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If you have the law on your side (and you do), then argue the ticket. Let it go to court and watch them throw it out because the officer in question hasn't a clue what he's talking about.

^^ Agreed.

I think it's the wing mirrors that don't really work. While it's not to my particular taste, the rest of it doesn't look that bad.

Tbh I wouldn't consider running a 32bit OS anymore these days as all the niggles of when they first came out have pretty much been eradicated with Vista and Win7. Certainly I've had no troubles over the last few years Also Acer laptops are ace (excuse the pun!), I've had about 10 off them for work and personal use in the last few years and I'll happily go there again.

I wouldn't bother.

I set mine for the redline but that's purely because I don't want it flashing during normal driving. As Greekman said, it's too small and unnoticeable to be anything other than a bit of a gimmick. Shame, really.

Clio has far more personality than the other two combined. M3 is a more rounded and accomplished drive.

You know that mixing tyres is a bad idea, right?

Just me with my very black sense of humour that found some of it quite funny then? Obviously the real life stuff not quite so humourous, but watching the acted-up stuff made me chuckle. So much of it was the pedestrians fault too for not looking when they cross the road properly. If that had been just a clip of the real life incidents then it might have hit home a bit more, but the over-the-top stuff just doesn't work with me. Probably not a very popular view and I expect to be slated for it, but there you go.

Excellent news, nice one

Carbon fibre binacle cover for the main dash cluster. I thought it would cover the whole thing, not just sit on the top of it pikey-style.

Clicky clicky (Audio is probably NSFW)

At least it's not chavvy like the Zed! Not a particularly involving drive, but solidly built and still a good looking car. Power is easy to get out of them if that's your thing.

Well, I guess we know how much power the facelifted 370Z is going to be putting out now at least.

Try just turning the D1 off. It's more of a hindrance than anything else on track

Pretty sure it was a 3.5, certainly it had the newer interior. I wanted it to be so nimble, and was a bit gutted when it wasn't. We ended up with a mint '05 MR2 instead which Jo is happy enough with until she gets old enough for sensible insurance on an Impreza.

Funnily enough you're not the first person to suggest it might have been a bit dodgy in that respect. It was a brand-new demo car from a main dealer so I would hope that it was set up to OEM specs, which if true really isn't good enough at all.

The thread was removed due to breaking our trader policy, and due to the reaction from the OP it won't be returning anytime soon.

No way what? A stock E46 isn't quicker than a stock Zed, assuming same driver & conditions? Hate to break it to you, but it's a fair bit quicker.

Yup, but it won't make much of a difference really. Manual or SMG? An M3 is quicker full stop than a Zed in a straight line or on track, but then it costs more so fair enough really. DC5 will be hamstrung by FWD for straight line launches, will be good fun on country lanes though. Round track it'll still be the slowest, mind.

I drove the mk3 MX-5 2.0L Sport at the end of last year and hated it. The interior was lovely and it was obviously well screwed together, but the engine made an awful noise and the steering was just vile: It felt like I was more trying to guide it via charades than a direct link between the steering wheel and the front wheels, it was that vague. I so wanted to love it but it had no soul IMHO. I think you'd hate it after the MR2 Stan, although as a GT car it's certainly preferable if you're not going to drive it hard. A mk2 MX-5, however...

November 3rd kids, it's official now and everything.

Right, that's why then. That's far too sensitive for a wet track (hell, it's too sensitive for a dry one!) and you've put down too much power too quickly on a damp track. No point blaming the tyres on that.

Looks like possibly you put the throttle down too early and on the wet line on the track? As you spin round you can clearly see the inside apex line on that corner is damp whereas it's much drier on the outside, so possibly your front tyres were on the dry part as you accelerated off on the wet part, causing the back to overtake the front. Given that the 452 and their reputation, I'm struggling to see how that was totally the tyres fault. Did you have the throttle controller on SP* at all, as that will have huge implications when driving on a wet track (VOE).

Each to their own. I hate it, but I take comfort in reminding myself just how much they've spent on the paint and how hard it's going to be to touch up the inevitable stone chips