cainchapman

Well, I'll need to check with NZ Customs next week. But I have just read their list of illegal import items and there are only 2 points which they could stop them on. Trademark and Copyright. Having checked the trademark and copyrights list recognised by them. Personalised Plates are not on either. On another note, PP don't manufacture the plates (read their FAQ sheets) https://www40.ssldomain.com/licensys-ebusin...tureRequest.asp So, can you get your plates remanufactured as a Europlate for $32.50 + courier fee of $9 directly?

I'm sure that the German plates do conform to the form factor of the law. However, the licence in NZ for manufacturing personalised plates is with that company. And would therefore be grounds for them not being Authorised. Parallel imports of everything are rife, so I'd bet you have a case there too. However, NZ Customs have let them in....so, yes. If they tried to enforce it, I'd take it to court too.

They have always been illegal. This has been stated many times on the site. The sale and marketing of personalised registration plates is contracted to Personalised Plates Limited. The line above is from the LTSA website.

The 540iLE is a high spec 540iS and the effective M5 replacement for 95 as it was not shipped to Australasia.

$180,000 new, well that was the list price anyway. Not, what was paid.

Kerry is spot on again. The other point to the power boost is that when the driver brakes or decelerates, the boost is over. Great season for the team. Colin Giltrap for Prime Minister.

Gee, tight range of cars fall into that request. A Skoda (no, I'm not joking) good cars these days. An XR6 Turbo maybe. Seeing as you didn't list Mazda. A Mazda 6 is a very good car for the money. I'd personally go for a slightly older VW Passat.

Not a bad looking car. What the hell have Subaru done? Got a 2 year old drawing up their cars. The new Tribeca is slightly better than the original and the new Impreza is just horrible.

In the E34, I'm pretty sure my head unit is a Blaupunkt and the 6 disc is definitely an Alpine.

Obviously got a lesson from The Italian Job. Following Michael Caine's "I told you just to blow the bloody door off"

You have a cat in your E30? I didn't know they were invented back then. If it's not working then you may as well remove it. Or you can see Retro products and get a high flow Remus replacement. It also doesn't remove CO2, it converts unburnt hydrocarbons and CO into CO2, and removes Nitrous fumes.

I'd disagree on the earthing through the Chassis. Ideally you should have all the earths at a single point. As this means a lot more cable (and suitable sized and shielding, if needed) then the automotive industry takes the shortcut of using the chassis as an equipotential bonding point. Also the reason for the battery being near the engine in your car. Heat is the natural enemy of battery life, so why put it in the engine bay? Cabling.

Spend more time on the ripple strips Ollie. That will remove the load and have a 007 effect on the cars behind you in the race. Check how much you can get from the wheels of a Super Tourer (below)

Welcome. We'll look forward to some pictures of it. Some nice roads around there to drive it on too. Good to see another 5 series arrive onboard.

That was the 60's Jock. The 70' were BIG wings, Ground effects, 18 inch wide rubber. 6 wheeled cars. And the cars you described, can't have produced much better racing if you deem passing to be the yardstick (as many appear to) when in 1968 Jackie Stewart won a race by 4 MINUTES. I'm still in favour of F1 being the pinnacle of motorsport. Traction control is something we can do without. The technology does filter down into road cars over time. Otherwise, it's Indycar racing or A1Gp which aren't a patch on F1.

RM Williams and Levi's are the best

Marketing: "A 4 door coupe" and "Ribena has vitamin C" Doesn't mean either are true.

As a rule of thumb: For every 10 degrees Celcius that you reduce the air temperature to the motor, you get a 1% increase in power.

Coupe--Closed car with two doors, and technically, less than 33 cubic feet of rear interior volume. No comments on B pillars. Probably a very common feature in coupes though.

Originally from: coupe 1834, from Fr., originally pp. of couper "to cut (in half)" (see coup), from early 19c. carrosse coupe "cut-off carriage," a shorter version of the berlin, minus the back seat. First applied to closed two-door automobiles 1908. Nothing to do with roof height. Still no 4 door coupe. Just because people don't use the correct words. It doesn't make it correct. McDonalds call themselves a restaurant.

I'm sorry, you can't have a 4 door coupe. coupe : a 2-door automobile often seating only two persons; also : one with a tight-spaced rear seat It looks a bit like that squashed cockroach Mercedes have. But I still like it. Those M wheels are great.

Ditto on the box. Can you set up a link to new posts from the front page too?

Have you got a Pom stuck under your car? Sorry, nothing of use here from me.

Traction control axed from 2008 30 March 2007 Traction control will no longer be legal in Formula One racing from the start of next season. The change is just one of a number to the 2008 regulations agreed by the teams and FIA at a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council earlier this week. Article 9.3 of the newly-revised technical regulations states: “No car may be equipped with a system or device which is capable of preventing the driven wheels from spinning under power or of compensating for excessive throttle demand by the driver. Any device or system which notifies the driver of the onset of wheel spin is not permitted.†Outlawed in the 1990s, traction control was legalized for the 2001 season when it was felt that sophisticated electronics had made policing the ban impractical. From next season, however, standardized ECUs should make enforcement far easier. Under other changes agreed, the regulations regarding engine homologation will be relaxed slightly, with teams able to make in-season adjustments to a longer list of components, including fuel injection and exhaust systems.

Welcome Kirsten. The more the merrier.