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Dont worry I have an old Toyota!

Every time you 'load' yourself into the cockpit of one of these cars and go out and feel like you are driving an F1 car you won't give two hoots what badge is on it, could have Lada on it for all I cared it still is the best drivers car I have ever been in, even driving it down the M4 from Cheltenham when I bought mine it was exhilarating.

Nope, they partner with Europcar - we just let the RAC know we wanted a hire car and Europcar contacted us asking where we wanted it delivered to. We had to pay a small fee (£7 delivery) to get it delivered but as I said it was really easy to organise took a few minutes over the phone and we had a virtually brand new Focus to use.

Its actually a Lotus chassis, built on the same production line as the Elise Hethel - it just uses, many may argue, a more reliable engine.

Supercharged VX220 can be had for circa £12k point to point faster than 99% of any other car you are likely to meet on the road on most weekends.

I have onward journey with RAC. Wife's megane died on day one of a Cornwall holiday, they towed the megane to my trusted garage back in Essex and we had a brand new Focus ST Line delivered to the cottage the following morning. Used it for the rest of the week and drove it back to home to Surrey where it was picked up again from the house. Awesome service

Personally try to avoid physical confrontation - as Dan hinted you have no idea what you are getting yourself into, sure smash it up, then find the following day your driveway smashed up/vandalised etc, you repair it and its done again and again and you get into a stressful situation. Even worse case scenario is you go out to your drive a few days later and twenty bikers rock up wanting 'a word' just how tough can you be then? Put up additional signage, you never know that might just sort it. If not, leave a note on the bike reminding them that its a private driveway and its important you have access to it at all times etc. Dialogue should always be the first effort so you know the full facts of whats going on

Ultimately a post code of TW10 1AB is as different to a computer algorithm to TW10 2AB as much as SG5 5YZ. I had a frank conversation with a specialist insurer when I moved one street away a couple of years back and my insurance went up something like 20% He said that they pretty much have to just draw lines in the sand and yes your next door neighbour could differ but how else can it be done, there has to be a black and white difference by post code based on theft/damage/claims etc made by specific post codes.

I did the same, just set mine to up at the max, it actually provided no assistance to me at all when driving I kind of worked out what revs to shift at if I wanted to make progress etc.

I'm going to bump this a couple of times in case anyone missed it

What cars did you have the Avons and Falkens on? A tyre that works well on a Civic might not be so effective on a 300bhp heavy GT car. As HP said above, if you got loads of tread on the 050As then go with them on the front they have good reviews. The general concensus is that Michelin Sport 4s are great tyres, but Conti's etc. are going to be good enough too if you are looking for reasonable fast road grip.

Wow

Not the 330GT 2+2?

Appreciate the time and money gone into that, but if I am honest not sure on the colour, its looks like a black/red that has bleached out in the sun?

Better looking than the 458 I think...side profile is really GT.

Mixed opinion on the comments on PH, personally I think it looks fantastic https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-eurocars/new-ferrari-portofino-revealed/36659

The wait for that beautiful sound continues!

Buy ten mitts and switch to the next one each time you use one on one panel?!

My black Zed was horrendous for it - Wasso spent 7 hours on mine then a few weeks later and any tiny minor abrasion showed up like a christmas tree! Black looks fantastic when polished, but it only lasts a few days! PS, suds do not mean anything in terms of car cleaning, I use Bathe+ which is by far the best shampoo I have ever used and it is pretty much sudless.

Had to video this, in case my car did get involved!

Is it using one of those wide angle screw on lenses you can stick to the front of an SLR?

If the Toyosports one is on and working, not sure why you would change it for a Japspeed as in terms of what they are they are both low cost budget exhausts. Interestingly Japspeed 'quality' is fine, on the GT4 forums a guy cut one up and found that the actual work is really good, its the fitment that is the problem. I have one on my Celica GT4 and its loud and drones a bit, the fitment is 'neat' to say the least. If you are looking for lower cost exhausts I would look at the Cobra exhausts that a few traders on here supply, fair bit cheaper than any true dual invidia/ark etc but sound really good.

Have had a bit of a run of bad luck lately, laying in bed last night at 10:30 heard a vehicle outside and then a loud grinding noise - I feared the worst looked out the window and saw an ambulance had driven into a parked car opposite outside. Front bumper, wing, door and wheel all damaged. I went out and my car had nothing on it, in fact it could have been they were trying so hard to avoid the loud looking red thing they misjudged the innocent beemer. In the end they pulled away dragging it 20 yards down the road until it came free you can just see the back of it in the photo. Chap who got in the ambulance was a neighbour, he looked pale but not distressed sure he is ok will knock later to see how he is.

Good shots although makes my eyesight go a bit weird, either that or my contact lenses are not in focus!

When the bonnet got smashed by those plonkers working on next doors roof, took it to TGM for respray and they commented that I had so much paint on the car it must add a fair bit of extra weight! Can only assume whoever resprayed it prior to owning it myself went to town!