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Over 4 years and 24k miles, with new bought using Renault's 4+ PCP finance package and used bought for cash. Difference isn't as much as I thought it'd be. Interesting exercise all the same. I've spent the last few days playing with this and think it holds water. If anyone wants to challenge...

In effect, yes, as the rate of depreciation drops with every passing day/mile. It's on its way...

Without question in my opinion. If you want to keep your costs down at a reasonable level you need to do two things, don't buy new (regardless of how you choose to fund it), and keep it for a while once you've got it.

I've taken out the cost of trackdays, hotels, sundries, mileage and tanks of fuel that are related to trackdays...and as suspected the difference isn't huge, still not pleasant reading. Might have to downsize to a 100hp after going around Llandow in Pete's.

I suffered this, failed my MOT on the last day of my 3 year warranty. Got a 40% reduction from Renault but still had to pay £490 all in. Ouch.

You, me and a few others only are convinced. This ^^^^ is just like interior of a 1.2 apparently.

I don't understand that...a 1*2 interior is exactly the same...with the exception of the seats, the interior could be a lowly 1.2 with climate.

What isn't Renaultsport enough about it?

Funny you should say that but I've been playing about with the data to work this ^^^ out. Hopefully will update thread with revised data/graphs tonight. From what I've seen so far though, it makes a difference...but it's not as huge as most hope it will be.

Got to say my experience across several trackdays comparing against 172s, 182s, Tropy's etc. is that there's nothing to separate my 200 from any of them in a straight line. I don't doubt a MkII would 'launch' quicker and they're definitely a little more nimble through the really tight 2nd gear...

I think the carbon's taking the car in a bad direction. Also, to be pedantic, it's a simple rear bumper trim isn't it? Doesn't look even remotely like a diffuser.

Thread opened with a video, did you watch it?

The mobile telecoms equivalent of a bonnet bra? Nice.

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Re: CLIO IV RS for 2013, Last news The more I see it, the more I think I could love a paddle shift after all.

My laptop's been relegated to being used just for video editing since our ipad arrived. ipad > pretty much any other casual browsing device.

At 105k it'll still be running itself in!

Re: CLIO IV RS for 2013, Last news I'm not a fan of mine at all...sure it feels nice day to day, but I really think I'd feel more in touch with the car on track with one a little thinner.

Even £2k for that is a bit rich IMO!

Re: CLIO IV RS for 2013, Last news Some of us have changed settings so we see 60 posts per page...so when you do this, we see your repeated post two or three times on the same page. Please stop doing it.

Is it nearly empty? As standard, once you get below 40 miles or so left, you'll just see '----'.

My point is that here's something that should be in an Apple product. It could be in an Apple product. But it's not because of the financial revenues it generates for Apple from the apparent blindness of its customers who come up with every reason under the sun why it's been excluded other...

Apologies, thought your previous post was sarcasm through and through! Let's say 90% (?) of rival handsets out there have expandable memory...that doesn't stop the entire populous owning them and coping with having a slot in their phone (be it used or unused) does it?

You surprise me with that response. You really genuinely think with all their technical expertise, experience, and knowhow, that to engineer that into one of their handsets a Micro SD slot is too much for them? Seriously?

This one snippet I can't shake...why can't they engineer a Micro SD slot into a handset? Because it would deny them huge revenues from individuals who seem to think that £70 for 16gb or £170 for 48gb of memory is a good thing?

So the below personal opinion about the 'worth' of the upgrade is bizarre and invalid? I think you confuse opinion with facts - yes the 5 is better than the 4S, of course it is. Is it worth it? Yes and no. Depends on each and every individual.

Oh right, it must have been then.

Yup, accountant by trade. Boring life? Nope. A simple Android app...10 seconds after each fill up is what it takes to enter mileage, litres, cost. That's it. Then the figures find their way into a spreadsheet which does all of the above. Any ad hoc costs get entered also...takes 10 seconds each...

That S3 ad was an attack on Apple was it? You must have watched something different then because I didn't see that. I saw a light hearted poke at the fanaticism that exists around the build up and hype of a new Apple product. It did not attack Apple. It did not attack the iPhone 5. It...

Increased miles have seen the average monthly cost and pence per mile reduce, but there's no getting away from the painful cost of fuel and depreciation. Depreciation has continued at £5/day...valuing it today at £8,490...which is fair I think. The recent day at Llandow came and went without...