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Am I the only person who had actually heard of this car before?!

A late RX-7 is a pretty car, and I do like the look of an unmolested mkIV Supra. Mk2 MR2s have also passed the time test styling-wise, and blobeye Imprezas are great fun. But lust after them? No ta. All have horrible interiors and technology has moved on so much that I wouldn't want anything that old any more. Most of them have been in the hands of the chav with terrible results, and nowadays the only old stuff I would want is from the 60's and 70's and was either made here or in Germany. In their time the Jap cars mentioned by the OP gave you more bang for your buck than their contemporaries, but in doing so they left a lot of the character behind. Probably not a popular view on a Jap car forum, but it's a view I've held pretty much since 2004 when I realised that Jap metal left me cold.

You know what I mean!

It's a badging exercise, nothing more. Tbh I'd rather drive one of those than a Cygnet.

Once your cobtract is up you can do what you like with the phone. For the record, O2 didn't charge me a penny to unlock my 3GS and it was all done via the interwebs.

Pop a SIM in and find out.

Wave and Buzz would appear to prove the opposite though Unless Google+ does something much better than FB, it'll die within a year.

Why is everybody so quick to try and find a scapegoat for all this? The world of the media moves incredibly quickly and is very cut-throat, so really there's every likelihood that Brooks and Coulsen didn't actually have any idea that this was going on. One of their journos comes to them with news that looks good, do you really think the editor is going to have the time to sit down and work out exactly where it came from? Of course not, so trying to pin all the blame on them without a shred of evidence (that I've seen) is completely unfair. Don't even get me started on the whole anti-Murdoch campaign trying to use this as a reason he shouldn't take over Sky...! How many big business out there know exactly what their employees are doing at all times, and how all the results happen? Probably very few: Hell, there's only 6 of us at my firm but I couldn't tell you what everyone is doing right this instant or exactly how they're going about their jobs, I just have to have a little bit of trust in them. Make that into hundreds of people and it's even more difficult to do. Yes, people at the top do have a responsibility to ensure that things are done correctly, but they can only do so much. Whether you actually like/read The Sun and/or NOTW, what isn't really known is that they're incredibly highly respected amongst their peers as generally they are at the cutting edge of the English language. That gets a scoff from everyone I tell, as it used to from me when my A-Level lecturer told me the same thing, until we sat down and analysed just how the Sun used language compared with the broadsheets. It opened my eyes significantly, and reading different papers from that viewpoint to this day I can see that nothing really has changed. You can use all the big words you like, but that doesn't always make for the best journalism. FWIW I actually couldn't have cared less about the celebrities getting their phones hacked and pretty much ignored the whole story, but this thing about deleting the Dowler messages makes me sick to my stomach. Utterly disgusting, but we must only appoint blame where it is clear IMHO.

Haven't even given it a second look tbh. FB is so ingrained now and sensible in what it does (which is where MySpace fell over) that I can't see anything topping it now. Everyone I know has FB, and it does everything I need it to. Why would I bother switching?

A Cat D is a write off and for the car still to be on the road and in ownership of your Dad he would then have had to buy the car back off them and repair the damage himself. In short, it's definitely not Cat D.

You're stuck unfortunately. Bin it and buy a TomTom If it's any consolation the Porker one is exactly the same, utterly useless

Because you're 85?

This, as long as it's not stretching the truth too much. I'm a plumber by trade, but spend most of my time these days project managing. That said, it's my own company and so I put down Company Director as my job title.

Whilst I love the way they don't give any figures or any hints as to the questions they asked in that article, which leads me to believe it's a total load of crap, I do hope it's true as that way there's more space for me!

So? So does everybody else. No-one becomes a teacher because they want to earn a fortune, they do it because they want to teach. I went in the opposite direction and decided that I would rather have the money, hence I stick my hands down toilets for a living

Pffft, my car's only a weekend car but it still does 10K fun miles a year, no point in owning something nice if you're too worried about the money involved to never drive the thing! I wouldn't want to use it for work though, or at least just the commute, as that would spoil the specialness of a weekend car for me. Same as when I had the Zed, loads of fun miles but zero boring ones.

A couple of questions/points then Vik: 1. How do you propose we (as a country) pay for your (as public sector workers) pension? Where should we find the £Bns from? 2. If your pension is that important to you, why not top it up with a private one instead of downing tools?

Fiat Multipla It's slightly funny looking, no arguments there, but it's Italian so it should be something different. Practical, roomy, easy to fix: If I needed something big and disposable I'd buy one in an instant.

I don't really care where he's from, he's an irritating tw@t face and that's why I usually want the other guy to win. Same reason I want Klitschko to win tomorrow night, Haye has zero class.

I don't care if it's 5 pages in already, this thread needs a poll. I'm going to add one, if for nothing else than my own curiosity. Sorry Rich to abuse your thread

My missus is an NQT in primary, and is a member of one of the unions who went on strike yesterday. She still went into work because she didn't vote for the strike. I've never been prouder of her for standing up for her own principles.

Am I b*llocks!

Or, to give you another reason why manufacturer weights are a load of rubbish (Porsche included), I had my old Zed weighed on a proper weighbridge. Full tank of fuel give or take the 10 min pootle to get there, myself @90kgs, K1 exhaust on so much lighter there than stock, all on a revup Roadster... 1860kg. Work backwards and that's still stupidly heavy. No chance in hell a normal coupe weighs anything less than 1550kg minimum. Nissan themselves claim (via here) a weight of between 1528kg and 1550kg, and I can promise you it's nearer the end of that.

Did you even read 10PS's diary?

I'm not sure why there's such a big stigma from getting financial aid from your parents tbh. My folks bought my first car for me and insured it from the ages of 17 until 21. My Dad went guarantor on my next car and it was also pretty decent of him to give me a job working for his company where I am today. Sure, I've worked pretty hard since and made the most of the opportunity, but I won't sit here and say that it's all been off my own back and I've worked in the mines since the age of 9 to afford everything. I've got amazing parents who have helped me out in life, and I don't really care who knows it or what they think of me. In all honesty if I had parents who were worth millions (mine aren't btw!) and they wanted to buy cars and houses and ponies for me, I'd snatch their hands off. I suspect most people would.