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I'm only going on what the invoice said for the Cayman R that my brother bought last month, but 2 years is definitely included and the 3rd year is a non-optional option, IYSWIM. Same goes for the 3rd year of Porsche Assist too, but at least the warranty cost is significantly reduced (£660 down from the £1K). Bit of a con doing it like that, I agree, but it's no different to half the other stuff that Porsche insist you have on a UK-sourced car (windscreen tints is the one that comes to mind, also the tracker on the 911 and the mats on the Boxster IIRC).

Poor Jarno, feel sorry for the guy but it was always coming after his constant whinging about the power steering. I don't mind Petrov as a driver, it's the fact that he's only been chosen because of the money behind him that irks me.

Nah. You'd be lucky to lose that in a year. Put it this way, my car has sat now for about 4 weeks and I'd have no hesitation in jumping in and driving the arse off it without any regards to the fuel.

Supose you get what you pay for. You only get a standard 1 year warranty on Porsche and the extention is very expensive from memory, but I think you get a discount on it if you by on purchase day of the car? Full 3 years now on brand new stuff, extended warranty after that is just over £1K a year, but like I say it covers everything. You get 2 years full warranty on the used cars too, which is still pretty good.

I get that with non-OEM warranties, but would've expected Nissan just to carry on the usual warranty as-is. Makes me realise that whilst the Porsche one is restrictive in terms of mods, the fact it covers everything bumper-to-bumper for 10 years and doesn't shift on price makes it very good.

182 makes 50mph feel like 100mph. Zed makes 100mph feel like 50mph.

I've never done a bad mod to any of my cars. Ever. Well, except the chrome slats on the side intakes on my MR2. They were a bit naff. Or maybe the two offcuts of timber I used to screw a fire extinguisher bracket into on said MR2. Desperately needed something to hold it in place. Nor the spraying of the dash pod in Cheapo-Silver spray paint, again on the MR2. Looked like a 6-year old had been let loose with a can of paint for the first time, and given a bunch of Jelly Babies and told to go crazy.

Surely the Nissan ExWar covers everything that is normally covered in their normal 3 year warranty?

This is one of the clearest warranty issues I've seen for a long time. New roof, nothing else will do. Toyota once changed my roof on my MR2 three times, in the end they sent it to Aston Martin to put the bloody thing on for them!

Different drivers, different days, 370Z figure is on a completely different track layout too.

Good point about the 182 engine, it's still the best engine I've ever had the privilege of ragging to the redline. It's a right little screamer over 5K RPM, love it!

A 182 will be quicker on track and on the roads. A 350Z will be more satisfying to learn to drive quickly, and is a far more refined drive. Depends on what you want really.

What offset are they?

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Do it now, or you'll never do it. Suck up any money lost and do it full-time, you'll get the hands on experience you'll need that colleges don't teach these days. We've got a young lad (16) started with us and his one day a week at college is taken up by H&S courses of learning how to lift boxes, and maffs and English tests. I kid you not, the kid learns nothing about plumbing there. The building trade is still very quiet (more or less), so you may struggle to get work right now. That said, decent Part P sparkies can charge what they want, it just costs a load to get there in both money and effort. Also, and don't take this the wrong way, but £12K a year is shockingly bad money. I'd be doing something I enjoyed at the least if I was earning that little a year, so honestly you don't really have much to lose apart from not having a job at all. I wish I'd done it years ago truth be told, I'd have loved to be a copper of any kind but there's no opportunities for that now.

Spoilers look pretty. Wings change the air movement across the car. I wouldn't put a wing on my car unless I was very confident of what difference it would make to the aero, but I'd happily put a spoiler on to make it look a bit nicer.

Do you have even the remotest clue as to how brakes or ABS actually work??!!

It's a car. Drifting isn't going to break it.

Another +1 for DMS.

It has been reported, in every bit of coverage I've read/seen they've mentioned it. It's not as important as the main story though, and it only happened because Suarez ignored Evra.

Except that the insurance company is far less likely to want to insure you if you're not the legal owner of the car. You will find that most won't touch you, and the ones that do won't be that cheap at all. What you really want to do is to go and actually purchase a very cheap snotter (like an '87 2CV) and then do the same thing, which is perfectly legal and you'll find that 99% of insurers will want your business, so it'll come out a bit cheaper. £100 purchase cost of a proper shed could save you that easy in the first year or two of ownership. The question has been posed before as to how much of a car you actually have to own before it's no longer a car: For example, a car without doors and an engine is still a car, but what if you remove literally everything and are left with just the chassis? I'd say that was still a car (albeit a stripped one, but classics going in for major restoration work can often be found like that). What about if you cut the A-pillars off? Still a car, yes? So how much can be removed? Technically you only need own the chassis plate to register a vehicle, but I'm not sure if that would actually count as a car in a court of law...

One of the sports reporters on Sky earlier today made an interesting point about all this, and how it could be stopped from getting this far again. With regards to the handshake now being a huge thing (JT & Bridge, as well as Evra and Suarez), instead of just being what you should do to be sportsman-like, if the FA make it mandatory to have a handshake with your opposition then any player not doing it can be charged with bringing the game into disrepute and given a punishment from there as necessary. It would mean an end to the whole will-he-won't-he thing we've had of late, and make it a lot easier for the FA to act over stuff like this.