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They're f*cking sh*t. If you want a tablet, get an iPad. The others are pure evil and I hate my Galaxy Tab as much as I hate things like chavved up riceboxes, mixed tyres and damp farts in packed lifts. I miss my iPad so much but the missus won't give it back to me now.

1. Driving style and track surface is the only way to manage tyre consumption unfortunately. If you're nice and smooth and don't spend every corner sideways then you'll use less rubber, just as you would on the road. The only caveat with that is that track days are a great time to explore the limits of your car in relative safety, which means that sliding around to an extent is a given! You'll also get far more tyre wear (3x to 10x est) on an abrasive surface on an airfield like Elvington than you will on a proper track like Silverstone. There is also the issue of what tyres you're using. A set of 452 or T1R will overheat and melt within a few laps on track so you'll kill those off pretty quickly, whereas something like the RE050A are much harder wearing (and also give you more grip too). Stuff like the R888s in the harder compounds give you the most grip which I've found also gives you the least tyre wear, as you don't slip so much. Trouble is they're £800 all round and you only get 4mm on the tyre to start with, so it's swings and roundabout with those. Tyre pressures are also critical, as underinflation leads to the shoulders wearing and overinflation leads to the middle going bald, so it's important to keep that in mind too. 2. No way to tell without more information. I could kill a set 4mm set off in one session (and have!) let alone one day, but I could also make them last 2-3 days if I was careful. 3. I had an almost identical setup and after 15K on the road + 6 ish trackdays I had more meat on them than I ever thought I would. Granted I'm not a heavy braker on track anyway, but I would've expected mine to have done that again easily. One thing I will say is that you're getting IMHO the best brake setup for the car available which so many people forget in aim of chasing 2-3bhp, so well done!

Snatch their hands off for the trade in price, and everyone should own an Elise or derivative at some point in their lives. Bit odd you preferred the 1.6 to the 1.8, given the relative power deliveries up to 6K rpm, but each to their own. Personally I don't like the Special Yellow Bus front end of the S2.5, but each to their own, they're all great cars. I'm not sure I'd want a CR as a DD though, a lightly used 1ZZ S with Touring or Super Touring pack would be a better buy I suspect from that point of view.

It's a must-have upgrade on the Zed IMHO. I had the whole kit, have a search back through my posts to find what I thought about the kit, but here's one for starters and because I'm nice here's another.

I've got a Cobra Trak 5 on mine (well, it's a rebranded Porsche one but that's what it really is) and it's awesome but a faff. Very sensitive though and I'm confident that it works as it should, only £210 per year too. Tbh though I'd be moving insurers if they want a tracker on a 370Z, that's ridiculous. Do you live in the Bronx?!

WANT NAO

I'd just like my wedding on Christmas Eve to go without a problem. That would be enough for me this year. However, since that's far too sensible I'd also like Michelin to announce N-rated versions of those wonder Pilot Super Sports and a pair of 235/35/19 and a pair of 305/30/19 to be sitting at the end of my bed Christmas morning. Actually that might be a bit awkward since I'll be in the wedding suite at the hotel then, so if Santa can drop them off at my house instead that would be great!

1M, not M1

Z4MCs are far rarer than any Zed, you sure you're not just seeing regular Z4Cs? When on the move and on the fun roads, a Z4MC is going to be significantly quicker than a 370, but again it depends on what you're after. Running costs will be more for the BMW, but I strongly suspect worth every penny and the costs will be offset by the lesser depreciation costs.

No contest, Z4M every day. It's a stunning design that will not date IMHO, and whilst the 370Z is no doubt a great car in it's own right it cannot compete with that wonderful straight six and snicky gear change. As ever, drive both and see what you think as you may prefer the fussiness of the Zed interior to the blandness of the Bee-Em, I suspect you'll vastly prefer the drive of the German. They just look so good

£500 incl tyres so far on eBay

Do the tyres, and get something decent this time If it still doesn't solve it, then it's the wheels themselves and at least you'll have a decent set of tyres you can then sell on to recoup the cost if you want to put the crappy tyres back on. The other option would be to source some wheels from eBay, but then you're back on unknown quantities but will be half the price for a set of wheels.

No no no no no no NO This is a classic racing Porsche: That other thing is a monstrosity.

