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Midnight Blue is one of the rarest colours but will need a lot of attention, otherwise it'll just look like a black Zed. The Twilight Grey 350Z has the very rare Frost leather seats and looks to be in great condition. Tough choice really but the rarity of The Midnight would just about do it for me. Pete

You get the far more useful illuminated steering wheel controls instead . Pete

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Looks very nice (until you make it look lopsided by adding a front number plate) Pete

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Buy one of these in The States and they throw in a couple of assault rifles Pete

Doesn't have the off the line grunt of our old 250 bhp MR2 turbo and I reckon my chipped 195 bhp RS Turbo would be ahead at 30 mph. What's impressive is that it'll do 0-60 in around 7.5 seconds without using more than 4k revs. Pete

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How true, I can only think of a couple of drivers in the modern era say 1967 onwards who've won the championship in an inferior car. MSC is one of them, Keke Rosberg the other and you could possibly throw Alonso into the mix as well. Even at the peak of their powers I doubt that Schuey/Senna/Prost could have got the HRT into the points. On the other hand, the better drivers always seem to finish up in the best cars. Although I'm looking forward to this season I can't really look beyond Vettel and Alonso battling it out again. Pete

He's 25 and already has 26 wins, MSC had 19 wins at that stage of his career, Senna just 2. An all time great in the making? I think so. Pete

I've seen that car before, think it may have been a members car at one stage. Pete

As far as I know you can carry on washing it as you did before as long as you don't use a jet wash or take it to the local car wash. As different wrappers use different materials it'd be best to find out who wrapped the car and what special treatment it needs. Reading the blurb on a couple of car wrapping sites the wrap lasts about 5 years. Pete

Basically wrapping is applying a thin coloured skin of cellophane over the car, if done properly the outcome can be awesome although I'm not really a great fan of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsmPbPyE00 Pete

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This car was originally Blade Silver, in fact it is still registered with the DVLA as Silver. Having read through the description it would seem that the car has probably been wrapped rather than resprayed. Pete

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The new photos reveal a U.K rear bumper plus parking sensors. The final piece of the jigsaw is the six button steering wheel. Conclusion, a U.K GT that's either had a respray or is a one off that's been specially ordered by a dealer. Pete

It's more like 150 lbs difference but as of yet I've not seen a decent explanation of where that weight comes from. The interior and exterior differences are well documented but they would only add a minimal amount of weight if in fact they add anything at all. One can only imagine that Nissan did a whole shed load of modifications to the chassis as just about every other part would appear to be interchangeable. Difficult to see how you could add the weight of a person to a chassis without it being noticed but there you go . Pete

I tend to think it's a U.K car but the pictures are somewhat inconclusive. It does look to have a U.K front bumper complete with headlight washers and the radio has English writing on it but the other things that would clinch it aren't photographed. Now then, Ice white is not a Zed colour so no wonder its rare, the actual Zed colour is Pearl white. If it is indeed Pearl White and its a U.K car then its had a respray which is quite feasible for a Cat C. Pearl White 350's were only available in The U.K for a short period in 2008. Price? hard to say but in the region of 5.5k I guess?. As far as Cat C cars go they have to have a VOSA extended test before they can go back on the road, unlike Cat D cars you can be a bit more confident that it's been repaired properly. I doubt that anyone would go to the trouble of shipping a damaged car all the way from Japan where they'll almost certainly have different rules for disposing of Insurance write offs...but you never know. Welcome BTW. Pete

We get those things in Wales too but independence isn't an issue here. Of course, Wales and Scotland have to work to a fixed budget so when the government froze Council tax in England they gave Wales an extra 300 million but the Welsh Government chose not to freeze council tax but spent it on something else...probably putting up more Bi-Lingual signs or something . Pete

Same here really, I just hose it down now and again. However, when the mood strikes me and the weather is good I can spend the entire day on the Zeds. One of the reasons I don't do much in the winter is ..A, I don't like the cold and..B, our lane gets incredibly muddy due to vehicles reversing down and churning up the sodden verges. It's a very narrow lane and not really wide enough for a refuse lorry who is the main culprit. Pete

I'll have to think about this Pete

That's quite true, most of it is down to the ludicrous labour costs and vastly inflated genuine parts. There's another major factor too. Right up to the early 90's it was fairly common to replace entire body shells, chassis's would be straightened in a jig, just about anything was repairable. Then along came a new regulation (I don't know if this was introduced by The Government or the insurance companies) that damaged or stolen cars must be "catted". I can see why this is a good thing, it greatly reduced the number of written off cars (ones that we'd class as Cat A or B being returned to the roads as if nothing had happened, plus other things that back street dealers did. The negative part though is that if for example you have a new or almost new car and it gets damaged and classified as a C or D would you really want it it back, knowing that an HPI check is going to seriously devalue it. That's why most people just take the money these days. 25 years ago you had no choice, you had to take it back even if the damage was severe and the car was only a week old Pete

1 It's difficult to say how much GT 4's are worth really but reckon on a premium of anything from £500 to £2,000, an exceptional one maybe £3k. 2 he often has these in stock. Pete

There are probably lower but my 55 reg has 15,138 on the clock. Caroline's 08 is slightly higher 15,221. Pete