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That wing is the three post one that came with the face lifted cars - but yes agree, the two post high level ones are so much more 'celica'

Went along to this yesterday pretty good although far too many stands selling crap. Not much Nissan presence although there was a nice set of 300zx's - so some photos for your enjoyment. Saw this...think mine is better Also and old three wheeled reliant with a royal past

Welcome along. Maintenance wise, I dont have much of a benchmark, my wife has a boggo 2.0l mk2 megane and certain bits are cheap others a pain in the backside. Electronics are pain also. For the zed its a bit more industrial, I would expect clutch changes to be expensive, I did mine back in 2012 with OEM parts and parts alone were £700. Discs and pads can be pricey, easily end up spending £500+. Tyres I would suspect are more expensive than the Renaultsport. Historically I hadnt noticed the roadsters being cheaper, then again havent looked in a while. You should look up Horsham Developments, Jez is a great guy there and will know the zed inside out - based near Newbury so probably not far from you.

Yep, it seems when I was scanning down the google pages that the newer the reviews were the less stars there were against the car. Car tech and engineering is leaping ahead each year, can totally see why a newly designed BMW in 2018 might well be much better than a ten year old Nissan.

Car review back in 2008 https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/nissan/nissan-370z-2009-car-review-/ Evo review from 2009 https://www.evo.co.uk/nissan/370z/6678/nissan-370z Evo again in 2014 for the Nismo https://www.evo.co.uk/nissan/370z

Used to do waxybox but novelty wore off after a while. Also as they tend to just have a handful of premium brands on the list accompanied by a stack of cheap rubbish ones like Simonez it really wasn't worth it. Trawl through ebay and sites like polished bliss turns up trial sized products anyway, so can always order something if I am interested in it.

Welcome along Good concept best of luck.

You should see the look of confusion on the face of Z owners when a bloke in a Celica waves at them...!

So did you hire a personal photographer to follow you around mate?!

There's even some pictures of cars there which is a bonus

It is unfinished though isn't it? And loving the Ade post

I went the scuff master route https://www.350z-uk.com/topic/49084-leather-repair/ didnt do a 'many months later' review but remember it stood up really well.

First thing I thought of was Vs the Mclaren effort...

I just felt the three had run their course on TG and it needed some new ideas. I actually still watch some of the old ones which were the specials like the middle east roadsters episode and enjoy it. I think CH is a good choice and MLB was really working the public over but the choice of presenters really seems to have become a bit of a lottery of randoms. It would also be interesting to see what the uplift in retained past the free month Amazon subscribers was when GT launched. Anyway, I do still live in the hope that one day JP might get my username right

A24 just past Dorking?

LeBlanc left to spend time back with the family which is fair enough - shame as he and Harris were really kicking on and were properly entertaining!

I guess its a point of how much do you generate on site vs via the energy companies. Scottish Power now generates all its electricity via wind power and announced this week they are investing in solar. Forcing people to buy solar panels on houses is not really sensible when energy companies can purchase at scale for much less. Its a shame the government spins such a negative story around energy companies around pricing - they don't tell you that they force energy companies to reinvest most of their profit into developing renewables of course leaving the companies having to charge more to stay afloat - but that wouldnt suit politicians eh easier for them to say 'hey we are going to cap those robbing energy suppliers' I would say the future is not now but we cannot sit around and wait, which is why fears about lithium supply etc are a bit of a red herring as of course demand goes up, supply goes up, then 40 years down the line something else is invented to replace it. But we kind of do need to do keep innovating, changing, moving forwards when the opportunity arises. All that said, I would never trade in my ICE for an EV for my fun car just see ourselves as the lucky ones who still get to enjoy them whilst they are still around.

The government never said diesel was clean fuel, the global directive was to reduce CO2 emissions which were prevalent in petrol cars - switching to diesel cars achieved this goal. Surely its clear that anything that emits pollution in the immediate vicinity of human life is going to have some sort of detrimental effect. There will need to be a process for old batteries, again I am by no means an expert but Lithium can be recycled into other uses (happy to be told otherwise) once it has expired there just is no infrastructure for doing this at scale at the moment.

