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Can't fault mine. Still learning how to get the best balance of performance/features/battery life from it.

That looks proper tidy Joe! Must meet up at some point when it's dry so I can have a look over yours and vice versa.

Good find!

Almost guaranteed that does not have the cup suspension pack. Fitting a set of anthracite wheels (or even painting the silver non-Cup ones anthracite) to a non-Cup car would have been easy for the original owner. Swapping Cup-spec red calipers all round to silver ones? Would have been a very...

Hmmmm. I love the way a completely nondescript family 5-door hatchback suddenly has cool points because of different rims and lows. FLOL It is still a nondescript family 5-door hatchback...but just slightly less practical.

WTF is on the back window of that 200? Golf looks, err, just like a Golf.

Yep. Get them swapped.

If you're planning on a lot, get the Cup chassis. if you're planning on a few, don't. It really is that simple.

Do you plan to do any trackdays? If not, give serious consideration to finding a non-Cup. Its blend of suppleness and control is perfect for the roads and it does it without loosening fillings. I did 30k in mine along with several trackdays...it was never as sharp on track as my 172 Cup was...

What about having enough momentum to carry you for next mile and a half with no additional throttle at all? My commute has a few sections like this, so long as there's nothing ahead that could cause me to brake I just roll in sixth for miles. It does get a bit lively at the top though.

I've never once experienced brake fade on the road. On track, on a standard setup, I need several big (120mph) stops before anything starts to suffer. Maintaining a constant or slowly reducing speed down a gradient on the road isn't going to do the same. In days gone by when drums all round...

Exactly...If you get a good run down the hill in top gear you can use your momentum to keep you going for quite a while. If you drop down a couple of ratios beforehand though, you'll be on the gas way earlier. I chuckle every time I see a steep gradient sign with the 'select low gear' warning...

Nice nice nice. One of my team turned up today in a 10 plate 1.25 Zetec. Can't wait to get a go out in it.

This is very true. Bad habits are bad...and you're seriously compromising your ability to react should you ever need to.

That first steering wheel actually makes me feel a little bit sick. Good work.

I think they work just fine on the black. Any other colour though...it's a terrible clash.

Love it. Glad it finally arrived! Does the monitor work ok?

Gears to go, brakes to slow...

From being obsessed by it and doing it absolutely everywhere I've learned not to do it now. There's no need. I brake until I'm happy with my speed then I change into the gear I want with a simple rev match off the brakes. If I can do that one shift smoothly from 6th to 2nd why would I want to...

Being a continual taxi at the weekend for both my girls meant when a time slot became available I had to take it. Front left was too marginal to leave it another week or two.

Useful to know that using the card slot is the only way to shut the engine off while leaving the steering unlocked. While replacing front brake pads I had the front on axle stands and couldn't work out how to keep our unlocked so II could turn each side for access. Had to ask Mike at Rentech in...

Search hard enough and you'll find a similar thread/comments from me when I had my 200. Unless you're looking for it or someone points it out you'd never know it was there!

Have a look under there, you'll see it. I recall it's on the opposite side to the start button...nearest the driver.

Not weird at all...yours also has a slot for the key, under the start button.

Or that it's directly comparable (and arguably better) rival released at the same time can be had for several thousand pounds less. Edit: beaten by -J-

Sounds good but waaaaaaay too much for that 'box if the recommended rating is to be believed. I wonder if anyone will be brave/foolish enough to go for it.

Does best mean highest power output or most money spent? Define best?

Nice. I'm not usually a fan of randomly changing s**t for the sake of changing it then proclaiming it 'looks so much better than standard'. But that really does look so much better than standard.

Is it still nice and straight?

200 EDC