Gazboy

My God we are all screwed.

With the Yen- Sterling index it will stop importers driving prices down further as a 1993 £6000 TT auto last year will now cost them £9000. Facelifts will probably hold, 6spds will slow but autos will continue to devalue imo as they slip into the bracket populated by the blinkered who would dismiss them for being an auto.

"The facts are these, Christakis insists: "About 3.3 million Americans are allergic to nuts, and even more - 6.9 million - are allergic to seafood. However, all told, serious allergic reactions to foods cause just 2,000 hospitalisations a year (out of more than 30 million hospitalisations nationwide). And only 150 people (children and adults) die each year from all food allergies combined." He adds: "Compare that number with the 50 people who die each year from bee stings, the 100 who die from lightning strikes, and the 45,000 who die in motor vehicle collisions. Or compare it with the 10,000 hospitalisations of children each year for traumatic brain injuries acquired during sports or the 2,000 who drown or the roughly 1,300 who die from gun accidents. We do not see calls to end athletics. There are no doubt thousands of parents who rid their cupboards of peanut butter but not of guns. And more children assuredly die walking or being driven to school each year than die from nut allergies" ____________________________________________________ Just to pick up on these points: 1. The small number of hospitalisations would (or should) be because parents/adults are checking the ingedients of what they or their kids eat, you can avoid food you are alergic to. 2. Just because you are alergic to something doesn't mean you have to die or go to a hospital. Plenty of people are alergic to cats in this country but how many are hospitilised because of cat hair alergies? 3. Last time I checked, 150 of 10.2m is a bigger percentage than 100 out of 300m so why is the author comparing a specialist alergy to an accident that could happen to any living person? 4. 45,000 die in the USA in motor accidents? That is appauling! 5. Every comparison is unavoidable accidents, hardly a good point to base an arguement.

Is that the suprastore NA-T conversion? Is the second one for a cargo ship?

Had a rev2 270bhp MR2 which compared to the Supra was a bit of an animal, frantic & nimble, but the Supra swallows miles like nothing else and really hauls ass at higher speeds, it feels huge after the MR2.

Yankee singles always have much neater engine bays.

3000 watt stereo? I struggle to have my 100 watt Orange stack cranked up even if I'm in the garden and standing 50 feet away!

You b*****!

'Kin ell Jake you weren't wrong were you!

Again the driving like Daisy in the DBR9 completely misses the point.

What, like ladies nights with free entry/free drinks/half price drinks, 12 months maternity leave, retire at 60, cheaper car insurance, bigger funds & campaigns for 'female' cancers than 'male' cancers, have a seat given up and a door held open yet never let other drivers out of junctions or conceed right of way and have a family court system totaly biased in their favour- that sort of thing?

55k (in headline)

Have a read of 10PenceShort's tale: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=141&t=442266&i=40

Lots of dealers are closing or down sizing. My mate had a good month last month, he sold one car. I'm very suprised the Detroit Three hasn't been discussed much on this forum, given the implications if just one, never mind all three go under.

Stock/oem seems to be gaining momentum here too, thankfully.

Yeah, you can handle a 5th gear slide right up until you lose it and cross over. Was the other carriageway empty too?

The General Motorsport forum tends to be occupied my the more mainstream sporty types, both participants and spectators, marshalls and armchair experts, the response in General Gassing would have been softer as it has a younger, more open minded user base (it also has more than it's fair share of tw@ts lately) but the opposite is true in the other motorsport sub-forums which is populated by the die hards. I don't think many would dismiss the skill required (this being evident when PH is at Brunters the VBomb M5 comes out to play with huge arcing drifts to applause and laughter).

Link to 10 'honour killings' in the uk and correlate the different religions. It isn't supposed to be Muslim culture but then Catholics aren't supposed to be raping choir boys either.

You are not comparing like for like, if you jumped into a Aston DBR-9 at race pace you also wouldn't make it around the first corner either.

Has the story been linked to mkiiisupra.net?

I've heard great things about them, hope all goes well.

Wrexham Park?

The HKS 200SX looks better, but all three look like 20 different people designed the graphics and then put them on in the dark, especialy that Skyline. Notice how these look less McDonalds carpark: http://www.streetcommodores.com/images/news/16/Holden_Winton_Testing_026.jpg http://www.tuningnews.net/news/080311a/audi-a4-dtm-2008.jpg Edit- it isn't just a Drift thing, most of the time attack cars look gash too.

It's a sport as much as FMX or synchronised swimming is, but I wouldn't pay to watch it as a feature sport but if it was on the card between proper races like a comedian between bands at a concert then I'd be happy to watch. However most of the cars look shit and seems to further entwine chav culture with owning a Japanese car.

Prefer the real thing: http://images.pistonheads.com/aimg/783/783609-1.jpg