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Not unless we beat you first. Mind you I DO like your choice of car colour!

White & looked heavily modded with BREAK FOR THE BORDER written on paintjob. Went past too fast to notice anything else!

Anyone played this yet? I am very near the end of Burnout 3 Takedown - which is brilliant, easy the best game I've ever played - and will need a new game soon. Recommended?

Anyone got a pic of her? I wouldn't mind a (ahem) reminder

Even Clarkson got his ass whupped by some German bird when he was there. She gave the loudmouth tosspot bigot some stick n all. Quite fit too I remember. Would have made a great sidekick for the show instead of those blokes who get all excited

yeh it is the inside edge of the rear offside that's well down. The thrashing I gave it this weekend probably didn't help. I need new tyres and proper alignment

Totally true - for instance I had no idea that I could get 110mph out of second gear (I wasn't concentrating and thought I was in D!!! Duh ) and that a restrictor would automatically cut the engine until I changed up a gear. If I had done that in a manual there would be tears.... That is sad, but then again you'd have had a chance to gain experience in the wet - pretty important with this car as I'm sure you know

I have the opposite problem, edges wearing out first. Is it an alignment issue?

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Wow what a day. Sunny and dry, a huge flat racing track, totally smooth, and about 50 or so high-end cars glimmering in the sunlight. This was an open track day, where you turn up with your car and fly around the track as much as you want. Tyre hire & mechanics are on hand if you need them. My TT Supra was the only Supra there, and bought at £12000 it was probably the cheapest there too by a long way. Here are some cars that took part: Lotus Seven Lotus Elise - quite a few of these, very fast and nippy little buggers BMW M3, Z8 - glad to see one of these beemers have a spin (no harm done) Aston Martin Vantage - not as fast as it could have been, I think the guy was just posing Honda S2000 - do not underestimate the speed of these unassuming little things Audi A6 - this thing looks like a rubbish family car but believe me it is VERY fast! Ferrari Modena - registration W10 00W (!!!) - sounded fantastic and I was glad to see it driven hard like cars of this type should be driven TVR Tuscan - held its own against the Ferrari (above) BUT had a crash and had to be taken away. I didn't see it happen and I don't think the driver was hurt or any other cars involved, but it does bring you back down to earth for a bit Porsche - all sorts, too many to mention, I reckon 50% of the cars there were porkers. What stood out though were the five GT3-RS. These things are unbelievably quick!!! They just owned the whole field - end of story! Subaru - a red one with SCOOBY written in big letters across the back, and a silver one, both driven hard by nutters. IMO they look awful but they were extremely fast, there is no doubting their speed and agility Mitsubishi dunno what it was, looked like a scooby, prolly the slowest thing there, even slower than me Jaguar racing 'le mans style' car - pissed all over everything including the GT3-RS. But it is a racing car not a road car, so in my book that doesn't count. Toyota Supra TT. That's me. This was my first ever time on a track, and it took a while to get used to the track layout, and the speeds. When I first entered, it was like getting on the German autobahn for the first time - you have to speed up or you're in everyone else's way! Learning the correct speed and approach to a bend is critical, but as you learn the course you get the hang of it. You learn with each lap, but it is hard work, I was only doing 3 or 4 laps before having to have a rest. I think the brakes needed a rest too, and probably the engine seeing as I was rarely below 6000rpm. By the end of the day I was really throwing the car around, caning it into the corners and flooring it out of them. And the back end didn't go at all, although I did let it happpen for fun, just to see if I could do it at a hairpin, and it was OK and not hard to correct. One thing I have learned is that the Supra really can handle corners and I am a LOT more confident now than before when cornering, although I do realise that is on dry roads only! Having said that I really was no match for any of the other cars there, I think a lot to do with it is driver ability - this was my first session - the only place I held my own really was on the straight where we'd reach 120+mph. Apart from the GT3-RS which flew past me even at that speed. Awesome! So that was my first session, it was expensive (£250 for the day, £100 insurance and the full tank of petrol I started with gave me only 120km of track - less than 10mpg or something?) but mucho fun and when I have bought some new brake pads and changed the oil I will start thinking about saving up for another go...

For a 1999 manual like that in tip top condition I think it is a lot but not too far off the mark. You don't see many cars like that for sale these days

That's really bad... very sorry to hear about all this

I think it was about £250, our lass got it for my xmas pressie. It's here http://www.rma-limited.com. Add insurance + petrol it looks to be an expensive day out but I am sure it will be worth it just to have a go at pushing the loud pedal through the floor for once without worrying about plod! THANKS for the advice guys.

Will be this Sat at the Bedford Autodrome. The only fast driving I have done before is on our nations glorious public roads, so this will be the first time I have been able to go over 70mph. Anyone been there before? Do I need to take out extra insurance? What's it like in the wet? Any advice from anyone? I'm in a stock (yes, stock!) Jap TT auto...

I think it's a good un if the price is right. D150BEY is still the best I've seen tho!

Drunk man... Try this and see how far you can keep this drunk man up. ........You just move your mouse left to right (no clicking) to keep him walking in a straight line. The object of the game is to keep him walking, without falling over, by using your mouse from left to right or right to left - you can't see your mouse which makes it more difficult. CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO PLAY - ITS ADDICTIVE. http://www.wagenschenke.ch/ I got 48 metres me!

I just came back from USA the other week and I just got my credit card bill. Average price to fill the tank = £14. Did about 5000 miles for £250. Cannot be bothered to work out the maths but that is well cheap without even applied too much brain power

Seeing how things are on this board I probably have the last stock supra in the country! All I've done is take the wing off. I know YOU'VE done something, you floored it - so did I - but you left me standing!!!

Was that an Evo? I thought it was a scooby... but yeh that may well have been you at that time, with 500bhp in small letters on the back plate?

The way I see it: Car crashes into car = injuries in each Car crashes into SUV = death in car, injuries in SUV

Cheers I think I will investigate that next time I go up to Stanstead. A good excuse to pick up our lass from the airport

The point is that massive SUVs like that are IMO MORE dangerous than fast cars like Supras. Reason being that SUV drivers tend to feel more cushioned from the realities of being near the road, as they're miles away up in their comfort zone. They also feel that if they crash it doesn't matter if their 2 tonne weight crushes the other poor driver - cos they'll be safe

Anyone here?

Looks wicked, even the 3 spokers thi you'll have to keep 'em clean! BIG fan of no spolier myself, nice one!

A1 going north approaching Peterborough is good, 4 lanes, straight and very new