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Interested in your thoughts between the final two...

Mazda RX-8 231PS

38%

[5]

Mini Cooper S

61%

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Very Annoyed
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Jumping in late here but what about a Mini Cooper S - only four seats but a good little car! 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Thu Apr 27 2006 7:29am

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Thu Apr 27 2006 8:10am

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Lets deal with Smarticus first.

Possibly not a million miles away. There's a whole lot of challenging terrain to tackle in Cyprus and depending what their laws are about off-roading I could well look at getting a bit more serious about off-roading and buy a Defender. It would have to be a 3rd car tho'

VA - That's a good suggestion. I was reading a past issue of EVO last night and there was an article about a Works Cooper S and that it was a hoot, but better as a second car. That could be a real possibility. It's also only 1600cc which is good.

I've also thought of some others and would be interested in thoughts:

New Volvo C70 (Steel folding roof)
New Golf based folding tin top (Based on EOS concept car)
as well as:
RX-8
Focus ST

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Thu Apr 27 2006 8:28am

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JayMann wrote:
There's no back seats once SuperT is sat in the front

Jay, valid point but I don't think that'll be too much of an issue as we'll still have RRS.

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Thu Apr 27 2006 8:30am

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C70 looks nice and has had some good reviews, but it's about 27k new isn't it? You're into TT territory pricewise so will this not incur the same duties?

What exactly are your criteria for choice? We've not looked at cars with any sort of common thread yet, saloons/cabs/4x4s.... what do you need?

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Thu Apr 27 2006 9:15am

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This is the problem Shmoogle, I don't really know. I want another RRS (His 'n' hers)

The duty is based on cc as follows:

Using the table below and the differentiations which follow, you may calculate on your own the excise duty on any vehicle. Categories per cc Categories of vehicles
A B C
Saloon and 4X4
£ per cc
0–1450 0,50
1450 –1650 0,85
1650–2050 2,70
2050–2250 2,85
2250–2650 5,50
2650 + 8,00

If not, then I want something fun but not TOTALLY impractical.

Hence:

RX-8 (Fun and Full 4 seater), Focus ST (Fun and practical), Cooper S (Fun and practical), Golf GTi (Fun and practical).

Anything 1650cc + starts to attract serious duty tho'

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Has to be a mini cooper S soft top with the John Cooper Works. Mrs ST will look good driving with the top down and it will shift round the island! 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Very Annoyed wrote:
Has to be a mini cooper S soft top with the John Cooper Works. Mrs ST will look good driving with the top down and it will shift round the island!

I've told Mrs ST about driving around with her top down.

One of these days she'll get nicked! (Or pulled by the fuzz!)

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Supertrotter wrote:
Very Annoyed wrote:
Has to be a mini cooper S soft top with the John Cooper Works. Mrs ST will look good driving with the top down and it will shift round the island!

I've told Mrs ST about driving around with her top down.

One of these days she'll get nicked! (Or pulled by the fuzz!)

Sometimes a reply is not needed!

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Somethings are best left unsaid SuperT.....

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Thu Apr 27 2006 4:31pm

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Supertrotter wrote:
I could well look at getting a bit more serious about off-roading and buy a Defender.

Hey SuperT, my Defenders for sale. One careful owner (who I bought it off) and I have been very gentle (not) to her since. She is a coniston green 300tdi but fully tricked up (front & rear winches, snorkel, full cage, jungle trekers, rear ARB diff lock, raised suspension, spots, Garmin GPS etc etc etc). She looks like she fell out of a tree and hit every branch on the way down (in fact thats not far from the truth now I think about it). Bet she would take Cyprus by storm...... Yours for £5.5k RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
Disco 4 TDv6 HSE Ipanema
Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

Thu Apr 27 2006 6:41pm

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Wow Smarticus, you're all heart!

Let me sleep on it. I'll let you know once I've left the country and arrived in Cyprus Runner up - 2009 Best Avatar Award
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