brillomaster

oh yeah, buying a grey car says 'i can't be arsed to keep a black or white car clean'

"Gray: Neutral, Sober, Practical What you see is what you get with the straight-forward owners of gray cars. “It’s a color that is obviously very neutral,†says Eiseman. “So it’s really rather sober. The person who chooses it is usually very practical, very pragmatic. They’re people who make lists and talk things out" Hmmm, i spose i am practical and pragmatic... but the main reason i bought a 'drizzle grey' car is cos i didnt want another blue car! and to be honest its not the perfect colour, would have preferred a darker grey really.

Walk away. Not that there appears to be anything bad about that particular car, but just a general rule about not buying the first car you look at Its definitely a buyers market at the moment for zeds, regardless of how good or bad this one is, look at a couple more anyways to get a rounded opinion. Although saying that, the questionable service history and LED lights would put me off, and it looks quite steeply priced for a 53 plate with 72k on the clock. I paid £6800 for my 53 plate with 41k on the clock, so id think £6k is more reasonable.

Yoinked from pistonheads... http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26406 I'll be taking mine in V6 S form thanks, 380bhp will do nicely! And seems they're keeping the exhaust - it has an "Active Exhaust system that uses bypass valves in the rear section to give the aural benefits of a 'straight-through' system when pressing on - or all the time, if you select Dynamic Mode"

Cheap and cheerful has gotta be a cassette adapter... and don't be confused into thinking the sound quality will only be as good as a tape deck, as it isnt... an adapter doesnt store any music on a magnetised tape, it just converts electrical signal from an ipod to a magnetic signal, which is instantly picked up by the reading head and converted back into an electrical signal, with no interference (unlike FM transmitters) Also, this setup allows you to retain the steering wheel controls for volume, whereas if you swapped the head unit, you'd need another £70 to connect up the steering wheel controls.

true, but there are plenty of adverts that get banned or censored - just wondering how violent an advert has to be before it gets banned? I mean, Pearce could have cut out the middle man and just ran up and punched him in the stomach... same end result, but clearly not acceptable in an advert... the ASA has banned other adverts for a lot less - old tango adverts come to mind.

but is it supposed to be funny? i just think its in bad taste for the poor bloke to be the subject of an unprovoked violent attack by a thug... even if it is just an advert... and also how satisfied Stuart is with his actions, when it clearly looks like assault to me still, fair play for gocompare for getting up to a ten post thread lol

...turn over when the latest Gocompare advert comes on? Is it just me, or is it not very nice to watch some poor chap get a clearly very painful football to the stomach from football thug Stuart Pearce? How is kicking a football at someone any different to running up and punching him in the stomach? Poor Gocompare guy, hes only trying to advertise an insurance comparison site! Now im not normally a violent man, but if i watch the advert it makes me want to punch Mr Pearce in the face for his mindless violence. i'll get back to watching top gear now

"Thats not going anywhere mate, thats basically engineered..." "The whole thing has been sealed professionally... with gaffer tape"

hmmm will be a crying shame if the production model has a muted exhaust. As a spiritual successor to the E-type and a proper sportscar, they do have some license to make it sound fruitier. After all, you can clearly hear notes of the old straight six, which sounded great. Hopefully if they do mute it to mee noise regs, they'll at least put a trick butterfly valve in - quiet when you're cruising, but all hell breaks loose when you floor it. They should take a page from Capristo's book and have a valve thats fully programmable for engine revolutions and throttle opening- ie open all the time, open above a certain rpm, open above a certain throttle opening, or any combination of the two.

from what ive read on here 12bhp gain sounds about right, sorry! might be able to squeeze a few more with some high flow cats, but thats about it...

my GF is doing a Phd on something complicated, that spans chemistry, biology and maths... and when she graduates she expects to be called doctor To be honest i dont worry about it too much - we've both got letters after our names, she'll just have 6 more (got an MSc on the way). Hopefully she'll then go on to earn more than me and I can get a job as professional sofa tester

read the comments on the video... just scrolled through 6 pages and found these gems: "sounds like Gordon Ramsay (on fire) being shoved into a blender feet first" "sounds like Steve McQueen wrangling an angry bobcat whilst operating a chainsaw" "Sounds like Chewbaca midway through a bunjee jump"

Jag have just leaked the new F-Type, and it looks absolutely fantastic! http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/new-jaguar-f-type-picture-leaked-2012-9-20 But even better than how it looks, is how it sounds! powered by a supercharged V6 or a supercharged V8, theres also a vid of a V6 version hooning the hillclimb at Goodwood. http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/EXCLUSIVE-just-listen-to-the-new-Jag-F-TYPE-2012-07-10 Now have a listen, and tell me that isnt the best sounding car ever. I would never ever tire of that sound! EDIT: Just noticed the sound on overrun...

