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'nother vote for the Aristo here! Luxury and 2JZ performance and reliability! 8k should get you a MkII (VVTi) too, if you can find one. I - errrr - may be biased, tho!

Yeah - I would agree - price looks about right to me. But Autos seem to be getting harder and harder to shift - and, as pointed out - this time of year is probably about the worst time!

Yeah - I would have thought £6.5k is about right at the moment for a 74k miles BPU auto. Might have trouble shifting it this time of year, mind.

Bumpety Bump Bump :D

I would tend to agree - even if the door swung open right infront of her, she might be found liable. If it were my insurance claim, I would probably just state that you "parked, engaged the handbrake and turned off the car. Then you got out of the car with the shopping, intending to return to collect the rest afterwards. You heard a collision outside and returned to find that the other car had hit your open door." That's all I'd say. No need to mention trying to close the door or anything.

2k for a twin turbo 2JZ. Crumbs. Goes to show, I guess - people are really after the look of a Supra, not just the performance of a 2JZ......

*bump* :d Remember: When you're younger you can eat what you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age - 24? 25? Your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag and then without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard.

Depends how far you want to travel. If you can manage a trip down to Watford, Mark at "Phoenix Classic & Performance Car Specialists" is a Supra expert!

*cough* Aristo! *cough* The family Supra upgrade!

Don't worry, Rosie - when I get back from Wembley I'll post and tell you what it was like. Okay?

Okay how about Closer by Nine Inch Nails? Also, Add N to X are quite possibly the worst live band I have ever seen, but they redeemed themselves somewhat with the video to Plug Me In! (NWS)

One that never got the full recognition it deserved at the time (IMO!): Pretty When You Cry by VAST: Edit: Oooo - Remind Me - good call, Charlotte - forgot about that video! For White Stripes, though - surely Fell In Love With A Girl!

Cripes. Linebackers really are brainless idiots, aren't they?

Baby seat's fine. I had a backward-facing "Urban Detour" infant seat in mine for 9 months and then a front-facing "Maxi Cosi Tobi" for a few months. I finally had to upgrade to an Aristo not because of my son fitting in the car - it was all his stuff fitting in the boot that was the tricky bit. It was only a problem once in a while, but the Supra was our only car, so there was no alternative.

lol - whilst you were writing that, I edited to include a quoted number of miles! But yeah - that's my whole point - in my example, "number of miles driven" is a known parameter, and it's clearly something that the insurance companies have no way of confirming, and they're certainly (and understandably!) not going to take our word for it!

Ideally, I guess the insurance companies would be able to review and analyse someone's entire personal driving history. I'm sure most underwriters would be actually quite happy if there were some other parameters that they could use to identify lower-risk propositions. That way they could lower premiums. Believe it or not, lowering premiums is what insurance companies really WANT to be able to do - that's how they get more business, after all! That 8k isn't a reflection of their desired profit - you'll find their margin above your "risk mitigation" cost is probably quite small. You just have to shop around to find the insurance company who is willing to take on the most risk (or at least has a portfolio which allows the risk to be mitigated by premiums in another demographic!!!). I wonder how many useful parameters for identify reduced risk are currently overlooked. For example, surely your "number of incidents per mile driven" is much more important than your simple "number of incidents" - let's compare, for example: - a rep who does 25,000 miles a year, and has had 3 crashes in the last 5 years - a driver who passed their test 5 years ago and has only driven 1,000 miles since and crashed once. Both are quoting an estimated 10,000 miles for the coming year. The second is clearly the riskier proposition. Bet she they get a much cheaper premium, though!

Errrr - these both sound like they were entirely your fault to me! I'm afraid, at the end of the day, the insurance companies don't really know how safe a driver you are - they just have to base their risk analysis on the parameters that they DO know. Sometimes those parameters are not a real reflection of your risk level, I'm afraid. If this is the case for you, then you have my sympathy, mate.

Is the GTR just a 2-seater now, then? Eurgh. If I want an impractical, fun car, I'll buy a Caterham, thanks!

Thing is it's so easy to spam email - if only 1 in 10,000,000 people falls for it, it's still a winner, as the cost of sending out 10,000,000 emails is negligible.

Not true. The lower teams tend to use the top teams old engine designs (usually 1-2 years behind, I think?). Not the same engines. With this new limitation in place, the top teams old engines will not be as different to the new ones as they are now.

Like I said, I think the biggest telling factor is the number of people who want to do Auto->Manual conversions. How many people want to do Manual->Auto conversions?

I don't think the idea is that each team has to stick with the exact engine technology they have at the time of the freeze - it's just that no NEW, unagreed technologys can be introduced. The idea is that the teams that are behind will have time to catch up to the technological leaders - they will still be allowed to implement technologys that the other (top) teams already use. It's a mechanism for attempting to level the playing field.

Ooo - good find C! That's an excellent price there if you can get one for that much. I paid 7500 for my 1998 (albeit v. low mileage) earlier this year! There's been the odd import of these recently, but they're still pretty rare. Can't rate them highly enough if you need a bit more practicality than the Supra can offer. Any VVTi 2JZGTE for that sort of money is an absolute bargain! Good luck with the hunt! Might be worth coming over to clubaristo.co.uk and seeing if anyone there is selling at the moment......

Are you after a 160 (N/A) or a 161 (TT)? The only couple I've seen recently on eBay were both 160's. I don't see the point in buying one of those, myself as you can pick up a UK-spec GS300 (with all the trim as standard) for the same money.

Couldn't have put it better myself. Danni in her Home & Away days!