So generally the UK car seems to be better.....sod's law. That'll be why I'm looking at Jap ones! I don't want an auto which is making things take longer I reckon, it's got to be manual for me. As for the insurance side of things, yeah...I have noticed a difference, about 25% usually I reckon. This is just normal though with imports as far as I can see, it was the same with my MR2 Turbo's too. Another thing for insurance, which willl hopefully help everybody is a friend of mine is a Director of an insurance company, fair enough it's not as big as your Direct Lines etc. but I'm working on him to get those of us with imports decent quotes. He's slowly coming around, so give me a bit longer and we'll see how it goes.