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Not good value compared with a secondhand roof or having the frame and material replaced, but fair considering it's brand-new OEM stuff including the mech with the warranty that goes with that.

Oh hai! I bet your MR2 used to get a lot of use in the winters ;) Wheels on it look ace though, and I'm not a fan of aftermarket stuff usually.

V brace, W brace, yeah that's what I meant

Holy crap £10K for a 296! Sod that. I'd want a 309 for that kind of money.

I bet it's the V-brace with the holes in. TADTS

Try and build the car from OEM spares for £25K. It'll come out around the £50K mark without labour, so £8K is about right. I didn't say it was good value, but it's not a million miles away from what I would consider fair.

That's about right for OEM replacement. Bearing in mind they will probably have to take the entire thing including mechanical mechanism at a whole unit from Nissan, I don't think that's unreasonable.

If it were me, and going from experience with other vehicles, I'd go for a material and frame replacement at the least. Less things to go wrong.

Now that is massively more impressive. Great skills!

GAIDMGLOL That explosion was amazing!

New to me. 'Tis all guitar wankery though. Impressive stuff, and sounds good, but it's just technique over substance. Anyone can pick a solo based around a scale, but it's much harder to write a proper song and stuff. That said, the first tecno thing was ace, that sh*t's hard to do on an acoustic.

What do they replace? The material, the frame, the mechanism?

FLOL :lol: What. The. Fook?!

And the best looking.* *I've never met him. And I'm drunk.

Anyone who gets over 24mpg isn't driving it properly.

You big girl! That's not the S2 liner, which one is it?

GLOL :lol: In that case, tunnel or train?

Have you not heard that phrase before? Was drummed into us as kids for graphs and that. "Along the corridor..." - The first number refers to the horizontal "...up the stairs!" - The second number refers to the vertical So a monitor as described would be a mere 1920 pixels wide, but a massive 12000 pixels high! S'okay, seeing as how the OP didn't get it either I think we can forgive you

If mine only costs me that, I'll consider it a bargain! Console plus half a dozen games plus controller plus charging pack plus steering wheel if they can get me one... Ouch.

Spoke to my local Game shop earlier. I'm off down there tomorrow to finalise my Xbone pre-order. Going to take all my 360 games that I'm never going to play ever again with me and chop them in, even if I only get a couple of quid for them. Apparently you can't pay for the console itself yet, only two days beforehand, but everything else can be sorted and done, including games and accessories. It's going to cost me an absolute fortune

Lower profile tyres don't equal better handling. You lose weight and gain turn-in response but lose feedback, and you also end up with a harder ride that can cause the car to move around unexpectedly on poor roads. Whether those downsides are offset by being able to run better tyres (in terms of grip, feedback and cost) is up to the individual.

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So which hotel are we booking, anyway?

Please not Hermes

This won't be a 918/P1/LF rival, they're extreme hypercars. This will be another shot across the bow of the 911 Turbo, as well as the new baby McLaren and oft-wished-for baby Ferrari. I guessed at 2000 kgs, but batteries are ridiculously heavy and that's roughly the weight of them in the aforementioned hypercars with roughly the same power output from their hybrid systems. Assuming the new GT-R will still have a big engine and 4WD, I can't see them removing 200kg of weight from elsewhere in the car to compensate. Mizuno-san has already said that he wanted the GT-R to be heavy as it settles down better on the road, so clearly he's happy with a bloater of a car and just chucking more power and technology at it. Whilst I'm glad that stuff like that exists, for me that's not the way forward.