Davectr

Managed to get in a late afternoon run across the spectacular North Yorkshire moors. These roads are amazing, and literally 5mins from my house! Just have to keep a keen eye out for sheep as for some reason the exhaust noise seems to scare the @*!# out of them

Lovely car, and great photos. You keep on pic whoring as much as you want

Call me a dinosaur, but I think I’ll stick with the V10

Love getting out and about on the North Yorkshire moors!

OMG, why didn’t you have this in when I had a 370z? @Humpy there you go mate, that’ll go with the front bumper

Happy birthday @Humpy, you don’t look a day over 30

Decent little run up Hartside/Alston with my red twin

It’s not on yet, booked on in a few weeks. Tbh I did a video of the current exhaust, which sounds very loud when standing behind the car but on the video it doesn’t sound loud at all

Spent a great couple of days having a boys roadtrip with matching R8’s. Weather was perfect, and the scenery spectacular! Went from the north east across country to Hawes and Devils bridge into the south Lake District. Went up the side of Windermere, then had a great blast up from Penrith to Alston/Hartside which is one of the best roads I’ve ever driven! On the way back we popped over the border into bonnie Scotland and called at Gretna Green - thank God her indoors wasn’t with us , then came across country further north, taking in Kielder.

Recently had a run up to JM-Imports to drop off my mates Hot Staff Ex-demo R33 GTR Vspec. What a stunning car that is, can’t believe he’s selling it!

Not yet, but I’m going to see about it on Saturday

Hi and welcome

I’m not surprised, BMW’s usually being a young lad’s first foray into rwd hence more accidents. Same with the S2000, I remember years ago when I bought one they had a reputation for ending up in hedges backwards (especially the pre 2005 updated ones). That reputation was well deserved, I spun mine despite being aware of the issue and driving it carefully - I was shocked how susceptible it was to change ends!

Happy to help mate. Hope this one doesn’t get nicked - I haven’t got another one

It's kept in a garage under an indoor cover in an attempt to prevent this, but I know exactly what you mean

The only ones I have at the moment are from the advert for the car

@skyrapier you have PM

Couple more pics. Had a busy weekend giving the car some tlc before spending all day yesterday demolishing a full tank of fuel

Now that would be good - a street full of Zeds

I did consider a GTR, but needed to scratch a V10 itch. The sound is fantastic, and apparently quite loud outside (inside it’s quite well insulated) so God knows what’ll it be like when I get the new exhaust on - the neighbours are gonna hate me!

Just collected this machine. Definitely a worthy replacement for the Zed

Thanks for all the positive comments guys. It’s taken 30+ years of driving , having to work away from home and waiting for the kids to grow up and leave the nest before finally being in a position to buy my dream car. Only had it a few days so can’t give much of a review yet, but I can some it up in one word - WOW! Having just had a 575bhp TTrs I thought there wouldn’t be much difference in performance (which tbh in a straight line there probably isn’t), but this car is in another league. The handling is unreal, and all I keep hearing is how this is an ‘everyday supercar’ - it certainly is, docile in comfort settings and an animal in dynamic! The best analogy I can think of is my TT was like a star player in a good Championship team, whereas the R8 is like a superstar in a top Premier Legue team.

As some of you may already know, I recently sold my 370z roadster to Humpy. It was a very difficult decision to let it go, but made easier knowing it’s going to a good home. I’ve now got a replacement for the Zed, something I’ve been after for a long time. This forum is without doubt the best car forum I’ve been on so will be sticking around for the foreseeable. Here’s the new machine, an R8 V10 plus

In the garage extension (behind the garage), sorry I should’ve shown you it while you were here. Picking it up today , to say I’m excited is an understatement! Will post some pics once I get it home

It’s certainly a different experience to driving a ‘normal’ car, your so close to the road with no side panels.