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Ok, lose the daft badges and it's a pretty clean car.... however saying it's got 480bhp is just barefaced lying. On the other hand I suppose if you are daft enough to believe it a fool and his money are easily parted.

I like it, but hate the commercialisation. Having said that I've spent the last 6 months working running the software development project from hell and I've only just moved into my new house so basically I'm knackered and skint and not really in the mood for it. I'm particularly not in the mood for the (probably) 6 hour drive I'm going to have to endure to get to my parents' place on the 23rd, and it's still over a month away. I'm also absolutely not in the mood for hearing Slade and all that other Christmas music tripe played constantly every time I go into a shop (which let me tell you won't be very often for the next month). And I imagine at some point I'm going to get ticked off by the fact that I can't find what I'm looking for in Tesco because they've rearranged everything to make way for the Christmas stock. Finally I'm liable to get slightly worn down by the fact that during this supposed season of goodwill and jolliness everyone seems to be more grumpy and stressed out than usual. However, if I'm honest what really gets up my nose is that only around 9% of people in this country are practising Christians anyway so why does everybody else jump on this tedious bandwagon every year? Shall we all start celebrating Ramadan as well?

There just aren't enough sick bags in the world.

Yep, as far as I know there's no way of getting out of it. They do give some remuneration, but it's not a great deal.

Which magazine?

That's a joke right?

My cousin played Georgia Simpson in Brookside around 1996. She was the one who had the incestuous affair with her brother (on the show obviously). She's been in a few things since then as well but tends to be more stage oriented nowadays I think.

Give it another week and then I think you might be OK to heave a sigh of relief.

Ad's gone by the looks of it.

Actually I nearly bought that car, although it had different (and much nicer) wheels on at that point. Lose the "grafficks innit" and it would be fine. A bit aggressive looking perhaps (even in purple), but fine.

Yep, that sorted it. Cheers Andy.

I just read about it on the BBC news website as well. Really sorry to hear that. Heartfelt condolences.

Spot on. Thanks Andy.

:rofl: Go Si!

Very sorry to hear that. There are people in this world who just don't seem to know what those lines across a T junction mean which I find utterly baffling, but anyway. The main thing is you're still in one piece. Could have been a lot worse if something coming the opposite way had also hit you as you spun across the road. :-S

Ouch... that's gotta hurt! Sorry, it was a cheap shot I know. They're pretty decent cars from what I've heard, and they can look good if it's not too overdone. Any decent garage should be able to do a cambelt service for you. I'm guessing it's going to weigh in at £250 - £300 but that is just a wild guess.

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It lies. It comes on intermittently when the handbrake is clearly not on. Just started doing it the day before yesterday. Seems to be mainly set off by turning hard right. Turning left afterwards causes it to flick off again. I'm assuming it's a dodgy sensor or relay or something like that but just wanted to check that it couldn't be something more serious? The handbrake is working fine btw. Any help/suggestions much appreciated. Thanks, Bart

Unfortunately I have a nasty feeling you might be right. :(

Yeah, we've been quietly infiltrating the place for years... and now it belongs to us. NYYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Er, sorry, got a bit carried away there.

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I'd have to agree. They're not much to look at, and whilst they do offer affordable performance, they're absolutely *everywhere*. I mean *everywhere*. It's Sunday, I'm in the office (don't ask) and there are no cars around at all in the car park or on the roads outside (except mine), but this is IT/startup city and if I were to go outside right now and hurl a brick you can guarantee that somehow or other I'd manage to hit an Impreza, and if not one of them then an RX8. Bloody things. They're like a disease.

Can't say I'm a big fan of the death penalty but he was tried fair and square, or at least to the extent that's possible in Iraq at the moment, and under their legal system the death penalty is an option to punish the kind of crimes he committed, so fair enough. Like you say stella, just slightly concerned it's going to kick off even more violence and put our troops in harms way even more than they already are. Regardless of whether you think the war should have happened or not our soldiers have done an excellent job in an extremely difficult and dangerous situation and I think have earned the right to come home safe and sound.

Got to agree. Drunk people = total pain in the arse, and a hazard to themselves and everybody else. Plus it's quite fantastically irritating talking to them when they're slurring all over the show and take twice as long as usual to get a sentence out. *And* they ramble and generally talk complete crap as well and just don't shut up. Really sorry to hear about the car and hope you get it sorted out. You did the right thing though by stopping them from driving off. Like you say, could well have killed somebody.

I seem to remember they did a similar thing with a Jaguar XJ220 10 or 12 years ago. No tax payers money was wasted on this car.