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Thinking back... Likes: Paying £7k and a bit for a 6 year old 2 seat sports car with a V6 The rear brace looks great looking in the rear window from the outside OEM steering wheel was great to handle and GT controls spot on Engine bay looked very pretty and screamed to be painted/modded Finding my way onto something called 'a forum' for the first time during the purchase process Dislikes: Stock exhaust sound was very underwhelming The rear brace just always seemed to get in the way Just how far into the arches the stock wheels sit The clunky and noisy gear transmission which never really felt 'sharp' The amber parts of the DE headlights

Sat and watched one yesterday over at my brothers, he likes the three of them but in the end he switched off the episode we were watching as it was so slow paced and just boring (one with them in Italy in Dodge, RR and Aston) even he said it was pretty boring so we gave up after 35 minutes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depends on financial years...ours starts in January

And you have some seriously good skills there! Do what you love, do what you want, do what you need - don't do stuff for anyone elses benefit.

Good skills there, I wince when I see wet sanding, clearly though if you know what you are doing its a great result!

People aren't incompetent, they just choose not to do 50 when its possible to do 50. Its their right in all honesty.

Not sure the extra weight will make the car handle so well - ailments, err pregnancy would be the first that springs to mind. I guess ultimately as I say, we are all much more competent drivers on here, I presume under the same argument everything that we are not competent at be it sport, our jobs, anything really that we are not as good as everyone else at gives them the right to lose patience with us and think FFS and want us removed from the equation. Im going to stop here actually as I am going around in circles a bit and remaking the argument - we all have our preferences for what we think of other road users.

Walnut dash?

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What if you feel tired, you have been driving all day, you are ill, you have 4 other people in the car and its a lot heavier than normal, what if you have a passenger that has an ailment and doing 50 on the country roads regardless of condition is uncomfortable for them...the list goes on. My points I guess are mixed in amongst all of it - never assume someone going slowly is not capable of driving, chances are they can but they choose not to do the speed limit, there could be a very good reason for it. Also that there will always be much better drivers than all of us out there (yes Dan, even better than you mate!) who if they took the same attitude could get out the car when you slow for corners and dress you down as being unsuitable for the road because you are not up to their capabilities - I guarantee there are people out there who can go point to point much faster than you at the speed limit, lets hope they do not wish you off the road for being slower than them.

http://news.sky.com/story/russian-reality-show-to-allow-murder-rape-anything-10697803 Hunger Games, kind of...!

Yeah but how much does it weigh with you in it Dan...!

I actually find that does happen more than you realise, I think it helps having a faster looking car.

No I get it, but like I said above, if you were on country road you were not familiar with in a 1.6 diesel focus with three of your friends 3 year olds strapped in the back and you feel a little tired having chased them around the playground for the last 4 hours - the conditions might be that its 60 all the way, there is a chance, you might not be doing 60, you might even drop it back a tad to 50...then a Lotus Elise comes up behind you, the guys accelerates, decelerates flashes his lights, would you speed up, would you be a bit narked with him. Would you therefore be holding everyone up un-necessarily given you are not driving to the conditions? Really I think as your post above, we should be venting at idiots that tailgate, undertake, middle lane, no insurance, abuse other road users and the other anti-social driving antics that happen - personally someone doing 30 in a 50 is highly unlikely to cause an accident and could well be driving that speed for very good reason what do I know, they really don't nark me at all and its quite nice to engage boost to overtake when I can.

The person that wrapped their car around the tree, prior to that is your 'oh that slow driver, shouldn't be on the road, im a better driver' type of person just minutes before. I dare say it, but any one of us could lose concentration at what we consider our safe speed at the speed limit and crash, none of us are immune but you wouldn't ban all of us from the road. In terms of safety, someone making their own way, in their own time, is much less likely to be unsafe than someone driving faster - any accident at a higher speed is likely to result in a higher chance of injury. But hey, im debating driving slower on a forum full of petrolheads in performance cars, I get it I am going to get out voted!

Bit of a sleeper if anything. I find it slightly annoying that BMW and Audi take boring wagons and stick immense engines in them, they should look much faster if they go faster

And all the people that drive right up on the speed limit confident they are safe and have the skills to drive and kill people when it all goes wrong for whatever reason, they are OK to be on the road, there are plenty of them around who probably lambast slower drivers then turn off put their foot down most likely moaning about the slow driver they were stuck behind then wrap it around a tree - should they then not be allowed to drive again because clearly they do not have the ability. What about new drivers? They hardly step into their first car with 20 years of driving experience and probably drive slower, should they not be on the road? There are older drivers who know their reactions are maybe not as lightning fast as they were 20 years ago (not including blind, 100 year old people in that) and wisely give themselves a bit more time to react, should they not be on the road?

Wow that BMW M135...!

Im sure it goes something like 'oi lads, I beat a porsche earlier today!'

It goes hand in hand with the belief that to drive more conservatively is to drive 'better' which is frankly, bollocks. Didn't see that mentioned in the thread so far? If you edge up behind slower drivers, you might then find that person does one of three things. Firstly realises they were well under the speed limit and speed up and generally feel ok with it, secondly stay at that speed and just ignore you with a level of patience you don't have, or thirdly they speed up over and above their comfort zone and potentially cause an accident. Stick the boot on the other foot. There are drivers out there that could easily sit up behind you, speed up slow down, flash lights etc because you are not for instance on the speed limit completely on say a tight country road. So a 60mph tight corner approaches, you slow for it a touch but their better set up car, better skills, and better knowledge means they are stuck behind you as you ease off. If they started flashing their lights, how would you feel? I know I am in a minority of one on this, and I am not looking to change anyones mind, I just think it helps to put yourself into someone elses shoes for a minute to try and understand why they do what they do...

All my trust in you has just been destroyed Dan, will never believe a thing you say about tyres ever again!

Middle lane hogging I agree, is illegal and should be treated with disdain. I know my wife Rebecca will probably do about 40 in a 50 on say a country road, as soon as little Alfie is strapped in the back she is probably one of the 30-35mph people though driving those roads. Just one of those things really.

Honestly, don't worry, I believe you! Just pulling your leg a bit.