sasha@lazytrips

Another alternative is do some weight saving. Throw out all the mats, etc, plasticky bits in the boot + spare wheel. Then buy yourself some lightened lexus-style rear lights, replace the awful Rays with some proper bo 20 inch x 12 inch wide rears for ultimate grip & traction and then drill a few holes along the length of the exhaust to increase airflow & improve downforce.

The absolutely best thing you can do is buy a specialized polarizing filter gadget. You stick these onto the fuel hoses going to the engine and they polarize all the molecules to align them all perfectly in a lattice just before injection giving you at least 50-60 bhp. Look for them on ebay for around £25.

Fear not! A slightly higher mileage car, but with an awesome rear + brand new custom-made exhaust system + new tyres is available at the end of August.

I had one of those two years ago. Reset the ECU and have had nothing ever since.

Buying a Panamera and worrying about MPG really don't go together in one sentence

My brother-in-law owns one and we've driven around Europe in it. My personal opinion is that there are far better small cars out there. Seating position is a bit like a bus driver, no steering feel, pants handling... in fact didn't like much about it at all. Just my personal 2c.

*** Note to mods: fresh photos will be coming up this coming weekend. *** Hi all, The time has come and no matter how sad I am about letting go, my beautiful zed is coming up for sale. I will be posting up a load of photos this weekend (hopefully there will be at least a 10-minute period with no rain), but here are some basic details. I appreciate that this is more than a lot of people will want to pay for the age & mileage, but there are some expensive bits on there & I want to see if there is somebody who wants these to start with. If not, I will part some of the expensive toys off. ** PLEASE NOTE: The car will be available to pick up at the end of August - I will be using it until then *** Some details: Kuro black UK car on an 04 plate (June 2004). I bought the car in September 2009 with 46k on the clock - the previous owner is a long-standing PistonHeads member. I have owned it for almost 3 years and the car now has 106k. 95% of this mileage was cruise control along motorways as I have commuted from Nottingham to Birmingham, Chester and London for work during this time and gone on a few European road trips. The car feels better now than when I first bought it. I am currently still driving the car and will do so until the end of August. I expect to put on another 1.5-2k miles in that time doing a weekly commute to Kent. Reason for sale: Buying a car with *slightly* more ponies under the bonnet - everything will be revealed in due time. Standard specs: UK Full GT Spec car including: Heated Leather seats in good condition Brembo brakes Cruise Control + all the sound buttons I will throw in the bluetooth dongle unless I decide to split some of the bits off the car at a later date Extras: Rota GTR wheels - black with red lip Rare red aluminium wheel nuts Falken 452 tyres all round. Fronts are brand new, rears went on very very recently (almost new) Facelift LED rear lights Custom-made Longlife HKS Hi-Power exact replica exhaust system fitted (true dual system with great sound & look) Extremely rare & expensive original Do-Luck rear bumper sourced from Japan with a floor spoiler EBC grooved discs + Ferodo DS2500 pads (imo best combo you can get this side of a big brake kit) + I have a full set of packaged Ferodo pads which could be thrown in depending on the buyer & price HEL Braided brake lines (red) Cosworth Panel filter Red Tommy Kaira style zed emblem on the back instead of the Nissan burger badge PIAA wipers Service history: Car has been serviced by Nissan before my purchase and at CS in Leicester (350z Specialists) during my ownership. Car has also had a trip to Abbey Motorsport for a number of jobs & improvements last summer (including new performance bushes & replaced bearings). Last major service at 100k included changing everything there is to change on the car: all fluids, spark plugs, belts, etc. Bad points: (because I am an honest guy) Some kerbing on the rotas - only on the lip and can easily be sorted BOSE system refuses to play CDs (very common issue) stone chips on the front & rear wheel arches (also very common) Some very minor scratches on a few of the plastic bits Can do with a new cupholder Price: £7,750. Please message me with any further questions. As per usual, no tyre kickers, time wasters or test pilots will be allowed near the car. I will need verified proof of fully comprehensive insurance with no excess before you can get near the keys. I am more than happy to take people out as passengers in Kent/Surrey area during the week or Nottingham at weekends. Not interested in part exchange.

Most likely one of a number of small problems - check your liquids as above and check your tyre sizes as staggering which is too far from the OEM set up could also do something similar.

I must be a major minority in thinking that engines which give you 100% of torque at all times, allow for pleasant listening to music/conversation in the car and can potentially go for thousands of miles without needing to fill up (give the technology 20 years) are a very good idea. Yes, a loud exhaust, big fat engine under the bonnet and all that jazz is cool right now, but I think once electric cars properly take over, the vast majority who are so stubborn right now will very quickly change their mind.

