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£50K puts it firmly in halo car territory. Hopefully it'll drive as good as it looks, but that's no certainty. I wouldn't spend my money on one, not at that price.

Good video 'Need' is a relative term though. Some cars need them else they're undriveable, others don't really need them from the factory but it's a nice thing to add on later. Elises don't have them, for example, and an LSD isn't considered a must-do upgrade by any means.

Similar. WRX will be better than a Zed, I'd expect to see about 28 on the combined. The STi gets 25mpg during the week but that's 80% motorway, when I drive it at the weekends you can see that drop into the high teens with ease. Same goes for the Zed though, so I'd say they're about equal.

Putting 'turbo' and 'sport' in the title doesn't remove the fact it's a diesel repmobile Mate's wife has got one to use as her daily, remarkably competent at what it does and rarely fails too. Apart from when the rear brakes bind, as that was a huge PITA to fix!

If it looks like a cheap copy of a cheap exhaust... Take a punt if you want, you could always sell it back to close what you paid for it if it's no good. Hell, even if you can't it's only £150.

Nope, same as the WRX so 10K or 1 year. That's for the newage cars, I'd expect the classic ones to be the same though. They're really nowhere near as highly strung as the Evos are. My other half commutes every day in hers, 50-odd miles. No problems at all.

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It's all about selective racism. If you hate pikeys or dole monkeys, then that's fine. If you hate black people or gay folks, then that's bad. Even the terms I've used there, on purpose, demonstrate nicely what's acceptable and what isn't. It's very easy to place the bigot card, but standing up to it is incredibly difficult if you're in the public eye.

MANLY TRUCKS ARE MANLY I'd love an F350 for work.

Then why didn't Webber finish second last year? Or the year before?

Although obviously Louisa is a lovely name, of course! *grabs shovel*

Lols, you know what I meant!

Amen brother. Amen.

Ah, not quite the exact thing you quoted then

Exactly. Whilst I've no doubt that the GT-R is a great bit of kit, remove a couple of hundred kg from it and it'd be even better, Thinking about Mizuno-san's statement: Best for speed: Determined by power and drag coefficient. GTR has plenty of one, but is lacking on the other. Best for acceleration: Power to weight combined with driven wheels. GTR is poor on PtW (relatively speaking), but has immense traction from the 4WD. Best for performance: Heh, define 'performance'! Yeah, I'll give him this one alright, no doubt the GTR has stonking performance figures. What we really want is a sub-1000kg car with 500bhp and 4WD that looks like a Very Smooth Thing.

Nope, not on 9x7 cars onwards.

He's also got a vested interest in selling something that weighs as much as a small battleship. If a heavy car was the way to go, they'd be racing them everywhere. For speed, add lightness.

This is my exact point, coat the inside of waste pipes/toilets/urinals/traps in that stuff and you would never, ever block it up as it would be 99% impossible to do. Okay, so it'd put me out of business, but I reckon there's a good line in installing waste pipe like that instead.

There's a lot to be said for a big car with a huge amount of power, or more importantly torque. Look at something like a Phantom: Over two tons, but it will pull without effort. Weight though, I can never get rid of enough in a car. Especially unsprung weight, it can make all the difference and certainly does on the 350Z as anyone who's gone from OEM 18"s to the Rays will confirm. It's like night and day.

Looked into that stuff recently. Sadly it doesn't last very long right now, however I'm very excited for what it could mean in the future if they can perfect it. Imagine car paint made of that stuff. You'd never wash a car again! Other non-automotive uses would be kitchen worktops, bathrooms, waste pipes (they'd never block!), spectacles... The list is endless really.

Your username is awesome

The 911 is also on 20K/2 year intervals. No way do I leave it that long between oil changes though.

And you're surprised an impressive bit of delicate engineering is expensive to replace when it goes wrong? If you stick with the main dealers, the cost is always around £100p/h, regardless of brand. Kyle is spot-on when he talks about comparing service costs between marques, as they're not that different anymore. Granted, an annual service on a Ferrari is going to be significantly more than on a Micra, but a Zed, a Cayman or a 135i are all going to be in the same ballpark.

Ah, you found the guffinsprocket!

Without a shadow of a doubt. The STi has a better constructed engine, a 6 spd 'box and not made from chocolate, different chassis bits, better brakes etc. You could tune a WRX up to give similar power to a stock STi, but you'd need to do the gearbox and brakes too so it would be cheaper to get an STi in the first place.