Take a Walk on the Wild Side
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Andyk
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Thats great news.....Hope it works out.
rossyl
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So then...what's the new purchase like?
Nice! Lovely lovely looking car!
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Pleased...?
jerkmoans
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VERY!!!!
can't seem to post pics with this phone; have already nearly emptied a tank of fuel just tooling about!
Guess I'd better go home and eat at some point...
Chrisbassett
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Now, why is that such a familiar feeling?
As for the fuel, what are you doing!!? Less than a tank? Get yer foot down!
Andyk
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It's a great feeling isn't it......Bet you just sit in her when she's on the drive or in the garage...
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I've been getting that... something to do with the recent server migration. If I try and go to http://www.sportsmaserati.co.uk/ I get a message saying to contact Matt by email and provide my IP address. No mention of bank details, which is encouraging...
jerkmoans
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They had a bunch of different 3200s and 4200s in a variety of finishes but I didn't pay v close attention I'm afraid: had eyes just for the one...
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JM, maybe need to clear out cookies etc....and then do a search for the forum and go in via a link from google
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jerkmoans
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Wow
After picking up on Wednesday I took my new runabout for its first proper outing yesterday: a 430 mile round trip from north London to east lancs., up the M1 and over Woodhead to see a client, then a spot of tooling around in the hills (never had a car that could overtake at 80 in second before
), decent pub lunch and then an horrendous crawl back home. Guess it was good to try it out for a long day in all sorts of conditions.
The verdict? I chuffing LOVE it!!! Dream come true. The raw power, the acceleration, apparently endless untapped reserves, the throb of the v8 mutating into a banshee's howl. Not to mention the admiring glances and friendly chats with interested people. Feeling this is going to be a long, long love affair.
Like all love affairs, there are a few downsides and compromises, largely electronic and, I hope, consequently fixable. Few issues with bits of trim, which ill have the garage sort out. It's a jerky pain in slow moving traffic, although that's probably attributable to my inexperience with the cambiocorsa system, which I hope will mellow with time. Got so browned off that I confess to having engaged the auto button as I crawled down the M1 for hours. The satnav seems to have been designed by the denizens of Fraggle Rock.
Worst is the audio system, which is frankly driving me nuts. The satnav/single CD player in the central armrest skips like mad. No problem: ill use the auto changer in the boot. That worked fine for 36 hours (after I discarded the Dido and Leonard Lewis a previous occupant had thoughtfully left for my selects toon - offers considered) before clonking out to the extent that the head unit defiantly tells me there's no CDs in there (it's wrong) and I can't eject them from the stupid Blaupunkt thing. On the verge of taking a chisel to it to get my Talking Heads and Stone Roses discs out alive. Still no problem: there's an iPod lead of uncertain make in the armrest. Bit of fiding about and while it won't charge my iphone I'm getting music from it, bizarrely on the FM1 channel.
Except I'm not. Having cheerfully listened to my phones music all day yesterday, that device now refuses to work also, leaving me dependent upon the babbling cretins of commercial radio for my listening pleasure.
Does anyone have any bright ideas as to a sensible suction/work around to all this? The answer would seem to be to detach the auto changer and use the line in from that for a decent iPod connection. I did this myself on my old Alfa and Fiat Barchetta but can't see any obvious entry points on the Mas. Ideas?
Apologies for the gripes: trivial irritations really, only slightly marring my enjoyment of what is otherwise truly the greatest car I've ever driven, let alone owned!
Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine. Off to Majestic to fill the boot with liquid refreshments before taking an angle grinder to the Blaupunkt...
After picking up on Wednesday I took my new runabout for its first proper outing yesterday: a 430 mile round trip from north London to east lancs., up the M1 and over Woodhead to see a client, then a spot of tooling around in the hills (never had a car that could overtake at 80 in second before
), decent pub lunch and then an horrendous crawl back home. Guess it was good to try it out for a long day in all sorts of conditions.The verdict? I chuffing LOVE it!!! Dream come true. The raw power, the acceleration, apparently endless untapped reserves, the throb of the v8 mutating into a banshee's howl. Not to mention the admiring glances and friendly chats with interested people. Feeling this is going to be a long, long love affair.
Like all love affairs, there are a few downsides and compromises, largely electronic and, I hope, consequently fixable. Few issues with bits of trim, which ill have the garage sort out. It's a jerky pain in slow moving traffic, although that's probably attributable to my inexperience with the cambiocorsa system, which I hope will mellow with time. Got so browned off that I confess to having engaged the auto button as I crawled down the M1 for hours. The satnav seems to have been designed by the denizens of Fraggle Rock.
Worst is the audio system, which is frankly driving me nuts. The satnav/single CD player in the central armrest skips like mad. No problem: ill use the auto changer in the boot. That worked fine for 36 hours (after I discarded the Dido and Leonard Lewis a previous occupant had thoughtfully left for my selects toon - offers considered) before clonking out to the extent that the head unit defiantly tells me there's no CDs in there (it's wrong) and I can't eject them from the stupid Blaupunkt thing. On the verge of taking a chisel to it to get my Talking Heads and Stone Roses discs out alive. Still no problem: there's an iPod lead of uncertain make in the armrest. Bit of fiding about and while it won't charge my iphone I'm getting music from it, bizarrely on the FM1 channel.
Except I'm not. Having cheerfully listened to my phones music all day yesterday, that device now refuses to work also, leaving me dependent upon the babbling cretins of commercial radio for my listening pleasure.
Does anyone have any bright ideas as to a sensible suction/work around to all this? The answer would seem to be to detach the auto changer and use the line in from that for a decent iPod connection. I did this myself on my old Alfa and Fiat Barchetta but can't see any obvious entry points on the Mas. Ideas?
Apologies for the gripes: trivial irritations really, only slightly marring my enjoyment of what is otherwise truly the greatest car I've ever driven, let alone owned!
Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine. Off to Majestic to fill the boot with liquid refreshments before taking an angle grinder to the Blaupunkt...