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Do it, OEM one is very restrictive.

Odd, I was thinking the same about the GTR!

Lols, blame the autocorrect for that brilliantly unintended slip there!

Loads of room for four soft bags, you'll be fine

Possibly moisture getting into a coilpack as well if it's only happening first thing.

It's absolutely bloody horrible and I actively avoid forums that have it. It makes everything look untidy and as soon as you flick a mouse over a title it then blocks up half the page and you spend all your time trying to position the cursor in a place where it's not touching anything just so you can read the damn screen. Horrible, irritating design. If we must have it then please give us the option to turn it off (only run it on the 350 or 370 setting?), but please don't make it compulsory.

Lucky sod, great choice

Pretty good cheers mate, I'm just about recovered from the wedding on Xmas Eve, which went rally well with no hiccups at all! The wife is now downstairs making me some dinner, so I think I've just about got her trained too

Ah, I wondered why I found that free in the app store earlier...!

I've been using Espuma Revolution at 10:1 on my polished lip wheels for well over a year now, and have had zero side effects with it. Well, apart from very clean wheels of course!

*tyre

Basically, they're the best tyre you can buy for any car right now period, go treat your car to them Greekman runs them on his Zed, he'd be able to give you more details if you need, but nothing else you can buy will even get close to the PSS.

At that price point, I'd only be looking at the VUS or the Contis. Pirelli tyres are absolutely gash for feel these days sadly so I wouldn't even consider them, I've never used the Contis but have yet to hear a bad thing about them, but I have tried the VUS and adore them. Outright grip isn't massive (certainly not a patch on the Bridgestones you're currently running) but you do get masses of feedback through them so you can really exploit the chassis. That said, if you're happy with what you've got on now (and the RE050s are better than all the others you mention), don't bother changing. Stick with what you know if you're happy with it.

Exactly, schoolkids! They don't know any better though, proper adults really should.

They were supremely cool back in the day when I were a lad, 13 and desperate for the best trainers out there, but now they just look a bit chav for me. Come to think of it, so do most trainers really.

I think that was just a lot of very early speculation. It'll be a triple-turbo lump, with some amazing plumbing no doubt. Someone far cleverer than me did the maths once on just how much energy you'd need to make an electric supercharger feasible, and it came back with something like 14 car batteries to power the thing which would make the weight gain far worse than any potential power increase.

Oi, I resemble that comment!!! Bizarrely enough there's not much brand favouritism on the Porker boards I inhabit, and they actively praise other cars whether it's a Ferrari for the noise, an Aston for the styling, or even a Mondeo estate for the ability to carry everything around in. It does seem that the cheaper the car, the more fanboys it seems to attract. Maybe once you get over a certain level of spending you don't feel like you have to justify your purchase any more? I dunno.

That is absolutely beautiful

Couldn't agree with you more. It's verging on downright rudeness when folks come onto a forum, ask for a load of help but never say please or thank you, or let us know the outcome.

8:08 for the Megane at the Ring. That's quite a bit faster over a distance than the 350Z. It is £3800 more than the standard 250 Megane, but it also has a load of extras on top that the Cup doesn't. Utter performance bargain

Just for the record, saying "if you were a bloke I'd have knocked you out" isn't assault or a threat or anything they can be charged with. Same deal as if you say "if I wasn't such a nice guy I'd kill you over this". Worry more about the cost than the words. Stick and stones...

How abusive to them was your girlfriend? Two sides and all that, and I know how angry I'd be if someone broke something of mine and then denied it, so she'd be right to get angry but not abusive. If some woman came ranting and swearing at me I'd give her both barrels back, just for equality. Write a letter to them claiming for the damage caused, keeping all receipts etc as proof she was there. If they don't cough up, then go to small claims court.

Tucking them away for the winter for one

Interesting question, not one I'd thought of. Working on made up figures just for the illustration and assuming dry conditions, I suspect the effect on braking would look like this: RE040s on a 45 profile i.e. standard = 100% normal braking 452s on a 45 profile = 90% normal braking 452s on a 40 profile = 92% normal braking due to lower weight than the above tyres PS2s on a 45 profile = 115% normal braking R888s on a 40 profile = 140% normal braking Obviously once you move into wet territory or start looking at different wheel and brake setups you'd have much more variables to play with.

I know I'm labouring the point here a bit, but neither myself nor my brother did. Before I bought my first sports car, an MR2, the other choices were an Impreza, a Focus RS, and an MG ZS180. Hardly similar cars at all. Before the Zed, my brother had on his list an Astra VXR and a Focus ST before deciding on the Zed. Again, for him it was about looking at the stats and going from there, along with the style of the overall package. You and me know more about these things so when deciding on a new car we'd work out what we actually wanted from the car (RWD or FWD, 2 seat or 4 seat, NA or FI etc) and then work out which cars fitted those criteria. Joe Public doesn't, he just wants something that he can show off to his mates in, whether that's with a badge (BMW 318i owners) or with masses of power (Mazda3 MPS owners). Examples used for effect, in case anyone takes offence!