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Nothing wrong with a bit of limiter once engines warm, though I generally try to avoid it. (on my new car even more so)

DING DING DING DING DING 100 internetz!

Woulda been up for it earlier in the day...need some daytime mountain run.

Good or bad for the engine, I never understood the appeal to limiter bashing. I like to keep going forwards in a progressively faster manner...

Not really lol, I got the price I wanted for it, he can drive it as he pleases. Just wouldn't recommend anyone buying it from him for more than 2k lol

Yeah of course he can drive it how he wants and happy that you got the price for it! But if I built a car up like you did, seeing some dickhead thrash it around, and end up majorly f**king it up would annoy me because of the emotional attachment. I mean you'd probably never know, but you get what I'm saying man.

That's quick! What happened to 12 month wait? Our 18 month wait for 86 has been upgraded to ~6 months too.

Dat extra allocations to Australia ;) Took them long enough. So by the time mine arrives it would have been 8 months wait rather than the original quoted 12 months. If someone were to order now, it wouldn't be nearly as long. I think they realised catering predominantly for the US market and then having cars sitting there unsold wasn't a good thing when demand clearly outweighed supply in places like Australia, even if our market share is so small (I think I read 3%)?

Test driving another one next weekend :)

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