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If the CTR is quicker over a lap than the Megane, I'd be astounded. Honda haven't made a decent handling car for years, Renault are doing it every year. They're class leaders for a reason

Definitely stop over, I'd never drive there and back in the one day! We stay at the Hotel Cymyran, really nice place about 15 mins from the circuit.

It's utterly disgraceful, and offenders should have the book thrown at them. Retrospective TV footage and then ban for 5 games. I'd rather an honest loser than a cheating winner.

Indeed, just witness the South American teams constantly whipping the crowd up every time the ball goes out of play. Great to see.

You'll gain about the same as the DE gets, so maybe 20bhp across the board. That assumes you've done all the breathing mods though, as you say. If you think you might go FI, then personally I would wait and save. If you probably won't, then it's a very good way to go and definitely worth considering.

Is that because it didn't rain for the first two weeks?

I didn't, I couldn't be arsed with the hassle if I'm honest. He was rude, but he wasn't dangerous. Tbh maybe I should've backed off and let him go, probably 50/50 in retrospect. I think the driving was being shared too, so hard to know which guy it was. I suspect I won't see which way you went at Bedford if you bring the new toy

I didn't think VTEC was confirmed? Or is that now a marketing thing, and really it'll only rev to 7k?

If it's wrong, you get them to do it again. It's only a Nissan, nothing complicated like an Elise where you have to start loosening the clam so they can do it!

Club is a local team who I can watch 40 times a year, made up of players who have to forge friendships as well as just play together. Watching Braintree Town slog it out is more pleasurable to me than watching England superstars who look like complete strangers dance around the pitch trying to avoid doing any hard work. Yes, the Prem is ultimately just entertainment to me as my team doesn't play in it, but I still prefer to watch something like Chelsea vs Stoke (really admire Mourinho, they're kinda like my second team) than England vs Costa Rica. I watched the Eng v Bra friendlies over the last couple of years, but only because I wanted to watch Brazil! Same with the Spain friendly. The Classicos are my favourite games to watch, amazing talent but also lots of passion.

GLOL :lol: Sorry, I was expecting this to be about a garage who had ripped you off, not an actual monkey physically ripping them off! £220 seems quite reasonable for the whole lot. Can't help any more than that, sorry.

Once you go black... Black wheels on black cars are ace. I love mine, although I do have a silver lip to highlight the shape.

Be amazed if it wasn't Autoglass. The screen swap on a Zed is very straightforward, nothing really to worry about.

Personally, I actually don't care if the England team is any good or not. I much prefer club level competitions to international ones, so as long as the league and European games don't ever suffer then I'm really not fussed if England drop outside the top 30 teams in the world.

It won't be a K20. That engine no longer passes emissions. It'll be a normal 4-pot with a turbo strapped to it. And it'll be slower than the Renault.

You said it

English football is very good. It's the England national team that's gash.

On a related note, I did a survey a few years back asking whether people bought their Zed mainly for the looks or for the drive, and the majority said for the looks. I found that odd.

Oops, fixed

Video, with captions! So, so frustrating. Why he was moving over for other stuff but not me, I've no idea. Anyway, I was looking back over older vids today, and I found one of me on the same track layout but in my old VXR220. 260bhp, 280lb/ft, 800kgs, A048s. Unsurprisingly I was about 4-5 secs a lap slower than that on Saturday, and yet my cornering speeds were actually higher in the MR2! Very surprising, and it's nice to know that my driving clearly has come on in the last few years. Still nowhere close to where I'd like to be, but I do enjoy driving slow cars to their limits. Sadly the RX8 that my mate took decided to have a seized caliper early doors, so we didn't get a proper run out in that. One of the pitfalls of running track sheds on a budget, I guess.

I was shockingly poor at Flashback, I don't ever want to subject myself to that kind of humiliation again

Yay, congrats Andrew & Fran! Hope you both had a great day, and know exactly what you want from your next wedding

The 200 is the better version, but the 197 is still ace.

I think they got the looks of the Corsa VXR spot-on, I've said that before. Looks great to my eyes. I wouldn't get one over the equivalent Clio though, it's just a much better car in every other area. May not be turbo, but it's a better drive.