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You're forgetting the VXR220 Lego brick as well! I buy awesome cars, not pretty ones. Others can pose, I'll be perfectly content driving the right car for me

That's how I usually buy my cars

14mpg? Sounds like you're driving it properly

I paid for a full OPC inspection (111pt check) of my 911 before I sold it. Also included a service too, but then I also priced both of these into the asking price so I didn't lose out Thing is, 95% of buyers don't know or don't care: They just want a cheap Porsche. There's no point spending money out on the car if you just want to get shot of it, and then what happens if you do find out there's an issue? You either have to disclose it in the ad and reduce the price, or hope that someone comes along and doesn't ask the right questions or want their own inspection.

I'm so glad someone picked up on that: I set 'em up, I'll let someone else knock 'em down!

Like my video of me in the MR2 and the 360CS at Anglesey a few years back. Trouble is there's rudeness on both sides: Those in 'slow' cars who are good drivers who will bully the less confident out of the way, and those in 'fast' cars who will leave you for dead on the straights then park on the apex in a corner. I've not really found any particular marque worse for it than others, although the one that does spring to mind was an R35 and a Evo8 a few years back that decided to treat the day as a race and thought nothing of coming up your inside just as you were about to turn in. Clearly capable drivers in capable machines, but utter bellends. I was half tempted to turn in regardless, as I'm pretty sure my MX5 was worth less than their JDM uber-cars

Hitler cat!

100% I'd go for a set of the MP4S mate, in 19"s you really can't do any better right now

^^^This. Just get her a cushion to sit on.

You get a hardtop for the back and pop the dog in there. Sorted.

Then the question is irrelevant, as you can't get MPS4S in 18" sizes. However, the regular 4 is better than the MPSS, and the MPS4S is better still. And then there's the MPSC2, which are near perfection.

It's only a car. Drive it as much as you can and park it wherever, no point owning something nice and never driving it. If if does ever get a dink then so what? That's what you pay insurance for. Life's too short to worry about stuff like that. Enjoy what you have, you work hard enough for it.

What size wheels do you have?

All the new cars look bloody awful, and that's saying something after the last couple of years. The Merc in particular looks massive!

Do you mean the little plastic trim clips? You can get a ton of them on eBay in all different shapes and sizes, dirt cheap.

Nope, unless you run your own policy you have zero NCB. I'll caveat that with the fact that some insurers will give you a discount on a policy in your situation, but then the next year you'll be back to 1 year NCB.

Better, or easier?

You need to go drive a fast Caterham, I suspect you'd absolutely adore the broadside-ability of the thing

Can't remember tbh. Prob Japfest.

That text reminds me exactly why I don't enjoy reading most car stuff written by Yanks. It's a needlessly aggressive tone he picks right from the start, and it's off putting to read as it automatically gets people's backs up. Not sure what his point it, tbh. Slow cars are easier to learn in? Well duh. Slow cars are easier to handle at the limit? Obviously. Fast cars are really good fun to drive fast? Most of the time... Personally I had more fun at Bedford in my MX5 with a whopping 130bhp than I did in a Cayman R on the same day. I'd built my speed up over the years too by starting out in slower cars before progressing, but the biggest amount of progression I ever made was when I owned the VXR220. Not because of the speed of the thing, either incredibly rapid compared to an MX5 or incredibly slow compared to a 458, but because it gave tremendous amounts of feedback. That's the biggest key to driving cars fast, is having a car that tells you what it's doing and then (and more importantly) being able to interpret that information into inputs. I don't disagree that it's better to learn in slow cars first, but only because stuff happens slower. If the choice was between a Clio 172 or a TTRS, you'd be better off in the Clio. If the choice was between the same Clio and a Caterham 420R, the Caterham would teach you far more IMHO. Just my thoughts any way. No right or wrong here, folks

And no disrespect meant to GreenLandy who wrote his car off there last year, he took it far better than I would have and I'm not convinced he did anything massively wrong after chatting with him on the day.

Aim for about 15mins before everything opens properly, that way you won't queue for too long but neither will you be stuck in the middle of nowhere. Eeep, sorry dude! All I will say is that make sure you're 100% happy with your track insurance, and don't dream of running the session without it. I've seen way, way too many close calls on these taster sessions at Silverstone across the PHSS as well as the big shows like Japfest, Trax etc. I'd love to get mine on track too, but I just won't risk it having seen the standards of driving. I'm sure half of it is down to the briefing/marshalling too, mind. What time are you running? Later sessions seem to be better than the early ones, especially as the section round by the pits doesn't get the sun until much later (and that's the worst part to crash, as there's a very solid wall there).

*makes mental note never to let AliveBoy drive my car*

Probably not, trouble is you never know until you try it I guess.

Hopefully the weather will be decent, although the track sessions are always carnage anyway so maybe a bit of rain will make them even more entertaining... Not that I want to see anyone damage their cars, but there's always at least half per session who have no idea that three abreast into a corner isn't a good idea.