Car has done 350miles the last few days, not a grumble, >33mpg door to door both ways, etc, although I am regretting not getting the cruise control sorted. Need to get that arranged - was too easy to drop it into third, drop to 40mph and fucking punch it to check the rev limiter was working - watched the MPG go from 34.6 to 33.2 after a couple of those after nearly 300 miles, apparently it drinks a lot when you kick it hard
Also, a couple of american colleagues were over, one of which I discovered is a
major car nut (has a tweeked G-series M3 with >500bhp@wheels that he exitedly showed me pics of) and he had spotted my Z4C in the car park and was taking pics of it before I told him that it was mine, and he was welcome to just have a good sniff about it at lunchtime, which we did, and he lit up a like a kid being told he could have any sweetie he wanted from the pic 'n' mix, because those things are so fucking rare over in the states.
So explained how it's a cut 'n' shut E46 with E9x running gear, how it rides, how the engine audio tuning works (pipe form the intake to the cabin, remove foam for mad intake noises), using it to buy cheap wine and kit kats much to the chagrin ot the paint-licking enthusiast types due to it being so rare, etc, and he had the biggest grin on his face, got more pics, etc etc.
By a long sea mile the most positive 'does it do big skids mate' interaction I've had - and with a director too, that never hurts when it comes to clout
