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Apart from not hit the kerb in the first place, perhaps?

Normal UK sized plate affixed with sticky pads (the proper numberplate ones that would hold the world together in case of the crust breaking up kinda ones), and underneath the upper half of the bumper as you suggest. For the rear it's sticky pads again.

I'll have a tenner now that we never, ever see a single jet-powered Jag on the roads in my lifetime.

1.6L 4-pot + 4 electric motors = Veyron beater? I don't think so, Jaguar. Chesterfield's got this one spot-on, this is another XJ220 all over again. If you're paying £900K for a hypercar you don't care about the road tax, you expect the ultimate. Regardless of what the bods at F1 want us to think, a 4-banger isn't the ultimate.

Gearboxes, gearboxes, gearboxes. Weakest link and huge expense if they fall to pieces. Other than that they're great little cars in whatever guise.

Personally I think the US are missing a trick here: People want proof of Osama dead, and are demanding to see the evidence. The US also need a lot of money for their economy. You can probably see where I'm going with this... Put the pics and 40-min video of the assault on the compound up on the interweb or on PPV TV, and charge people to view them! The demand's there, they'd make an absolute killing on it thus quietening the dissenters and filling the coffers all in one go.

It's a BMW, not a Lamborghini! Focus it is then. Nothing else in that sector to touch it really.

BMW 330d. Wouldn't even consider anything else tbh, unless a 335d falls into budget.

To be fair it depends on what you want it for. If it's to use as a shed for lugging the kids around and for trips to the tip, and you can get it cheap enough, then I'd consider it. If you're after anything resembling a decent car to drive then I'd look elsewhere, it's not even a nice place to be on the inside.

If it was £100 I'd say buy it. Any more than that and you could buy a decent car.

Any original Michael Jackson song. They have some of the highest production values of any music ever made, and stuff like the Thriller album will prove a real test of any audio equipment. Pretty much all modern music is simply too compressed to give a realistic tone quality. Try some of Sting's stuff as well: Fields Of Gold has some seriously complex layering which will only come out with a decent setup. Make sure you do it either from the CD direct or from a lossless source too (so that rules out anything downloaded from iTunes or similar).

235s at the front will make the car slightly more oversteery as you've shifted the grip levels forward, which isn't the greatest idea really as you significantly compromise the balance of the car. That said, no reason you couldn't run 255 on the rear to compensate. Is there nowhere out there apart from Camskill or Tyremen that can get hold of the VUS in the right sizes? I've used Event Tyres in the past and found them to be very good, might be worth a punt. I really wouldn't suggest running any mixed combo over a set of matched tyres, so working on the basis that you can't get hold of the VUS at all then a set of the Hankooks isn't the worst idea in the world.

Has it lost 300PS from somewhere Sarnie?

Brilliant idea. Either that or a slight sprinkling of pepper over the bonnet and the cat won't go anywhere near it, only needs a fine dusting and can use white or black depending on what hides better on the paint.

Are you actually complaining because the police caught you breaking the law? FFS, you got caught and were miles out so suck it up and admit you were wrong: 20% isn't even close to the legal limit, that's bloody dangerous if you ask me! I'm glad they're stopping people with daft tints who can't see through the bloody windows, makes the roads a bit safer for those of us who understand that being able to see is fairly crucial in a car weighing 1500kgs travelling at 70mph.

No, you're an idiot if you ignore a healthy dose of scientific fact and just go with your gut. It's like believing in the tooth fairy despite the collection of old teeth gathering dust below your pillow. If anyone wants to challenge my views with some evidence of their own then fine, that's their right and I'll listen, but what I won't sit here and do is be attacked because I dared to actually post something that has some basis in theory, not just in the mind. It's the same reasoning behind why we don't really think the world was created in 6 days.

If you'd care to provide a hint of evidence or scientific theory towards your assumptions then I'd be happy to have a sensible debate with you. Until that point, I see precious little point in arguing the toss with someone who sits there with blinkers on assuming that, because they've been fine running mis-matched tyres, then it must be fine. It's a shame you've had to rape the OP's thread to try and point-score against me. Why do you need to know the history of the tyres anyway? If they've got tread and no repairs or dodgy marks, then what's the worst that could be wrong with them? Honestly, it's as if you're trying to make yourself sound like an idiot. And I'm still waiting for you to find me saying previously that partworns are bad. OH LOOK YOU CAN'T

Go and find a post of mine that says you can't use partworns on a car, and that any tyre should be brand new. If you can, I'll give £20 to the charity of your choice. Try actually reading what people write in the future instead of assuming. I don't ferociously attack people who disagree with me, I simply point out when people when they're being idiots, tyre-related or not. As it stands, the OP sounds perfectly sensible to me.

I still want to know what's wrong with the car to make it sick.

Sick? What's wrong with it?

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Budget? Must haves?

I really couldn't give a rat's ass anymore what tyres people run on their cars. There's a shedload of posts on here explaining in technical detail and giving examples why mixing tyres is bad, and if people are too lazy to read them or want to completely ignore any kind of sensible reasoning behind, then that's up to them. I refuse to be drawn into pointless arguments with stupid people, it's a waste of everyone's time.

NECROPOSTING IS NECRO Don't be daft, no they're not.

Assbro is amazing, and I think the series is rapidly becoming my favourite video game series of all time