Keith D

Ticket booking = Haynes Motor Museum August 2nd Breakfast Club Its £5 I'll drop a post on ZocietyUK and ZedsSW Facebooks, and we can agree a meet up for drive in, there are a few local services on the A3030 a short blast from the museum And lets have no more talk about fisting please, this is a family website 😁

You can buy universal 2" and 3" velocity stacks on ebay, I'm sure you can figure out how to make them fit an airbox.

Small but friendly turnout, great to meet a few new faces

You never watched All Creatures Great and Small then on UK Gold? Fisting cows was a weekly occurrence 🤣

Did you ask why it's been sitting for 4 years? What's the story? Might give some pointers to how keen they are to sell. It's not appreciating sitting outside rotting, delusional if they think it is.

I bet you get asked all the time what's it like sticking your arm up a cows backside 😂

Pull a sickie 😂

There is a JDM theme breakfast club at Haynes Motor Museum near Yeovil on 2nd August, if anyone is up for it we could plan a Southern meet? The breakfast clubs there often get several hundred cars, and the museum is interesting.

The Tesla screen comes with (I think its called) a ground loop interrupter for fitting with Bose sytems.

I'll keep it simple and probably shoot straight up the M5 to Brizzle and M4

Looking rather sorry for itself. If it hasn't run for 2 years I'd want to check oil, remove the plugs, scope the bores if you have the kit, turn it over on the crank by hand, pull the fuel pump fuse and crank and build oil pressure, then fire it up before I gave a penny, but if it starts and runs 18k seems reasonable. Nice project to rescue, a detail will work wonders.

DBA T3 4000. Brilliant on road and track. JMHO.

I get the comparison with Japanese cars in the 80s, but it doesn’t really fit the situation today. Back then the issue was perception, not engineering. The Japanese stuff was already mechanically brilliant — light, simple, over‑engineered and reliable. People mocked them because they were new and cheap, not because they were badly built. With modern Chinese EVs the question isn’t “can they pass a crash test?” — clearly they can. The real unknown is long‑term durability, battery ageing, software support, corrosion protection, and how they hold up after 10–15 years of British weather and potholes. That’s the bit we simply don’t have data for yet. Phones and laptops being made in China doesn’t tell you anything about how a 2‑tonne EV copes with structural fatigue or inverter failures a decade down the line. Sales numbers don’t prove engineering quality either. MG and BYD are selling because they’re cheap, subsidised and loaded with gadgets. Fair play to them — competition is good. But comparing that to something like a Zed, which we know can do 150k+ miles without turning into a laptop on wheels, is apples and oranges. One is a long‑term mechanical machine, the other is a short‑cycle consumer product with a battery pack. On the weight thing — yes, everything has gained weight, but a 2‑tonne AMG GT is heavy because it’s carrying a twin‑turbo V8, a transaxle, a DCT and a full cooling system. A 2‑tonne EV is heavy because the battery alone weighs half a tonne. Not the same engineering challenge, not the same compromises. And sure, some niche EV brands have solved charging or weight for their segment, but that doesn’t magically make every heavy EV a “sports car”. Charging for a fiver is great, but running costs don’t equal build quality. They don’t tell you anything about how the suspension arms, bushings, seals, battery, or electronics will look in 2035. And just to put it in perspective — a 25‑year‑old Skyline GT‑R now commands a six digit price tag, deservedly, and still looks as good today as it did back then. I’ll happily wager no Chinese EV will ever be that car, or hold that kind of legacy.

At 2 tonnes the Cyberster is a joke. There are 2 brand new in the local MG near me, they've been there for best part of a year and no one is buying. Before it started selling Chinese crap it was a quality used lot and it was packed every time I drove past, and always had transporters bringing new stock. I barely see anyone in there now. For Cyberster money you can have a R8, GTR, or Boxster, TVR, TR6 on the drive and keep the change.

EVs are quick in a straight line but I've never driven one that could go around a corner like a sports car, and every petrolhead knows it. As for Chinese brands, I've never seen one that wasn't cheap and nasty junk.