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Oh WOW that looks good. Thorpe park is doing well for itself these days, so many decent rides in a very small space! Still hold that stealth is the best rollercoaster ever, but with Saw and this new one that title may be moving! Alton towers needs to up its game now i reckon! and yeah, limbs ripped off - bollocks. Everyone knows Bolliger and Mabillard Coasters are amazing, and more reliable than most, it'll have no problems

The gay kind? this was me a few years ago... which i landed twice! (crashed twice as well, so 50% success rate) Got both landing and crash on video as well. And then again a year later... again, 50% success rate on landing that one! Gave up riding a few years ago though, when i got into cars lol

whereabouts are you based?

whereabouts are you based?

might be an easier decision if the standard RAYS weren't so damn good in the first place! almost any other wheel is going to come with a considerable weight disadvantage!

I think this is the full article if im not mistaken? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Glkf4jwkM better quality too

mmm heres to the sweet dual income, no kids lifestyle... 2 seater sports cars, dirty weekends away, frivolous drinking and dining... Cheers!

mmm big fan of the front, very smooth. not so fussed on the sides and rear, doesnt quite work for me. Loving the rear spoiler as well! But then i am a racer at heart, if porsche can pull off big wings then i think nissans can too.

plenty of sites on the web can do plates in a variety of sizes (about a dozen if i remember correctly) cant remember where i got my plate from exactly, but have a look on google and there should be a few companies. I paid £13 for a 12x3 inch plate (tiny, i know )

hmmm i was edging... but might have been edging a bit faster than usual... there was a van opposite as well and i think the driver of the car that hit me had to move well over to the left to let another car pass - if there was more space he would have probably been able to avoid me. had a look around and it seems that if a car pulls onto a road, its their responsibility to make sure it is clear before pulling out, so pretty sure its my fault. Not that it makes a lot of difference, but the car that hit me was a P reg Kia Mentor, so not expensive, but i guess it doesnt make any difference for me, a claim is a claim! Hopefully it hasnt made insurance so ruinously expensive it destroys my dream of a zed!

very nice! thats some good looking wheels there! How much did the tyres set you back? Are you considering lowering it at all?

Or not... Just edging out of my residental parking area to try and see round a van... didnt see the car the car coming from the right until he'd taken my front bumper off... bummer looking at the damage i'm hoping it is just the front bumper, and the headlight cluster - maybe a wheel arch liner as well. Anyone with bodyshop experience have an idea of how much it might be? Either way, thats my £500 excess and my NCB gone, which also means i'm set back a month on saving for a zed Any luck they'll declare it a write off and pay out, which would save me MOTing it and selling it... i hate the vans that park on my road - guess my missus is going to have to wave me out in future, as i couldnt have been edging forward any slower!

Glad that so many votes have been received - working in market research as i do, id say that 173 is a prett good base size! However doesnt perfectly answer the original stated question, as they have to be a member of this forum, which will mean there will be more younger votes. Cant be bothered to do a follow up on gender... i dont think the results for that would be very exciting... my guess is 90% male ownership?

wow good work whoever put that many miles on a zed! although, i can't think of a better cruiser thats still interesting - but with so many inevitable motorway miles, im wondering if the original owner wasnt kicking himself that he didnt get cruise control!

sounds like a bargain to me! hope it all works out for you!

GT1 footage on the site isnt that brilliant quality, but it is the whole race, and its reasonable enough to plug the laptop into our TV, so seems to be watchable. Agreed with Ekona though, watching endurances races would be the best i think, seeing 4 different classes of car on track would be great, constant struggle as the prototype cars have to get past the GT cars. Where can you see footage of that? the Dubai 24hrs race was on very recently, would love to see the highlights of that. as for things you can get on terrestrial, the BTCC coverage on ITV is great. Full dats racing on there - coverage starts at 11am and ends at 5pm, if memory serves. very much looking forward to that kicking off in April!

watch GT1 races on the GT1 site, here. http://gt1world.com/gt1tv They're a nice easy digestible 1 hours race second to GT1 races i would say BTCC - brilliant, brilliant door to door action. May also be the only form of racing with success ballast, which makes for really close racing.

mmmm, looks chilly! second or third pics are my faves though

I like GT1.... and i like Formula 1, but.... which is best? Only one way to find out... But seriously... which is your favourite, and why? For me it has to be GT1 - the cars look better and sound better, and the racing actually involves overtaking done properly, none of this KERS malarky. Plus, the cars drive with no stability control, no abs and no traction control... Also, the races can be won by anyone who starts - unlike F1, where races always seem to be won by 1 of three drivers. And, probably the most important bit... they race cars that i could actually own one day, if im very lucky. F1 cars are just way too high in the stratosphere. Anyone have any arguments for Formula 1? I'm struggling to see why F1 gets all the media coverage, when its simply not as good!

well that is about the cheapest you can get! Jap import, high miles, bad wheels, bad interior, bad spec. I've seen cars advertised as spares or repair for more than that. id save another grand - then you'd get either a uk car with the same miles, or a lower mileage import. but £5k is very cheap for a zed - expect to have to spend another grand on servicing, wheels, tyres, clutches, brakes...

nice! £20 for 20 nuts is a bonafide bargain!

I don't ever listen to the radio - but always have some kind of trance/drum and bass/dubstep/house cd going on. No ads, no crappy DJs, just exactly what i want to listen to. For long journeys, music is a must - I find trance calms me down and smoothes things out as I relax more. I could quite happy drive for hours with a good cd on. Of course, extra points for timing your overtakes just as the music crescendos...

I don't ever listen to the radio - but always have some kind of trance/drum and bass/dubstep/house cd going on. No ads, no crappy DJs, just exactly what i want to listen to. For long journeys, music is a must - I find trance calms me down and smoothes things out as I relax more. I could quite happy drive for hours with a good cd on. Of course, extra points for timing your overtakes just as the music crescendos...

VTEC driving is pretty exhausting... if you're cruising the motorway you need to drop a gear to accelerate. If you want to overtake on an A road you'd have to drop two. Heck, even if you want to make progress up a hill you'd need to be in a lower gear than you would normally and be doing about 5k just to keep moving, and keeping the revs that high when cruising is pretty noisy, even more so without a proper roof! On a racetrack, an s2000 makes perfect sense, as you'd keep it in VTEC all the time, and have the power when you need it, and noise isnt a concern. But for cruising torque is the winner. My thoughts are, an s2000 has to be wrung out to 9k, and even then it only makes 240bhp, whereas the zed makes 280 at just 6.5k. And the torque figures are so far apart its unreal - below 5k the 350 would have nearly double the torque of an s2000.

VTEC driving is pretty exhausting... if you're cruising the motorway you need to drop a gear to accelerate. If you want to overtake on an A road you'd have to drop two. Heck, even if you want to make progress up a hill you'd need to be in a lower gear than you would normally and be doing about 5k just to keep moving, and keeping the revs that high when cruising is pretty noisy, even more so without a proper roof! On a racetrack, an s2000 makes perfect sense, as you'd keep it in VTEC all the time, and have the power when you need it, and noise isnt a concern. But for cruising torque is the winner. My thoughts are, an s2000 has to be wrung out to 9k, and even then it only makes 240bhp, whereas the zed makes 280 at just 6.5k. And the torque figures are so far apart its unreal - below 5k the 350 would have nearly double the torque of an s2000.