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F1 stars' road cars – revealed So you can impress your mates down the pub with your F1 knowledge and you are totally au fait with who drives which car - but do you actually know what the grand prix gladiators drive every day..? It is the F1 summer break and news is somewhat thin on the ground at present as all concerned have scampered away for a well-deserved holiday, so to fill the void, we have a slightly different feature for your enjoyment and education. How do you fancy finding out what the grand prix gladiators drive every day on the roads? Well if you're still reading now, we guess you fancy finding out rather a lot, so without further ado and thanks to information supplied by our friends over at IBN Live, we shall fill you in. Prepare to discover who owns a Maserati Quattroporte, who motors around in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and which classic car enthusiast's garage contains both a Volkswagen Beetle Convertible and a Ford Mustang. Oh yes, and one of them has a van... Here we go: Sebastian Vettel: Infiniti FX50S, Fiat 500, Volkswagen T5 van, Mercedes SL 65 AMG Black Series (prize for winning 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) Mark Webber: Nissan Navara, Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche GT2 RS, BMW X5, Infiniti M37 Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes GL450 Jenson Button: Mercedes C63 AMG DR 520 (limited-edition, 520bhp), Smart Car Fernando Alonso: Ferrari 458, Maserati Gran Cabrio Felipe Massa: Ferrari 599, Maserati Quattroporte Michael Schumacher: Mercedes S65 AMG, Mercedes GL, Mercedes C63 AMG, Ferrari California Nico Rosberg: Mercedes C63 AMG Nick Heidfeld: Lotus Exige, Mini Cooper S, Toyota Sienna, Porsche 959S, Fiat 500, Volkswagen Beetle Convertible, Ford Mustang Vitaly Petrov: Lotus Evora, Renault Megane Rubens Barrichello: Audi RS6, Ferrari 575 Pastor Maldonado: Jeep Grand Cherokee Adrian Sutil: Techart Porsche GT2, Techart Porsche Cayenne, Audi RS4 (“I would never buy a saloon car – it has to be sporty,” he says) Paul di Resta: No car Kamui Kobayashi: BMW X5, Lexus IS-F Sergio Pérez: BMW X3, BMW Z4 Sébastien Buemi: Volkswagen Golf R Jaime Alguersuari: Seat Leon Cupra R Heikki Kovalainen: Infiniti FX 50S, Nissan GT-R Jarno Trulli: Fiat 500 Vitantonio Liuzzi: Mercedes C63 AMG Timo Glock: Volkswagen Touareg 3.0 TDI, Audi A4 3.0 TDI

thank you for taping the fenders to protect them.

I've been using the Leather Masters line (careful if you google leather masters) over the last year of so and I'm VERY satisfied with it. I believe Auto Geek carries their whole line now so that makes it much easier to get than the last time I got it. I use their Leather Strong cleaner and Leather Vital Conditioner. They also make a Leather Protection cream that helps protect against staining and dye transfer on lighter colored leather, I'd personally skip the protection cream for a black interior though. All of their products dry to an absolutely matte finish, no gloss at all, deeper, richer color in the leather but no gloss. I HATE SHINY INTERIORS!. Andy

For restoration use leatherique For maintenance use leather masters leather vital. Zaino leather in a bottle would be another good option The most important thing is treating it frequently enough

I guess "room monster" depneds on where you want to use it. IT was a little out of place in our master bedroom, great as our primary TV while we had it. Ryan, I'll get an actual shot of the actual TV for you this weekend, none of it working though. I'd consider getting the bulb myself and installing it, asking price would obviously go up though. Andy

Sony KF-42WE610 - 42" LCD rear projection Grand WEGA HDTV. 720p single HDMI input, etc. Purchased new, still have origional box, remote, I'm sure paperwork is somewhere too. **NEEDS A BULB**. - Aftermarket bulbs can be had around $60-70. Was in great working order befor the bulb quit. This was our primary TV until 6 months ago, replaced it and moved it to the bedroom then the bulb went out. Honestly it's too f'ing big for our bedroom so the bulb going out was the final straw. $80 Andy

bump, no reasonable offers refused.

I go through Shawn at byers for all my parts that I can't source outside of the dealer. PM me if you want his personal cell number. The issue you describe is that something has gone bad with the magnets for the TIP shifting function.

We rented one while on vacation in Puerto Rico recently and I did not enjoy the thing at all. It had no power, steering was horrible, just really felt disconnected in every imaginable way. It did do just fine on what little off-roading we managed to do with it though. I do think they're cool, and if that's what you're after they're great for that, the driving experience is completely lacking though. Also, it already had front end noise like something was coming loose at only 6500 miles. Could have been because it was abused as a rental, could have just been junk that was aready falling apart. Andy

could I ask why the desire for a custom tune? The "box" flashes for the B5 cars pretty much cover almost all basic mods unless you've gone really radical with your setup. My A4 is pretty basic in setup these days. but I've never had an issue with the GIAC flash that's in my car, had it chipped for over 150k miles now.

Post #18 shows it. "FLAT AUT"

Ditto The plate is actually a bit of a joke from a video that a rennlister made. Search YouTube for "trackday comedy".

Anyone attending? might roll something out of the garage and cruise down for a coffee in the morning.

Congrats man! We still need to get together on the other car, text me this weekend. Andy

Care for the car or not I really enjoyed the video.

I was this close (holding up my fingers though you can't see them) to requesting "F CANCR" for the GT3 but chickened out last minute figureing they would reject it.

the pictures are funny, the little comments are what really make that thread though.

derek

Depends on where it happened. Only if the damage has been previoissly reported and they've not fixed it in "reasonable" time will they even consider paying for a repair

bump $125 you can have all 4.

I think the issue with most body shops is they're always working around a budget that the insurance company or customer dictates which means they have to cut corners in order to not loose their ass on the job. Most of this isn't an inability to do the work, it's all budget driven. I've seen shops turn out top notch work when they're paid appropriately, and the same shop turn out shit work at the very same time because the customer or insurance company wanted to pay $x.xx for the job. If you expect the job to be done well be up front with whoever is doing the repair, tell them you'll pay a little extra to have it done correctly and done correctly the first time. Make your expectations known up front so there are no issues when you go to pick it up. Do your homework and pick a reputable shop (board sponsors). Andy

WTF are the tires on that thing?

no black, NO BLACK. but we just had another thread about this in which I think we all agreed to keep our opinions to ourselves from now on Do what you like, I would do gold or keep silver. p.s. nice car Andy

+1, I was thinking of walking over on lunch today but going with the wife tomorrow so I'll probably pass. If anyone is going today post up some reviews for the rest of us please.

Same color as paint on the body? Subtle difference, but good one if you ask me.