E30 325i Rag-Top

^^ dressed in that get-up you are probably given a wide berth because you look like you have escaped from the local nut-house

Missing the point much.... I have negative attitude to cyclists, but that doesn't mean that I go around trying to knock them off their bikes. Quite the opposite in fact, I give them a wide, wide berth - as they wobble all over the road and I really don't want to deal with their guilt tripping on me. I do ride a bike quite often, and if you're worried about a motorist, try cycling to work along a narrow open road with stock trucks on the way to the sale yards sqeezing past. I'm sure I got licked by the cows on more than one occaision. The BIG difference is that I realize that being on the moral high ground doesn't help in an accident, so I think about when and where I ride (to keep out of the way basically) and ride defensively, not in some kind of angry vigilante attack mode. Only last week I had a wonderful interaction with a cyclist in Napier - wobbling his way down a narrow street with cars parked both sides, and traffic in both directions. No helmet and trying to shield his younger son (also no helmet) from the traffic, causing him to swerve all across the road. Realising what an accident waiting to happen this guy was I made sure I got nowhere near him so that it wouldn't be me that he finally managed to throw himself into. When I came across the same two guys later in town and I suggested he should be setting a better example and wearing his helmet the response was "those rules dont apply, I am my own god"! The words on his T-shirt "I am unstoppable". I really hope he has a DNR notice on him when he is taken into A&E. There needs to be much better education of cyclists (and more emphasis on policing them, rather than making money from speeding fines) any idiot can jump on a bike and pedal off along the road - whether they are a driver and know the road rules or not.

Cyclist of the week award goes to the clown that was cycling the wrong way up the road yesterday, extra points were awarded for: 1) the road in question being SH1 and pretty busy 2) having no helmet on 3) wearing a hi-viz t-shirt. I know many think wearing hi-viz makes you invincible, but from many injuries I have seen this is not true in real life!

Cyclists.. Get all righteous with drivers, but ignore all the bloody road rules. Run red lights, go over pedestrian crossings, cycle on the footpath (one guy on his mobile), pull straight out into traffic, wobble all over the road, don't wear helmets... No wonder so many get knocked off their bikes. Being a smug git isn't going to help when your flesh hits a metal car you twats!

Motor Machinists did a lot of my engine work when I was in Palmy, always did a good job with a quick turn-around.

Motor Machinists did a lot of my engine work when I was in Palmy, always did a good job with a quick turn-around.

FIxed

Is it some sort of Kiwi tradition to drive around with your rear fogs on at Easter? So many dumbasses doing this on the roads this week-end, must be a reason for it. Also Skoda drivers that dont use their mirrors before pulling out into a passing lane.... faaaaarrrrkkk!!

I did hear one of the monkeys died when it went to Hamilton... are you the new incumbent?

Way to keep the prototype on the down-low... might save a few Euros on the crash testing now though..

Designed by software, to meet frontal impact rules and aerodynamics targets. Doesn't allow a huge amount of difference unfortunately. Will be interesting to see when there are more views of the car without the camo and the lines are clearer.

Do you have the dimensions of the MTech2 version? Just wondering if it will fit on the bottom of an M3 front?

There are different option codes for the coding of lights and DRLs, can be set to - on with key, off, or selectable from menu. Can also depend on the rules for the market the car is going to be sold. If you can't find it in the iDrive menu then it sounds like the car has been built as "off", should just be a change to the coding to get it into the menu.

Needs a price as per forum rules.

As a lad from Bolton once told me: BWFC Beer Women Football Cars God I miss proper football.

Err, yeah. Clicked on the link for that first ugly E91, non-Msport fugly rims, jap import and $4k more. Threw up, went no further. If you'd rather that than the E46, good luck to you fella.

^^if you really want to look at 318 / 320i E91s maybe. It would have to be a very rough / high miles E91 330/335i M-Sport for that kind of money.

Oi mush, I remember the 80's, and I'm not an old git. In fact I think 1987 was my favourite year of my life. And as for leather skirts with heels, stop it, you're getting me all excited just thinking about it....

Getting a chubby in your race car 'cos you're "going really, really fast right now"

Yes the trade-in is up on TradeMe, they're not looking to make much on the car, but what is made will be donated to a kids' charity.

Should delete thread for not having a price. Will keep it up due to Ashkan LOLs...

Whoops... that went well over my head. /back on topic My rant would have to be //M badges on non-M Sport cars, and not in the right place - pedantic much?

I agree with Westy, if you want to see a proper rant find one of 3pedals posts about automatic gearboxes. And, sorry, but SMG = Sequential Manual Gearbox, emphasis being on the MANUAL part of the words

Pm Geoff, FIAT131R I'm pretty sure he has some, and he's in Wellytown

It's even worse than Welsh, it's Northern.