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Uhmmmmm, not my cup of tea. Lose whatever hair I have left, when I was younger and a bronzed blonde addonis I owned a convertible frog eye Sprite, and what a great car that was in the summertime. Not much security had 2x8 track cartridge players nicked out of it, but its saving grace was the young ladies used to love it. Mike

About to hit 390 miles for the last quarter notch on the fuel tank. I think this may be the first time I pass 500 miles on one tank. Edinburgh tomorrow, Saint Andrews on Wednesday.

Look terrible Chris , give them to me i'll learn to live with them.... :) :) :)

Lexmanic yea I've been watching a few video's of other models which has opened my eyes to some cars I honestly had never thought about before my own, but I think my insurance is high enough for now, maybe next year ;)

Just look in the owners manual when you pick the car up Peter and it will state the minimum octane fuel to run in the car. e.g My previous V6 ford cougar 's manual stated the engine was designed and mapped to 95RON fuels so using anything higher than that wont benefit the engine. Lexus states "95RON or more" for the IS300 so i alternate between the Shell normal and Shell V power fuels and noticed there was not much of a difference between the two fuel formulations in normal driving but where the V power comes alive is when the engine is nice and hot and operated within higher revs. I have noticed the engine is still happy to rev quickly when it hits 5000rpm to redline when in higher gears compared to when running 95RON. I have switched to shell normal unleaded after running its high octane for over 6 months continioulsy and am now seeing the difference in the engines behavior when operating it in the higher rpms. am noticing a slight slugishness at higher rpms on normal unleaded which makes me think if one will be subjecting thier cars to higher rpms most of the time then they might benefit from high octane but for day to day driving i did not notice any difference in lower rpms only diference was at higher rpms where the engine feels a bit strangled and unwilling to rev faster to redline although it does get there, it does it in a sluggish manner compared to v power. main reason for me running high octane is they include higher concentrations of engine, valves and exhaust cleaning aditives which cleanes the engines systems as one drives and a clean engine will always perform better. only way to find out if 450H does benefit is to run normal unleaded for a while stick it on a dyno to see the power and tourque curves then dyno the car again after running high octane for a while and compare the results.

The handling on my car has got quite "floaty", seems to be worn bushes since everything else checks out ok. Any suggestions on which ones to get changed? This is the full list: 1 Front Lower Wishbone Bush (No1 Front) 2 Front Lower Wishbone Bush (No2 Rear) 3 Front Lower Wishbone Bush (No1 Front Support) 4 Rear Upper Wishbone Bush (No1 Inner) 5 Rear Upper Wishbone Bush (No2 Inner) 6 Rear Lower Control Arm (No1 Inner) 7 Rear Lower Control Arm (No2 Inner) 8 Rear Toe Control Arm (Inner) 9 Rear Toe Control Arm (Inner Support) 10 Rear Lower Control Arm (No1 Outer) 11 Differential (Front) 12 Differential (L/H Rear) 13 Differential (R/H Rear) 14 Differential (Front Support) 15 Rear Subframe (Front) 16 Rear Subframe (Rear) 17 Rear Subframe (Front Support) 18 Rear Subframe (Rear Support) 19 Steering Rack (R/H) 20 Steering Rack (L/H) Front Anti roll bar Rear Anti roll bar