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I've no doubt that one day I'll own/rent/hire an EV. It'll be for the daily grind, where the car drives itself and I can eat breakfast or read the paper or snooze away. That's the goal, that's where an EV can beat anything else. On the weekend, I'm firing up my ICE car and enjoying every last noise, smell and odd shaking through the steering wheel on right hand bends at 40mph that I have to diagnose myself.

Did I ever mention that I quite like Porsches? FWIW before this gets locked, whilst I do still think that one single EV thread would work best right now (at least until we have many more options available to discuss) and can see where JP is coming from, I'm also aware that GZ hasn't been quite as *ahem* 'vocal' on the subject in this thread as we've had in others.

To fit the RB kit, you have to cut them. A few months between shouldn’t make much difference, however I’d put something over the rust to stop it getting any worse at least. If you decide not to RB the car, then you can get them done properly.

Is it still that crappy wasteland from last series?

If you’re cutting the arches, then rust is a bit irrelevant

Is thraping an EV round a track not like watching your favourite film with the sound on mute? Sure, you still get the core event, but you remove something very visceral from the entire experience.

It was a handbag, h’actually. I needed a new handbag.

I wasn’t far off then Doesn’t seem horrendous to have an official sticker, but are there no trustworthy local garages you could go to instead? No real value in staying with main dealers at 100k+.

Which Christmas?

Every other DC wheel I’ve seen (like the M3 ones) are proper shiny, these just look the same colour all over to my dodgy eyes.

I’ll stick my neck out and say they don’t look diamond cut to me, but then I’m notoriously rubbish at these things

It doesn’t. Just upload the pic directly to the forum

Couple of hundred for the service, another hundred for the gearbox, and fifty for the tracking. All ish.

You're thinking of the BP23: This is the P15. The BP23 will be centre-driven.

It’s a Halfords special without a special drivetrain, I genuinely don’t get the love for it. Of course it’ll be fast and drive well, but no kid is going to put that on their bedroom wall. It’s just a terrible, terrible design. Cars can be very fast and look good too, they’re not mutually exclusive.

That'll be fine. Some brands are better than others, but in general as long as it's not Magnatec then it's good enough.

Alignment/geo should be done annually at the very least.

He means the turbos supply the engine with 8psi of pressurised air as per APS spec, which is 0.55bar given that 1 bar is 14.7psi. Big engines don’t really need massive amounts of boost to create big power, generally it’s diesels and small engines that run little turbos that run at high boost pressures to supply enough air. Any open vacuum line isnt isn’t a good thing at all, best case you’ll loose pressure and worst case you’ll run lean. Get it plugged off ASAP until you can figure it out.

Lols at the PH guys calling this ‘The Homer’ and ‘The Bruno’

Utterly hideous. But then, that’s most Maccas these days. Capable but ugly.

Ah, gotcha. Nah, nothing to worry about there imho as the steel supports in the roof will keep it taut, that said no need to risk it if it’s that bad so good call.

Why would snow damage the softtop? I’m taking the Scoob out later to make pretend at doing rally skids

Novelty wear off? Never. Took me a year to get to grips with the dynamics of a rear engined car, then the next three to get used to just how early you could put the throttle down in the corners Nothing else out there is rear engined and with a flat six. That novelty never gets dull

Have to say, I agree with this 1000%. Is an Elise-chassis car the most sensible thing ever? No. It'll squeak, it'll leak, it'll rattle, you'll never hear the stereo and it'll ice up on the inside. However, every single journey you do will be utterly memorable and it'll teach you more about driving and feedback than anything this side of a Caterham. The Elises are second only to probably TVRs in terms of friendliness in their car community, and everyone you see on the road will give you wave. My 911 was my favourite car, but I have more memories of my VXR220 in 18 months than I do of 4 years in the Porker. Buy the right one and you could run it for a year then sell it on, and not lose a penny. Tbh you don't need the big bucks, a V6 Exige is a monster but on the roads that matter an S2 111R with the 'Yota 2ZZ lump is just as quick, and more importantly just as much fun. If you want pretty much zero depreciation then an S2 Elise or Exige with that engine will see you right.

On a 370, 95 is fine. It's missing the point, but if you must then you can.