javadude

I've an S with the standard 16-inch wheels and the narrower tyres (and hence pressure over a smaller surface area) but they didn't help much. I was visiting my parents in Kettering at the weekend and there was a short hill at the end of their street covered in a couple of centimetres of snow. It was round a corner and on a junction so there was no way of getting a run up. I used TC/snow and the car just crawled and slithered from side to side a bit but eventually it did make it. My old fwd cavalier would have done it much easier. Perhaps if I'd had the 17's I'd not even have made it though? As for tyres I have Yokohamas A041s on the rear and a new set of Pirelli P9000's on the front. Think I might try some P9000s on the rear when they need a change - they look like they might be a better bet for bad weather. [Edited on 2-1-2002 by javadude]

Yo

2nd hand M3? (sorry am I allowed to say that here?)

Computers eat time.

My experience has been OK so far. I just bought some roof bars and got £30 discount by going through the salesman who sold me the car. I ordered them Friday and they arrived Saturday. I picked them up in jeans and t-shirt with my two children who climbed all over their leather sofas and played with the water fountain. Despite that they were fine - very polite and friendly. (Perhaps they're just after my next purchase - an IS300 perhaps...)

Have you noticed the front and rear lights on the latest Ford Mondeo? Look kinda familiar? I guess it shows how good the styling of the IS200 is if other manufacturers want to copy it. I wish they'd try being creative and do something differnt though - I don't want my car to look like a Ford!

the second one looks better - some shots from different angles would help though...

thanks - that fooled me too. I'd been wondering why my username was valid in some parts of the site but unknown in others...

Does anyone like the look of the next IS200 under the news section? (http://www.geocities.com/busybeetoys/scoop/38-altezza.jpg) It looks like a ford focus to me - yuk!