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For all those oldskoolers, I had a computer in for repair last week that had WOLFENSTEIN 3D installed, not the shareware version but the full one LOL. Was the ZIP version, so I grabbed it and installed it on my machine at work, it rocked with the 24" screen haha!

I couldn't have put it better myself. I seriously wouldn't pay 10k for that if anything at all. It's worth at best 1/4 what he's spent. Nothing has been done tastefully, the colour on it is horrid. The guy has either too much money or too much debt, it is sir a bucket of weeze! I hate things like it too, but the old saying goes, whatever floats your boat. I could also imagine how un-reliable the thing would be, how thirsty it would be, it would just piss me off. I don't rekon it will sell for anything anywhere near that money unless some arsehat come drunk clown has had 85k given to him/her because a person that has had to work for 85k isn't going to spend it on that & no finance company would touch it so the boy racer type person will be left out.

I'd rather drink my own urine than drive that filth. Might have been cool in its day but that day is looooong gone

Thats pretty cheap Brent, but yer the interior needs to bugger off. Cheap enough for the replacement interior I rekon it would transform the car. Only problem is, it would look like a Mongrel Mob car with the black & red interior LOL!

These are seriously underrated cars & big time sleepers IMO. I'd hand paint it red, seriously the colour fails. I drove one in the late 90's it would be now and I remember being blown away at it's performance.

I'm a fan of QUALITY & not QUANTITY, that Nissan would be like driving an accordion. YUK! (sorry) Thats me uncles old M5, it was at 80k, obviously come down. He traded it on a S4 convertible of all things. You'd have to be joking on that initial question, who would have that ricer over that MK II God on wheels?

Been around for years that video. Don't think it's to do with any brand of ownership, I'd imagine she fails at most things in life not just fuel delivery.

Nice. Be sure to include some "mujeres" pics too & remember: What happens on tour stays on tour haha!

Mine picks up mobile speed cameras & every cop that I've come across. Sometimes it will give up to 2 minutes warning on the open road. With the ACC radios, I know where 2 of them are in Dunedin, they tend to have a weak signal only giving 2 bars of strength on my radar detector, they are on/off within 50 meters. Would there be any way to tell if my XR950 has jammers fitted? Reason I ask is that I was being rather stupid in my GTS on my way home from picking it up, cop came along (mufti) and took my speed as I was going past (right on top) some cops turn their radar's on/off I rekon. Anyway, he never picked up my speed.

Do you walk hard to the right normally? With a foot that heavy you'd surely limp!

Thats a huge hit! Right over the stadium ROFL. The only thing that could compare to that was my P38 1996 4.6 Range Rover, I think I was getting very similar figures around town, that thing was a PIG of a thing on juice.

Yeah, I've got two detectors, but really the best way to go is to have those systems installed. My Porsche had a Valentine system with detectors & jammers fitted. Although illegal ofcourse, it pretty much meant that you could sit on any speed you wanted to even when passing say 10 cops in a row because none of them would catch your speed. The detector I've got at the moment is a Beltronics Vector XR950 which does the job fine for what I do.

Checkout the countries they are illegal in & checkout some of the fines, 7750 euros, suspensions of 30 days, loss of vehicle 60 days... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Legality

They're principally English mate, if it's not leaking something, it hasn't got it in it. I was bloody tempted about a year ago to buy a nice red MGF with 70km for about 3500 bucks, spoke to a mechanic and he said save yourself some money and flush that 3500 down the drain now without buying it.

Good on you mate, I take it you've been to have a look? It's bloody nice unit, would pay to make sure she's legal though, hate to see someone get caught out by some arsehat.

LOL, I will say the Commodore for the money $100k is a bargain for the performance really. Who can contest that? Fuel consumption 335i Urban (l/100 km) 14.4 Extra-urban (l/100 km) 6.8 Composite (l/100 km) 9.6 335i (currently) is 225kw (306)/5,800rpm 400nm/1,300-5,000 335d is: Fuel consumption Urban (l/100 km) 9.7 Extra-urban (l/100 km) 5.6 Composite (l/100 km) 7.1 210kw (286)/4,400 580nm/1,750-2,250 The torque coming in at 1400 is huge for a diesel but for a petrol, wtf? Thats pretty amazing to be fair. I'm also in tune with get what works best & for me with what I do the X5d is the best, it just means I can go about my work during the week, put the kid in with the gear after work and then haul my ATV up to the crib in the weekend with minimal fuss & superb economy.

