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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.

Everyone says their car is perfect, you have to ask the questions to get the truth out of them sadly. Some people just don't class the wheels as part of the car. Any car you buy is going to need the wheels doing, but I'd be looking to use that and the service history as a bartering point. What car check are you planning on doing, and what do you think it will protect against?

PCars delayed until April 2nd. FFS

Then you may as well use Admiral's recommendation in the first place, Ive no doubt that Nissan will use the cheapest local firm they can get away with TBH. True. And I would, unless I had good reason not to. When I spanked the Cayman, the insurer was Admiral and their instruction was to take it to Chaplanes. As you can imagine, the owner didn't need telling twice.

Every now and then! They may not do it directly, but they will have someone to sub it out to. Just let them handle it all, I would.

Tbh I'd just let a NIssan dealership sort it out: If anything goes wrong, they're the biggest organisation you can go to to make a fuss and get it sorted. The insurance companies really don't expect crap from main dealers either, so are less likely to take it IIRC 370Z doors are standard across the range.

Will they fit? Yes, they will. Will they fit without a massive amount of modification to the vehicle and/or the suspension components? No, they will not.

Well yeah, now you say it! I've never seen it used as a term of force though, ever.

"Max Torque: 78kg/m @ 4,500rpm" What kind of crazy-ass way of spelling out the torque figure is that?! It's actually 564 lb/ft, if the website I used is correct. Why not just say that though? No-one has ever used kg/m to refer to torque in cars that I've seen.* Some epic engineering there though, and I love how short the piping to the IC and back is. *Cue people posting up lots of examples...

If you have a smartphone, then for the sake of £5 go and buy an OBDII dongle and a free app and read it properly.

I know, it made me cry just typing it

I did the same, I swapped the OEM for a genuine Nismo one, made a world of difference

Actually, that's a very good question, and it's one I don't have the answer too. What I would say is that I'd be looking at brass or steel over aluminium or plastic, as like for like the former will always be heavier. I have a custom shift knob in the MR2, weighs about 3/4 of a kilo but it's bloody awesome Custom knobs are cheaper than you think, mine was only £35 IIRC from some bloke on eBay.

Word of advice: Buy the heaviest gear knob you can. It's the only place on the car you actively want to add weight, makes the shift so much more positive

Is the answer here not just to buy two homes? One main residence, then one smaller getaway place? Or two identical but very different properties? Or just sod off for a whole year on a round the world cruise, and then worry about it when you get back? That's what I'd do.

Renovo is the best stuff you'll get your hands on, and it's now cheaper than the AG stuff too so a no-brainer.

Let me have a chat with the missus tonight, this might actually be worth looking into for us.

STOP IT I DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR ANY MORE CARS FFS