HiAsAKite

When you do finally get rid of it make sure you replace it with something suitable... ....like a cerbera (its got 4 seats right?) ...or an RS4 (its an estate...practical right?)

lol :roll:

How did this get unearthed again??

M reg parked in guildford near white house and george abbot car park..

always one for subtlety weren't you... ;-)

elises start at around 7K,..where as TFs are 5-6K.. so 1-2K more... No idea how ropey a 7K elise is though...

MX5 is a better drivers car... Although the MG is mid-engined, rear wheel drive... Could you stretch to an elise? :-)

Love the M Coupe- really not keen on the 'Corrado estate'... its ermm... pointless? (if I wanted a fast estate I'd have an RS4 ro something-if I could afford it.)..

31/35- passed... Didn't have to do the theory test originally though

Hate to say this (owning a LHD VR)... generally speaking LHD mean you'll get around 60-70% of the UK RHD price... The price I paid for my VR originally reflected this.. just means there's even less incentive to get rid of it..:-)

TVR Griffith, Chimera, or a replica Cobra with a big yank V8....:) EDIT: oh...you said in your price range :(

Tried reading that thread... it was actually growing quicker than I could read it.... to be honest though...I'm sure we've all done stupid things at some point in our life... (though maybe not that ridiculous...)... How does an M3 drive with bare feet anyway?

Ta- I'll give it a go and report back :)

Thought so... anyway..so in your view, as an owner of VR that may have slight hint of worn valve stem seals (puffs of blue after long downhill runs on engine braking)... would you say using mineral oil would help to 'sludge' up the gaps as it were and reduce oil consumption- or is that just not true?

How peculiar...echo's across the net.... ;) http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=225414&f=23&h=0

reading the pistonheads thread I think the TVR comment is very valid... drive as if you have no driver aids and within the the limit of the car and yourself.....(as I did today on the M25 in cr@p visibility, nose-tail stop start traffic and grit allover the windows of 20 year old golf..after a 12 hour working day)... ....don't trust someonelses engineers technical wizardy to pull you out of sh!te... the buck stops with you and your driving.. HiAsAKite (qualified Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer)

I also own a mk2 gti 8v and VR6 rado.. The Corrado feels far more refined... The golf feels more torquey (at low revs).. whereas the VR just pulls and pulls right to the top of the rev rev range- and is in truth MUCH faster.....the VR real power comes not in low speed/at the lights accel but in the mid range acceleration from 30 mph upwards.. you need to be looking at seriously expense and quick cars to beat it in the mid-range..(in much the same way that some saabs and volvo T5 punch way above their weight in mid-range accel..) Handling wise- both feel very connected to the road and solid, the VR handling is far superior with turn in on corners and judiciouis use of weight shift can be used to manipulate the passive rear stearing to give almost RWD handling on corners... (whilst golf will far more readily understeer..).. Not had the chance to really drive and put through its paces a mk3...

Nice one L... look forward to seeing the new one in the flesh..

Hey- I respect decency laws..... whilst online...

This is looking quite bad now... all three of us have pics in the same carpark!

Lol... nice pic there too..

Cool!.. you were right about the 'sepia toned' look from the yellow lights.. especially like the reflection one

M reg blue VR in Guildford station carpark tonight- (Monday..

2 at 11.15 am Saturday- First- 'lemon' yellow rado heading eastwards on the M4 somewhere between Reading and M25 at 11.15 am... 30 seconds later... dark red raddo N$$BKK also heading eatswards on the M4 doing some knots... reckonm you would have caught the yellow one who was in gently cruising in the 'slow' lane.... (I was going westwards on the M4) Anyone

If you're just rebuilding the engine (ie not modifying it- just renewing it) then this has no insurance impact. If you put a recon (but same spec engine in) then you need to get the V5 updated for the new engine serial number- but this has no insurance impact. I've done this on my Mk2 GTI