The Pit is open on Sunday! Pick me up on your way past!

That's a nice car how come it's so cheap? High miles I know, but even so, cheap!

Obliteraingly bad on fuel likes, but then again you've had your share of guzzlers in the past already lolz.

Probably got a decent turn of pace too, isn't it the same 3-litre boxer they use in the Legacy Spec-B?

It's from a guy on my Facebook, his new car is being delivered on Saturday so he wants rid. I expect £1500 is still better than he could get from a dealer, and his deposit on his new car (a Golf R) is £1500, so it works out.

There are some cracking lease deals on the Golf R, 3 people I work with have ordered them on 10,000 PA 2 year leases. They cost £250 a month as well as I think something like £2,000 down.

Almost got one myself, until my wife found out how fast they are and blocked it

Yup, the business lease deals on them have been incredibly good. Lots of dodgy deals being done on personal lease to get the business rate though, which ended up with a huge amount of cancelled orders by VW!

Yup, the business lease deals on them have been incredibly good. Lots of dodgy deals being done on personal lease to get the business rate though, which ended up with a huge amount of cancelled orders by VW!

The car's taxed, though.

As long as your insured, it's all good.

Oh, okay. It'd take a stroppy copper to write you up for that one, though.

Luckily, as long as you aren't speeding, these days they won't bother to stop you for anything else, if you ever see one...

Luckily, as long as you aren't speeding, these days they won't bother to stop you for anything else

Objection: I've been in a car that was pulled over for being too slow and hesitant.

Advice! Does anyone have any experience of i-Shift gearboxes with Honda?

Is it essentially a semi-automatic? I'm looking at a second-hand Jazz after my ancient Golf decided to stop unlocking, in an unforgivable pique of passive-aggressiveness. But I'm not really after an automatic, would prefer a manual, but would be willing to live with i-shift if it's not a piece of i-shit.

I-Shift, they call the Honda Jazz's ‘automatic' transmission. This is a misnomer. It doesn't. Shift, that is. Not very often, anyhow. And not very well at all.

It is, in short, utter pants. You're at the traffic lights. Light goes green. Pin the throttle. The little Jazz revs sweetly, up and into the VTEC. I-Shift decides to change up, because that's what automatic gearboxes do.

Accelerate, accelerate, and then... nothing. Complete loss of power. Your head jolts forwards towards the windscreen. Seemingly seconds and seconds of interminable nothingness as the i-Shift searches for the next gear - confound it, I'm sure I left it here somewhere - and then... clunk. Awkwardly, abruptly into gear, head thumped back into the headrest, up through the revs to do it all over again. Oh dear.

You learn to drive round it a bit, easing off the accelerator on changes, helping i-Shift as much as you can. You will feel sorry for i-Shift. But even if you take manual control of the shifts from the flappy paddles, it's still awful: too slow to change, useless at matching the revs, jerky to the point of nausea, despite being a clutchless manual rather than a full automatic. It's a similar set-up to the equally ponderous Smart ForTwo. Maybe a normal auto would work better

have no experience myself but a quick web search brought up this -



So the topgear website thinks its pretty bad

A group of my friends are buying some cheap cars and going on a road trip to the Nürburgring in May next year. If anyone is interested in coming with us, drop me a PM for more info.

Toad and I are actively searching for a vehicle now, we should probably think of a team name first though...

Christ, that's putting a lot of faith into my organisation skills

You should maybe wait for a confirmation date before putting any money down!

Buy a Puma!