From my basic understanding of Lithium is that prices have skyrocketed lately because of supply and demand - car makers demanding it but the supply industry not reacting to it. Bizarrely Lithium mainly comes from a brine process out of South America, those countries have seen demand multiply hundreds of times over but havent increased their own capacity to match it. They are reacting now, as soon as lithium supplies become more available prices will fall inevitably again. I think from memory its Chile that has the biggest supplies of Lithium, play their cards right and they could be the next Saudi Arabia of the energy world..!

...and to add, the government and local councils need to sort their politics out. How we can have an ULEZ being extended around west and south west London at the same time they sign off on an extra runway at Heathrow to fly an extra 700 planes over the same area just shows how being 'Green' only suits them when they want to.

I think also we are just at the very beginning of the EV development in relative terms. I was out having a few beers last week with a guy heavily involved in renewable energy and it was an interesting chat. Many power companies moving to renewables and their technology advances are huge, lots of developments around batteries i.e. batteries as we know it now are not the future, in ten years a battery as we know it will be gone and something much better would be in its place. Technology improvement around collecting, transferring, storing and distributing energy is changing at quite a frantic pace in the energy sector. I think for your average commuting, plod along, shopping run car an EV is quite acceptable, which actually is the majority of drivers out there. The main problems are price of EVs is still well above average and out of reach for the majority affecting take up, infrastructure isnt accelerating at required rate and the whole perception of the EV still scares most people. A model 3 is still going to be more expensive than the average price of a car, other manufacturers are looking at Teslas horrendous P&L which is propped up by the US government and treading carefully. Like any business they wont jump in two footed until there is a market there, this is what sales looked like up to last year - dieselgate and other government decisions smashing into diesel sales but people are still shifting to petrol not just EV The government has a massive role to play but are clearly in these times of penny pinching not putting the finance into the infrastructure, their policy is generally to allow private companies to lead but no one is stepping up. They need to support companies in building methods of charging cars, doesnt have to be a cable from a house, could be a pack that is charged in the house then taken out to your car parked up the road and plugged in or whatever. But like our favourite chicken and egg, who is going to invest when sales are so low relative to a wider market. Also I think companies need to invest in showing EV can work for your average joe plodding about - the fear of just running out of electric is always there. What if for instance there was a service like the AA but for supercharging cars stuck out on the road if in the event people do run out of juice for instance. Anyway, just some points of view me and this chap discussed the other night...that I remember...beer permitting...although he did accept my argument that ultimately if you are a proper car enthusiast the ICE is a better option

Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45937945 At least they pushed Rory Reid back off the main programme, he was definitely the weak link in the previous three. Really though, seems like anyone and his dog can become a TG presenter nowadays just because they claim they have liked cars.

The US government has invested tens of billions into Tesla keeping it afloat, if they had instead invested in plutonium vending machines we would be all driving time machines by now

Why the hell aren't they using Flux Capacitors yet? They have been around since 1985...

Its the way its going - clearly we are going to run out of material to burn in cars as well as reducing environmental impact so it does need to be electric in future. 99% of people drive cars to just get around and do not care about the actual theatre of driving so moving electric will not bother them one bit - the rest of us that are more interested in the experience are just not on the governments radar unfortunately! The challenges though in short are: Building batteries at scale Reducing the price of electric vehicles Creating an infrastructure to charge electric vehicles There are the political and economic factors to manage also. The government recently reduced the grant for buying an EV, this means that its going only one way and that is down until it disappears altogether. There has been free charging points up until now, these will all become a charged service once electric cars are mainstream. The VED charged on cars brings in a substantial amount of tax, this will need to be recovered by the government, either by passing it direct to electric cars (currently they pay nothing) or via a taxation against the population in some other format. Petrol is also heavily taxed by the government, this will also need to be recovered in some form of other taxation. So on and so forth. In terms of cars which sound great etc. really that is only for the minority, we will just have to make sure we keep these cars in great condition and have deep pockets to fill them with petrol we probably have to import ourselves