All Ghillied Up

Seriously? What kind of retard would actually sit there and watch crap like that on FB? I hate MP games so I'll pick this up in a couple of years to whizz through the SP bit over a weekend. Still haven't played Blops yet for the same reason. It's such a shame they concentrate so heavily on the MP bit as the CoD games used to be a day-one for me, but I was bitten so harshly over MW2 and the poor 3 hours of SP gameplay from it that I'd rather save the cash now. MW1 still remains the absolute pinnacle of the series for me, it was perfect in every single way.

The trouble I have with 3D movies is that I've yet to see one that doesn't use the 3D as a gimmick to hide a fairly poor film underneath (yes, I'm looking straight at you Avatar!). In theory as an absolute gadget freak I should've bought into 3D long ago, but I just can't see the point when I watch a film for the story as much as the glitzy special effects, and when the story is crap then why would I want to watch it? I wouldn't do it in 2D, so why should 3D make a difference? Also every 3D TV I've tried, passive or active, focuses on the centre of the screen being in perfect focus but leaving the edges a blur. That's highly distracting IMHO, and another reason why a decent 2D screen is still the way to go for me personally. I just can't see 3D getting the market penetration for at least another 3-5 years yet in terms of content delivery (a combination of films, games and more importantly terrestrial broadcasts) which is why I'm not keen on shelling out.

Everything is an option on the German stuff! Every bugger specs them though as apparently they're a must-have for re-sale I'd rather save the £500 and get a bit of interior trim in leather instead!

Inspired by a recent post on here, and not wanting to take that thread off course, I thought I'd start a new one instead. I'm nice like that, y'see. So yeah, parking aids. Sensors or cameras, whatever. I have one very simple opinion on these: If you need them to be able to park a car properly, then you really shouldn't be on the road. End of. Everyone was taught to park properly on their driving tests, and cars haven't changed that much that suddenly it's a task of superhuman proportions. In fact, you've now got PAS in just about everything along with stupidly large (and electrically operated!) wing mirrors, so it's easier than it's ever been. I can understand that when you get a new car you're a little unsure at first of the dimensions, and you'll end up parking 2ft further away from the kerb than you intend to, but a couple of weeks down the line you should be fine. NO-ONE NEEDS CAMERAS OR THOSE HORRIBLE LITTLE BEEPING BUMPER-ACNE THINGS. You have eyes and a brain, so use them. Now, if you're driving one of those huuuuuuuuuge lorry things that's about a million feet long then by all means load yourself up with cameras on the back end of those bad boys, but on a common or garden car? Nah. It's pure laziness and they're hardly that clever anyway, as the ones on my car prove when they beep incessantly at me warning me that I have a wall either side when reversing straight out of my garage. And no, I didn't spec them from new I cannot be the only person who gets wound up by people who insist that they need this help for simple low-speed manoeuvring? I shall hereby call them parking AIDS from now on, such is their blight on the world of driving. Who's with me?! *PS Don't take this post too seriously, whilst I'm serious that they're hardly a necessity for driving I'm only using some words for effect, so please don't get too p*ssy about this thread. Fanks!

No offence, but surely parking an inch further away from the kerb would solve this issue for free? That's kinda what people have been doing for the last hundred years without too much difficulty.

It doesn't unless it's a US car. I found out the expensive way

I can categorically state for the record that the image in question has never been Photoshopped. It may, however, have been altered slightly with GIMP as I don't have PS at work. All I did though was alter the levels a bit, as the LED 'On' light on the camera caught a slight reflection of the cat's whiskers which totally killed the entire shot.

Here's my belated submission: It's a sleeping black cat laying next to a Kuro 350Z with black wheels outside a barn painted black in the middle of the countryside on a cloudy night. I think I captured the essence of the blissful innocence of the feline contrasting nicely with the angry masculinity of the car, and all set to the simple elegance of a working farm that embodies the quintessential Britishness.

Agreed. Trouble is that it is half decent everywhere else in the world Have you asked Siri who his daddy is yet?

Welcome to the 21st century To be fair to both them and you it wouldn't have hurt to leave it in, but then technology does need to move forward at some point.

Blimey, that time of the month is it sweetheart?