yeah, most of those FWD puffers have to be boost-restricted, otherwise you'd break things. Let alone stuff it.

A lot of CVT cars (like the new Accord) are actually throttle-restricted off the line for similar reasons. You cannot push on a rope too forcefully.

 

Ford discount still is. It's so big you can sell the car after 3 years and make a profit...

 

It was massive; the really big fleets used to get those sort of cars for pennies. I was told that back in the '80s, an Ashtray was like £500 or something when they were about four bag retail.


EDIT: I think that was the ex-works price and I remembered it wrong, but they didn't add a lot on to it...

 

There was an incident some years ago when natwest bought a job lot of Escrotes or Orions or some shite from Fjord for peanuts
They filled the auctions with em and still made money

It reckoned in Evo the GT86 was being flogged under book due to weakness of the Yen, that would help sales i reckon

 

Got notification of reg number
Official delivery to dealer is 19th meaning handover would be around 22nd. They reckon might be able to pull those forwards a little so might have by a week on Sat

 

All JDM cars are probably losing money because of the STRENGTH of the Yen - that's why the Acura NSX will be made in Ohio. It's also why the Diet is printing like Billy O, whoever he is.

Good luck on the 22th. You might not even need winter tyres by then!

 

I've just noticed the GT86 with an auto box has lower road tax than the manual. Is this normal?

manual vs auto

 

Depends. is the auto box more efficient, then yes. The M135i, car CO2 and mpg is less on the 8spd auto than the 6spd manual.

 

quite common, the DCT M3 does 2-4mpg more than the 6MT

if you run it on auto

 

Only skim read so far but seems interesting
http://blog.toyota.co.uk/tada-how-to...eated-the-gt86