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Something that I took a week or so to notice was the Z badge in the vent leading into the door. You can only see it when the door's open, it's not a gadget but I thought it was a nice little design feature.

I pretty much agree with everything you've said there. I think they'll be aiming for new sectors of the market though so it won't matter if other people stick with their RR Sports. I personally believe it will be a big sales success but maybe that's partly due to some corporate brainwashing, lets wait and see!

The current Range Rovers are all capable off road even if not many people use them there. The reason this new one is a Range Rover and not a Land Rover is because it will have a very luxurious interior and will be fully kitted up. It's likely to be just as good off road as a Freelander and that has a Land Rover badge!

I'll let the Sales department know! Just let me know where to send the £100 cheque and the delivery date! I'll try and find out for you but unfortunately I'm not sure you'll get too much for your £100, it is a Range Rover after all, sorry.

I'll let the Sales department know! I also wasn't too impressed to hear about a 2WD version but I guess for the type of car it is not many owners would ever take theirs offroad anyway. It also helps bring down the CO2 emissions which seems to be getting ever more important these days. I know it's a bit like comparing apples with oranges but I think bringing out a FWD Evoque to reduce the fleet CO2 emissions is less harmful to the Range Rover brand than bringing out a Cygnet could be to the Aston Martin brand.

There's going to be both a 4WD version and a FWD version. The 4WD one should be very competent indeed offroad (the FWD one probably less so!).

This is the same guy that played 'full size' mario kart in a French city: He's a bit of a nutter.

Like Husky I'm a bit biased but I really like it. I think a lot of people are overestimating the size of it, in real life it's quite small, a lot smaller than a Range Rover Sport. I had some fun driving one all round the country last week in full psychedelic camo, spotted quite a few zeds whilst on my travels too.

I don't have access to a hosepipe either but I find that a watering can works well instead. My neighbours must think I'm crazy when they see me watering my car every week!

And that they both need lowering I actually like the look of the standard set-up, plus I need to keep my car standard so that it can be used for comparison purposes Looking at the cars in the carpark Husky and I both agreed that his car looks like it needs lowering more than my car does because of how far his wheels stick out into the arches. On the rear the arch hangs over my wheels quite a lot so you don't notice the gap above the wheel anywhere near as much as you do on his.

I spotted Husky's car today, complete with shiny new wheels. They look even better in real life than in the photos! I tried to take some photos on my phone but it turns out that the camera on it isn't too good. You can't actually see the wheels properly in this one: No wheels in this one either: I tried to get a picture showing the difference in tyre width between standard wheels and tyres (mine, on the right) and Husky's new massive ones (on the left). Unfortunately the photo came out a bit dark. At least they show off how clean my car is!

I live in Leamington Spa but I'm in Milton Keynes quite often. Gizmo-R are you based in Shenley Lodge? You mentioned before that your local is the Old Beams and that's not far from my parents house.

Looking really good! I reckon the brakes look alright in the end as well, although they'd look a lot better with different colour Brembo's, black could work nicely? Also, I'd be very grateful if you did 'modify' the speedbumps at work.

There were some metal barriers blocking off the entrance to a carpark but they had a pedestrian sized gap in them. I then just walked from that carpark to the edge of the track. Whilst I was standing there a couple of other people tried to join me but they we told they weren't allowed, they then pointed at me, I guess they were asking why I was allowed there and they weren't. For some reason I was just left alone to watch the race, which was nice!

As most people on here seem to like photos I thought I'd put up a few from my trip to Le Mans at the weekend. If other people that went could put some of their photos on here as well that'd be good. Stopped off just after getting off the ferry to sticker up our cars: Sticking a black sticker on the black part of the rear window wasn't the cleverest idea! The other two cars I went down with (a 318i and a 1972 VW-Porsche 914) A few at our 'campsite': The pit-lane was sponsored by the Nissan 370Z so on radio Le Mans they kept saying "and now in the Nissan 370Z pitlane...", it seemed a bit ridiculous. A nice young lady asked me if I wanted to sit in the 370, it felt quite familiar inside but with higher quality materials. The classics race in the morning was for Group C cars so there were a few Nissans running at Le Mans this year My view of the England v. USA game A Dacia Sandero! Lots of nice TVRs in this carpark but I took a photo of my car instead There's a chance that I wasn't supposed to be standing here... I saw a photo of this sticker on Ekona's car, it seems more suited to a 350 roadster than a GT2 though! They have (or had...) some massive insects in France! I don't have too many photos of the race itself, but most looked like this anyway

Get a meet list started for 2011 so, I'd be there! le mans meet id be there Husky earlier at work: "I don't know what the whole Le Mans thing is about" Husky now: "See you next year at Le Mans!" All it needed was a few zeds to tempt him there. I really should be leaving now, hope my passenger arrives soon...

All these posts of stickered up zeds has made me decide that next year I'll have to do mine properly too! This year all I've got is a 24hr sticker and one saying 'Ramrod' (it's a long story, but if you've ever seen Super Troopers you'll understand). There are two other non-zeds going as well and they've got the same stickers - the only reason we went for stickers this year was so that you could tell our three cars were together.

I'm quite new to the whole detailing thing, but since getting the zed I started looking into it and now I'm a bit addicted... When I was trying to decide what wax to get for my car (also a GM) Dodo Juice Purple Haze was recommended by quite a few people; I've since got some and now the car's looking really good! I can't compare it to other products as I'd only used a Meguiars liquid wax on it before, but I'm happy with it anyway.

Another zed in Leamington? They're getting a bit common (there were 5 in the car park at work today!). Good luck with the car.

I think it should actually be 20" on the drivers side, 18" on the passenger side and 18" on the rear. I ordered a full set of blades from Sarah (Chilli Red) and that's what arrived and they fit.

If I were you I'd take it into the workshop at work and try and find a friendly technician to give you a hand. You're going to have to demonstrate the sound of your exhaust to me tomorrow, it'll give you a chance to get a comparison with an intact stock system too!

Looking good! I'll keep an eye out for you.

I reckon you should drive to work tomorrow with it as it is, I'm quite keen to hear what it sounds like! If you get stopped you could just claim that it must have fallen off when you went through a pot hole or something like that, pretend you hadn't noticed there was anything missing !

The car's ready to go now, bring on Friday! It's been cleaned, glazed, waxed, exhausts polished, fluid levels checked and tyre pressures checked. Although once I've driven it to and from work all next week it'll probably need another clean before setting off for France but I doubt I'll find time to do it. I'll keep a look out for other zeds and I'll make sure to wave if I do see any!