 10 inch width on the back. When I had the wheels fitted, they came with 245/35/19 on the front and 275/35/19 on the back. The lip sticks out a fair bit and the tyre seems a little stretched to me. I am about to order some 255/35/19 for the front & 285/35/19 for the rears, but wanted to check to make sure that these would be fine. I checked on tyre calculators and the fronts against 225/45/18 (standard Rays) are +0.21% out (better than the 245 that seem to be much more popular here for 19 inch wheels) and the rears are +0.65% out which is pretty close too. Would I have any issues (other than finding the right rubber) in having these? **** And lastly, the bonus question: If I went with 295/30/19 on the rears (-2.67% out), I can get Ultrac Sessantas instead of Falcons which I would prefer a fair bit. Am I right in thinking that the difference in size will throw the sensors out and generally not be a good idea? Otherwise I'll be going with Falken 452s all round.

The average cost of keeping someone in prison is £40,000 p.a. What about signing a deal with some appropriate country (e.g. Bulgaria) and outsourcing all long-term (>1 month) prisoners? 1. I am sure that including transportation costs, you would most likely save well over half of the current running costs. 2. We would be able to imprison larger numbers of offenders instead of releasing them due to a lack of space. 3. The deterrant of going to prison in a foreign country with forced labour is likely to be far higher than the relatively comfortable UK establishments. I should really write up my entire manifesto of how to sort this country out

I have had this issue on a few occasions in the past. it is usually a switch issue, but could be the motor that drives it. I found that despite logic pointing to the contrary, I just moved the seat about as much as I could & pushed the recline to one of the extremes to make it work properly again. Once I stripped the whole thing and looked at it and the motor was just seizing up going one way, but not the other. Once I pushed it all the way to the end, it was very happy to work both ways again. Be careful though, as if you push it all the way and it doesn't recover, driving the car could prove a little difficult

Different parts of different cars can come out very differently in these types of situations. I smashed a huge badger at speed with the front of my zed and while the badger ended up all over the road in lumps, I didn't even get one tiny scratch anywhere on the front bumper. Similarly, when someone in a Volvo drove into the back quarter of my old Megane, their entire front wing, metalwork underneath, wheel & suspension & bottles & stuff on the inside needed work and I got two minor scratches on the bodywork.

Check me being spotted right left & centre My behind has a floor spoiler between the exhausts - should be pretty recognisable - think it's the only black one in the country

Had my brother-in-law call me last night after going past the accident. Shame as when I come round to buying one, the prices are only going to inflate with more of them written off.

Holy thread revival!

The best bit about that drool is that it has an almost carbon copy of the zed's 3.5l V6 engine inside.

I am very gradually (read one change a year) trying to shift towards a subtle black-red overall colour scheme

Yep, it was me. I park in the covered car park most of the time now as it's closer to where I work. And before it gets mentioned, yes I do need to wash the car. Oh and I do love the rust-black combo you have going.

I'm currently in the process of starting up having registered my company and being in the process of setting up a lot of the constituent parts. My business will probably differ from most in that I am not buying/selling stuff, but instead offering an alternative online service, so the model will be very different. Ultimately, the one thing I am learning is that there is no substitute for hard work. As plain and obvious as it sounds, nobody gets anywhere without grinding it out. My business revolves around travel and I am quite passionate about that. I would probably side with some of the above and say that if you are passionate about what you do as well as the profit side, then the drive early on is easier to get. There is nothing harder than pushing yourself to keep grinding at 11pm on a rainy tuesday night when you haven't seen even a penny of income for the first month or so of operation. I'm also looking forward to all the accounting, etc. Here's hoping that my maths background with a solitary accounting module at uni should be enough for the first year's returns, etc as I don't have the money to hand over to an accountant to do it for me If anybody is interested, only the blog part of the site is up at the moment @ http://www.mapmydream.com with a lot of development on the main part of the site in progress. Watch this space

if the glanza is as fast as your zed without an engine swap, there is something badly wrong with your zed :S

Pedantic as it is, the owner of a 2011 GTR would be paying £1,000 tax in the first year.

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