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I bought an E92 straight after the Zed. Techinically owned it for about 19 hours before getting my deposit back and buying a 911 instead. They're great cars, they really are, and they're the last of a breed of big NA engines at an affordable price. It's the perfect car, but I didn't get that WOW factor after purchase, so I quit. Ironically I'd love one now, but at the time it just wasn't right for me. As I said earlier today though, it's a RWD V8 coupe with a manual 'box, his bad can it be?

It's a RWD V8 coupe. How bad can it possibly be?!

Ouch! I used to get nearer 30mpg on mine, guess you're driving it more betterer than me

Utter, utter, utter b*llocks. The Zed is as quiet as you could reasonably expect: Sure, it's not Audi quiet, but then it's not Audi money. I have no idea where this nonsense about it being too loud or it not being good for long journeys comes from.

On a tangent, have you driven many E46 M3s Doc? I've only ever driven two, and only one in anger, and as much as I thought they'd be a little dull and nowhere near as good as hyped, they were both incredibly good fun and the chassis is out of this world in terms of communication

It's pretty soft in reality, that's partly why they're very easy to drift. Not Bentley-style waftability, but definitely not what you or I would refer to as stiff.

This is true However, it does mean you can drive out of McDonald's car park more quickly that your mate who is slammed to da ground innit.

TL;DR, you're better off buying decent tyres than decent suspension if you want to go faster, assuming you can't afford to do both. 'Tis a good vid, well played Aliveboy for pointing it out to me I'd like to see a tyres vs brakes one as well, that could be very interesting on the right track.

I thought about it Who told them that Avons were popular though??!!

http://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-buying-guides/nissan-350z-ph-buying-guide/32601 Pretty good, and very positive too after the most boring cars thread

Only you know how low you can go re speedbumps, but that will also depend on how stiff you want to run the dampers. If the dampers are stiffer then you can run a bit lower, but then the ride on the road will be gash. Start at 20mm and see how you go. And don't feel you have to run the dampers the same stiffness front to rear, whilst I don't know the exact specs of the Torqen dampers usually on a front engined car you'd run the fronts stiffer than the rear, depending on what handling characteristics you're after of course.

Sticky tyres again, even the mighty MPSS weren't out in 2011 Offer me a 2015 CTR or a 2015 MX-5 and I'm still picking the Mazda. Fun > Speed.

But it's not in the middle

I should bloody well hope it beats cars that are 10 years older! I suspect that a lot of those cars will have been on road rubber, and IIRC the CTR was on PSC2s, which would make a massive difference. The removal of the AC, stereo and pax seat would help too, plus the installation of the roll cage... I'm guessing a standard car wouldn't get anywhere near that time, more like 8:10 to 8:20. No accounting for driver knowledge and weather conditions either in comparisons, and in the older days the Ring time wasn't as important to marketing so they didn't always go to the nth degree. That's not to say it's not still an impressive time though!

BTCC has some very odd rules to keep things competitive, the RWD cars are hugely disadvantaged with regards to that so I never expect them to be the popular choice. Besides, they're building cars to win, not to be enjoyable. As I said, suspension and chassis work has come a long way, but it still can't beat physics. I have no doubt it'll be quick, but how much time you spend fighting the car as opposed to driving the car remains to be seen. I'm as keen as anyone to drive one, but very little could persuade me to buy one.

Ultimately, you can't ask wheels tyres to do two things at once. They can either turn the car, or power the car. Certainly things have gotten much better over the years with regards to FWD cars getting the power down, but they all still scrabble like crazy when you add boost. The Mini CS does it, the FST does it, the MRS does it. Some people find it endearing, I find it a pain in the ass. Once moving it'll be very rapid in a straight line, but if you ask it to do too much in the corners I suspect it'll struggle like all FWD cars do.

I bet it would also get hideously frustrating when you keep spinning the power away. Nope, I'd rather go slower and have more fun.

911 UK. I don't trouble myself with the poor man's Pork.

Nah, just spray it on from a distance and don't go too mad with it.

Most of them spend their time slating the car, ironically!

Master cylinder also a very strong possibility.

Bet you can't wait to own a car that doesn't need the driver to wear a brown paper bag for fear of embarrassment over the looks* ;) Great choice, I suspect you'll have a massive amount of fun with that. Any ideas on when in 2016? *Yes, just like 6 series owners have to!

What is this PC Powah nonsense? That drifter bloke just needed a better solicitor, if he hadn't coughed up then there's no way they could've found him guilty.

Awww, give them a cuddle and they might not do that quite so much

Try that again: No ex-owner has slated the 350Z at all.