marzman

We do, but i can understand the necessity behind it. Back in the day we'd pay £40 for brand new SNES and Megadrive games, which probably took a team of 4 developers 3 months to code and was about 8mb in file size. Going forward, the price of new games hasnt really increased with inflation, but the amount of work that goes into a game has increased exponentially. games are now 30GB plus, with teams of 100+ developers working solidly for 3 years to create some games. The budgets must be astronomical. Yes the gaming population has increased as well, but i bet it's not enough of an increase to cover the investment required. Also consider the costs of maintaining an online presence.... It's only been the last 5-7 years that online console gaming has been prevalent, before this software houses didnt need to worry about servers and network infrastructure etc. Instead now a permanent ongoing overhead costs has been added to every game. I cant stand Forza for the reasons you outlined above, but i understand why it's been done.

For anyone who doesnt read the Xbox One Discussion thread, i've just posted about Microsoft's huge sale currently on. They've got approx 30 games on sale with varying levels of discount with up to 85% off! I've just bought: Sniper Elite for £10 NBA Live 15 for £8.25 Kinect Sport Rivals for £8.60 There are also apparently many more games for sale on the 360 store, which im going to check out now!

Holy sh!t, has anyone seen the sale on the XBOX store? I've just logged on to my Xbox for the first time in ages and you can download Sniper Elite 3 and NBA Live 15 for just £10 each, plus lots of other games are on sale too. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/132790-xbox-one-sale-goes-crazy-sniper-elite-3-nba-live-15-and-others-for-less-than-10

You fitted your wheels yet?

I think this is a good price. If there was anything i needed/wanted i'd have them off you. Give it some time.

If it was green you wouldnt be complainin.'

All done, car collected. The new owner is apparently going to restore it and send it to Bulgaria as a gift for a friend. I got £3750 for it without the Porsche wheels/spacers, which is good going as i only paid £3700 for it and it was running and driving then!

These are really cool

I've got a 2005 320d SE Saloon. I bought it last year as a temporary car when i was doing 2k miles per month. Since then I've fallen in love with it. It's a fantastic car, all the power you ever realistically need, certainly tight and agile, and mid 40's MPG. Okay so it looks boring as fook to look at, but i'm happy to forgive that for the driving ease/pleasure, and when it comes to it, enjoyment. I've definitely been able to push on as hard as i did in my zed in it. Mines on 119k now, but it drives absolutely impeccably.

Cheers mate, I was going to txt you and ask what your wife's hostage negotiation skills were like! I should be alright i think. Hopefully.

I'm not racist, but.... Today i've just returned from a 2 week trip overseas. The day before i flew out i took a £200 deposit from a guy to cancel the ebay add and he'd complete the purchase upon my return. All done via email and he bank transferred me the money. I txt him today to say we can complete the sale on Saturday, and 2 mins later he calls me up. He had a very thick Russian accent, and he says he's a mechanic from London, and he'd send his boys up to collect it on Saturday Am I going to die?

You're clearly running some huge spacers on there. Do these fit without the spacers?

So do we have any fitted pics yet or have i missed them?

...actually as I write this im in upstate New York right now. On TV over here the adverts for leasing cars are crazy - i really wish we had the yank model in the UK. All the cars seem to be '$269 down and $269 per month' to drive the latest 2015 models. I'd be getting straight on something like that. Oh, and i filled up my Dad's Lexus over here the other day, and a full tank cost the equivalent of £22!!

Ekona is correct - you dont want a convertible. I've been to Texas 4 or 5 times and i dont recall seeing many convertibles. Also, consider getting a car without leather as you will constantly be burning your legs/arms on the seats. The roads are all huge wide affairs, so i wouldnt bother with a nimble car, personally. Tt would be a 4x4 or a truck for me for sure. Something like a Chevy Tahoe or Escalade. I'd then maybe pickup a cheap '06 Mustang V8 for fun. They'll be absolutely peanuts.

I've been to Rome. Very historical and lots to see and do. Only disappointment for me was the food, which i thought was very poor (this is coming from a man who's favourite food is pizza!) As a city break though, Prague is spectacular.

What a beauty. What else needs doing to get it road worthy.

The audio file wouldnt play for me. Does it have a lightweight fly wheel? They're notoriously loud/grumbly when your foot is off the clutch or driving at low revs.

someone drove a cabrio auto, because thats the same and he says it was a 2014 not a 15 Actually it was a 2012 - has it really come on that much in three years? Guess you could say the same about the C6 vs C7 corvette... It's the next iteration, just look at the 350 vs 370 interior.

If she's doing such low mileage, a petrol would be the better option.

What year is the car? It looks like your plate has an 06 on it, but is this when it was imported and it's actually an 02 car etc?

Why do people get so bent out of shape about this program? It's the same every year, someone posts about it and everyone moans! Dont watch it if you dont like it!!

Tilly's car has always been one of my favourite's on the forum. Love it.

Any news yet Matt? I cant wait!!

Instant ban! Haha, good to see another opinion as obviously the Z and Mustang have a similar following given this post. Using the US MPG and doing a rough calculation the V8 should get around 25 UK MPG combined. Not too bad really, better than I thought! Not bad. We have higher ron fuel than the yanks too so it might be better than that.