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    Thick as thieves ...... Or just Thick Thieves

    in Off Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Addicts need help. Shame there isnt a drug you can administer that wipes out ALL addiction.

    That said i do f'&ing hate thieves.

     

    Brand new YZ250 of mine nabbed one night. Was physically ill.

     

    Whats more i said id meet him somewhere erring on the side of caution and using common sense. They called back while i was out and my dad gave them everything including the colour of the garage door.

     

    Doh.

     

    Addicts need help. Shame there isnt a drug you can administer that wipes out ALL addiction.

     

    There is its called cyanide.. :thumbs:

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    Owner catches service garage in drive thru.

    in 350Z General

    Posted

    I put my Type R in for a service at Honda main dealer, I was told to pick it up at 5.00pm

    I turned up to find some spotty youth and his mate ragging it around their car park.

    After a severe word with the manager they just said they were testing the brakes.

    I could have tested by toe cap up his ass. Never went back. :rant:

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    Where are they all..?

    in Spotted or Flyered

    Posted

    A couple of things...The U.K is the only country in Europe and probably The World where Nissan outsells Toyota. Nissan only had the one production line for The 350Z and with most of the sales either in Japan or The USA and a long waiting list I suppose they just concentrated on those,two plus a few other English speaking countries. Also, the major European countries are lucky enough to have their own car industry and I guess there's a degree of patriotism in there. When we had our own car industry the 240Z/260Z sales here were nowhere near that of U.K sports cars despite it being far better than the rubbish we churned out.

     

    Pete

     

    That's make sense Pete. Wonder if they made more L/H or R/H ones. ?. Japan been R/H as well as the UK. ?.

     

    Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Ireland too are all L/H and quite large numbers of Zed's were sold in Australia. My knowledge of car production is limited to the 1970's. Back then they ran the production line in batches, they would make say 1,000 cars for the Canadian market then on the production workers day off the engineers would quickly retool for the next batch which could be going for example to Sweden and built to Swedish market specs and so on,

     

    Pete

     

    Think you ll find Ireland is R/H drive.

    I was there recently and unless I was on the wrong side of the road I drove same as the UK..!

     

    All the other countries he cited drive the same as the UK as well. I think he meant the left side of the road, not left hand drive. ;)

     

    For everyone's reference... http://www.worldstan...ving-countries/

     

    Yes, indeed, my bad :blush:

     

    Pete

     

    Not bad Pete, its just easy to confuse me.. ;)

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    Where are they all..?

    in Spotted or Flyered

    Posted

    A couple of things...The U.K is the only country in Europe and probably The World where Nissan outsells Toyota. Nissan only had the one production line for The 350Z and with most of the sales either in Japan or The USA and a long waiting list I suppose they just concentrated on those,two plus a few other English speaking countries. Also, the major European countries are lucky enough to have their own car industry and I guess there's a degree of patriotism in there. When we had our own car industry the 240Z/260Z sales here were nowhere near that of U.K sports cars despite it being far better than the rubbish we churned out.

     

    Pete

     

    That's make sense Pete. Wonder if they made more L/H or R/H ones. ?. Japan been R/H as well as the UK. ?.

     

    Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Ireland too are all L/H and quite large numbers of Zed's were sold in Australia. My knowledge of car production is limited to the 1970's. Back then they ran the production line in batches, they would make say 1,000 cars for the Canadian market then on the production workers day off the engineers would quickly retool for the next batch which could be going for example to Sweden and built to Swedish market specs and so on,

     

    Pete

     

    Think you ll find Ireland is R/H drive.

    I was there recently and unless I was on the wrong side of the road I drove same as the UK..!

    Where are they all..?

    in Spotted or Flyered

    Posted

    A couple of things...The U.K is the only country in Europe and probably The World where Nissan outsells Toyota.

     

    The 200sx was being given away for £15k brand new at the end of it's days because it was so un-stylish. The 350 could easily have some rear seats but doesn't. The 370 is as wrong as the 200.

     

    I love that about Nissan. It's like someone is willfully designing their cars to be brilliant but undesirable. All so that we can get them cheap a few years down the line.

     

    Just wish they came up with a half decent diff...

     

    I suppose Kieran, that's one way of looking at it. But isn't the 4 seater 350Z called the Skyline ?.

    Where are they all..?

    in Spotted or Flyered

    Posted

    A couple of things...The U.K is the only country in Europe and probably The World where Nissan outsells Toyota. Nissan only had the one production line for The 350Z and with most of the sales either in Japan or The USA and a long waiting list I suppose they just concentrated on those,two plus a few other English speaking countries. Also, the major European countries are lucky enough to have their own car industry and I guess there's a degree of patriotism in there. When we had our own car industry the 240Z/260Z sales here were nowhere near that of U.K sports cars despite it being far better than the rubbish we churned out.

     

    Pete

     

    That's make sense Pete. Wonder if they made more L/H or R/H ones. ?. Japan been R/H as well as the UK. ?.

    Where are they all..?

    in Spotted or Flyered

    Posted

    Did you see any Fiats though in Italy?! One thing ive noticed though on my various trips to Italy is that I never saw a car without any damage/scratches/dents on it. Even Porsches etc. Seems its perfectly normal over there.

     

    Watched a guy in a BMW X6 push a Fiat 500 sideways so he could "squeeze" into a space.

    Horrible sound of cracking bumper, not sure which one cracked. Driving standards dont exist.

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