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I like the fact that he's done something different with it. The interior workmanship looks pretty good, although the photos could have been in focus. But I'm not sure the dash is an improvement design wise. Looks like he's tried to do a Koeningsegg style thingy but it just doesn't work with the shape of the dash. That said, overall it gets applause from me. There's a lot of scoffing going on here but I bet if it appeared at a show there would be crowds around it including a lot of us.

Report concludes BMW Drivers are the officially the angriest tossers on the road But you probably knew that already. Here comes the science : article

I thought you had an agreed value policy? Surely that means the car was valued independantly when you took the policy? So what's to worry about?

I don't know if it's ever going to achieve full on classic status but I do know that every time I go to a Pistonheads meet my car gets lots of interest and attention. Considering the rarities and exotica which frequent those meets I take that as a huge compliment. The last PH meet I went to had 3x GT3s and 2x RUFs there, the one before that had 4 Gallardos in attendance, on both cases I had the only Corrado and got photo coverage too... who's got the rare car ? haha Within the VW community I think there is still a healthy chunk of snobbery amongst a large section of the Golf community, which I think is at least in part is encouraged by some of the magazines. I don't care about that. Personally I still love driving and owning the car (despite the endless bills it keeps landing me with), it's comfortable, rare, fast enough to still whupass most stuff you come across, plus I don't have to pay the monsterous levels of car tax imposed on anything remotely interesting post 2001. Long live the Corrado

After many years being around Corrados I think I can safely say that I've never come across a nugget car where the vivid, retina burning yellow has ever faded. Unfortunately. :D

And you've just proved what young men with big big balls, big mouths and a loads of bad attitude can be like, havn't you? No wonder you get stopped.

Don't worry, If you take a bite out of the back of the cake it's look just like the nugget again :tongue:

That's encouraging news to hear Paul. If your insurers do an excellent job I hope you will recommend them for good service. All sounds good so far, let's hope that the comment I posted earlier is proved wrong.

The Porsche 908 hybrid will be a much better car IMHO

Kip needs to still take care on that point. Although he has an agreed valuation policy with his own insurance company, the damage is the fault of a third party. They will try every trick in the book to avoid settling on the agreed valuation terms of Paul's insurance. In fact I'd almost guarantee it. They will initially just offer him a lowball figure from Parker's guide, and when it's pointed out as agreed valuation, they will argue the toss over the valuation, the condition, demand thier own valuation (which of course will differ dramatically), continue to lowball, and on and on and on and try and wear him down. Kip will probably need to be very patient, and will need his own insurer to really fight his corner. It would actually be simpler if Kip had totalled the car himself (where contractual liability is with thier own client) And watch the TP insurer dispute the injury compensation as well... Kip, if it gets difficult you should mention the TP insurer that thier Client is clearly guilty of driving without due car and attention, and was also lucky that she ploughed into the car of your car instead of mowing down a family with children instead. That kind of argument is a powerful and valid one, if you think they are just mucking you about. In fact did the Police attend the incident? It might be worth a complaint to the Feds for a change of DWDC considering your car was bloody bright yellow and yet she didn't manage to see you. Worth a thought mate... worth a thought... John

Looks alright doesn't it. I bet if you hang around Knightsbridge in the coming weeks you'll see an early one. Failing that stand outside the player's car park at Man City :)

Hi Paul, What can I say except I'm gutted for you mate. I remember how tormented you became when we up in Scotland during the summer and Yandards joined us for a couple of days with his nugget. Before we'd even finished the trip you'd been checking the web to find one, and how quickly afterwards you found the one which has now been trashed. You've only had the car a couple of months :( What an utter shame, although I'm pleased to hear that you weren't hurt in the incident. Make sure you sell Yan the good leftover yellow bits. Try and keep your chin up mate, it could have been the VR6... John

Strange that the Irish bidder seemed to have no clue about the import duty when he was bidding, don't you think? And within hours of the auction ending he's wiser and bailing out.

Well it's each to his own isn't it. I like them, plus I get to run the Brembo brakes I want. It's safer in my view to run the right wheels rather than sod about with spacers. @Kev - apologies, didn't realise the discussion was centred on the flat faced wheels. I think I just complicated the discussion for the style conscious. Probably explains why I've never seen a Leon on MO's though. :)

I have 323mm Leon Cupra Brembos under 17x7½ Compomotive MO's with the correct ET35 offset and there's loads of room.

That's actually more that either Button (Monaco) or Hamilton (Switzerland) when you think about it.

I am happy, but that will change when the one remaining crayon they gave me runs out. I still have a couple of walls I need to draw on...

Read it and weep. Link : http://www.pistonheads.com/members/showcar.asp?carId=31711

your off your head, what you been smoking tonight :lol: I'm with Big Ben. If you live your retro cars enough, then just save up the couple of grand you need to get a Corrado as a secondary car and just buy it to run alongside the Focus. I love my Corrado (like the idiot I am) but dynamically it's in the dark ages compared to something like your Focus RS. Even a Clio 182 will murder a Corrado both dynamically and in a straight line. You'd have to be bonkers to sacrifice the reliability, build quality and pure pace of a Focus RS to replace it with a Corrado, but then who am I to accuse people of being mad? I've spent over £20k in just 4½ years keeping my loved piece of retro on the road. The gearbox and clutch both fell apart last month... Fingers crossed you think the decision through a bit. :nuts:

The delightful irony of course is that the AC Ace was a delightful, small (underpowered) little British sports car which fitted our old roads rally nicely, something the muscled up Cobra doesn't do quite as well.

what will have added more upset to his situation would have been the bills the circuit would have handed him afterwards for the cost of the damaged armco (on both sides) plus the cost of recovering the car off the track. Not insignificant costs.

I'm less sure about modern muscle cars but I love the old ones. Snapped this two weeks ago in Poole. Seriously want !

Sounds like it was a case of 'back to the 90s' and no bad thing in that. Since he has 2x E30s he should upgrade one of them with an E46 M3 engine. I understand it's all the fashion in E30 circles these days. There's a guy down here who has had two of them done (one is purely a track car). I like the idea of 'various Alpinas'. He needs to add an Ur-Quattro to the collection I think :D

You might think I'm being a bit funny about this, but since when did this place become the bloody MkIV 4Motion forum?

Actually not funny at all, but I did laugh... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308775/Boy-racers-stealing-laughing-gas-ambulance-stations-boost-performance-cars.html