Sorry if I've mislead but I wasn't meaning to compare the two cars, the initial argument was that me bro inlaw thought that his car on a trip would be more economical. The XR6 yes, horrible, but the Mazda 6 drives around town all day long & we live high in Dunedin 310m above sealevel, so 10 / 100km is bloody good IMO for a 2.3litre & the Mazda 6 performs bloody well for it's class & price bracket. I've owned many V8's, Turbo charged cars & they're all bloody good but for every day driving a Diesel suits me more, I'm not taking off foot flat everywhere I go and very very rarely will I ask my X5 to go above 3000rpm. The GTS VE Commodore I previously was pretty much the same, ALL the grunt was at the top of the rev range, useless for day to day driving IMO. For city driving you can't tell this guy that a 3litre turbo petrol is going to be more economical than a diesel. I think the best way to compare it would be the 335i & 335d I'd imagine that the diesel would only be marginally slower to 100 for example & probably quite a decent amount cheaper to run, especially around town. Last time I checked the kw is the same but the Torque is about 200nm more which I'd rather have. I guess it comes down to a personal preference. A good mate of mine owns a 335i in Sydney and it's bloody brilliant, especially off the mark, infact in the real world it's probably quicker to a 100 than what my GTS was even though Holden claim 4.8seconds.

+1 I seriously doubt it's the schools fault, most problems start at home IMO.

I don't mean to be a tosser here but I'm glad I live where I do. In Dunedin I rarely hear about these kind of things. I've never been broken into car wise nor home, I've never nor hardly heard of friends/family that have. I always lock things as a precaution, one weekend we went away & accidentally left our GARAGE DOOR open! It had my $17,000 ATV WITH the keys in it, all kinds of tools & equipment & it was never touched. The only thing that did come into the garage was about 500 TOM cats spraying everywhere!

Yeah thanks for that, just goes to show!

I think you all know what I voted for. EURO DIESEL by the country mile. The Asian diesels are good but I'm told by a ex Nissan now Toyota mechanic that marketing has pushed them beyond the zenith of realistic long term reliability & have heard horror stories from new Nissan utes having engines replaced, turbo's, drivetrain issues e.t.c. all well under 100,000km I had an debate with my brother inlaw lastnight who bought my XR6 off me about 2 years ago. He recently travelled from Dunedin to Picton & I laid down some figures. If you look at things from an economy point of view, the diesel is still the bread winner for the same weight/class. But economy combined with 500nm of torque on the X5 at 2000rpm makes it an easy choice for us. Fuel prices as at 6/3/10 & open road fuel consumptions. His XR6 does 9.6l / 100km @ BP Ultimate @ $1.929 My BMW X5 3.0d 218ps uses 8.3l / 100km @ $1.129 This means on the 690km trip from Dunedin to Picton would cost each car: Falcon: $127.77 (690km x 9.6l/100km divided by 100 x $1.929 per litre = $127.77) x 2 (return to Dunedin) = $255.54 BMW X5: (690km x 8.3l/100km divided by 100 x $1.129 per litre = $64.65) x 2 (return to Dunedin) = $129.30 RUC is $36.90 per 1000km (FARK!) So you need to add this into the equation 450.92 (1380 x $36.90 divided by 1000 = $50.92) TOTAL FOR: X5: $180.22 XR6: $255.54 V8 Petrol X5 does aprox the same on the open road as the XR6 to that puts things a bit into perspective. If you could imagine this over a years period you're gonna save some dough. Alot of people think that Diesels are expensive to service & repair, they're right but most modern Diesel euro's now have service intervals of atleast 20,000km, my X5 is 25,000km and a general service is $900aprox from a BMW dealership which will be the most expensive. Before it came down to a power thing & petrol was the winner, oh my how things have changed. KW is BS to me, Torque is the power especially for day to day use. Who spends most of their car's rev-range above 5000rpm where most of the power is in a petrol? We have a Madza 6 GSX Wagon as our other work car which does about 500km a week @ about 10litres per hundi so about $100 bucks a week on fuel tops. We're considering replacing it with a Ford Focus 1.8 diesel TDCi which is 5.3l / 100km which will mean a saving of around $50 per week, $200 a month, $2400 per year. Now the Mazda 6 goes very well, but after driving the Focus diesel, they do have a bit of lag at the front of the rev-range but after that they are a bloody lively character & brilliant for overtaking. Sorry for the 8 page essay LOL

That is an awesome car, but I'd be very interested to see how this pans out. Things don't add up for sure here. I'd be very surprised if they take it off TM mate.

Thats why with every black car I've owned you have to wash it atleast 3 times a week, keep it garaged or it looks like pig sh*t.

Are you selling that damned fine red beast with it?

That M3 Convertible (RED) has to be the best looking E30 I've ever seen, its as good as that RED E30 Alpina from Christchurch & I'd leave my wife for that car!