rtbiscuit

lasted till 7.30. then got 2 hours kip in front of the telly, now back and going strong

on the thread that talks about how many cars are registered etc, i did a little comparison, its something like 100 or so less 350z's registed in the last year, and yet something like my xkr there are only 30 less cars. now some of these may be people taking the car off the road, but both are fuel drinkers so in some repects i would say the % of people declaring sorn would be similiar between the 2. that could theortically mean more people per year are writing off Zeds than say the jags. (this is just one comparison over 1 year) the point i'm getting at, is that there are a lot of people moving over to the zed now its more affordable who haven;t really grown up with RWD. they;ve sold there fiesta ST and got a Zed. nothing wrong with that at all, but then they think it drives the same. they think their senna, turn off the traction and the next thing we get is a post on here about how they stacked their car. i;d say if your experienced with RWD then fine turn it off; but maybe for the inexperienced leave it on; it alllows you to still enjoy the car, but protects you from the muppet element of not knowing what your doing. i have 10 years experience in RWD, and my last car didn't have it at all and i loved it. but then i knew where the limit was and if i was pushing to hard and when to back off. when i was down at the nissan free race trials i laughed alot at the boys coming from FWD bragging about how great they were, and how they would set the fastest times because they were driving gods. to then watch them spin in circles becuas ethey couldn't control RWD. FWD is extremely forgiving and compensates far better if you make a mistake. you cannot drive the two types the same. and some people don't realise this.

i just looked at the original red car, i sold mine on PX over a year ago and i got 12,500 for it, admittedly it wasn;t red, but it was ni on identical with the kit etc. but in better nick. 10.5k to 11k is not unreasonable if it was in perfect conditon, but with out the tyres and the mot i wouldn't pay for it,unless it was about 9k. if he had it mot'd - halfords auto centres were doing half price mot's when i did my S2k 3 weeks ago. so 27 quid. and a set of nankangs for the rear are about 60 quid; even if he went online he could get a set of part worns for abotu the same price for better tyres (yes i know neither tyre choice is ideal, but if he wanted to spend the minimum to get it ready for sale) he's looking at spending less than a ton; and he'll get back 11k. that is of course if nothing else is wrong, if thats the minmum that needs doing you could even offer to meet him half way, say you'll add in 50 quid to share the cost on the final price if he gets those sorted. if its the car you like and nothing else is wrong, for the sake of 50 quid it could get you the car you want.

is there a nemesis at alton, or did they sell it and move it to thorpe?

i thought nemesis was at alton towers

had a few beers, some desperado's and a very large vodka, feeling sleepy now

we've been watching since 2pm ekona says hi

i bet in the next 10-15 years over half of them will close though. be a real shame though. its something we're actually quiet good at, ok the main car manufacturing might suffer, but the bespoke stuff like the motorsport technology will grow, as its not a mass market, people will pay the premium for the skilled people in the UK to build it/design it etc as they are some of the best in the world.

jaguar build cars here, ford build cars here, mini uk, nissan do, lotus do, aston do, caterham do, rolls royce and bently do. and because the quality and skills basis is huge here. also all major F1 teams are UK based along with about 80% of F1 parts being built in the UK.

to get it to do that you must be mashing the pedal on exit of junctions

why the face? You expect them to make reasonbly priced cars here? why not others manage it?

still made in china though

all it was missing was the benny hill music

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did you go for some black ones?

he didn't see that ferrari did he

i had to put new tyres on the S2k before i sold it, did it before i even put the ad up. it was a no brainer , also machine polished the car, and got chips away out to tidy up the few stone chips. and made sure the car was stock. sold it in a week for the asking price, he'll struggle to shift it unless he pays out a little, even if he just put nankangs on the back it would at least make it road legal

search leather repair, and its one of the first ones that come up in the advanced search. i shall be trying this soon on mine, so will feedback on this soon as well.

oops

baton down the hatches

all VED rates are here http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Ow ... G_10012524 i love the fact that my 4 litre supercharged V8 is only 215 for a year

nope i need my joint venture manufacturer to contact me to tell me we're good to go.