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It's disgusting. I love it. I want one. What's with the chicken soup? A tasty beverage to wash down a Big Ekona Burger? 5 dollar shake for dessert?

Just a short clip of the new sound, not full beans only about 5k. I'm sure it'll settle down after a few hundred miles, but I hope not

That's going to upset someone, but it's an absolute beauty of a motor. Good on you for breaking the mould and trying something a bit out there. Some of the snaps on here might make a man reconsider his views on Porsche...

Can't you wait until your husband gets home?

I was trying this earlier, youtube links just seem to magic straight in, but not PB. Might it be how the host handles the request from the URL possibly?

Just tried a few different ones, not made a difference. Hmmmm, fine on my iPad.

Backing board is a good idea. Like it.

I'm a waver, up until today I've always got one back - clearly 370 drivers round here won't salute lowly 350s.

Edit: accidental DP

Have you checked the content filter ticks on the left when the page displays?

I keep toying with this idea. I quite like the mounts with spring loaded extendable arms so you have some options on devices. I can only see it happening if I could either fit an arm inside the cubby which would fold away on close, or possibly just bite the bullet and bolt/fix the arm to the cubby lid then abandon the cubby. I'm half tempted to try as mine is scratched anyway, so it can take a knock and I'll live with it. http://www.rammount.com/CatalogResults/PartDetails/tabid/63/partid/082065077045072079076045085078056066085/Default.aspx

Thanks Graeme. Ordered them fom fleabay in the US. The link I used no longer works but here's another to the same ones: http://www.ebay.co.u...=item58a580207a Couple of tips, if you don't mind. Get your silver bulbs sorted at the same time (info is on the forum) to avoid "fried egg" clusters and maybe licence plate LEDs too whilst you have the bumper off. I got a silver fog bulb, but frankly it's @*!#. Not very bright, which sucks for a fog, and also a bit pinkish. Hoping the fog won't be a problem at MOT. May go back to the proper kind with winter coming.

Might be worth a he had some AMS to clear, see below. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/75212-350z-ams-race-pulleys-to-clear-180/ Alternatively, when my AMS ones go on (hopefully early next month) I'll have some OEM ones going spare.

I had this, not as bad mind. Was from a crap "smart" repair in the past. I had it resprayed in the end as the whole bumper had loads of stone chips anyway and I wanted a lip fitting and coding. Looks great, but shows up the bonnet now! Worth dropping by and bodyshop or two and getting some advice or PM RT-Performance possibly. Good luck.

A little mod, with a big bang. LEDs for the dome. The kit. Quick Test. Done. They're not quite as blue as they appear in the photo and the light is a bit more diffuse than these would suggest. Very pleased.

Quick trip to Grinspeed today to have the clicky axles sorted and also pop the Berks on. Thanks to Tarmac for those I quite like the new sound too. Grinspeed Berks - might be a pain to keep shiny As usual top service from Stevie at Grinspeed, skilled tech and always got a good story for me. MOT is up next month so need to make a little cash pool, just in case. If that goes well then some mod money should be available

Little vid of the trip, mainly for my records but I thought I'd share. Not sure how you embed, but here's the link anyway.

I think the big black pot is runner up. Sorry

Cheers! You won't regret it Gangzoom, even the "boring" motorway bits between the incredible mountain passes are beautiful a lot of the time. I think I only caught a glimpse of one cop car in two days and 1000km Most of Switzerland away from the cities is empty How weird is it shifting right handed BTW? I'd only driven LHD autos before, took some un-learning, kept slamming my fist into the door! But the weirdest thing was getting back in the Zed after. Everything was so much heavier and immediate and louder, in just a few days I'd got very used to simply stomping on the throttle! Wasn't sure I preferred the Zed... for the first 3 minutes around town

