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Hang on a minute... Bloke goes to buy a car. Puts down deposit on promise of work being done. Work gets done, and then the bloke calls up and says "oh sorry, I don't want the car anymore, can I have my deposit back?". Sorry, but why should the dealer have to suffer in any way, shape or form for this? Not only do you have his cost for the actual spraying that's come from another party (I assume), but you've also got his time for sorting it all out and then his time having the car in stock and not trying to sell it. That's a lot of wasted time and money, and he's not in the job to simply do people a favour. If you put down a deposit on a car and then pull out, you should lose the whole lot. A deposit is there for the protection of both parties, and if one person puuls out why should the other suffer any kind of loss at all? Sure, as a gesture of goodwill he may want to give some back, but given you're unlikely to go back there to buy anything from him then I wouldn't blame him for keeping the lot. Sorry chaps, this is the real world where people have to make a living. He is fully entitled to keep the lot assuming the paperwork is correct, credit card or not, and if the paperwork isn't correct only then does it become the dealer's problem.

Yup, all gone.

Stunning.

£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.

TADTS

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.