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The phone jack was always the 'widest' part of the components in the phone which dictates how flat it can be - I suppose it had to go, and you can still use an adapter to plug your trusty 3.5mm in. But the cost, give me a break, its going a bit too far past being a premium product now. The camera is ok for taking snaps as I said, you can up the MPs all your like but good quality photos come from focal lengths (my old DSLR with 8mp took better quality photos than a camera phone with 16mp) and a phone will never be able to achieve that. In short, I think its becoming a bit farcial what they are charging - understand you have to cover your investment and sunk costs but these are being knocked out at a cost to Apple of probably £10 a go in China.

I had accelera's on our old family wagon an 04 plate ford focus 1.8. Utterly terrible tyres and almost caused a spin on a roundabout once whilst pootling around it, missed my turn off and had to do a full lap of the roundabout. My Celica had budget tyres on it when I bought it, Fullrun they were called, grip was erm, functional, road noise was average except when on full lock they made the most god awful squeeling sound it was almost embarrassing. So happy to have got shot of them.

Drove there from Richmond a couple of years back (FOS) met the zed chaps early around 6am and left a little early to avoid the traffic and was fine. It is quite 'grassy' from what I remember? Some concrete parts but also grassy areas - noise wise, FOS was pretty noisy, but you can wander about in the garages/pit areas back from the track.

West Ham fan here - club was literally days away from going pop and going bankrupt when the Icelandic revolution went shockingly wrong - signing Mascherano and Tevez illegally, pretty much leveraging the club against bank losses, Gold and Sullivan come in and start getting the place back on an even keel. It was a scary moment though that never really made the news, but we were days away from bankruptcy and all the demotions and points reductions/player sales that follow.

Google translate doesn't work too well - here's what it converts the first bit to! Valais police stops British Raser Almost twice as fast as allowed several handlebars were in Valais go. The police were able to stop three of them and imposed hefty buses.

Great stuff mate, been to a couple of Indian weddings also in the past and they are just utterly fantastic events - although neither had the groom on a horse!

Spend your money on a VR headset - its going to be a much better investment!

I love my Apple products, but I am way past upgrading for the sake of upgrading. I have a series 3 Apple TV device, an iPhone 6 and a 2009 Macbook Pro. All great products but they all still work, all still well up to spec in terms of what I need, unless there is some serious step change in the phone why change? The camera is such a non-event, as it is on most phones, I would never take a serious photo with a phone, only for snapping stuff here and there.

Sold mine a few years back when I installed a stillen front splitter, got £50 for it.

Sorry pal - I think in many cases so many stories of dealers basically trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities as a car trader by acting in a way to undermine the buyer. Stick to your guns, don't get abusive with them, know your rights and get what you should get from it.

Seems like they have fairly mixed reviews online and your comments are not uncommon http://www.cardealerreviews.co.uk/dealership/essex-prestige-harlow-essex-england so would hate to say it sounds like you got a bit of a challenge on your hands dealing with them from a professional stand point. Follow Dans (Ekona's) advice and start getting things written down and create a paper trail.

Yes agreed, would have been nice to have seen whatever it was they were trying to build actually compared side by side on the same day with what they are trying to beat. Was ridiculous really to start comparing their track times in their 350z to times posted by random people off the internet! My suspicion is that they did the side by side test and the 370z still beat it so they didnt want to show it

Their 'comparison' was one of the journo's driving the car around the track and comparing the time against a trained driver driving a 370z around the same track on a different day. The 370z was something like 7 seconds quicker on the track which laps around 1min 30secs. Not sure how that really is a comparison and can draw a conclusion from!

I actually don't mind it - Its a good 1 hour read and nice to read something that is tangible (i.e. physical) and not something prin Yes they started off saying that it would cost so much more once they upgraded the brakes/suspension etc to deal with any FI (dubious claim but hey)

Wife kindly pays whatever it is £30 a year for a subscription - its part of my 'mag-moment' where I get a break from the house and go to relax and read some stuff about jap cars and have a beer or something

Not sure if anyone has been following the Eibach 350z project in Banzai last few months? The point being that Eibach reckoned they could upgrade a 350z to 370z beating levels for much less than buying a 370z So they got a late spec 350z and started work. It was interesting reading, all the usual mods, Abbey made an appearance. Then in this month the final part, they tested the 350z but didnt put it up against a 370z on the track. Even the lap time test they referred to a different driver driving a 370z in different weather conditions on a different day and even though the lap times were about 7 seconds apart (350z slower) they felt confident having a race driver in their car would easily shave those 7 seconds off and declared it most likely to be a 370z beater. I get its an advertising piece of editorial but the 'final test' i.e. is it a 370z just wasn't answered in any way. Huge disappointment!

Moved to the right subforum

Remember to put the plenum bolts back in the right order, search on the forum for the order I think ZManAlex has posted it up a couple of times in the past.

My wife and I lived and worked abroad in our mid thirties in Tokyo and Paris for three years, its never too late to go do this sort of thing and yes we did own a property at the time. Certainly travel is quite tempting at your age, but honestly never feel like once you do something like buy a property that is the end of it

My wife did the whole working in Oz thing before I met her - from what she told me its really hard work and you have to be willing to blag your way through stuff to get the job. She worked as a chambermaid, kitchen staff, and lots of other tourism based work. A lot of the work is not sociable hours, so she found herself working evenings or such early mornings she slept during the day. Pay wasn't great, they knew that English working tourists are desperate for work and take advantage. She did find some time to go party and enjoy Oz, but no where near as much as she envisaged as she was working 6 days a week. It all sounds depressing but really it is character building and she has life long friends now in Oz.

Japan for the weekend. Lightweight! I went to Taiwan for 4 hours, work. Must admit that my brain was rather 'confused' when I got back though. Have done several trips to Australia and NZ for only 3 days. Spent more time travelling to NZ than I was actually there. Ha, I see your 4 hours and raise you...

Thanks for the comments people - remember, keep to the proverbial speed limits on the forum and you will all be just fine

Bah its not a long way for a week - do the proper sleeping patterns on the way over with the help of some natural sleeping remidies and booze, chill for 5 days, come back. Well worth the hit. I went to Japan for the weekend once, admittedly work paid but it was fine!

Always going to be tough on a summer bank holiday weekend when people are taking breaks/holidays...

Yeah MPG has never really been a reason to buy or not to buy a sports car. The funny thing is an invention could come along in 10 years time which revolutionises travel and EVs could well just disappear. Who knows. We all assume the future of road travel in our lifetime will be a car with a different power unit...