Grant

All the networks here showed it on the news but prefaced it with a warning The footage didn't bother me, it is the risk you knowingly take when you compete in a potentially dangerous sport like that. The images of death and suffering in Haiti was more harrowing in my opinion.

That map has nothing to do with my statement, or on the ability of a country to service it's debt. It is merely a snapshot statistic. Anyway, you believe what you want, or you are told in 6th form economics. I'll believe what I want to belive based on my significant tertiary education, years of management consutling and ability to look at things at a macro level looking at all of the relevant inputs. I'm not here to argue, I only made my first post as I found the rhetoric that followed amusing.

I don't need to. I live it everyday and the reality is vastly different from what some doomsday, conspiracy theorists will have you believe. I think you forget the vast size, population and resources (natural and intellectual) that the US has. This gives it the ability to be able to borrow when needed and then also pay it back. I am pretty sure that the US is better capable of paying it's current and future debt than the likes of NZ and other similar countries are.

I think that the fact that people who know little more than what they see on the news or read on this blog or that are waxing lyrical about something they know very little about or have any actual experience interesting. None the less, this thread delivers the laughs.

Smart cars are made using plastic panels. The car in that bad photoshop has metal panels.

We are going to the De Young Museum in San Francisco to see the King Tut exhibit and will have a picnic lunch in Crissy Field at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge and then will have a leisurely drive back home through the a Napa Valley

Fantastic. Amazing pics of an amazing car. IMO there are probably few, if any, better examples of an E30 anywhere.

Good god you really don't think before you post a lot of the time. Emily remember that if you have nothing constructive to post maybe you are better off not posting at all! Not everyone has a whinge off the forum via Facebook to moderators when something doesn't go their way like you!

You sound like you try just a little too hard. This leads me to believe you are really a behind closed doors pussy.

I'd call it what it is, a replica. Hasn't this all been talked about to death before over and over again?

I think he is a member on here.

I had two windscreens replaced by Smith and Smith Glass in Mt Wellington/Penrose a couple of years ago. I had no complaints with either installation. Cheers Grant

If it were veering to the left, the easy answer would be just to start racing NASCAR.

I've seen a Dinan Supercharged E39 M5 twice around my work. It sounds very nice, yet still looks like a run of the mill E39 M5.

HB Spargo

Keep up the photos and the posts Mark. This is fascinating!

I am completely unimpressed by it. I would have expected something with a lot more power. Be still, my beating heart, a whopping 140 - 150kw at the wheels....

Good thread!

Very cool - that is quite some trip you are having. Must be very very interesting!

Wow - that's quite a collection he has there. Does he really have a Dodge Tomohawk?

Yeah, they aren't the cheapest now that I think of it. Gas here is cheap so not a bit concern for us. A fill costs around US$35, and I guess my wife would fill up once a week or so.I don't have any mpg figures, so can't say exactly how thirsty it is. Here are the manufacturer mpg figures 20-mpg in the city and 27-mpg on the highway.

My wife's car is the 3.0l Outback with full leather (L.L. Bean Edition). It is a great car.

Just consider yourself lucky that you are not in the USA. I'm considered a new driver (even though I have had a NZ drivers licence for 20 years) here so I pay about US$900 a year to insure my VW Passat for Third Party only. It was almost going to cost what I paid for the car to insure it with comprehensive cover. I assume that the cost will come down once I have been here a while longer (assuming I don't have any accidents or tickets etc). I have now had my Californian drivers licence for just over a year. The liability laws here are the killer for insurance premiums.

Good thread. Love the intelligent threads like this. Great project Ray I look forward to following it.

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