As well as the geekfest at CERN last weekend, I spent the few days before checking out Switzerland. I'd found the passes below when I was planning a pan-europe jolly, but time wouldn't allow that, so I crammed these into my two and bit days driving round the Alps. http://www.ultimated...p?route_ID=9011 http://www.ultimated...p?route_ID=4011 http://www.ultimated...p?route_ID=9007 http://www.ultimated...p?route_ID=4001 I'd had big ideas about renting something a bit spesh for a short time, but budgetary constraints and idiotic rules about being banned from France sank my dream of taking a 911 round. So I followed my first rule of the road trip. Always rent a convertible, in this case a cheap one. I rocked up in Geneva Airport ready to be surprised with either a Volvo C70, Lancia Flavia or an Audi A3. Not driven any of these so didn't really have a preference, the valet chucked me the keys to the Audi in the end. It was only a tiddler, but nicely appointed throughout if you like black plastic with chrome bits, which I don't mind. Super quick roof, which operates at low speed - perfect for unexpected rain bursts - and decent boot for a small car with a rag top. Over the few days I found the Audi to be a lot gutless, the torque of the Zed was long gone, but my first car was a 1.2 Clio so an underpowered FF was something I felt at home in. The little turbo in there is quite cute, and if you keep your foot in there's a bit of poke. In terms of alpine driving, if you want to pass something on an incline, drop it three gears and stick your foot in and it does the job. The strangest thing about it was how quiet it was, even on the limiter you could barely hear the engine, my Zed idles louder! All in all she did well, and took quite a bit of stick, brakes didn't fade too much and she never missed a beat in a thousand klicks - I only had to fill her up once If I was the kind of person who wanted a little city car, with a drop top and a bit of fun I think the 2.0L version of this might be just the ticket. Strangely being in an Audi, I didn't once feel the need to drive 2 inches from the car in front. The Swiss aren't big speeders, I rarely saw anyone over the limit, but they do love to sit off your back and also pull in tight across you when they pass. God only knows why, as the roads are deserted. The best roads there are ones that are still challenging within the speed limit, which is great for keeping out the way of the local PD. The roads themselves are sensational, so empty, so dramatic and by and large well surfaced. This would be perfect for a Classic Car Rally, but a little unforgiving in the drop offs if you get a bit too spirited. Some of the edges off the road were quite serious but being a 3 times bike veteran of the Death Road outside La Paz, it was a piece of cake. Anyway, few pics of it all and I might even have a little video too. Hope you enjoy and please think very seriously about doing a trip like this in Switzerland, not the chepaest place to go but stunning, great driving, friendly people and bags of fun! PS - Do we have a "great driving roads" section? If not, I think it would be a good idea... Here she is, relatively clean on Day 1 - wish I'd taken an emergency MF and some QD though. When's the last time you saw one of these? Lake Leman - one of my favourite snaps of the big lake by Geneva up to Lausane. Atop one of the many passes. Text book waterfall. One of the little valleys. Angry clouds eating mountains. Stop for a bio-break, found this. I love driving down into these places. The scenery is top notch. Fun road. Never seen a glacier before. Or a gents with a mountain in, with a sign saying please don't **** on the mountain. More fun road. Couple of classics. The view for breakfast. I know it's childish, but I'm like that at times. The world's biggest Baybel - mini just doesn't do it for me anymore. Hopefully a vid to follow but it's taking an age to edit!

This is very true, but that reality of it is extremely far from the perception of it. As discusses previously the actual sums lost to fraud and the likes are tiny in comparison to UK budget at large. If news stories were only allowed to occupy column inches and tv exposure directly in proportion to their impact on the UK as a whole, we'd find ourselves presented with a very different news agenda.

Simply because to withdraw foreign aid would look to the world like we won't help people who really need help. We'd much rather paint people in the UK, who need just as much help as anyone who we send foreign aid to, as dodging, lazy, faking, idle, stupid and worthless. Then it seems like we're on a righteous crusade, not simply f***ing over vulnerable people, when Mondeo Man reads about it in the tabloid media. By "we" I mean uk government of any party political leaning.

I was on board with this post until the Daily Mail bit. I wouldn't buy it if it had a headline of, "Free inside today; five vouchers for a week with Monica Bellucci in Sacramento, lube included." And I really liked Sacramento.

They'd simply dream up a new reason to harvest the same taxes. In the same way smokers pay for their treatment in the NHS by paying outrageous tax on a packet of fags. They justify it by saying it's paying to treat you as you're extra high risk, blah blah, but the revenues generated pay for treating smokers many times over and lots of non-smokers too. The green label is just the most palatable, trendy excuse to gather revenue. Something else will come along that they can justify it with. Window tax, candle tax, both non-modern examples of made up taxes for taxes sake. It'll be the same if global warming turns out to be a massive hoax. Anyway why would scientists make it up? To simply furnish governments with revenue tools, or is it the classic, to justify their own grants? It's fundamentally opposed to the mindset of the vast majority of scientists. They don't get a slice of the green pound in their pockets in anywhere near the same way as the pro carbon lobby, which is driven entirely by shareholder profit maximisation and commercial pressures.