Show Us Your Motors!

geekman · 8 Jun 2016 at 18:18

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Haha knew your'd be the one to jump on that, or Geekman.
Truth is I've never bothered with the GB sticker and never had a problem yet.

Don't blame you! It always makes me laugh when people spend ages getting every little thing organised exactly according to French law, when the police don't seem to care at all.

Car looks great, what MPG did you get on the way down?

rare · 8 Jun 2016 at 18:27

Oooh, very nice.
Which specific Abarth 595 model is it?
Just been looking at these myself as with a new one just out there seem to be some great deals on nearly new previous models and not really fussed about the minor changes.
The ones I saw are the 595 Turismo.

It's a 180hp Comp with the larger turbo

As you say the series 4 has just hit dealers so there are some good deals for series 3 cars if your not too fussed about the new changes.

^JP^ · 8 Jun 2016 at 19:57

Went to meet some friends at Cromer cliff top to fly the Phantom 4.
I was only wearing shorts and a t-shirt thinking it would be a nice sunny day but it was cold and windy so we didn't stay long enough to get any decent aerial photos worth sharing.

But, my friend took this one to show his mates and I thought it looked cool showing how practical the car is

the case fits perfectly in the boot space

I promise the matching red foam in the pelican box was just a coincidence!

Born_2_Kill_83 · 8 Jun 2016 at 21:23

geekman said:
Don't blame you! It always makes me laugh when people spend ages getting every little thing organised exactly according to French law, when the police don't seem to care at all.

Car looks great, what MPG did you get on the way down?

Before window tints I just used to display a high vis jacket on the parcel shelf, can you imagine getting a bulb kit and headlight reflectors sorted for these sort of cars.

Not as good as I was hoping, I pulled 30.4 on the English roads (3 hours) and 27.5 through France (85mph). I know the car can do better I just put it down to the car weighing over 2 tonne with luggage and passengers onboard. Then gave up on the 2 hour toll road diversions due to flooding.

geekman · 8 Jun 2016 at 21:55

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Before window tints I just used to display a high vis jacket on the parcel shelf, can you imagine getting a bulb kit and headlight reflectors sorted for these sort of cars.

Not as good as I was hoping, I pulled 30.4 on the English roads (3 hours) and 27.5 through France (85mph). I know the car can do better I just put it down to the car weighing over 2 tonne with luggage and passengers onboard. Then gave up on the 2 hour toll road diversions due to flooding.

Headlight reflectors aren't even a legal requirement, the ferry companies just try to convince people they are so they can sell them at vastly inflated prices.

27.5 at 85MPH is decent. I managed 30 at the same speed, which reduced to 29 once I got into the mountains. But that was just with me and a boot full of luggage, so I'd imagine your figures are pretty much spot on.

One of the main reasons I chose this car was the economy at motorway speeds: I can think of very few sub £10k cars with 400BHP which can get anywhere close to those figures.

Flack88 · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:18

Newish car, had it 2 weeks now. Has some basic mods & hybrid turbo with RX7 intercooler. Currently running around 210 bhp with .8 bar of boost. Going to do front mount intercooler & billet wheel hybrid TD04 turbo as soon as I can along with with ECU map. Then a lot more to follow, hoping to get up to 250 (can do more), then save up for forged pistons & conrods to allow up to 300 bhp.

Panda is optional btw

shauncr91 · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:21

So cool

Traffic_Warden · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:35

Nice, may want to upgrade the driver seat if it hasn't been already (looks like bucket seats though?)

Flack88 · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:38

Traffic_Warden said:
Nice, may want to upgrade the driver seat if they haven't been already (looks like bucket seats though?)

Got Evo 5 Seats in

ChrisD. · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:47

They're Evo IV seats?

Flack88 · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:53

Dooksy said:
They're Evo IV seats?

They are actually out of the V. But were used in IV, V and VI as far as I understand.

Dr House · 9 Jun 2016 at 05:34

ChrisD. · 9 Jun 2016 at 08:07

Flack88 said:
They are actually out of the V. But were used in IV, V and VI as far as I understand.

The only Evo I know of with that middle pattern is the Evo IV.

Ryan-3 · 9 Jun 2016 at 08:12

So much nice metal in here. The good pictures keep coming. Love the Glanza! R8's are practical too..

Were you meeting the mafia or a league of hitmen there Dr House?

peterwalkley · 9 Jun 2016 at 09:53

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Drove the Jaaaaaag down to Spain (Catalonia), no photo editing this time to keep the old goats happy.

... Lovely waftmobile ....

Location for the first pic looks vaguely familiar. Have we had photos from there before in this thread ?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 9 Jun 2016 at 14:31

Yeah took one of my CTR Fn2 a couple years back in the same place.

Howard · 9 Jun 2016 at 14:47

That Starlet is :cool:

What does the button next to the mirror adjustment controls do?

Cleisthenes · 9 Jun 2016 at 16:17

Howard said:
That Starlet is

What does the button next to the mirror adjustment controls do?

Nitrous, init

brendy · 9 Jun 2016 at 16:53

brendy said:
Yea, the slightly slopey run offs of this grill look better in my mind.
Headlights are screaming to be replaced but always find something else to be working at. Will have to eventually bite the bullet and get some projectors and wire in some squirties for them.

Finally got round to buying and fitting the projectors, using HIDS 5500k kit and devising a reasonably factory looking squirty set.
After

Before

neverender · 9 Jun 2016 at 16:53

Had my roof and mirrors wrapped gloss black at the weekend. Pretty happy with how it turned out.