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Aye, we had a 7 course meal cooked by proper French chefs for EUR 55 a head, and the (rather decent) wine was £4 a bottle direct from the Vignier. Contract that with a mate who got married this weekend and was paying £16 a bottle CORKAGE on his wine, across £150 bottles thats £2500 we saved there alone! This place http://goo.gl/cyHgIU slept 14 of us for a week, took 70 people on the front lawn for the wedding meal and the disco in the evening for the same as an empty (i.e. tables and chair are extra) barn near here would have cost for the day...........

I'd seriously question that, especially the Diablo bit. Call Saab then Its actually 50-70 in top gear but nonetheless thats still pretty impressive as the Saab was geared for 180+ in top .......... they also did 40-80 quicker than a Testarossa.

Been married 2 months and 16 days, TBF its not a great deal different from the 15 years we were together before that - you cant rush into these things you see We went to a village near Bergerac in the South of France, hired two enormous chateaus and all of the B+B/Gites in the area and had a week long party with our 70 closest friends with a wedding in the middle. Still came in for less than a day at a decent venue in the UK and we got French Food, French wine and a week in a castle with all of our mates. Dont know why anyone would do anything different! 5 stag do's though, one of which is yet to happen as we ran out of time, nice.

S6 supposedly drives different from the other Audis i..e like a proper car, might be worth a look, another VAG to consider is a Phaeton if you can find one. Im guessing the XF sportbrake is a bit pricey, but they are excellent to drive and tasty as with it ....... if youre on the estate car tip the 159 3.2 Sportwagon is bang tidy as well Or a C63 estate ........ in fact sod it, just buy the Merc and be done with it

Does that answer your question? Oh, and when I say "my", I dont just work here Losing money is part of business but being lied to isnt on IMO.

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Not just dodgy, ****ing illegal. The "new owners" got rid of half of the staff when they took over without any consultation or notice ............ and then refused to pay them for the month they had just worked. When they started a tribunal claimed that the company that developed, built, stored and shipped all of the cars and computer systems, that had all of the development and production guys including the Team Principal on the payroll and was called CaterhamF1 up until quite recently was "just a supplier" to the actual race team. O RLY.

That is really bad, the must be screwed in terms of spare parts. I sincerely hope Kobayashi gets an F1 drive next year. Perhaps he was worried as he knew that Caterham were on their arse, having not paid any suppliers or staff for months and that they were going into administration yesterday. Oh, and that the new owners were lying scumbags who cant lie straight in bed and have happily destroyed the years and years of hard work that people put in to make Caterham what it is without a second thought. I could say more but Id rather not get sued, suffice to say my company have just lost enough to buy a brand new GTR through these tossers, I can only hope that now the truth is starting to come out the press will rip them a new one.

That's hardly a surprise since with a few basic mods and a remap a 2.8T can easily have more power than the zed . Doesn't stop it from being a fridge on wheels though. it was a surprise to me as I knew nothing about them, especially when I was trying to outrun a Saab in my GT4 and it kept up with me no probs. In the early 90's the Saab 9000 Aero had the fastest 50-70 time of any production car IIRC, including the Diablo, Ive just read that the 9-3 Aero was quicker 40-70 than the 911 turbo of the time as well, not so sure on that one TBH.

Are you able to retard timing on overrun for pops and bangs too?

I find the best way is to put them on speaker phone and make a variety of animal/sex noises My personal technique is to tell them that they are robbing scumbags whose parasitic actions of tempting people to commit fraud are the reason my insurance goes up every year and then ask them how they can sleep at night

I think thats the old one mate, the newer version will do a quarter in 15 seconds, thi seems to be about the mark for hot hatches these days

So you got new lips but dont know where from and have fitment like that but dont know your specs. Really?

Pulled by Palmersport as well Id imagine. Now if only we knew who had told them about it ............ TBH if that is the case its not very impressive on their part, rather than admitting there was a problem with their marshalls just to hide the evidence ..........

