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Amazing! Just goes to show that skills are more important than technology. Would love to see someone take a Lancia Delta into a modern rally race, someone with great ability and see if they could give the current cars a run for their money

I get 23MPG for city driving, however when I use cruise control on the motorway journey up to the girlfriends house I stick it on 70mph and sit back achieving a very steady 35MPG quite easily, even known to have 37MPG if I slow it down a little 5mph. I'm very satisfied with its ability to be economical AND sporty!

Recently I've been getting the itch again to get back into tracking and racing around in a little cheapo that's been modified to go like stink. I was visiting some friends and they had their 205's with Mi16 engines, and Renault GT turbo's out at the weekend. The feeling of being in a wee stripped out rattling box, roaring along stinking of petrol and breaking my back with every pot hole appeals to me again now that I have the choice of the Zed as my daily driver and for reliability. However when I used to own my Sunny GTIR, it was my only car and I pay'd the local tuner to fix it for me every time, which was costly and taught me nothing. What I'm wanting to know is: is it difficult to learn the necessity's to strip/modify/rebuild your own engine? or even do the average engine job? I'm pretty good with my hands, and have tackled the odd clutch master cylinder now and then but I've always feared touching an engine. My expertise are in IT so if only I could transfer the same problem solving skills to mechanics, I'm hoping I could manage it? Anyone else out there that's IT based but turned their hands to modding and managed to pull it off? Or could even recommend me a decent book to read etc? Thanks in advance!

Congrats man! something I'm going to have to consider soon as well

You'll get MI5 chappin your door asking questions like that!

+1 Car looks lovely and will look great when lowered more. The green strips look completley out of place tho, and I would almost go as far as to say they spoil it. However! just my opinion

Lots of nice non-zed stuff there! If I had a few spare quid, I would have snapped some of it up. GL

RAC do theirs for 1 x £14.99 OR 3 x £24.99. When I was in the market I ended up paying for 4 separate checks. However 3 of those proved to uncover hidden secrets. Wish i'd just bought the 3 x special, but you don't think your ever gonna do another one! Grr!! http://www.rac.co.uk/products-services/car-data-checks/

Looking good mate

Pretty insane actually! He must have kept that lorry pretty straight to stop the car spinning off or flipping!

Am I the only one that never got into drifting? Ever since I was told that it technically isn't the fastest way to take a corner, I kind of lost interest in it I'm sure it would feel great to be the driver, but if he ain't winning the race then he can slide all day for all I care

Congrats! Now you got 6 months to find another job

They most always have unmarked reg plates as well, with no company names on them

thats pretty scary. The cop used the words 'evasive action'. Must have been like a baseball bat.

There's loads of them about now, even seen a few Skoda Octavias also. A friend also told me that he was caught speeding in Glasgow, at night time when it was dark, by the hand held gun, got points and fine. Pretty much just take my time everywhere cos its not worth it any more. Lucky escape mate, bet you let out a hell of a sigh when you seen the Merc gettin pulled

Don't really like any of it to be honest surely Porsche can do better than that.

Personaly, after the hassle you've had with this bunch of cowboys, I would be happy about the fact your actually getting the car now for real, take it off them on Sunday and be done with it. Chances of you getting money off any of them (from what you've described them in the past) will be none, and more phone calls/emails on deaf ears and more time wasting. Take the car, take the hit, and enjoy it.

+1

Does he scrape his roof? Nice car tho, slurp!

As bad as he may seem, he is still the best of a bad bunch right now. Not to get into a political debate, but hell mend us if the Torys get into power. Surely we haven't forgotten when they were last in charge. As already mentioned in this thread by Anubis I think, it's us that got ourselves into this financial mess, and us that are paying for it, and I use the word 'us' as a sweeping statement meaning the general idiots of our society that bit off more than they could chew. As bad as the current government feels right now, I think things could be a lot worse.

Nice, I really like 20's on the Zed. They seem to really fill the arches well. Good Job.

Was the scope mounted on your bow? That would be lethal!

How much do you expect it will cost you all in? I thought this stuff was pretty expensive!

Umm I think you'll find its the United Kingdom parliment, hence Scottish folk in the labour party. You might even find some MP's from Wales and NI in there as well!! shall we get rid of them as well, seeing as their clearly the bad ones hiking up petrol prices and stopping you from attacking foxes with packs of dogs. Shame on us. Sounds like the BNP would be a better party for someone like yourself who feels so strongly. I'm averaging around £140 (two tank fulls) a month on petrol for the Z and its my daily driver. This is tolerable for now, however I will struggle if it goes up even more! Trust me to find a girlfriend an hour and a half's drive away tho!

What a great idea!!