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Repmobile with a red badge. Integra Type R is where it's at

Hang on, I thought we were on about it looking like the GTR at the rear end because of the similarity from the rear 3/4 window back, and the roofline? Lights are irrelevant, they've been around on various marques for donkey's years.

Children can be the most irritating things ever to exist on the planet. If you didn't particularly want the child in the first place (no idea if that was the case here), then it's probably very easy to harbour resentment towards it. That's just a small step and a seriously troubled mind away from what we have in the case here.

The trouble we have now isn't the fact the limits are too high, it's that people simply don't care. How many of these people were caught fractionally over the limit, and how many miles over? I'm willing to be the latter exceeds the former by a significant amount. Amongst many communities in the country it's considered perfectly fine to drink drive, as there's no-one around to hit apart from yourself. Likewise I see many youngsters not giving a toss about this either, and they won't be a little over the limit but a good amount over. People getting caught the day after the night before by a sliver over doesn't bother me, it's the muppets who drink to oblivion but still drive anyway that I'd like to see targetted.

Not really. Coffee, Red Bull, prescription drugs, even like Benylin cough syrup would count. Pretty sure we've all driven under the influence if you counted things like that, although I doubt they used caffeine in their stats.

Heh, sod's law. I don't think you've got much cause to complain. They'll say that 0.5Mb out of a 3Mb max isn't that bad, and to be fair it's not (I used to get the same half meg from an 8Mb line, 'tis why i switched to Infinity the second it came out). It will all come down to the contract, and what it says about fair speed. What ISP and connection is the block WiFi using? Surely it's the same copper from BT, so you might just need a new master socket wiring in and a reset of the router and line, and away you go.

People, in general, are idiots. I prefer a bit of self-deprecating humour when it comes to stuff like that, hence referring to the VXR220 as a canoe, the 350Z as a Datsun, the 911 as a Beetle and the MX5 as the sheddy spawn of Satan. Get in there first, ruin the jokes for them, they've got nowhere to go then.

Good luck is all I'll say. Why did you not just pay £15 for the block wifi?

That looks 'shopped to me. The red car, anyway.

No such thing as inside lane, outside lane, slow or middle or fast lanes. It's Lane 1 for the lane furthest from the opposite carriageway, and then Lane 2 for the one next to that, and so on and so forth.

Actually, that's a really good idea. Stops Billy Money Bags turning 17 and getting his rich daddy to buy him an Enzo that he then bins. No idea how you'd fairly rank the cars, and you'd have to allow for progression of technology (i.e. even a boggo 1.8 diesel focus is massively quicker than anything I owned as a youngster), but I like that idea a lot. It won't solve all the problems, but it's a good start.

0-60 won't tell you if you're losing power. That can be affected by more things driver-related than engine-related. What you need to do is time yourself in gear, and in just the one gear. Say, 30-70 in 3rd at WOT. Any timing app will work for that.

Ah, I see.

I don't know, I guess there's no real answer. Well, there is, but it involves putting a shed load more police on the road to catch poor driving and not just speeders, but it'll never happen.

And then you can drive like a tit when they remove the tracker, according to your theory

£8K as a CatD?! Was he blind, drunk, or just blind drunk?

How else do you train drivers and ensure driving standards remain high? Personally I'm all for the name and shame (using ANPR to broadcast number plates of people who are driving like an idiot, and using that word too), but it'll never happen because everyone is afraid of offending any one. I genuinely can't see an alternative to frequent retests. Not as in the same as the standard driving test, but more based on observation and car control rather than making you reverse park.

£4K? That's a punt, could be as low as £3K. How much did you pay for it, and when did you buy it?

For the record, I'm completely against any kind of enforced black box, even for speeders or the newly passed. Insist they have them, and it's a slippery slope until we all have one and fun hoons are essentially banned. That would be an incredibly dark day for motoring, mark my words. Docwra has it right when he mentions that there is appalling driving standards in this country, and that is far more of an issue than the current speed limits with regards to non-flowing traffic as well as accidents. Until we sort this out by compulsory retests every few years, it'll never go away. Even now, I get close to feeling physically sick if I'm on a multi-lane road and there is a gap to my left I could pull into, so I do so. Pull over I mean, not be sick I've no idea how MLMs can just sit there and not realise that they ARE the problem.

Remove all speed limits. They're ridiculous and blanket that cause people to either break the law, or drive too fast whilst staying legal, or simply play too safe and hold everybody up. 30mph past a school at 3pm is too fast, no arguments there. Even 20mph could well be too fast. However, the same bit of road at 3am could safely be taken at maybe 50mph with no problem. 70mph on a clear motorway is too slow, but in fog that 70mph on the same motorway is lethal. What we need is to keep the current limits, but make them recommendations. If you stay under that, then great, no probs, usual rules apply. If you choose to exceed them and there is an incident, then you should be guilty until presumed innocent. If you are genuinely still driving safely at speed, and the incident is the fault of someone else, then stand up in court and be prepared to defend yourself and justify it. If you can't, then the speed wasn't safe. Alternatively just bin all speed limits and using a version of the above idea, just prosecute for dangerous driving if the speed was not safe/appropriate.

Hola guapa, and uno pepito por favor. Got me through everything when I lived in GC.

I have a few thoughts on this. First off, doing that speed in those conditions in that car on that road is not inherently dangerous. If it was, then the autobahn would've self-destructed by now. What is dangerous is that your average road user is simply not expecting anyone to be doing that kind of speed, and thus is ill-prepared to either judge closing distances or otherwise predict the speed of the vehicle. At that speed you give yourself no chance to move if someone pulls out. Hell, it's bad enough at 70mph at times. This is why doing the ton on our roads isn't a very good idea, ignoring the legality of it or not. Being banned for three years and taking an extended retest is pretty harsh, but only if the person banned isn't going to carry on driving any way. His attitude was awful, but if the judge wasn't prepared to come on down on him like a ton of bricks then I struggle to get angry about it. He'd only have appealed anyway, which probably would've been allowed. That said, I'm far more upset about this sentence than I am the original 18 months given to Stuart Hall, so perhaps if enough people complain about it then it will be doubled? Seems to be the way to get things done, mob rule and all that.

Still doesn't break down the penalty charges, unless I'm missing the obvious.

You're kidding, that's the performance bargain of the decade so far! With those looks, and that much grunt along with that noise, it's just a shame they don't make them in RHD.

What I'd like to know is how much of that is penalty charges.