Oh, I dont count Trax as a trackday, its more like watching drunks try to set a qualifying time round Silverstone. Comedy as long as you arent out there with them

Its a Jap trend actually, borne of Bosokuzu - its called Oni-kyan, or "Demon Camber" and is more popular than you think. That second one easily wins most stretched tyre ever as well I personally think its a bit jank, it considerably reduces tyre contact so brakes and handling are reduced and its not as if it looks good .......... each to their own though

Try again ........ Third time lucky? What are the specs too, be interested to know

Thats as bad as Ive ever seen, Im amazed that Bedford allowed it as they were pretty quick to black flag me for drifting ........... To anyone put off trackdays by seeing that, dont be - Ive never seen anything that bad in real life, and Id hope that it was just a one off that he didnt get banned, you could do tracks for the next 10 years and never see anything like that again.

Has it got the shift lights at the top? You know, the incredibly pointless but still quite cool ones?

Probably, but it will still be less dependable than the NA VQ. Another question for people - If it was only reliability I was worried about Id have the untouched one.

As I thought you would be the first to realise, all engines are ticking time bombs. Ones that have been opened, parts replaced and are running more powers just have shorter fuses

Steve, I like you man but I sometimes get the feeling you are arguing for the sake of it, the MPSS thing springs to mind as well. I didnt say forged engines anywhere, I was talking about modified engines - the fact that they are forged doesnt make any difference to anything outside of the rods and pistons, they still fall into the "modified" category and they are still less reliable than OE. Sure, you can still use existing engine mounts and stuff but most of the cost of building a sweet engine is time, as I said much earlier on Ive costed both and the V8 install is less expensive than the forged build and thats before something goes wrong and you need to replace it. Think about it - an LS can be run on OE management with the simplest loom in the world, the management and mapping for an FI engine would be £2K or more alone ............ Wassos got it nailed, I dont think theres anything to add to that TBH. If you think differently then more power to you, go build a forged engine, have it eat itself at some point and then 10 years down the line you can come back and tell me I was right after all EDIT: And engines? I had 2 S12's, 4 S13's, 2 PS13's and an S14 and drifted for the last 8 or 9 years, not every engine I used blew up either. Id call that good experience rather than take the ****.

Sorry mate, forgot you were the expert, Ive only been SXOC Chairman for 3 years and owned and run 10 different SR/CA engines, 3 of which were built from scratch. They were 3 modded CA's, not forged (although the 3rd was as it happens, built by a known builder but still broke), the point is that it can and does happen. Out of interest, who are the guys with the forged CA's that have done 25K? As for "Also you say upping the power will put strain on etc etc etc, well isnt that the point?" - no it isnt, not when you can buy a totally unstressed engine for less money that will give you the same return. Oh, and your engine builder from Liverpool will be charging you £100+ per hour if he works to that level of tolerance, making your built engine even more expensive than the crate LS. An LS will be a less expensive and more reliable way of getting 450hp when compared to a boosted VQ. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion but if you disagree with that then you arent living in the real world.

When are you next out mate, season has pretty much finished for this year hasnt it??

Guys, you think whatever you like - Ive been involved with modded cars for over 15 years now, from bone stock engines to forged builds that were running well over twice standard power and invariably the modified stuff breaks first. Sure, a standard CA can break but having gone through 3 modded CA's in less than 200 miles they arent that bad, trust me Im not singling you out Grundy, but anyone who trusts an unrun engine over a proven one doesnt have experience with modified engines, thats crazy talk. Even the best engine builder cant work tolerances like OE does, and any increase in power will put more strain on stuff like cranks, BE/LE/Main bearings, the oil pump, water pump, injectors, cambelt and valvetrain - failure of any of those components could be catastrophic which also leads to the other part of the equation - a replacement stock engine or even components will always cost much, much less than the modded version. So when its less likely to break and cheaper to replace if it does ........... this is why LS conversions are so popular IMO