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Oh yeah, I hadn't even noticed Sorry if I've just put my foot in it! Anyway, I suspect that's pretty rapid to say the least...!

Feck me, how young are you? I had mummy and daddy drive me around until I was 20, even though they'd bought me a car for my 17th First test was just before I turned 21, second test in March the following year. I only drove that mk4 Escort for a month before I went and bought a brand new Focus instead!

Yeah, I was wondering if we'd heard about how that ended up at all. Did Abbey cough up for the damage?

Have I missed what happened to the gearbox?

Did my test in '00 and '01. I've probably reversed round a corner about 5 times since then. Three point turn is much more common, but a piece of cake. I'd rather they spent more time focusing on accelerating to the limit, or other things that new drivers take an age to do!

I didn't do either manoeuvre on my driving test, so can't see it's any great loss. They're replacing them with other more common manoeuvres instead, which makes sense.

Married on a Tuesday? You tight git If it gets you closer to the dream car, go for it

Essentially just convert the entire cost including shipping from USD into GBP, and that's the bill you're looking at.

Well, nowhere else on the internet can I find that info, so for now I'm placing it firmly in the 'Not True' category. Given that most major European race teams use it, I would've thought they would be far from happy about it...

I'd be up for it. I'd start in South Wales, one stop in North Wales, then one in the Highlands, then another in Northern England to finish (maybe a wild night out in Newcastle?). You could do it on a budget easy, call it £60 a night for a hotel then the rest on fuel and beer. Job's a carrot.

I've not read my copy yet, but without even looking I bet it got four stars. Their scoring system is awful lately. If it's a super car it gets 5, if it's a junior supercar it gets 4.5, anything remotely decent gets a 4 and the average stuff gets a 3. They don't use 2 or 1, so there's no point.

Well, take your mates then! Or just be more selective

Erm, that's not true. You cannot run coloured fluid in the US, but it's absolutely fine over here. Driftworks have it, or I could go and pick a load up from PSR in Stortford tomorrow morning. Did Monkfish say that?

Subs issues came through today, you'll need to wait a week for the poverty copy

I'd be walking now and considering myself lucky. I wouldn't want to be associated with something like that. Seriously mate, put a run together on here over a long weekend on the same route for the same budget, and I bet you'd have a better time.

Next year I'm taking the day off and I'm just going to go and film these people. Must be amazing to watch such an atmosphere. Why the staff didn't just shut the tills and refuse to serve anyone who was acting like a tit, I don't know. Or they could've given out vouchers to people in the queue who wanted a TV to redeem, first come first serve.

You get what you pay for and all that, I guess. Shame, but then I suppose that's why it's so cheap if they're not giving you half the stuff.

Eeeep! That doesn't sound good at all.

Hopefully better than the Marbella one, which has an empty page on the video section on the website, and the photos aren't exactly of anything better than cars parked up. Oh, there is no blog of the last rally up either. There's more pics of the press than the cars at the celeb party! I dunno man, I don't wanna p*ss on your chips on this one I really don't, but this doesn't scream a quality tour to me.

My exact thoughts. I don't think I'd want to be involved with a company like that, much less someone who has a website littered with mistakes. Still, I like to be proved wrong with things like this, so hopefully you'll have a blast mate

50mpg real world isn't going to happen very often, unless you live on the motorway sat at 60mph. Even the decent diesels (thinking the BMW 2l in something small like the 118d) will see maybe 45mpg on the combined cycle. Work on a figure of 40-45, that way if you do get better then you're laughing. If money is the priority then I'd be looking at Fords or Vauxhalls tbh, as they're going to be cheaper to maintain than any premium brand. A Focus mk2 is a bloody good steer.

Came *this close* to getting the JL 60" telly they've got up for sale for the spare room. Just can't quite justify that, plus I want a 75" for the lounge so I'll wait for Boxing Day then shift the current 55" to the spare room instead. But yeah, if you want a good size TV then £999 for 60" is the veritable bargain.

@Tricky: It does? Well, there you go, I never knew that. Every day's a school day!

Ah yes, forgot it comes in 1L bottles! Just get 2L then, this stuff lasts for years if it's unopened anyway

I'd be happy enough if I could just raise a smile