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Driving over 70mph isn't dangerous, but crashing over 70mph is

I assume that last bid was to meet the reserve then? Strange they used a new account with no rep though...

I thought you were a young guy? Getting a stubby on isn't something to shout about until you're late 50's I thought Celebrate the little things

The best laid plans... Unfortunately pretty much everything is on hold while the dealer messes me about some more, but got my stubby on, which is a start Bonus frosty pic Also stuck some stuff in the boot poppers and now I don't have to press the button 3 times while trying to pull it up.

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Depends if it releases the brakes if it detects the car behind isn't gonna stop in time, so as long as there is space in front of you, you can stop more gradually, giving the car behind more time to stop too.

Then a car is not a very good idea, but that's also a requirement

It's not gonna work every time, or be amazingly accurate, and it is highly dependant on the road + conditions, but i reckon you could get decent results with it. Or with enough experience, I bet you could get quite good at just judging speed by eye. Would be interesting to test it.

I left insurance out of the list of pure investment requirements for that reason. There's no doubt that you generally lose money just by owning a car, which is why they are rarely good investments (unless you have a rare Ferrari or such). However, as those costs are inevitable for any car, and the primary objective is just to minimise loss from depreciation, it doesn't seem worth acknowledging them. Basically, it's not a case of whether to get another car, but which car to get, and for that, the only important factor is de/appreciation.

Just count how many lamp posts they pass in X seconds. It's not like you have to calculate it on the spot.

Well if it's purely an investment, the tax / maintenance / fuel aren't a requirement at all.

Pretty weird bidding:

Whilst towing? I reckon you can judge speed reasonably well. Or you can calculate it properly if you count the time taken to travel between 2 points you know the distance of.

I wouldn't count insurance / tax / fuel / maintenance (unless it's big repairs) as these are present with every car. That's not losing money by having the car, it's losing money by using it. Have you considered an NSX, Flex?

Grigio - classy, but a tad boring and kinda get lost against the rotors. Blue - maybe a bit too bold Purple - I like it, but I feel that you would need some other purple highlights to make it work (wheel nuts? front reflectors? door handles?)

Thought you'd know Baidan that Photobucket Imgur is the best way to put pictures on the forum otherwise you will have upload size limit problems. FTFY

Congratulations and commiserations

Got my stubby today - wasn't supposed to arrive 'til February.

Like so?

Blue seems to work too:

Not a GT40, but a "GT43". Fair enough though, not sure why he lied then, unless he just meant he could never drive a real original one (unmodified).

Hmm The Porsche actually looks really good. Could be the contrast with that silver though. Not really a fan of the others, it's not that the colours don't work, just that it looks tacky... But yeh, obviously just IMO.

I dunno, what's $10,500 in GBP these days? £20k?