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I was wondering that. Paying for VED helps no-one, just reduce the price instead.

I had no idea Guess that explains the reaction, then. Sorry Ken, no offence meant, but surely you can see where I'm coming from?

Perhaps, but it's based in truth. You cannot get an OEM yellow 350 unless it's a GT4. You can get a 296 bhp 350 in factory black for peanuts, and it'll have the better interior. You could add the wheels as well (not as rare as they once were) and have a better car for less. As such, I'd say the yellows are worth a premium but the black ones should never be, not any more.

4kg?! Wow, they're very light! Carbon?

Yellow ones might be worth a premium, black ones definitely aren't.

Bit of both, there's a few of us who do them (some more regularly than others), but usually if someone sticks a post up saying they're going then someone else will join them

Track days are ace

Might want to read a review or three of The Order: It's been panned to high heaven. TLOU is great though, but I didn't enjoy it very much. My loss though, the quality of it is clear.

If you're not planning on going to the redline, you might as well get a diesel! Seriously though, petrol engines can suffer if not given a full workout regularly, so please don't be afraid of using the full rev range.

You can do it online using your passport photos, if they're under 5 years old. Takes 2 mins. We used the same system to update our licences with our new address. It really is a great system.

Definitely a trader. Also even if you bought it via eBay, if it's not as described you'll get your money back no hassle.

Depends. If it takes you 12 hours of arseache on the phone and letters and stress getting it sorted just after you've lost your P&J, is that worth £300 to you? It is to me, but I have a very low arseache tolerance

Shortfall is usually bigger initially, and then will decline the further on you go. That's why most GAP only covers you up to three years, and if you have a finance term over that it'll only cover the first three years.

"Ere, my cars got some of them anthrax wheels!" "Yeah, well, that's nuffink: Mine's got AIDS in the boot! Apparently it's the original ones too, got first on and everything..."

Finance fwends!

"Most deadliest car on the road!"

With Mini themselves? Yeah, us too.

Depends on the type of product you buy. Some are return to invoice, some cover the whole lot. I believe the Nissan one covers everything, as that's what I went for! £450 is expensive though: You should be able to pay half that with a third party for equal cover. Whether you'd be prepared with the ballache that goes with it is up to you: Personally, I usually just pay the extra and go with the OEM-preferred choice.

Put it this way, if you're getting the car on finance and it costs £30K, then as you drive out the door you owe £35K. Two months later having driven 2000 miles you write the car off. Settlement figure is £25K, you still owe £33K on the car. Can you afford the £8K difference? If you can, then you don't need GAP. If you can't, then you do. I had it with the Zed and the 911, but I certainly didn't with the 645. Depends on the exact figures involved: Larger deposits can negate the need for GAP.

For every CoD, ActiBlizz release a Transformers. For every Skyrim, Bethesda publish a Brink. For every Gran Turismo, Sony bring out a Knack. Destiny cost $140M to make, CoD Ghosts probably around $80M. You then have marketing costs on top (at least $20M for the big stuff), production costs, online stuff, and on-going DLC development costs. Sure, the real big stuff more than covers itself (think GTAV, costing a reported $265M and making $2000M, but that has to last over 4-5 years with the money it recoups!), but the non-AAA titles often fail to make a profit. That's why developers are closing studios and cutting back on staff, and we're getting more sequels and HD remasters than ever before. Forza5 was a blip, everyone knows that MS paid T10 a fortune to give them a day one Xbone release title, which is why it was lacking in tracks. T10, to their credit, then carried on supporting it with cars and tracks long beyond the season pass limit. I have no grudges towards them for that as I feel I got my money's worth, but I do expect FM6 to be significantly better. GT7 I don't expect anything more from though with Polyphony, as they already seem to pack a lot of content in even if it is rehashed stuff. No doubt it'll look prettier though and have much more online racing options, something FM desperately lacks.

Ah, I see. Yeah, eVolve looks insane with Day1 DLC, although it does seem mostly to be skins rather than huge content. PCars is still looking very light on detail though. This close, I'd expect to see a full car list and a full track list, so I'm wondering if some of them aren't quite there yet and they don't know what they can ship with and what needs to be DLC? If it ships on April 2nd, it needs to go gold in the next couple of weeks at least.

A 350Z is going to feel significantly slower than an Impreza, especially a remapped one. A big lumpy NA engine is never going to give the shove of a tuned turbo engine, but you don't get the throttle response or the linear power with the Impreza. We used to run a 320bhp blobeye which always felt batsh*t mental compared to my old 385bhp 911, but I can promise you the 911 was the quicker car! Any 350Z is more than enough to be considered quick enough for UK roads, put it that way.

Bugger, at least it's only 2 weeks delay but still annoying. Must say these continual delays then immediate dlc content charges are a little annoying DLC charges?

In every single way that matters, a 350 is a better drive than the 180. They don't feel that quick, but they really don't hang around. The speedo will tell you that much

Agreed. Just get them to sort while it's there, I would.