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Amazing... oh to have a driveway let alone a garage :)

Never been a smoker, though have been known to have the odd one when very very drunk.....

Thats great news.... it annoys me that events and wins for our country like this dont get more publicity, they certainly deserve it..

When you use the resume function on the cruise control does the car accelerate back to the set speed rapidly or is a light throttle settings used? Also if you set it to a certain speed does it maintain it even when doing down hill? ← It accelerates fairly gently - there may be circumstances where it will accelerate hard, but I haven't found them. It will try to maintain the speed downhill, but if it's steep enough you will go faster. As far as I know it won't change down to increase engine-braking or anything like that - it's not been a problem so far. ← Yup thats right, you can chenge down from D to 3 to add some engine breaking without canceling the Cruse, if you change down to 2 it should cancel the Cruse. This is on my IS200, but I would have thought the cruse worked similar in the IS300... if in doubt check the owners handbook. I personally drive on cruse the majority of the time now. I even got into my fathers Vectra the other day to reverse it of their drive. I attempted three times to get it into reverse and each time it made a racket and stalled.... then I remembered it was a manual! luckily it is his Company car ;) The only things that you need to watch out for / get on my nerves are... people on non-cruse cars trying to go 70 mph then not adding more gas when they get to a hill keeping an eye on the truck in front as your trying to overtake whilst checking for a gap, you will be supprised how quick that gap shrinks when the car is controlling the speed for ya :) Sudden gear drop when the torque requirement changes up hill (esp on resume). Apart from that it's nearly the best thing since slices bread.... shame the car following systems dont take off in the public eyes, some of the papers I have seen presented on them would make car driving VERY automatic :)

1) i want to buy brand new, is it worth it or should i get one with as few miles on a possible? I went for brand new, they had a good deal at the time with 1000 towards teh Lexus finance so I went for that. Now there is a post regarding the new deals at Lexus for new cars, I believe they include a front arm rest for the manual SE and SATNAV and a boot spoiler... more details here I have checked the lexus GB website and there is no mention of a new package but the press might be a bit ahead of the website.

It just looks like a new Toyota Celica to me..... with a lexus badge on the front... sure this isn't a wind up ?

Donation on route via Paypal s*x: Girl Weight: 7lb 3oz Best of luck with the birth :)

I'll only get the card holder out in front of my contractors then so they take the brunt of the explosion :D :)

http://www.ibogleif.dk/uk/index.html

Thats what I thought, hence the very very low bid ;)

Excellent (I use TTN3 myself) Get yourself over to www.pocketgps.co.uk in the forums there is a TomTom Go dedicated forum with tips etc in it :)

Actually it was 5 quid P&P which I thought wasnt too bad... I'll hold out on how good the quality is till I get it in my paws :)

Just got this of fleebay... Just the thing to whip out in meetings :) and I only paid £0.01 for it!

Could this be the christmas binge on Brussles Sprouts having an effect ?

LOL - no mercy :) :nuts:

Not as windiy as it was on Thusday and Friday, Northants was especialy wild... Something I have noticed about the Lex is that it is all over the place in teh wind.. nothing like my old car... is this due to teh size of the car or the fact that it is rear-wheel drive?

i put 28-30 psi in mine with 18inch wheels on :) ← I put 32 in mine which iirc acording to the drivers handbook is good for speeds upto 130 MPH ? Why they can't do what other car co do and state only one pressure for load and no-load instead of the additional complications of speed I dont know! :)

I got a full tank with mine as I was on the way from London back to teh Boro when I picked up the car :) The two key rings I have are up for grabs if any one wants to make me an offer. They do not come with the tin they came in however as the gf has knicked those for her use (keeps her happy I suppose bless :) )

Saw this somewhere else so thought I would pass it on.... Street racing gone bad! http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0entry4856112 B)

http://www.nethouseprices.com/ Motley Fool quote: 'It allows you to see exactly what has been paid for houses in your area for the last two years. It's likely to fuel numerous dinner-party conversations over the coming weeks!' Registration is FREE, but even better house price info is also FREE until 18/1/05! After then, a charge will be made for access to price data from the last twelve months, starting at £3.95 for 48 hours of snooping. Just looked up our house and the price is spot on.

I have these key rings Two new ones (without cases). One has a small scratch as can bee seen in this picture (it's a very small scratch! - just under the L symbol and is very slight, looks worse in teh picture) For scale relative to the Lexus car Key...

Which road in Boro was it ?

Mr Scarface is indeed correct, with the Gatsometer style cameras they do require the markings on the road as this forms the secondary evidence.. What you should be careful of are: a. Double sided Gatsometer cameras (there are some in Bournmouth for sure, not seen any any where else... yet) b. Truvelo forward facing cameras. These are the ones with the 'pink' IR lense and point at you. These CAN be used to also take a picture from behind!!! Next opn the list of things to watch out for are: a. Digital enforcement cameras (no running out of film!). These will first appear in teh ATM section of the M42, and the new widened section of the M25 (Heathrow T5 access works). b. Speedcameras that work in the dark....!!!!! Using IR flash, you will be suprised how well the VRN of a car shows up (or if you know about the VRN construction and the devices used.. you won't be supprised!! :) ) Looks like the days of the open road are dwindeling...... HTH :)

Sorry Dunc... but I think this is a poss Urban Legend in the making... I have been in numorus meetings with my Clients (both HA and TfL) who deny any sort of cross cheching of this nature (also in terms of cloned cars). I guess it is a watch and see, but myself would view it as BS untill proved otherwise, esp the 6AM raid bit. (not a dig at you Dunc)

Merry Chrimbo All :) :)