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Ah right, there you go then I suppose. At that sort of speed I see 40 out of the trophy quite easily. I think as soon as the 197 gets up to 75-85 the mpg drops like a stone.

What speed were you doing on the motorway? I think that has a huge effect on the 197 compared to the 182!!

I can confirm that this car is nearly as big a shed as mine. Drives nice though ;)

On exactly the same 85 mile round trip to work for 2k miles: Trophy - 36mpg 197 Cup - 29mpg I fill the tank every 3/4 days on average.

Look at his username history on here ;)

Yes lol. Buy poorly listed stuff on eBay, relist with excellent advert, count £££'s.

He's got quite a few user accounts on eBay. Buys with one, sells with another (probably with feedback set to 'private'). I get the impression he also buys smashed up cars from Bluepoint, then sticks them back together with gaffa tape, bluetac & cheap bits from CS. Obviously makes decent money...

64GB storage on iPad Maybe 10GB of music on the pc lol. Im new to all this :o What do you suggest Dan, get the Apple TV thingymamob? Where would all my music be accessed from then? Could it go in this cloud thing, or is that just for storage of photos, etc. Or would all my music still be better...

I want to get rid of the computer - which we currently only really use to watch movies from Blinkbox/BBC iplayer, then it also holds my music collection, so we access that via the TV screen/wireless keyboard/mouse instead of using a pc monitor. Music is now on the iPad, and we can also use it...

As above really, Sarah bought me the new one for my 30th and considering ive only just worked out how to put music on my iPod via iTunes, i need a little advice. Ive got a 50" lcd TV with all the modern connections, Sony home cinema (5 speakers & sub), then Kef speakers running through a...

lol, i think we were discussing this the other day on eBay werent we ;) Give me £70 for the steering wheel and ill put it in the post.

Ade - without wishing to sound boring, id remove the pictures of where you viewed the track. Other people may have used the same spot and may/may not wish to visit said location again next year FYI - the unofficial rule with Black Ops is that you only post night pictures, so its not quite so...

Probably blocked some users from bidding on his items. I find it quite a useful tool tbh.

I'll be honest, the new Boxster is absolutely stunning.

You'd be amazed at how many are out there tbh. Takes about 20 mins in a clio lol, just swop instrument clusters!! This car is lovely btw, & Steve is a very fastiduous owner - the car gets everything it needs. Great buy imho.

Reminds me of your driveway tbh.

£41k, & from memory, they sold out pretty much instantly.

You'd be amazed at how wrong you are :) i cant be bothered to write a massive essay, but day to day, without any major breakages, an M3, bar insurance is not really any more to run imho. Hence why i sold the 197 after 5 minutes, it simply didnt warrant the cost.

I'm doin it over the weekend. Got 5 million stupid pictures to sift through. We'll let the Northeners have their week in the limelight, then the big boys will show 'em how its done ;) Note: Staying till the end of the race normally helps.

But surely the whole point of a french hot hatch is that its cheap fun? I got 28mpg out of my M3 lol.

I do about 25-30k a year, so know quite a big about mpg, worked out properly, not via the trip computer ;) 182 Trophy: 36mpg 197 Cup: 29mpg Thats exactly the same daily commute.

4th gear synchro goes. Mpg is pap. Lots of suspension parts are 197 specific (re: expensive), unlike the 1*2 which is a 1.2 with a big engine. Other than that, i cant see why (with proper maintenance) it wouldnt go to silly mileage.

Just out of interest, what sort of mpg does this thing do?

As has already been said, Paisley are just the booking agent, not the actual courier, so exactly the same type of company as Parcel2Go, Payperparcel, etc. Took me 7 months to get a £220 refund out of Payperparcel (who had used DHL), so if you have issues, they will be nigh on the same for each...

lol. I had mine for 3 weeks. Slower than the Trophy, but worse mpg than the M3. Once moving, above 5k rpm it was brilliant, great gearbox, nice(ish) steering, strong brakes, but as a package, i just dont think it warranted the truly sh1t fuel consumption. Recaros were good though, shame they...

Will write it tonight, then upload tomorrow morning. Still half asleep tbh. Looks like you had a good trip lads, shame you didnt make it over to our though :( Ben - how the f*ck did you spend £600 lol - eating caviar on your beef burgers?

I know of an '02 saxo vts in wicked red that you could have for roughly that price. Recent cambelt etc.

Just get the koni adustables. Nick (the chap who you'd be collecting from for £130 no doubt), has some for sale as well.

lol. That was doing considerably more than 55mph. My 106 was hit by a corsa doing 47mph (according to the police report than banned the other driver for 2 years) and as you can see, the shell has stood up far better than the saxo at '55mph': If you lose the backend of a clio at xxx mph, then...

They are very very good imho. If you dont want to spend the money on buying Sachs/refurbing them though, the H&R's are nigh on the same.