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I thought the pre and post tax-hike thing had gone away with this new regime next year?

Haha I know the way to Zed owner's hearts Optimax or Ultimate...name yer poison people!

Personally I'd go with a 2nd hand car. I think it's fair to say that residuals have taken a knock since the budget and the tax increase, certainly I've noticed an increase in cars when I search for my (lower) budget. That being the case why take the initial "new car" depreciation as well as the "oh no it's expensive to tax" depreciation. Just my non-owner opinion.

Following my Driveway adventuresI now need to test whether a Zed will fit onto the driveway. Do we have any owners in or around Bristol who would be willing to come along and try to stick their Zed on my drive? I reckon it's best to rule out any lowered cars as I think it'll be a close call as it is. There's a BP and a Shell garage nearby and I'll happily buy the person a tank of fuel as a thankyou. So no faffing, come along, stick it on the drive (or not) and get a tank of fuel either way...simple as that.

The other thing is that as you can see the local amenities love digging up our pavement, it's like a bloody patchwork quilt out there I'm gonna post a thread to see if I can snag a local owner to help test it.

What a delightful mix of sarcasm and support Hopefully it doesn't need to last too long till I can get the entire front garden professionally paved. But at the moment the choice is zed or paving...if the Zed still won't fit then it'll be paving and something less nice than the Zed.

So here's what's happened: 1) We cut a line across the drive about a foot down the angled part. 2) We borrowed a breaker and dug out the large block of concrete at the top of the drive and the sloped part up to the line we'd cut. 3) Then we noticed a huge hump on the roadside which we decided to "improve" 4) And now we've laid cold lay tarmac at the lowest level we could. I think we've gained about an inch or so, it's definitely smoothed it out.

Borrowed a breaker/jackhammer today and dug out the highest 18", going to lay some coldlay tarmac tomorrow...we think we've gained about 1-2" extra clearance by doing so. *fingers crossed*

I don't think it'd fit on my drive

Congrats! Looking good.

For those who missed my post elsewhere my meagre ISTS pics are over at

Here it is...Stez posted it when I asked if anyone had pics.

Someone posted a pic of the underneath of a car a while back when I asked. From eyeballing a Zed at the local dealer recently I think it's slightly ahead of the rear wheels although it looked relatively flat on the underside to me (unlike the RX-7 where the exhaust is pretty low slung beyond all the other gubbins...oh yeah I'm that technical)

Well I think you've provided a valuable educational service

I'm definitely not giving up. In stock form the Rx-7 is 1cm lower than the Zed at least at the lowest point and I've no way of knowing till I try with a Zed. Here's some pics I took this evening to show the challenge I've got.