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Would also like to know this, can anyone shed some light? thanks

89 Toyota Corona Best open road 6l/100km, usually about 7 though round town 7.5 if I'm driving normally, 9.5-10 if I'm thrashing it The old man's X5 3.0d is crazily efficient, 9-10 around town and 8 on the open road. Not bad for a 2100kg truck with average aerodynamics. One time he got 12l/100km towing a boat full to the brim with crap and driving pretty spiritedly. I couldn't believe it, considering the old territory did about 24l/100km under the same circumstances.

Picking the dutch to win it. They're a better team.

Give it a go, you have nothing to lose. You will learn enormous amounts, even if you lose all the $700 (won't happen) it'll still be worth it for the experience. What exactly is your plan for advertising?

That's crazy! In the film he is depicted as a pretty relaxed, decent kind of guy who just snaps when pushed or when it's necessary for business. That scene where the dude stabs him several times in prison and he just takes it calmly comes to mind. I dunno if that was a real event or not, but pretty awesome if it was. I can imagine you've got some bloody interesting stories to tell.

Something people will understand and automatically associate with what your selling (BMW performance parts). What kind of parts are you talking? Serious, expensive stuff like mufflers, cam shafts, airboxes, springs, shocks, brakes. Or smaller things like steering wheels, lips, kits, number plate surrounds, gear knobs etc. If it was me I'd call it something super simple like bmwperformance.co.nz (sh*t name, but you get what I'm saying) No offence, but when I hear scnell spec racing I have no idea what your selling. It could be an F1 team or a honda suspension manufacturer. ScnellBM kind of sounds like a car yard to me.

Wow. Makes me wonder if there's really much point in paying the extra cash for an M3. Sure the 1 is a bit of a minga, but performance wise I imagine they're very similar. The 135i isn't too far off the pace of the M3 so you imagine 1M vs M3 would be very close. What's the point of the curve masking psychedelic paint? We all know what a 1 series looks like, surely this isn't a lot different. It hardly hides the hugely flared wheel arches. God, those rear treads are X5 width almost D-: edit- I think the engines just a higher tuned version of the 3.0 twin turbo in the 135i

On a side note, the piece of crap Chinese tyres on my car should be illegal. They are dangerously slippery. If I could afford anything better I would change them. Just pointing out that dangerous illegally (or otherwise) modified cars can be no more dangerous in some circumstances than legal completely stock cars with crap tyres, or just poorly built older cars in general. I don't know sweet FA about suspension safety or whatever, but I assume that (for example) an illegally (dangerously) low e36 with it's ABS, traction control and other safety features would still be safer and have more grip than say a Toyota Starlet from the same era.

After my first semester, I can safely say that university is a huge joke and if it wasn't for the pretty piece of paper you get at the end, completely useless (obviously there are exceptions). Had a mate let some other dude copy one of his assignments word for word. My mate who did the assignment legitimately got a C and the dude who copied got an A-. How can there be +/- 25% for the exact same work!?!

God I'm sick of clarkson slagging off at porsches (and BMWs). Better than his boring bloody merc.

Straight pipes ??

I'd love to see some pictures of your guns.

4. You can get your hands on hunting rifles and the like, shotguns included with a valid NZ firearms licence. Bit of a process to get one, (you must attend 2 gun club meetings, they interview someone you know, you've got to sit an exam etc). I don't know if you being from the states makes it harder or not. You need very special licences to get your hands on handguns, military style weapons and anything automatic and they are very hard to get. You're also required as a condition of your firearms licence to keep your guns and ammunition in a secure, locked cabinet or other appropriate place like a locked wardrobe. I'm sure you're aware that NZ is very safe and unless you hunt/like collecting firearms there's really no point to have one over here. If someone tries robbing your house and you put a bullet through their head, you're probably going to face quite a lengthy trial and it's touch and go whether or not you'll get off, so keep that in mind if you want one for security purposes. 5. Taxes, yeah they're everywhere. Goods and services tax (GST) is charged at 12.5% (going up to 15% as of October) on all consumer goods and services. Alcohol and cigarettes have their own duties but I can still afford to drink a decent amount of piss and I'm a student, so it's nothing major. Petrol has taxes on top of the GST which account for about half it's price, so about 90 cents per litre at the moment. This includes ACC levies and so on though, so think about that as your health insurance being paid as you fill up. ACC levies are also charged at about 1-3% on your income as well, along with PAYE (income tax) which (as of October) will range between 10.5%-33%. There are taxes and levies on vehicle registration also (expect to pay $300 a year to register your petrol vehicles, not avoidable). 6. Bring over lots of money, our economy needs it (not nearly as much as yours does though, lol). Where are you planning to live in NZ?

On a related matter, I posted a thread in off topic last week with a somewhat humourous video (or so I thought) and it was deleted a couple of hours later with no explanation. I assume because the mod who got rid of it thought it was stupid/not funny. There was no offensive material in the video. There have been countless threads over the last couple of years I've been on here of far less quality. I don't care, but if it was considered to be spam then just give me the heads up so I stop "spamming" in the future.

Quality posts.

Holy crap, WHAT a result!

This thread has the potential for infinite pages. Politics + the economy + climate change + tax = recipe for endless debate Yes, human Co2 emissions are small compared to nature's, but read the below article and you'll see that natures emissions and absorption balance out. Human contributions disturb the natural equilibrium. http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-...l-emissions.htm ETS taxes increase the price of petrol/electricity/diesel/coal/jet fuel etc. An increase in the price of any normal good leads to a reduction in the quantity demanded for that good (economics 101). So more tax = less petrol etc consumed/burnt so less carbon emissions. If the system was perfect (which it far from is), all the tax from the ETS would go towards environment spending/cleaning up pollution, but we all know that won't happen.

That might be the situation for you, but it's not for a LOT of people still. My parents have lost a very significant chunk of their manufacturing business due to the economy and are not doing well at all. We have countless friends who either have their homes for sale (not by choice) or who are out of work. My parents get probably 20 people walking in to their business every week with their CVs. Some of them have applied to 200+ jobs (Mcdonalds included) over the last year without so much as a courtesy phone call. sh*t is bad. Especially in Tauranga.

Yep, car ownership for me isn't having a "drive once a year and polish for the rest" type of car. Only because I'd never have the patience or ability to keep something that perfect and that original. If I had a car like the E30 posted by Liam above, I'd be too tight to fork out for genuine parts and I'd inevitably take shortcuts with repairs/grooming etc. Only the most dedicated and somewhat pedantic people have what it takes to keep a car in that condition.

That is seriously immaculate. I'd say it'll stick around for a while at $20k though.

What would worry me more than what they've done, is what they've failed to do. But yeah, I'd be verrrrrry dubious about buying a car like that. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.

Alcoholic? Nah, I'm doin' it for my health. haha

Or you know you're spoiled. Bahahaha awesome!

Professional hobo. Studylink (you) loans me money to sit on my ass. I do study every so often too.