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I do like the 5 cylinder engine in my S60 D5. If you want to forget the economy for a moment and have a bit of a play, you can push it along quite fast enough to have plenty of fun. And inside is a really comfortable place to be if you're just going to sit down and drive for hours.

Ah! You've reminded me of another one (am I allowed more than one if they're in different posts? ) I do wish some people would actually use main beam (when there isn't someone coming the other way!). How the **** some people drive the speed they do at night without their proper lights on horrifies me sometimes. And - maybe I have a thing about this - it's a lot easier to plan overtaking if their main beam means you can see more than a few yards ahead of them.

I'd like it if more people were aware and cooperative when someone's looking to overtake, leaving sensible gaps in a line of traffic so there's the option of overtaking one vehicle at a time, rather than having to wait for an opportunity to pass several at once.

Sorry Rob, she's now sold. Thanks for looking everybody .

Saw you on, I think, the B1257 early afternoon today. You were heading towards Malton and I (with a friend in his 993) was going the other way towards Helmsley. If you had come the whole way down that road you must have had an awesome drive. That road, and also particularly the road from Helmsley north over the moor were new to me. They've definitely gone on my list of roads to remember.

The world is still turning, but the car is still mine. So... bump

Were you in your Supra Rob? I was out and about that day but I don't think I spotted you.

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Thanks Matt. I'll probably bring it to the next one if I've still got it... Anyone want to buy themselves a Christmas present?

He must have split his work between Plymouth and St Albans if we did . When you do six tests you do get to recognise some of the test centre staff. I think across all six tests I might have only had two or three different examiners. Maybe they'd got to know me by the time of test six and decided to take pity!

I think I might have beaten everyone so far except your girlfriend - took me 6 goes. I developed the ability to drive near-perfectly for the whole test, but just make one big error somewhere. All 5 I failed were failed on a single serious fault with probably no more than two minors - often less - in the whole of the rest of the test. Can't remember what all the serious ones were but they were stupid things. One was a set of traffic lights with two lanes on the approach. I saw the light on the right was green so I planned to go through. Except I was in the left lane and the light for going straight on was red - the green was just a filter for turning right. Stopped before busting the red light but it was an emergency stop the examiner wasn't expecting and he didn't like it. Another was a road in a housing estate. It looks like the road goes straight on, but actually the main road goes 90 degrees left and the straight on is a side road. I realised at the last minute and flung the car round the left hand bend far too fast. I certainly couldn't complain that any of the fails weren't justified. Thing is, these roads and junctions were all familiar to me. I'd driven them loads of times with my instructor, but my driving test brain forgot any local knowledge it had. It was a nerves thing. I was confident and happy driving with my parents (and they had no concerns about my driving). I was comfortably passing mock tests with my instructor and his colleague, and he must have been happy or he wouldn't have advised me to keep applying. But for some reason, when the gruff, uncommunicative stranger got into the car and started watching my every move, all confidence deserted me. It got worse as it went on. My birthday's in September so I was one of the first of my friends to start driving lessons. But they all started after me and passed before me and it got more and more annoying to keep coming back and telling them I'd failed again. Managed to get over it for test 6 and just relaxed into driving. I can't remember how many minor faults I made on the test I passed. It wasn't many, but it was more than on all 5 of the tests I'd failed combined. I also discovered that some of my friends who'd passed first time (and who, for a while, weren't sure they believed me when I came back and told them I'd finally passed ) had passed with more minor faults on their only test than I got on all 6 of mine together - but obviously they hadn't had the serious ones! Oh well... I think it's got better since then. I've passed tests with IAM and RoSPA first time. Mind you, their examiners are a lot friendlier .

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Sort of . Inflation? What's a lambo going to cost in 25 years . I don't think I'm particularly obsessed with owning my own plot - there are good points and bad points to that. But I'm sure as hell obsessed with reaching the day when I no longer have to fork out hundreds of pounds every month just to have a roof over my head. Little way off yet though...

Thanks for the supporting advert Morpheus . I have to say I agree with everything you say about what the car's like to drive. You said you're going to put some 19 inch wheels on yours. I actually prefer mine to drive on the stock 17s compared to the 19s I had before. They were a bit harsher and more prone to tramlining.

Price reduced people. Looking for around £7,950. If nobody buys it I guess I get to keep driving it