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I'm lost on that one mate, are you saying he should've got more than the 18mths originally? Or that the 3 years was not enough?

There's a reason the ITR in cheap and unloved. Still, as long as you're happy, then go for it. Deciding on a car without ever having driven it is a very brave move though.

MX5, Elise/Exige, Boxster, Cayman, Jag F type (Im guessing anyway), you could probably shoehorn the Caterfields into that category as well. Agree the Zed isnt one though, its too heavy for a start and probably a bit too soft with it Goddammit you copied exactly what I was going to say!

Sadly, yes. See Stuart Hall for proof.

Of course it's a BMW. It'll be a Z4M which somehow he'll convince us all was an absolute bargain but when you do the maths it will still have cost him more by swapping cars every 5 mins

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.