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Right-o ! Over to you ! It's a Caterham Seven 160S. 160 being the power to weight ratio. Actual power is 80ish horsepower (for non JDM cars) and 62HP for JDM cars. Well..sort of. Read below. It has a Suzuki kei engine that is just 660cc (those found in everything from Every vans to Altos) and the body sticks within kei car dimensions (thus almost like it was designed with the yellow plate classification in mind). UK and other market models have 80ish horsepower whilst those destined for Japan were (originally?) detuned to be 62hp in order to meet kei car classification. However, there was a loophole. The kei car 62-64ish hp limitation was part of the self-imposed horsepower restrictions by the Japanese manufacturers in the late 70s/early 80s (the gentlemen's agreement you hear about. Which was initiated by a strong government request). So, technically the hp restriction for kei cars do not apply to non-Japanese brands. So as long as the dimensions and capacity requirements are met, a foreign car can have even a 300hp. It will be classified as a kei car. Just like a 2000cc Japanese sedan will just have 180hp but a Euro car can have 300hp but still fall in to the same tax bracket So..(word has it that) the first few Japan-destined 160S were 6oish hp, whilst the latter ones came with the full 80+. There are grey import vehicles which still are not classified as kei cars because of the registration of the original country of registration.

Got one aspect right but way off with the rest Stay on the same line of thought...think of different models

Okay...so...before jumping into two possible conclusions both relating to major engine surgery, have you taken the car to a trusted garage and gotten a proper diagnosis ? It might need a new engine (rebuilt or secondhand engine refurbished)or just need something as simple as piston rings (let's assume that the car was poorly maintained and it built up sludge and screwed up the rings until they just gave way). If you take it to a garage then you can do proper diagnostics (which includes all the tests above and even more). Also...in regards to new engines...a new engine to you does not mean it is new. If you see the way 95% of these engines are removed from these cars, stored and transported you will run miles away from them (literally torn out from cars with small excavators and dumped in yards open to rain, dust and all the other elements you can think of. So even if you buy a new engine you will have to do some restoration work on it. Yes..you may get a 6 month warranty or something but that only gives you a different engine. It doesn't pay you back for the labor costs or loss of use of the car.

Feels like it right ? We did talk about a dark red/maroon one and then a blackish/greyish one. Not sure if someone owned it or we were just talking about it. So here goes...the one in SL is white. It is from one of our colonizing countries with an engine from the Far East. It is suggested that this car was designed with the market trends of the country from which the engine came from.

The model was to be a prelude of things to come with advanced features like being the first Honda car to come with a sunroof. It also heralded the start of a dealership line that was to cater to more youthful minded people (Honda Verno) where the model remained the flagship model until the introduction of the NSX. The badge name is rumored to have been first registered by Toyota and that they gave it to Honda amicably. Neither manufacturer has confirmed nor denied this and evidence is rather scarce. Oh yeah...second generation zenki.

Well...it depends on what you mean by vibration.... Depending on what you mean by "vibration" tt can happen for many reasons: suspension bushes gone bad control arms damaged brake rotors are excessively worn-out and the list can go on, especially without knowing what vibration means. Can you describe what you mean by "vibration" and when it actually happens (e.g. straight line on a smooth road, speed, when taking curves, etc..) ?

Carpets are optional on all cars except for a very few (mostly Chinese). It is mainly so that people can choose from multiple types of carpets from the manufacturer/dealership or go for aftermarket ones. Having said that, it is also market-dependent. In some markets (like in SL) when you go to the agent to buy a brand new car there would be carpets already included in the price of the car as there won't be any choices. In some markets, they are included with things like window visors, mud flaps, etc..just so that they can be made attractive against the competition.

That is a nice car. Has the potential to be something really nice. There are places that "customize" lights. Please don't ! They do complete injustice to the car by putting wierd LED lights that work in wierd patterns, etc... It will be really hard...and even expensive...but I would say please use the car as is..collect money and buy actual proper lights and trim bits. Then slowly start restoring the car. These things in good condition go for really high prices now.

IMO I feel it is with the newer cars that more or less all the agents are mentally screwed with and give BS stories and cover ups for everything. Here out my logic.... For older models, like E100 Corollas, EK Civics, and B12-B14 Sunnies, the agents know what to do with them and are equipped to deal with the cars. Partly because they themselves handled the cars (selling them) and therefore got trained and tooled (there would at least be one old grease monkey who was with them from those days). However, with these new models....they simply did not get trained or tooled properly as, on the one hand, they did not deal with the mass models we got down as grey imports. Secondly, the equipment, etc..requires capital that they simply did not have.

At first I was convinced that it was a Merc X-class. Although the mirror seems to be the same shape I am not entirely sure if the blinker on the mirror is that shape. So not entirely sure now.

Simca Vedette it is ! One turned up at last month's Classis Car Run...freshly restored (with a little bit of touching up needed) Over to you !

Does the engine rev normally and respond well when the car is not moving (i.e. you rev the car in idle at a full stop). How is the fuel feed to the engine ?

Okay..well it is an Isuzu Unicab. It has a V8 pushing around 70ish horsepower. This European beauty (or is it brute?) was one of the first cars manufactured at the newly acquired French plant of an American car manufacturer. As a result, it was sold under both manufacturers' names.

Well. When you have no claim bonuses it usually gets applied to lowering your subsequent premiums. So, by making your claims, you might have lost them. However, I doubt your premium would have increased by that much just by losing any bonus discounts. What might have happened is that they reassessed your risk profile and the valuation of your car along with the loss of the bonus discounts. This usually does happen in other parts of the world so I can't see why it wouldn't in SL.