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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/pembroke-pines/fl-pines-i-75-fatal-crash-20150928-story.html Oh look, a GT-R got set on fire after the driver was acting like a berk! They're clearly not safe! Let's sue Nissan! You see how silly this looks?

This is ridiculous. I genuinely cannot tell if you actually believe the tripe you're spouting, or if you're trolling me hard. He binned a car at 90mph into a tree. A solid tree. It's not realistic in the slightest to expect to walk away from that at all, regardless of car. Sure, it can happen, but then people die after crashes at half the speed too. It was a crappy sequence of events (wrong speed, wrong thing to hit, wrong angle to hit it at etc) that led to the car going up in flames. That's it. End of. No one else to blame, no fault on Porsche, just a crappy thing that happens. I can't understand how someone as clearly intelligent as yourself cannot see that. It's like finding out Stephen Hawking believes in the tooth fairy.

He hadn't even said no yet. Give him a chance to respond, at least. Assuming it's a negative response, simply lodge a claim with Money Claim Online and state your case. It's a simple breach of contract, and as long as you've kept all your conversations then judgement will be found in your favour. This is assuming you haven't made ANY special requests to the item (might be an idea to tell us what it actually is), and it's a generic item.

Not just you at all, it's a stupid test designed to make stupid consumers feel better about their stupid purchases.

Ouch! That's daylight robbery.

Try it, I guess, and let us know. It might work, it might not. Alternatively I'd suck it up and buy at least one new key that I knew was going to work 100%. You really don't want to be stuck with two broken keys...

Daniel! Oh my that sounds horrid, a FWD car with all that power through the front wheels is going to be scrabbling for grip at the best of times, so I shall deem thee a scrabble wagon. A supercharged Honda S2000 sports car, on the other hand, sounds just like my cup of tea. Sip sip! Never heard of scrabble wagon or Stook?

Proof? On both counts, please. Perhaps we should all drive at 5mph with a man and a flag in front, to prevent us crashing and rupturing our fuel tanks? Graham, you track your GT-R, have you ever given any thought to how strong the fuel tank is on that if you bin it?

Not even close to bankruptcy. Hugely profitable company.

Had one of them in my del sol! Then boosted it! 296bhp in a car weighing a ton was awesome fun!! This^^ i'd love to have a del sol with a K20 in it supercharged. That would be ridiculous Urgh, scrabble wagon tastic. SC'd Stook, on the other hand...

Not sure if serious... It hit a tree. Very hard. Because the driver was being a knob. If it had lightly tapped it and spontaneously combusted then fair enough, but this thing had already passed the incredibly stringent US crash test regs, and had hit the tree at over 90MPH! That's huge. I'm not surprised at all the fuel tank ruptured, tbh. I wouldn't necessarily expect any car's fuel tank to stay in one piece if you hit a solid object at that speed.

I can't see they've got any reason to go after anyone. They can't go after the end user, as they paid the tax that was in force at the time, as far as they and HMRC reasonably believed. Could they go after VW? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought so. Did they attempt to cheat HMRC of money? Arguably yes in a way, but this is no different to an accountant telling his customer to put his cash off-shore: If HMRC get wind then it's the customer who gets clobbered, not the accountant. The only financial penalty could come from the EU folks who do the testing, as an environmental issue. It will always pass MOT. The new code will make it cleaner, not dirtier.

The way I see it, they have two options: Remap the cars to give the emissions they make on the test, which will kill MPG and power output; or they can simply remove the defeat code which then leaves the cars open to being re-classified at the higher tax rate. Either way, if it was me I wouldn't be taking my car anywhere a VW dealer for the rest of it's life.

I don't believe you. I demand photographic proof.

He needs all those keys and the lanyard to make sure he never loses them.

Hang on, I'm confused Ignore which way the wheels are pointing, imagine the wheel is sat on your living room floor. Does the centre of the 'Personal' text tally up with TDC of the wheel?

You're kidding?! Okay, that wouldn't work for me then, OCD would never cope with that. Why on earth would they off-centre it by only a fraction? Crazy!

Is the text off-centre on the top of the wheel, or is it the angle of the pic?

Bargain for brand new Akropovic stuff, where on earth from?!

Cripes, I beg that wasn't cheap! Go on, how much, I have to ask?

Erm, why can't we put cars on ramps any more then?

Makes no odds then, as long as it's a decent brand

That's because the unions are full of c*nts.

Depends, do you want 2bhp or a better noise?

Depends on what you want to achieve though, doesn't it? I know I lost power with the JWT, but the extra noise was far more important to me than 1-2bhp I'd never feel.