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There's a good reason why the tomtom stuff is the best seller on the market. The interface is excellent, it's keenly priced, the maps are good and the speed camera databases are plentiful. I've got it installed on 2 mobiles currently, and have been using it now for a good few years.

I did the electronic wiring of mine myself, and with the aid of Spooks we managed to do the installs of the sensors in the engine. It's not hard hard, but it wasn't trivial.

Simon, you're not right. I imagine fuelling is taken care of with some form of shell tanker hooked up to the back? It should be gallons per mile not miles per gallon!

Perhaps I never sold it well John. The book is about driving across America at a sustained average of over 90mph. That obviously means driving faster than 90 because of the stops required for fuel, and for the slow bits where you might hit heavy traffic. To to this at night time you use things like thermal cameras setup to watch for the police up ahead. Using a spotter plane during the daylight running to alert you of what's coming up ahead. Running a myriad of rader and laser detectors. That plus good old fashion cojones. Very enjoyable read, which had to be released over a year after the event took place because of the laws that had been broken doing it.

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

STRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH.

I'm sure the cusco kid could advise best. You'll want to get it off the stilts, so prodrive or tein springs for starters. Good geometery setup too. Maybe droplinks, ARBs, ALK?

It's a right hooker, so not a 'stang surely?

I'm a bit wary of the cash-in autobiographies of people so young. Like Lewis Hamilton too. How much can he have lived? He's only what, 14? Anyone read anything good about the golden age of drag racing?

I've been reading, and I like it. I finished a Clarkson book called "I know you got soul" last week and got a new book yesterday which I didn't really mean to start but this evening I actually finished all 320 odd pages of it because it was utterly fantastic. The new book is called "The Driver" and is by a guy called Alex Roy who you may or may not know as the guy who does the Gumball etc. in the police liveried BMW M5 (and others). The book details how he got into it (he's not a multi-millionaire playboy) and then details his attempt in late 2006 to break the record for crossing america by car. Like they did in the Cannonball Run movie, which is actually based on true events of the original Cannonball Baker memorial races. These are chronicled in another book I read lately called Cannonball! by Brock Yates who organised and competed in those events. Again well worth a read. But now I'm kind of stuck. Anyone got any other recommendations? I could try learning Japanese so I could understand my copy of Hyper Rev I suppose.

Mine wasn't so much about the car, but of me. A police motorbiker pulled me over and asked "How fast were you going wee man?". I've not been called wee man since I was about 4. I'd have been a clear half foot taller than the policeman had I got out of the car.

Actually Kenny I think you might be the first to have noticed the Senna signature. A real lesson from a true great.

Andy's seen it. There's a thread here - http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=110992

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/subaru/2006-z...rx-ar19032.html That one's always floated my boat I must admit. A bit different from the ordinary.

Eveyrone knows a work life balance goes better when you get paid twice as much

You're not having any luck with the spots! Although our paths crossed a few times when you had your FTO and I was travelling from uphall station. UK300 was only in blue, but the spoiler is available for anyone to buy.

Mine started coming on due to a wheel bearing issue. Would come on round specific corners (most noticeably the cambered one on the m8 outside the Bar-L). Once the wheel bearing was fixed i was good as new.

You wouldn't catch me in greggs. Their grub is too healthy.

Stopped counting a long time ago. Can get 220 miles before a fill usually, and that's me down to 1/4 tank. So whatever that works out at. I certainly get better than pre-remap, but mileage is lower just now due to weather and the cold starts. I'm tempted to hang a bucket out that back to catch the v-power that you can smell coming out the exhuast. Is the 2.5 thirstier than the trusty 2?

John, you running the aircon more just now? I find I am with the weather conditions and steamy windows (steady on). That will certainly affect your mileage. Might be a contributory factor.

He writes a damn good book too. I think I know the problem with the new Impreza - it was designed by a committee. One half said "We must have a car that is a good family hatch back as that's what's selling". The second said "Let's make it faster than the last one". So we've kind of ended up with both, except it doesn't appear that people really want to buy it.

Good preview show. The SX4 is a quirky looking thing. Wonder if they'll release a tricked out version for the roads.

Well he rallys professionally for Subaru America, and the stunts were done for a TV show and magazine cover shoot.

Ken Block owns DC shoes and they're doing the official range of gear for the Subaru Usa rally team - http://www.dcshoes.com/newsclip/images/sal...baru/subaru.htm Not available to ship to the UK and Ebay.com turns up nothing as I'd really love the jump t-shirt. They do some nice driving shoes too - http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/dc-shoe...ls-p-45251.html - the previous versions of them were done in the same colours as the Imprezas that vermont sportscar prepared for Block to drive in the Gumball rally. They were limited editions and again were hard to come by over here, and indeed I couldn't find them online in the clown sizes I require.

All the best mate. When life hands you lemons make some lemonade.