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True, and Yes, the 'recently' imported one was on for 90k or close to it not so long ago if memory serves.

I'd agree with that. The newer Audi is definitely +1, maybe 2kph difference. The y2k bimmer however, at a vmax200 event in the UK many, many moons ago, the dial was showing a somewhat shaky 163mph but clocked at 160mph on the timing beam, so 5mph over the stated limit in the manual, but still, 3mph/4.8kph off being 'accurate', at least its consistent all the way through the speedo range. That shows something for 1990s engineering and technology.

Like buses, wait for ages then four come along at once.... mostly s50s with one of the rarer s54s - the pick of the bunch IMHO. 1999 BMW Z3 M Coupe | Trade Me Motors 1999 BMW Z3 M Coupe | Trade Me Motors 2002 BMW Z3 M Coupe | Trade Me Motors 1998 BMW M Coupe | Trade Me Motors

There is also a strong case for older cars that benefit from upgraded performance parts that were not widely available or were not fitted to the factory edition such that a modern equipped older car will arguably be a much 'better' drivers car than when it left the factory. Bigger, newer brakes for starters. MUCH better tyres!

For the rubbing on the front guard, you can always cut out some of the plastic guard where it rubs. That stops the rubbing!

eek! Not an suv in sight 😉 Place Vauban On Any Given Sunday Morning - Speedhunters

People tell me to stop reading the Guardian, but every now and again.....comedy gold: Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs | Paris | The Guardian

Has anyone tried Cove for car insurance? Shopping around after receiving the same shock - from Tower = up from something like 640 to 880 on the family shopping trolley is outrageous. And that is after raising the excess last year post a fairly hefty increase in 2023. Cove came out the cheapest. All the others were close to or a lot more than Tower. Cove seemed one of those 'too good to be true, probably is' moments.

I concur with your assessment. On the new SH1 m'way heading north from Auckland over the peak holiday period Waze was remarkably on point. Then again, given the time of year, running on the presumption that there will be 5 0 around every third corner of a brand new, safe as you like m'way, is probably as good a bet. I was busy telling my kids in the back of the wagon that the BIB like to sour holiday makers and add a fun tax over the holidays, when sure enough, a soccer mum SUV got pinged right in front of us with a laser doing what can only have been a smidge over 107, downhill with a tailwind. I mean really, what risk was this person posing to society and their fellow motorists? Zero IMHO. They were more in danger when sliding and swerving to an emergency stop on the lose gravel at the side of the m'way. Needless to say, the radar detector did not go off in my car nor did the laser detector.

This is way off topic but maybe belongs in this thread..... I stumbled across these characters on the webatron the other day and have now skimmed through quite a bit of their material. It is some sort of hypnotic catharsis.....anyway, way off topic but worth a butchers hook if only for shtz and giggles: Ghost driving while roof and car bonnet surfing (youtube.com)

Agreed. More on Waze the better. Get the message out there!

Echoes of the z3m coupe. Terrible colour for a concept car IMHO. Alpina looking alloys too.

This was a topic of conversation in the office the other day. General consensus, yes, traffic is billy bonkers. I think everyone recognises traffic spikes after schools go back but it does seem to me that traffic post school holidays has gone way beyond the 'normal' difference in traffic load. Maybe if schools started later, finished later, there might be some load balancing. Maybe. Then again, the route cause is arguably the politicisation of induced demand stifling new road building and the spin put on it by vested interests or politically or maybe better put zealotry: Why is induced demand still ignored? - Greater Auckland New Findings in the Netherlands about Induced Demand and the Benefits of New Road Infrastructure - ScienceDirect Skim to the conclusion......hmmmmmmm.

If you want rust work done, try Brendan at the Rust Surgeon. Located in Glenfield. Good guy, does good work, and is good to chat to about what you need doing. He only does Rust. Body-shops etc are probably going to turn you down.

£250 on fleabay back in 2009. Not bad depreciation in .... consults computer calculator ..... 23 years

Thanks guys, that about sums it up, you get too used to modern then going back to vintage is not great. And yeah, H7 as standard.

This has probably been addressed elsewhere but a hunt around the tinternet did not really yield results. I'm guessing others have had this problem too. I want to swap the original candles in my 2000 z3mc. Since picking up the z3mc in 2010 it has had a HID kit installed by the previous owner. 11 years of MOT and the first few years of WOF here in NZ it has been fine until my father took it to VTNZ - while I was in Singapore, without asking. Nuff said. Anyhoo, I took it out the other night, raining, couldn't see a thing. The original lamps are useless, shockingly bad. Especially when c/f modern lamps. I'm not keen on putting the HIDs back in, they are very bright I've been told, and rules is rules and all that. So, what to do? For every bulb that is on sale there are as many good reviews as bad. I would rather not spend big bucks on some fancy xenon retrofit, plus I don't really know what that is, all I really want is something that is brighter. I'm also after something I can source locally in Nu Zulin, so have avoided the US and UK forum postings on this - there are a myriad of options abroad. Any suggestions?

