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From what I read briefly skipping through though it was going to be much more than £500. As above (I did edit) unless I can see evidence this kind of fine system will work in the UK why implement it and ignore the real problem. In the UK income tax and corporation tax funds the road infrastructure maintenance, not VED. VED goes towards road 'projects' but there is no way a couple of hundred quid a year on each car can fund the whole thing - as higher earners pay more tax, its fair to say they contribute more to the upkeep.

If its about affordability, then thats something else. Because someone is on say £50k a year it doesn't mean they can suddenly rustle up and pay a £5k fine at the drop of a hat. People on high salaries already fund the roads more than those on lower salaries. I think when it comes to crime, its a fixed rate and then a licence removal - I cannot see why authorities have to wait for four convictions before even looking at a licence removal. I think you are including the uber rich who have tonnes of disposable income, sure footballers and the like, thats a whole different ball game. If the government can show some data that shows higher earners are flouting speeding laws much more than lower earners then sure I can go with the argument, my guess is that they don't have that. It wont stop lower earners speeding, it might stop higher earners speed but if lower earners are say 80% of the problem then the government are going to fail in reducing speed related incidents with this measure.

Sat on driveways waiting for the weekend? I see a fair few on weekends, during the week I am tucked away in my office in central London, not so many driving up and down the Strand

Next thing you know if you commit murder and are on a low salary its only 2 years but 20 if you are a CEO Call me Mr Cynical but seems like a bit of a money making exercise out of motorists...cannot believe the government would do that

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I think you are right to a degree, when fuel is £2+ a litre, government taxing clean air to death and everyone is moving to efficiency at home there will be a niche who want something like this. How much a mass produced GT car will actually be worth though...who knows. There are still thousands on the road now, I cannot imagine that in 5 years you will be looking at a rare sight on the road a fair few will still be running. 20 years from now, then I would agree could be worth a fair bit more, excluding inflation, £20k for a DE anyone?

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Interesting reading, can't say I agree with it though.

I think unless you are buying a proper classic, like a 240z, then you are never going to make money on these cars in general (occasionally you might) - sounds like OP made a not so good call on purchase price/condition but really I would say forget about it and enjoy the car. I bought mine private and within 5 months had to spend nigh on £800 on flywheel and clutch kit.

From reading the previous treadwear threads you had to remove the raised rubber parts of letters on the tyre before applying the letters? Fox might have a good point, I wonder if you made a stencil and overlaid it on the tyre could you just spray plastidip onto it direct?

I have driven a hire car in Naples for a day...nuff said

I would have to agree - I have really gotten past the whole thing of shouting and getting angry at other drivers. Many times its just a simple mistake which any of us could make - there are the occasional muppet but I just let them get on their way, I wont A. let them ruin my day by getting me wound up and B. join them in their muppetdom by chasing them down the road also driving like a muppet I think most of us when we make a mistake on the road know it, we don't need 20 seconds on the horn, verbal abuse, finger waving, lights flashing etc to point out a mistake we know we have made.

I think Lloyds charge out at 1.5% on withdrawals from memory. I would never go abroad carrying fifteen hundred quid I dont think I have ever had more than £50 cash in my pocket in any currency on any trip I have been on for the last 5 years.

Yeah let me know how you get on, I have to travel a fair bit and my experience has always been better rates from ATM in situ.

General consensus is that prices already bottomed out for early Zeds, hard to give a view on your question without knowing what one you have and what you paid for it. If you paid top dollar from a dealer and are now looking at more reasonable priced private ads for instance...

Never heard of currency club? I have always just drawn out cash from ATMs when I arrive?

I could...with at least half of them in walls/ditches within the first year

Still ugly, dated and not a patch on many contemporaries styling efforts. Impressive numbers though.

What would you use it on though....or dare I ask....

I guess they are trying something a bit different with the celebs. Like a normal chat show you queue up celebs on the sofa and they chime in, poor old James didn't seem willing to do that. And to be fair, in reality wasn't sat there that long really. How bloody lethal was that Karcher pressure washer though!

Yes that bit was great - you could see it coming but BANG hell of a whack. Agree the script reading needs some work but that comes with time - they all seem on the same wavelength without CE going off on loony toons every 2 minutes.

Pretty good episode, that Ferrari though, something else that car. Just wow.

There is an X parked in the street along from me (a P90D) and have to say it does look a big lump

I dont think that is true, was over 25 degrees in Cork when I went, tshirt and shorts, was in May I think.

TGM did the repair to my Celica bonnet (some builders dropped tiles on it!) which is all aluminium and they found it challenging, they are top top body work guys too. Hats off for giving it a go but its not easy by all accounts.