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Neither. It's whoever the seller wants to sell to. I'd sell to the person who offered me more, or the person I feel is more likely to pay. For example, I'd rather sell to you Ian than random bloke, even if they technically got there first. If you must have an answer out of me, all else being equal then I'd sell to the person who actually PM'd first.

Which Z4? E85 or E89? I can tell you a well-driven E85 3L can keep up with a poorly driven VXR220 on a tight track Mate of mine has just bought a Z4M ragtop, lovely car and that engine is to die for.

Not full version, no. Not sure if something like Adblock could be used to block all images and just give you text, or if it downloads it first and then blocks it.

You could have said something really awesome, like a 0-60 of 3.2 secs and a top speed of 204 mph, they'd probably have printed that too

Surely no-one with any brains at all takes anything What Car? says seriously these days, do they?

I don't get the necessity to own a rare car. I couldn't give a toss if I was the only person in the world to have one or everybody had one, I just buy the car that's right for me. How many may or may not exist of a particular model is irrelevant, unless I'm buying a car for an investment.

Ring insurer, tell them you're fitting decats, let them decide what it goes under.

Search button is at the top of the forum. Have a practice, you'll soon pick it up

For the record, I'm six years older than you. I always thought you were like 20, 22 max.

Wimps I'd like to take my brother's Cayman R to a Vmax day, just see how close it is to my 911. The Impreza would be good fun too, but the gearing is so short I've no doubt we'd hit the limiter in that.

No doubt there's more skill than the simplistic view of it I gave, but it's still about as basic a version of motorsport as you can get. I reckon once you get onto the silly power things of 800bhp and up then it probably does get quite interesting from a driving perspective, but I just can't see the thrill of doing it in a normal car. Hell, even when I did Vmax in the 911 the fun was from seeing how big your balls were by getting the highest top speed before braking, and not from the actual driving bit. Granted, that was auto over manual, but I just don't think that straight line stuff is for me in normal cars. Soz.

Nah, you'd be fine with anything this side of sandpaper really.

Worst part of that pic is that I know exactly where that shop is, I've been to the mall there a good few times

TYRES FFS

A good cutting compound should do it, if doing it by hand then you can be a little more agressive too. Try some Megs Ultimate Compound and see where that gets you, if a good ol' fashioned claying doesn't shift it.

I'd have said more terrible twos at times!

Any reason we're not looking at a 320d estate?

I had my first sports car at 23, MR2 mk3. I never wanted to take it to a drag strip, sorry. Each to their own, I just prefer something that takes a little more skill to master than just launching. I didn't mean taking it seriously by stripping the car, I meant take it seriously as a frame of reference for a real-world 0-60 time for a HR car, which was the point of your original post, was it not? Look, I'm sure you'll have a super time living your life a quarter mile at a time, my point was more to treat it as a fun day out rather than a technical exercise. I have no idea how old you are, but out of curiosity how old do you think I actually am?!

If you really want to test your performance you need to do a Vmax day, but they're not the easiest of things in the world to get on if you don't have something vaguely interesting. I'd love to see some of the big power guys on here go up against some of the more exotic things, that would be great to watch

Then what's the point? The way I see it, you have two options: 1. Go for fun, have a laugh, don't worry about competition or comparison 2. Take it seriously, give it the best you possibly can and sod mechanical sympathy, come away with some decent results I suspect you may be disappointed. Come across something like a Focus RS and you'll likely lose quite badly, but I know which I'd rather be driving down the twisty lanes. Neil has it spot-on here, IMHO.

I recognise that bit!

If you can prove me wrong you'd be doing a massive service to the community as a whole, and for once I would actually enjoy being wrong. Go on then, who do you use that covers the above?

Very odd, perhaps it was because they didn't trust the PH lot then? Maybe assuming because they're all coming for free that they'd all be a bunch of filthy chavs? Bizarre. I might even email them and ask them.

I've Adblocked it for now, hopefully it won't effect other YT vids as well though.

I suppose if you consider how sometimes families go there, i guess it's wise to keep kids out Porsche don't care at PEC Silverstone and neither did Ferrari either at the Racing Day though, kids loved climbing in and sitting in the cars. Hook 'em while they're young, get the brand loyalty early