mystery machine

Just kidding, Paul - superb result as always

Woah - what a machine Can't wait to see how it looks after the detailing!

Very nice pics - love the Escort!

Blimey, good timing Had your car been remapped at all?

Glad you're back in business Why the engine rebuild, out of curiosity?

Some Falcon good stuff in there! As soon as I can afford it, I'm having this screened onto the side of the STI: See me? See Scoobies?

I'll need to try that (been using Armor All Tyre Foam for years) FWIW, a set of side skirts and a de-tango would look really nice on your motor... JMHO.

To my eye they don't suit your car well at all - neither the design or the colour scheme I do admire your very shiny tyres though - what do you dress them with to get them looking so slick?

Aye, and a thousand other buckets built between WWII and the 1980s

No, I sure have never saw that before But let's not be too quick to scoff, the Lada Riva was rear-wheel drive don't you know... ...and if it's good enough for BMW, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche, etc, etc

Tidy wagon, sir

Good post, Grant. ...and many thanks for making me wish I'd looked at some M3s before buying the STI! To the O.P. - all the examples you mention will have their pros and cons as cars to own in Scotland, but - driving-wise - I think you'll only really have any kind of idea of what's going to work for you once you've come across here and gotten a feel for the kind of roads you're likely to be spending time on. If you're looking for attention (I'll assume of the female variety), then I'd suggest that a nice-looking German car will get the juices flowing more readily than a Scooby*... Audis in particular are very popular here with the "Ikea generation" * female members of the SIDC community excepted!

That's taking the piss, to be quite frank Can you tell us who this was, so we can avoid them?

Two of my regular garages have been restocked... ...looks like V-Power is back online now then?

50K... almost as much as a new V8 M3...? Guess you'd have to be a real Impreza fanatic...

Some joker has swapped the '2' with the '1'...

You've got to love those PR folks. Shell somehow make a c*nt of supplying V-Power and they make it sound like it's out of stock because - hey - it's just such wonderfully in-demand and fabby stuff! Ah, so supply and demand are inversely proportional? Who'd have thunk it?

Thanks Tommo and everyone else for all the info on snowfoam Sounds like I have me some shopping to do

Cheers for the info Davie If this is right enough, then I wonder how the new V-Power will compare with Morrisons' E85, which has has a RON rating of around 107 - enough to require a remap if you usually run Regular or Super Unleaded. Hmmmmmm..... the thot plickens.....

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one apply this snow foam...? I imagine it's inline with the power washer, but I'd be grateful if you could recommend me some suitable kit I've always power-hosed mine with cold water prior to hand-washing, but it takes a while to go over every inch of every panel removing superficial dirt - it sure could use some help floating off Many thanks. P.S. Still liking your hatch

Rumours abound... Speaking to the woman in Shell Camelon this evening, she believed that the shortage was due to Shell bringing out a new formula for V-Power, and that the tanks have to be cleaned out before it's introduced, and that the new fuel will have a 'higher octane' and everything... All sounds very promising, but sort of contradicts the official response, which puts the shortage down to 'unforeseeable circumstances'. Perhaps there's some truth behind both stories, but that the alleged reformulation isn't actually the reason for the current situation. Hearsay aside - I hope that, together, we can make it through this most difficult of times

Not trying to be funny, but if two cars have been taken from this site then it isn't a 'secure' compound Anyway, sincerely hope the cars and/or the felons can be traced.

Och no, disnae worry me as such... just thought it was a bit conspicuous, given the Daily Mail-ish aloof "better than you lot" humour abundant in the advert

I'm surprised you're not taking advantage of your two Scoobs and doing a bit of stockpiling there, Cath Incidentally, the rumour I read (browsing another forum) is that a 'leaking pipe' at the refinery caused them to have to temporarily cease production of Veep, and that they expect to be up and running again within days... Here's hoping...