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M3/4 is one of the most disappointing cars I've ever driven. I spent a day with an F80 M3 and then 20 mins with an M235i when I took the M3 back to the dealership and told them it was rubbish, so they gave me the smaller car to see if they could get a sale that way. It was the sport auto option too, so as close to comparable to the DCT M3 as you can get. I reckon the slushbox was nigh-on as good as the DCT, and certainly not noticeably worse at all. Chassis felt much more alive and the suspension didn't want to kill me every time I stepped on the gas which was a bonus. The 235 was proper chuckable, just a really fun car. In the end it wasn't for me as the inside was just too 118d to feel truly special, but now I've lived with an older BMW interior for a bit I reckon I'd have no issues with it. In terms of the drive though, I can remember those 20 minutes as well as I can any drive I ever took in the 350. I'd still get a manual over an auto though, unless you sit in traffic day in day out. BMW make some really decent manuals, get them while you can.

#jealous

FFS write them a proper letter, and get them to state their reasons WHY they believe it's a paint defect and not corrosion. Make it clear that you require their response as it will form part of your legal defense. Then you go and get a report from the body shop (the one they use if possible) and see what they say, and then you take an educated call on whether to progress it legally. Why would you give up so easily??

Ignore the figures, you'll never get anywhere near that mpg and 0-60 is a useless stat. What they are is utterly brilliant, and far far far better than an M4. Far better. One of the most fun cars I've ever driven in OEM road guise, they're a superb car.

Tbh using it as a brake or rear light is utterly pointless. As a fog it's cool as the location is very race car rain light, but otherwise nah.

You can't be, as we call ourselves Trekkers

Fog light is the same output as a brake light, in 99% of cases.

It becomes non-cost effective when the car is worth more in parts than it is when it's running, or it'll cost you more to fix it than to buy an equivalent car. I reckon you're a long way from that if it's just a new clutch & fly you need. And no, no-one has any idea where Nissan are going after the 370. Current guesses are to a sporty SUV (random media reports), dropping a 400bhp+ V6TT into the car (wishful thinking), or letting it die completely and not replacing it (my own best guess).

Totes worth it though. And the best bit is there's multiple endings, so you get to do it all over again too!

I was looking at the 2017 payments ( https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/129388/formula-1-team-payments-for-2017-revealed ) and basically if the money was divided equally then even the lowest team would be getting $94M which is $45M more than they got this year. Ferrari got more than Mercedes despite finishing third in the championship!

It's fine, the 370 has the improved knock sensor so you can run cheapy fuel. You'll be losing a fair amount of power, but it won't damage anything.

I genuinely believe that Ferrari need F1 more than F1 need Ferrari. F1 coped just fine with McLaren being sh*t for the last few years, it'd cope perfectly well with no Ferrari if they threw their toys out of the pram. Who knows, less money to them would mean more money to give to other teams so we could see more competitive racing.

Aw man no

How many processors do you have? If it's more than 33, you've messed up and need to start again.

If there was a wall there though, you'd have a race as boring as Monaco is.

He's right, y'know.

I've driven a 718 Boxster S. Sound aside, the engine is phenomenal. It pulls like an absolute train, so much torque everywhere, easily as quick if not quick than my 997.2 in practically every situation. Interior is lovely, everything is where it's supposed to be and works well, the suspension and chassis is an improvement on the 981 etc. It's the best sports car regular money can buy. BUT It sounds like a hoover. Flat four turbos can sound awesome, but with equal length manifolds then nope. I've not heard one with the PSE yet so maybe that sounds better, but I doubt it. I could get used to it, but IMHO Porsche have really dropped the ball on that which is odd, as they managed to make the 3L turbo lump in the 991.2 cars sound superb.

Excellent point, normally Moaning Kimi would be whinging like mental if he saw even the slightest thing wrong. That he didn't (that I'm aware of) screams volumes, as does the fact he backed off like crazy after Max went past and nearly didn't get 3rd despite the 5sec penalty! He thought he'd been done fairly and just gave up.

Oooh just you wait

So you've released the hypnodrones, but not gone into space?

Probably for the best if you have actual work to do, it's a bit addictive.

Can't remember the first stage now, but the second is resources then clips, and the third stage is exploration of the galaxy.

Webber doing a swear afterwards though was hysterical

I can see his point though. It cannot be that hard to put a transponder in the car that detects when a car has gone outside the white lines and automatically apply a penalty, if they won't adjust the circuits to put gravel traps in to catch them. You can bet that if it had been Kimi overtaking Max in that way, there would've been no penalty. I'm not convinced at all that Ferrari are still not getting teh rub of the green when it comes to decisions like this. I'm not saying it wasn't a penalty, as it clearly was, but inconsistency is killing the sport. You cannot have a situation where it's okay to go outside the lines sometimes (like Seb did overtaking Lewis at the start) but not others.

I prefer the 997 2RS to the 991 2RS, I think. Not as capable, but manual 'box and slightly more subtle styling ticks all the boxes.