Stutopia

How do you guys do it? I can't stand things which aren't symmetrical Nice update. It's about time you nominated the BEST one.

Cyberdyne Systems, it's called SKYNET.

The robots just grow it all, for everyone. It'll be like Star Trek, team humanity.

If robots can do every job, why do we need an economy or money? Can't we just all enjoy living whilst they crack on with the graft? Coming Spring 2040, Spouse Robot 1.0!!!!!! Does all requested tasks without question or second guessing. Never says I told you so. Never nags. Never argues. Satisfies any "personal" request without complaint and with lifelike tongue/skin. Could drive your car, if we hadn't done away with that in 2033!!!!

This presupposes that everyone will be mandated to have one. I kinda assumed they'd be optional for people who want to drive themselves?

I'd love it if there's a team of geeks churning out a use case for every single conceivable road related event: Scenario 1 - Pedestrian forgets to look before crossing Scenario 2 - Car in front slams all on . Scenario 44,765 - A tree is struck by lightning and falls across the road . . Scenario 8,125,245 - An extreme sports enthusiast is zorbing on the hillside next to the road and at the bottom of the slope there's a trade show for giant trampolines... I'm quite excited by the prospect of driverless cars, it'll remove people who have absoletly no interest in driving from driving and the new driver won't get distracted by a girl in a tight dress, or a particularly cute cat, or a billboard advertising a sale at ShopX, or get tired or bored, or re-apply eye liner, or urgently need to tweet that it just saw that-guy-from-that-thing-on-the-TV-last-year walking down the street The google driverless cars (I think there's about ten of them on the roads of California at any one point) have done over 700,000 miles accident free. They can "see" in 360 degrees and track hundreds of objects all at once. Sadly it is reported to be extremely capable at spotting cyclists too

Love an update on this thread, kudos for the attention to detail.

Beautiful Porsche, GLWTS.

Nice progress

It used to be evolution picked off the lame, old and weak. Nature has found a new way. Convincing idiots they need to be connected 24/7 and then finding novel ways to distract them while driving. It'll keep some runts out the gene pool. Just hope you're not in front or oncoming

Looks sweet, colour code FTW!

They look the shizzle, but at two hundred sheets I've got a stone chipped bumper which would appreciate the cash even more. Not to mention a humpy bonnet fetish

Continuing my de-redding and carboning-up of some parts of the engine bay, samco intake went and in came evo-r intake tube. Before: After: That's the last of the carbon and also probably changes in the engine bay, unless a nice catch can comes along...

I think it looks ok? The new intake tube was maybe 1cm shorter than the previous, so it was bit of stretch at the top for the silicone coupler to be tight on the throttle body and the tube, but I think it's got there in the end. Not quite the 15 minutes I was lead to believe If anything looks weird or wrong, please do shout now, I need to drive her tomorrow! Thanks for your comments

Stuck the GoPro underneath to see if anything could be seen or heard. You can hear the almost continuous rattle - it's driving me nuts. Definitely somewhere underneath or around the area between the passenger seat and the engine. Any answers on the non-rattle related oily bit appreciated too

This is very interesting. Does kitchen aluminium foil work too, or just tin based? Yes, it does - It's actually aluminium foil you need, I'm not sure I've ever actually seen tin foil before?! The aluminium is softer than steel, so it will not scratch the surface, it's non abrasive. Rust is metal that has taken on extra oxygen atoms (oxidation) and the aluminium leeches the oxygen atoms away from the rust, breaking it down. A by product of this is also a fine metal polishing compound consisting of the resultant aluminium oxide mixed with the water you're using to lubricate. I've used this many times, it's cheap and awesome! I love this place. Always something new to learn thanks ts. Check out this vid on the same theme, but with a magical ingredient...

Sorry mate, fat fingers on my phone screen, it's millimetres from "styling".

This is very interesting. Does kitchen aluminium foil work too, or just tin based?

Sweet. Exactly the confidence booster I was after. Thanks.

Got a shiny new CF intake pipe to go in, straight swap for what's in there, with OEM airbox and MAF retained. This is the sort of "add on job" my tech would usually do when the Zed's in for something else, but it looks like a fairly straightforward job so I figure I'll break out my sockets and get a tan. Is changing the intake pipe as straightforward as it appears, anything I need to be mindful of when I'm hitting it with a hammer after it has all come to pieces? Thanks, Stu.

Looks like a ton of fun this green beast, enjoy. Tasteful colour and decals too.

There's been some interesting points raised, but does anyone know if you can watch porn on it?

If it wasn't split between 3 of us, I'd have just bought a car for less!

£1400 for 20 days. Not the cheapest but it was the easiest to sort out and have a designated model.

Given the car is about a mile long and half a mile wide, I'm at a loss as to why the boot is so small However, it seemed positively cavernous in comparison to the boot in the convertible Mustangs soft bags, rather than solid suitcases are a must. If I was being sensible, I'd go for an SUV but I can't resist a convertible in the sunshine.