I was there on Sunday, but I'm guessing you're talking about today...

I may well be looking to sell in the next few weeks. Mine ticks all your boxes except mileage (I've personally done a lot of motorway miles to/from work). Black '04 plate UK GT zed with Rota GTR wheels, good tyres (new fronts going on tomorrow, rears recently changed), all the standard minor bits & bobs (braided lines, Ferodo pads, DBA grooved discs, panel filter, some nice red nuts + a brand new custom stainless steel true dual exhaust) + a very rare and expensive original Do-Luck rear bumper with a floor spoiler. I'll be putting up a full for sale thread in the next few weeks once I decide on price, etc, but thought I'd put up some initial info here.

Assuming that the average member pays £600 insurance and the cost of a change is £25, if 1 in 24 serious accidents would lead to the insurer not paying out because of your brakes being non-standard, you are better off paying. In any case, regardless of the odds, who wouldn't rather just pay £25 and not have the headache of taking risks potentially worth hundreds of thousands of pounds?

Didn't most companies factor in 10%, so you couldn't blame the speedo if you got caught speeding? I think legally they now have to make it accurate... although I have no source / evidence to back this up! Most cars' speedos overread exactly for this reason. You can't ever blame your speeding on the speedo if it is showing a higher speed than you are actually going. Modern cars are only typically 3-5% out at normal speeds, but have higher errors when you begin going over 200 kph. Incidentally at 251 kph (156 mph) on the autobahn, the car was still pulling very strong (I was gaining around 1-2 kph per second which is pretty decent at that speed). I just had to bail because of traffic ahead. I would be pretty confident that I would easily have maxed at higher than the speedo limit and it would appear that my limiter was either removed by a previous owner or doesn't work.

I've seen a few of them and to me they just look like a slightly better version of a lotus. I don't doubt the awesome performance, but the car just doesn't look like a supercar to me. Driving for a good 20-30 miles along the Ligurian coast just after passing the French border playing chase with an Enzo was a whole different story

At high speeds both the analogue and the digital reads are way out. On a recent trip I clocked 156mph in Germany on the Autobahn. The speedo was showing about 175mph on both of the car's clocks.

That Italian guy who looks like Mario Balotelli is pretty good.

I wonder what the setting is in the original pictures. Reminds me a lot of Heidelberg.

I feel sorry for the kids these days (lol, says me, at 28), took me long enough to pay off my loan, now they're racking up 9k / year! Hopefully those that were looking at doing "French History during the 1400s" or something simiarly useful for their career, will have the common sense not to! So what, they end up doing media studies and saving a planet as a result?! LOL To be fair, imo, this only affects your 'average' student. Some of the rich oxbridge students can still do whatever the f**k they want to do and will come out the other end with a high paid job. It's all connections and who you know nowadays. 1. I went to Oxford 2. I am not rich 3. I had no connections of any kind to use to get my first job 4. I can assure you that every person I went to university with was incredibly intelligent and did not go there because they were "rich" or "had connections" 5. Compared to a number of other universities around the country, there wasn't a single course on offer at Oxford that I could even remotely consider to be a mickey mouse subject

HR engine (2 air intakes) = more ponies, less torques. DE engine (1 air intake) = less ponies, more torques.

+1 on the above. I have managed to transport 4 Rays with tyres before with the only problem being the two wheels on the passenger seat wanting to move across every now and then

The thing with these types of incidents is that sometimes nerves + time is worth more than the moral high ground of attributing guilt. If you decide that your time attending court + increased insurance premiums for the next 5 years + potential court costs including defense fees if you lose + impact on personal life due to nerves/stress + the fact that you will have to sort your wheels out in the meantime regardless (you're unlikely to get any money particularly quickly even if you do somehow manage to get it) is worth it, then go ahead. In my book £60 a corner at the finest wheel refurb place you can find x2 (equivalent to 1 tank of petrol) is not worth losing my sleep over.

Your other option is to look through UK ads on this forum (or autotrader & pistonheads) and if there are some cars you like see if you can buy one for a fair bit less (can probably get similar amount of car for £8k) and either come over & drive it back or get someone else to drive it across.

Stopped taking your medication?

You would be able to do it, but would need a number of things changing out including your gearbox, mounting, all the cooling, etc, etc. All to get no increase in hp and only a marginal increase in torque? If you're sticking a V8 into the car (whether that is a sound choice is a separate question), surely the right option is to go with a Chevy block or a Mopar Hemi...

I keep wanting to post something, but then my exact thoughts magically appear on the page under the "Chesterfield" user name. Spooky.