What the point in owning a performance car these days? Certainly around where I live near Exeter. The roads are full of doddery old cnuts, petrol is expensive, hedges are high so you can't see to overtake. A trip down the coast is restricted to perhaps one or two golden boost opportunities.

The best roads are restricted to a PC 50 mph. Feck knows why. It feels so claustrophobic.

Just got back from a trip out and about, lovely sunny day, tops off, tunes on.

Most frustrating drive ever! As soon as I even think of putting my foot down a bit, I catch up with a line of traffic going 40 in a 60 and I know if I overtake this lot there'll be another lot aound the corner.

I still appreciate the Zed as a thing of beauty and I've wanted one, probably since mine was built in 1991. I love seeing on the drive , cleaning it, hearing it start, but at the moment it ends there.

If I could sell it for 4.5K I'd probably take it and buy a Volvo and potter around with the rest of them. Or maybe even a fecking Daewoo! Or a Kia fecking Magentis.

 

Yours pissed offedly - Matt.

I know the feeling. It is really frustrating, thats why I get up v early at the weekend when no twats are about and go for a blast ...

 

No point even picking my car up from the garage either because of the bloody school run .. will have to wait a bit longer :-(

Dont forget bloody speedbumps!! My town is full of them. Have to come to a near stop every 50 yards. :smash: :xxx: :nono:

I thought other cars and Ques were for overtaking :confused:

I thought other cars and Ques were for overtaking :confused:

 

Course I overtake when there is an oportunity, but I get resigned to the fact that my ENTIRE journey will be nipping in and out, blatting past one or two, then back in then out again. I've driven through France twice and you don't have to search for good roads over there, it's a lot quieter and for some reason you're not made to feel like a criminal if you're pushing on a bit.

Last time I belted back north to meet a ferry, leaving an hour or so for getting booze, betwen 80 and 120 for most of the way, where can you do that here? That's the sort of driving I want to do, not in out in out in out, that's for home time and entertaining the wife.

Agree with you their france has i rekon the best roads around. we go to portugal by car every year and theirs no stopping ma dad putting his foot down (once in a while).

Every year takes his Honda Accord (Auto) to top speed 140mph. Honda top speed was said to be 124mph but if you keep pushing them from new then they get there. Yuo can't be doing that speed on english roads theres cameras every where now a days. Well you can and when we where belive it or not a Lamborghini Diablo came past us at about 160+.

And you dont see nobody in france doing te speed limit its alwasy over, trust me i no.

I live in exeter to we should arrange a meet?

I used to hate queues and speed bumps.

 

Now I've got the Z I love them - extra posing time!

I live in exeter to we should arrange a meet?

 

Yep - sounds good. Doesn't seem to be many Zeds around Devon so it'd be gopod to get toghether, I'll have a look at which weekends I've got free and we'll try and sort something out.

 

Suppose it would be good for any meet to go in the SW meets section.

 

Any SW meets arrangers around?

 

I feel better now anyway, had a curry and a couple of beers, talked to the wife who is strongly against getting rid, so maybe I'll have it a bit longer!

 

BTW any caravanners around? Keep the hell out of Devon this summer! That's all I need!

Answer: Because the zed looks so friggin good. dont matter if your going 5mph it just looks like such a nice car.

Answer: Because the zed looks so friggin good. dont matter if your going 5mph it just looks like such a nice car.

 

 

yep, even Jeremy Clarkson refers to it as "the horny nissan 300zx" in his book "motorworld".

 

He'd never admit to saying that now of course, but it's there, in black and white :bow:

 

 

He gave the 350z a bit of a hammering in today's Sunday times though