Do you think he'd sell that cupholder thing separately? 😉

just stumbled across this, ogmios school of zen motoring is absolute gold.

Red e39 m5, plate AWSUM5, Quay St, by Ports of Orckland. On the way to work - most days last week it seemed!

I think it will depend a lot on the car itself. I lived in SG for a little while. A taxi driver once said to me, "hey you know Singapore, its either hot, too hot, or about to rain". That about sums it up. Run about cars are often used as Grab taxis (think pretty much every mini-van and station wagon you've ever heard of, luxury and not so luxury and those weird Honda CR-V things and the odd-looking Toyota mini Rav4 hybrid thing too). They are taxis. You also get Grab premium which is often a nice Audi or a long Merc. Usually though it is a Toyota Alphard. The best car for getting around Singapore is a van with 4 la-z-boys in the back driven by someone else! Ultimate Drivers Car is not really needed although a bloke at work had a Smurf blue m4. For reference, an m4 comp is the better part of $450k SG ++ so you're probably gunna look after it. You can get a membership to Sentosa golf club for that, I know which I'd go for and probably use more. Ha. Anyhoo, I digress, but if you're buying a run about from SG, you can be pretty sure it has been run about. A nicer, bigger, faster, more expensive motor, probably not so much. You can get a special Sunday only drivers permit in SG. That means most of the proper driver's cars go out on Sundays only. Cars in SG are owned for (in practise) max 10 years and they are driven, a lot. A small place it may be but there is lots of motorways and with limits on the numbers of cars on the roads, you can actually drive around - hence the popularity of Grab (SE Asia version of Uber). Most expats, if they buy a car at all, get a car that has a few years to run on its certificate from the govt, then chuck it when they leave SG. So basically, you buy the right to drive the car for the last few years (of its 10) that it is (practically) allowed on the roads. After that it has to be (in reality) scrapped or exported around the world - did you know that SG is the second largest exporter of used cars after Japan. There's a pub quiz answer right there. An incentive for maintenance this is not as you can imagine. So, if you are buying an SG car, IMHO try and get one that is more top end (because it cost shed loads to start with and hopefully someone used the warranty to get it serviced properly) and is more towards the younger age, ie. less than 8 years old at time of import. Also, a more expensive car will have been kept in an underground carpark at a condo / apartment block. They are as dry as it can get in Singapore and typically have areas set aside for car washing. Logic being more expensive car = people can afford to live in a nicer condo that has underground parking.

Was a great four days. Spotted a nice phoenix yellow e46 at Te Akau South on Friday and again on the roads around Raglan. There was some lady charging a fiver for ticket holders to enter her official WRC spectator viewing spot - ie. over and above the gold pass tickets etc. Fiver for a car, fine, per person, hmmmm. That was not very team of five million IMHO. I think Jacks Ridge needs a few bridges over the track, that might make getting about a bit easier.

Also went down to the hairpin with my boy (6) and we took in a pit visit during quali. Best of the action at the hairpin with a giant screen but a long trek for short legs. He was most excited by the 'smashed car' (Shell Mustang) on a trailer on Sunday. Well, that and a Formula Ford losing all four wheels on the front straight, that was hard to top actually come to think of it. Given the landlords have merged with Ellerslie racecourse and will (according to the memo) set Puke up as a training venue to service Ellerslie, it seems the highest and best use of the land is ................houses. Drop a pin on Pukekohe raceway, if you were not depressed enough about losing a motor racing venue and want to get extra depressed about losing prime dirt: About land use capability » Our Environment (scinfo.org.nz) There is a good debate on one of the racing forums, speedcafe it might have been, on how inadequate all the other venues are in NZ for supercars. Too small, too remote, not close to an airport capable of handling a 747-cargo plane, lap times too short, not enough spectator capacity, track width too narrow, no major population centre, the list goes on. For all Pukekohe being compromised (hard to see over those darned horse railings for one!), it was tried and tested. Shame really.

This is way off topic and might be better in the videos section but I thought a few might enjoy this YouTube hidden gem. While exchanging some friendly banter with a buddy of mine who is currently in Le Mans imagining himself to be Steve McQueen, where I noted he was closer in looks, girth and charisma to a Pontiac Le Mans than a Le Mans Porsche, I stumbled across this on the internet: 1988 Pontiac LeMans | Retro Review - YouTube If you have a spare 7 minutes or so, the contradictions in this review are outstanding. NB: think this was sold in the UK as the Astra but in NZ (where I was a youngster at the time) it was most definitely, a Pontiac Le Mans. Racey Exotica. Pontiac LeMans commercial New Zealand [1989] - YouTube Speaking of Le Mans, this is also nice: On Board with Mike Hawthorn at Le Mans 1956 | D-type Jaguar - YouTube some great one liners.

Well plated e46 m3 and an old runabout and a slightly newer one, my preference is the old one! very tidy man. both at Britomart