i thought about including 'careering into a procession of joggers a la Grand Theft Auto 2 stylee, but then thought they probably wouldnt be running along a dual carriageway... I only speak from experience - having done the exact same thing myself when i first got my hands on a rwd car - luckily no one was around to hit. Heres a sweeping generalisation here - women hit more things, slower... and men hit less things, faster. so on that assumption, letting a 23 year old girl loose in a powerful car on a motorway would be safer than a 23year old guy.... however, if it was parking your zed in a busy car park, id rather the guy (as proved in this case!)

phew, i was expecting to see a really bad bodykit job - but if you've got a lambo orange car, i dont see anything wrong with lambo dooring it. After all, if theres any car that can pull of lambo doors its a car with lambo performance to start with, not some chavved up 206

Or, your fears could be well placed, and no sooner than she gets it off the driveway, the heavens open and shes faces with a 200 mile round trip in the pouring rain, having only driven her boyfriends near-300bhp car once before. Consequently, having only driven a diesel corsa with less power than a hairdryer, she plants the throttle to feel the power a bit coming off a greasy roundabout... back starts to slide, and all a tizzy, she winds on too much opposite lock to correct it, having next to no experience with rwd cars... however, tcs kicks in and catches the slide, but still with lots of opposite lock on, she careers onto the other side of the road, where she ramps the kerb or hits another car. Subsequently you're faced with massive insurance premiums for the next 10 years, your girlfriend is now scared of your car, and to top it off, shes not very happy with you for letting her out in it. Two questions from me - how old is your girlfriend and how many years has she been driving? i think the mixed opinions are coming from those with 20 something girlfriends with a couple of years driving experience, and 40 something wives with 20 years driving experience, the difference is huge. If your girlfriend shows any poor driving in her car (speeding, poor clutch control, sloppy gearchanges, on/off throttle) these will be magnified in your car. How long have you got before the weekend in question? if you're really considering letting her borrow it, then get her out in it as much as possible beforehand - seriously the second time of driving a car you would not be used to the controls even slightly. took me a couple of weeks to really get used to the clutch. And even then i'd still keep the veto that if its forecast to rain, she isnt going near it.

agreed, direction on auto, but fan speed set manually.

I think he meant that its in a womans nature that if they do something once, they're then allowed, no, its their RIGHT to be able to do it again... just because you let her drive it once, thats secret woman code for ' you may now drive it whenever you please'

someone on here was just looking for a set of LMGT4s... cant remember who though, but there will be a recent post about it!

I'll give you that one But once the car had started, would she have lifted the clutch and hit the wall? Depends if she would of checked what gear the car was in before lifted the clutch. Yep, definitely a no no! Although if she'd have been in the zed, there would have been two calls.... one - 'how do you start the car?' and then swiftly followed by 'i've driven your car into a wall'

Mapped to 0.6psi!? i'd get that increase in pressure just by moving downstairs, doubt thats going to give an extra 100 horses!

Flight lieutenant Zedley of the 350th division reporting for duty! After my shambolic day with the ground forces, thought i'd try my hand at aerial combat! After all, being a naturally acrobatic monkey im more suited to being in the sky than on the ground. Thankfully today was a training exercise, so no live fire, but still got to play with some cool machinery! first up was a brief history lesson... this is the engine that previously powered a Hurricane fighter plane... and the amount of power it produced was crazy! Its a V12, with 27 Litres, and it produces a cool 1,440hp at a mere 3000 rpm! and it does this at an altitude of 5500ft - i cant imagine what it would be making if they'd have strengthened the internal parts a bit and ran it at sealevel! and then it was time for the flight trainer - strangely 60 years ago they used to use steering wheels in aviation as well... bonkers. Although someones chopped a third of it off... must have been for weight saving? And naturally had to have a sit on this beauty... well, i do have a massive payload of my own between my legs And this lovely lass seemed to agree with me! Training over and servicewomen serviced, it was outside to get in the real thing. I feel the need... the need for SPEED! Well... not quite. But still, it gets higher off the ground than i can, so its alright in my books! And finally, heres a familiar sight... yes, even aeroplanes have to stop every once in a while and make expensive trips to the pumps! Thats all from me for now, next stop is Mr Maccaman! all the best for now fellow zedders! Zedley

Nice work! heres hoping my 53 plate passes with equally flying colours next month... i'd spend the £300 saved on a nice cobra exhaust

hell no! If he wants to be a reckless maniac with his own car that fine, but make him buy his own zed!